@norby123: Just add YouTube as a custom sidebar site.

@wonghow: Tab groups can still be made and named automatically. You can use the originating tab for the name of the tab island. Also, have you seen the "Organize tab" feature in Edge? It uses AI to group dozens of related tabs with a single click. And it works!

@wonghow: There is no difference between tab islands and tab groups. Wake up to reality. Tab Islands is just a marketing name by Opera. You can even use Chromium tab group extensions, and it will work with Opera tab islands, hence proving the point that Opera tab islands are still Chromium tab groups in a different appearance.

@wonghow: There was no feature to save tab groups in Chrome initially. Just because Opera added a single extra feature of automatic tab grouping through links doesn't mean it's any different. Besides, in Opera, you can Ctrl+click to select tabs and create tab islands of tabs that aren't even related by links! So, it's Tab Islands are just like tab groups but worse. Grouping tabs by links is a feature that already existed in many Chrome extensions before Opera even released Tab Islands. I don't understand why you insist that they are fundamentally different. They aren't. Tab Islands is just a bad implementation of the original tab groups in Chrome.

Besides, having a feature where you can name tab islands wouldn't hurt. You will still be able to have unnamed tab islands just like unnamed tab groups in Chrome.

At the fundamental level, Opera tab islands use the same concept as Chrome tab groups; it just adds a functionality of auto grouping by links while discarding other functionalities of group naming and saving groups. If the base code for Tab Islands and Tab groups weren't the same, then the same chromium tab group extensions wouldn't work in both Opera and Chrome, which they do!

Add tab island naming feature, not emojis. Seriously, how stupid can you be? You only have to browse the internet for a few minutes to find that all Opera users want tab island naming feature!

Could you ever add a useful and productive feature?

@wonghow: There was no feature to save tab groups in Chrome initially. Just because Opera added a single extra feature of automatic tab grouping through links doesn't mean it's any different. Besides, in Opera, you can Ctrl+click to select tabs and create tab islands of tabs that aren't even related by links! So, it's Tab Islands are just like tab groups but worse. Grouping tabs by links is a feature that already existed in many Chrome extensions before Opera even released Tab Islands. I don't understand why you insist that they are fundamentally different. They aren't. Tab Islands is just a bad implementation of the original tab groups in Chrome.

Besides, having a feature where you can name tab islands wouldn't hurt. You will still be able to have unnamed tab islands just like unnamed tab groups in Chrome.

At the fundamental level, Opera tab islands use the same concept as Chrome tab groups; it just adds a functionality of auto grouping by links while discarding other functionalities of group naming and saving groups. If the base code for Tab Islands and Tab groups weren't the same, then the same chromium tab group extensions wouldn't work in both Opera and Chrome, which they do!

@wonghow: There is no difference between tab islands and tab groups. Wake up to reality. Tab Islands is just a marketing name by Opera. You can even use Chromium tab group extensions, and it will work with Opera tab islands, hence proving the point that Opera tab islands are still Chromium tab groups in a different appearance.

@wonghow: Tab groups can still be made and named automatically. You can use the originating tab for the name of the tab island. Also, have you seen the "Organize tab" feature in Edge? It uses AI to group dozens of related tabs with a single click. And it works!

Add tab island naming feature, not emojis. Seriously, how stupid can you be? You only have to browse the internet for a few minutes to find that all Opera users want tab island naming feature!

Could you ever add a useful and productive feature?

@hexangst: Agreed

@leocg Why don't they just officially add it already? I see a lot of new users asking about a way to open custom sites in the sidebar. It's a very essential feature, and it's nearly the whole point of having a sidebar.

We have keyboard shortcuts for sidebar messengers. It'd be great if custom user sites could have keyboard shortcuts as well. It'd be even faster to open those sites. And it'd greatly enable multitasking.

@norby123: Just add YouTube as a custom sidebar site.

Wait now. You had to create an entirely new branch of the browser just to implement tab stacks? GX users are still waiting for tab stacks.