Great news! I hope this means that Opera will remove the Google search field from the centre of the Opera Start Page, and instead place this new feature front and centre. This is such a big feature, that it should be hidden in some corner and behind a tiny inconspicuous icon.

I have used Vertical Tabs by kroppy for many years, ever since Opera dropped the inbuilt feature. In the last year or so, the option to change the group-tab's colour no longer works. In the instructions the author says that the group colour is inherited from the first favicon that group is started with. It means that I have group tabs that are illegible with white text on white or pale tabs.
In addition, the tab design could be modernised as others have suggested.
Otherwise, I love using Vertical Tabs by kroppy, as I often have many tabs open simultaneously, and Opera's latest development in tab design is a nightmare to use.

Hi
I mistakenly complained here in V7 Tabs, when t turns out I use:
Vertical Tabs by kroppy.
Vertical Tabs gives the option of creating groups and naming the the group.

@u1travio1et Hi, I have not found the setting to remove the Google search field. I know that one can choose which search engine to use, but that applies to the address field, where the URL is usually displayed.
I also have written to Opera about this.

@lucksme: I meant :
This is such a big feature, that it should not be hidden in some corner and behind a tiny inconspicuous icon.

Great news! I hope this means that Opera will remove the Google search field from the centre of the Opera Start Page, and instead place this new feature front and centre. This is such a big feature, that it should be hidden in some corner and behind a tiny inconspicuous icon.

@ferfect-dogeman Hi, What is what called?
The groups feature in V7 tabs or the version number of the old V7abs, that I refer to?

I have an early version of V7 Tabs, that has the feature for grouping tabs.

1. Why dies the current version not have this feature? Could this feature be returned?
2. The earlier version where grouping is available, now has developed a problem, where the group tab colour can no longer be changed.

Hi,
Clearly if it was just a matter of redoing the settings as I like the browser, I would not have gone to all this trouble. The problem is that I had saved many web sites in the bookmarks and maybe 20 sites in speed dial. The speed dials are lost, and I cannot remember what they all were.
So, the fact is I have lost many site addresses.

Hi
Thank you for your advice. I found the file, replaced with an older one, but it did not revert to using the older settings, but instead, continued to use the new unedited settings.

@leocg What profile directory?