Dither

Tab stacking is NOT here

Monday, February 13, 2012 4:46:50 PM

napilnik, tabs, annoying, patch, opera, stacking, desktop, windows

It's sooooo annoying.

I hate it and wish developers add an option to disable it via opera:config. It is pretty much possible. To check non-tab-stacking goodness you need to replace this data (in regexp format):

 FF 75 08 E8 (.{4}) 8B F8 3B FB 74 (.) 53 57 E8 (.{4}) 85 C0 74

to this:

 FF 75 08 E8 $1 89 DF 3B FB 74 $2 53 57 E8 $3 85 C0 74

in some well known dll and see the result. Tested on 12 and late 11 builds.

It's convenient to download perl or its main module from http://www.mediafire.com/?r4aggm8fbgbtzcm and run patch (commenting off unneeded parts):

perl -W -f -- "fix.pl"

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Comments

PengePenge4 # Monday, February 13, 2012 5:53:06 PM

Where is the fix.pl?

DitherDitherSky # Monday, February 13, 2012 5:56:33 PM

It's the same old http://pastebin.com/LkV60SMK

PengePenge4 # Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:05:40 PM

Thanks!

T-oastbro-T # Saturday, February 25, 2012 3:38:47 PM

Thanks for the patch, it works very well in principle.

There's one exception though:
The reason I hated tab-stacking was, that tabs would automatically get stacked as soon as they were dragged from one Opera-window to another.
Unfortunately, this happens quite often as I have two Opera-browsers on separate screens. Your patch doesn't change this behaviour, it seems to only disable the stacking for the tab-operations within a single opera-window.
Would you have an idea regarding this particular problem?

DitherDitherSky # Saturday, February 25, 2012 6:24:17 PM

Yeah, it's true that different windows tabs still stack. But this is kinda tiresome to search for so probably won't be fixing it.