Suggestion: Private Tab

What it is: Instead of having a whole window for surfing private, the user should be able to open a private tab in the same, normal, browser window.

Why this would be useful: Sometimes you just want to do something that does not save cookies, history etc, but don't want to open a new window. If you want to browse private totally for a while, private windows can be good, but if you just want to quickly open a tab, private tabs are better.

How it can be implemented: Like it was in Opera 12. The favicon could for example, like in Opera 12, be replaced by a private-browsing-icon.

+1. If you think the features are too "advanced" for "normal users", you can make this optional or something, just so we that want to see this can see it.

I must bring this up again, because I'm growing tired of this feature/bug.

This is how my "Other Speed Dials" looks like right now:

And I don't even have that many computers. And it takes way too long time to delete them, one by one. And why would I search trough all of them just to find a regular speed dial site like youtube.com?

It would be much better if it by default just used the same folder for every computer, and then a user can add another one manually, and then on every computer choose which folder to use. No one could complain about such an implementation of the speed dial sync, and it can't be hard to implement.

But private tabs are really useful. Why open a whole new window just if you want to browse private?

If anyone doesn't know about a thread about private tabs in suggestion box (and has a link to it), I will suggest it there.

Have you read this guide?

Now when we have a sidebar where we can have extensions for tab management, the default tab bar is unnecessary when you have such an extension. Please let the user be able to toggle the tab bar. You don't have to add an option in settings, just a simple right click on the tab bar and then toggle on or off.

The update for Web Panel was approved a couple of days ago, approximately one month after submission. They seem to be working, but understaffed.

Yes! Please make the user able to choose which speed dial in the folder "other speed dials" to use. That would be perfect.

I think the solution might be letting the user choose which folders to sync
(Speed Dial being one of those folders). Via a simple checkbox + action/OKdialog interface for example.

Exactly, that's what I meant.

As no major browser uses private tabs nowadays, i guess the chances of Opera implement such feature is very low.

My first reaction:

WHAT? So just because no other browser use it, Opera shouldn't be innovative and add private tabs? And furthermore, if no other browser use it, that is a reason for Opera to add it, so it becomes unique. If everyone were thinking like that, all browser would be the same.

But at further thinking, you're actually probably right. I'm afraid Opera thinks more and more in that direction since the move from presto, it's at least that feeling I've got when Opera devs have written on the blogs/forums. So we will see. (But I still think your comment was very pessimistic )

@crossfire151 What websites?

@victorhurtado I don't have that much time right now to work on the extension. Also, unfortunately, it doesn't seem like I can access local files at all from the extension (as far as I know). The API isn't really created to make an extension like this

@kennysamuerto It has to do with x-frame restrictions, twitter sets 'X-Frame-Options' to 'deny'. For some reason twitter works, but not tweetdeck. I don't think I can do anything about it.

@naeem Yes, some sites don't work and Google is one of them, the extension description contains a list of some of those sites. Please search in a regular tab and open the page in the panel, or try a search engine among the default ones.

@dahotfunk Yes, some sites block it from being displayed in an iframe (and I use an iframe for this extension to display websites), and Google are one of those. Especially search engines tend to do this, as Bing, Duckduckgo and Yahoo don't work either. Some options that do work are Ecosia, Startpage and Aol, which are now the default included search engines.

One other option is to use Google search in a regular browser tab, go the the correct page, and then press the "open page in panel" button (left arrow, at the bottom of the panel).

@Vasco2020 said in Web Panel:

And my icon is always red

Please check if the problem is present in the latest version (1.5).
If so, could you post a small screenshot?

@georgiii said in Web Panel:

Thank you for this powerful tool. Could you add, that the web panel save the cookies settings because I must click every refresh or searching something to accept the cookies?

I have added this to my to-do list, I'm not promising anything however! If and when implemented I will notify you.

@MrSeAnLan Any specific page?

@sealoftime When the panel has been closed or unpinned, there is unfortunately not much I can do as far as I know. But if it stays pinned the page should stay loaded.

@dahotfunk Now the new version has been reviewed and released. Could you test the web page again to see if it works in the new version? Also, do you have the same issue on all pages you visit? For example, does it work on https://en.wikipedia.org?

One more thing: Please check that you have the latest version of the extension at opera://extensions/ , it should say version 1.5