Aria helps me cut through the noise and get to the information that truly matters.

While this issue isn’t critical, it’s understandably frustrating if you’re frequently switching pages with DevTools open. For now, using the above workarounds is the best solution until (hopefully) a future update addresses the behavior.

This explanation summarizes both the cause and the available workarounds—providing a practical answer to a long-known annoyance.

Use an Extension:
Install a third-party extension (such as uBlock Origin) that offers more robust pop-up/tab filtering. These can block unwanted new tabs even if they appear click-triggered.

First off, I have a lot of tabs open in the browser which makes each tab only a few pixels wide but I've never had issues clicking on the tab I need or one very close to it, but as of yesterday when I finally updated Opera GX there appears to be blank spaces between every tab that eats my clicks instead of selecting the tab I'm trying to reach and it's making it practically unusable.

Is there a way to revert this UI change so I don't have to use a magnifying glass and low DPI settings to pin-point click on a single pixel to open the tab I want?