Opera used to have this feature, and it was great. It was way better than the current Workspaces, because you could quickly and easily make tab group "folders" on-the-fly. They never said why it went away, but if it wasn't because it infringed on a patent or something, they should definitely bring it back. Circa 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpJvg8icmM

This was a much better worflow, because I usually have lots of tabs open for [many] various different projects. For example, I may need to repair something on my car and open several videos, parts sites, and how-to forums. Then I have a similar set of several tabs that I use at work, about a trip I'm planning, looking for a Christmas present for someone, sites I frequent for a particular hobby like skateboarding, etc. Dozens of sets of several tabs each. Workspaces doesn't really work well for dozens of these little dynamic groups. Tab stacking, however, was PERFECT! Bring it back please!

@leocg Thank you, Negative Nancy. This is a feature request forum, so we are requesting it.

"That was a different product" isn't exactly true. It was different code-base, yes, but is essentially portrayed as the same product. Most features were carried over into the current rendition, and I used the tab grouping feature a lot in the old versions. I was sad to see it go, and several years later, I still find myself wanting it back because it worked very well for me.

@newworldman This is a feature suggestion forum, so the feature he's suggesting is to bring back tab grouping. I agree!

@leocg said in [Duplicated]Selected Tab Grouping & color categorizing:

@maybemark Workspaces are Opera approach to tabs grouping and i don't expect them to change it in a near future.

They changed it before, they can change it again.

Opera used to have this feature, and it was great. It was way better than the current Workspaces, because you could quickly and easily make tab group "folders" on-the-fly. They never said why it went away, but if it wasn't because it infringed on a patent or something, they should definitely bring it back. Circa 2014 https://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpJvg8icmM

Opera used to have this feature, and it was great. It was way better than the current Workspaces, because you could quickly and easily make tab group "folders" on-the-fly. They never said why it went away, but if it wasn't because it infringed on a patent or something, they should definitely bring it back. Circa 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpJvg8icmM

This was a much better worflow, because I usually have lots of tabs open for [many] various different projects. For example, I may need to repair something on my car and open several videos, parts sites, and how-to forums. Then I have a similar set of several tabs that I use at work, about a trip I'm planning, looking for a Christmas present for someone, sites I frequent for a particular hobby like skateboarding, etc. Dozens of sets of several tabs each. Workspaces doesn't really work well for dozens of these little dynamic groups. Tab stacking, however, was PERFECT! Bring it back please!

No, because that is an extremely important part of how I want to use Opera/browsers.

Session Buddy will save your tabs. So the workaround goes like this...

• Have "Download Chrome Extension" and "Session Buddy" plugins installed.
• Have Opera running.

1. Go to Session Buddy, and save your session.
2. Close Opera.
3. Delete the following files, manually (Win7):

• C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\session.db
• C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\session.dbak
• C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\session.db-journal

4. Reopen Opera. All tabs will be gone.
5. Go to Session Buddy, and restore your saved session. It will restore all tabs, including pinned tabs.
6. Use Opera for a few days, until it gets slow. Go back to Step 1.

Neither... Every several days I delete the session.db, using the "Download Chrome Extension" and "Session Buddy" plugins (mentioned above) to restore my tabs. That buys me several more days of smooth sailing.

Hopefully the devs take my bug report seriously, and fix this thing. It's blatantly reproducible, on a couple different machines I use. I've been using Opera since the beginning, and I really don't want to have to switch.

Yes, I did. The black hole that is...

I do leave Opera running, but I do also periodically close it. So it's not a biproduct strictly of running for an extended period, since closing it doesn't reset the problem. It could be a product of total uptime though.

I'll submit a bug report. Thanks for the link.

So we're on Day 3 now, after blowing away the session.db, and it's basically back to full slowness. 5-10 second long frozen pauses, in between brief periods of functionality. It makes it very hard to type this paragraph

I don't understand... if I can now reproduce this happening by just leaving the browser open for 3 days, how has the development team not discovered it? Is there a way I can forward it to them as a bug, or get in contact with them, so that I could send them a copy of the session.db's it creates for analysis?