<![CDATA[Need to use F11 to go to new tab on fullscreen]]>Why, when on Fullscreen and you do Ctrl+T you have to press F11 again to go to your new tab?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/89176/need-to-use-f11-to-go-to-new-tab-on-fullscreenRSS for NodeSun, 13 Sep 2026 06:37:35 GMTFri, 24 Jul 2026 23:57:47 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Need to use F11 to go to new tab on fullscreen on Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:09:22 GMT]]>On Windows, when Opera is in fullscreen mode and I hit ctrl + t, a new tab is opened and Opera immediately switches to it as I would expect. There's no address field in that new tab in fullscreen mode though to type an address to go to, but I can click on my speeddials etc. Old, Presto-based Opera had an option where if you pressed F2 (in fullscreen mode or not), you'd get a dialog with an address field where you could type an address and press enter. Something like that in current Opera might be nice.

In current Opera, you can do a little hack in fullscreen mode after you hit ctrl + t. You can then hit ctrl + shift + j to open the console, type document.location = "https://example..com/"; and press enter. But, it's probably just easier to F11 out of fullscreen, type the address, press enter and hit F11 again to go back to full screen.

Opera does have ctrl + tab and ctrl + shift + tab to cycle between tabs, which works in fullscreen mode too. That can be useful. If you want an instant no-visual switch, you can use ctrl + pageUp and ctrl + pageDown instead.

Having an option to show the address bar and tab bar when hovering at the top of the page while in fullscreen mode like you said Edge does, might be nice.

https://forums.opera.com/category/15/suggestions-and-feature-requests is where you can post feature requests (one request per post).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/406970https://forums.opera.com/post/406970Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:09:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Need to use F11 to go to new tab on fullscreen on Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:53:09 GMT]]>@leocg If to go to a new tab whilst in full screen, I have to: Ctrl+T and F11. That's a flaw that needs to be fixed, or I have to Ctrl+T plus whatever the shortcut is to go to the new tab I just opened; that's a flaw that needs to be fixed.
Take Microsoft Edge for an example: I use full screen. I press Ctrl+T, it opens up and goes to the new tab. If I want to go to a different tab, I just go to where my tabs are, and they're brought down so I can select one of them.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/406711https://forums.opera.com/post/406711Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:53:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Need to use F11 to go to new tab on fullscreen on Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:38:56 GMT]]>@ThefoREVerDarhk If you don't want to use buttons while on full screen, what would cause full screen to be exited, you can try using keyboard shortcuts.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/406693https://forums.opera.com/post/406693Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:38:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Need to use F11 to go to new tab on fullscreen on Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:58:29 GMT]]>@leocg Just making sure you understood, and no, it's either going to work properly or not, I'm not going to use buttons for something that shouldn't be needed in the first place

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/406690https://forums.opera.com/post/406690Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:58:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Need to use F11 to go to new tab on fullscreen on Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:27:08 GMT]]>@ThefoREVerDarhk Like I said, because that's how full screen was designed to work since the day it was invented.

Full screen means absolutely no UI, no interface, so if you need the interface to do something, then you need to exit full screen.

BTW, have you already tried the keyboard shortcuts to change tabs?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/406677https://forums.opera.com/post/406677Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:27:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Need to use F11 to go to new tab on fullscreen on Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:44:01 GMT]]>@leocg What I mean is why do you have to go off of full screen to go to a new tab when every other browser (as far as I'm aware of) lets you go to a new tab whilst on Full Screen

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/406672https://forums.opera.com/post/406672Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:44:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Need to use F11 to go to new tab on fullscreen on Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:17:20 GMT]]>@ThefoREVerDarhk Because that's how full screen works

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