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How to change tab width in Opera?

Sunday, November 26, 2006 10:51:45 AM

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  1. Open toolbar configuration file in any text editor after closing Opera.
  2. Add the following section to it and modify Maximum button width value. 
    [Pagebar.style]
Button style=3
Large images=1
Wrapping=0
Maximum button width=100
Grow to fit=0
Mini buttons=0
  3. Start Opera.

For Opera versions below 9

  1. Extract skin.ini from zipped skin file and open it in any text editor
  2. Add/modify the value of Pagebar max button width and Pagebar min button width under [Options] section. 
    [Options]
Pagebar max button width = 100
Pagebar min button width = 50
  3. Update skin.ini in zipped skin file and activate modified skin Tools > Appearance... > Skin.

Opera skin with tab width = 50 px
Tab width = 50 px

Opera skin with tab width = 100 px
Tab width = 100 px

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Comments

Mika Takalamtakala Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:45:45 PM

If you set these as the same value... unexpected things happen. See http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=160372&t=1161387663&page=1

Unregistered user Friday, June 29, 2007 2:50:15 AM

Aeshir - Aeshir*Gmail.com writes: Hey, thanks a lot for this. I've been wanting to do this for a long time. :)

Nxqd3051990 Friday, June 29, 2007 3:12:39 PM

lah lah, I love faviconize so I can do this in Opera too bigsmile
nXqd

Unregistered user Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:09:03 PM

m01 writes: Thank you :)

Unregistered user Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:39:47 AM

Anonymous writes: is there a way to set tab width as low as 22 pixel in opera (if this possible and opera supports ai roboform and IDM I will dumb FF, opera is the fastest browser but with less customize options)

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 3, 2008 7:17:03 PM

Anonymous writes: Can I change the tab height? I'd like them to be thinner.

Tamil Thursday, September 4, 2008 3:27:05 AM

yes http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-skinning/

Unregistered user Friday, November 28, 2008 1:43:45 AM

tf76 writes: I'm trying to do this for the skin azurino. There are no [options] in the skin.ini file?

Tamil Friday, November 28, 2008 3:59:17 AM

If it is not there add it.

Unregistered user Friday, November 28, 2008 4:14:18 AM

Anonymous writes: [Options] Large Images = 0 Button Text Padding = 0 Pagebar max button width = 150 Pagebar min button width = 50 Didn't work

Unregistered user Friday, November 28, 2008 4:17:32 AM

tf76 writes: Sorry yes it does :) Thanks Um can I change the tabs height?

Tamil Friday, November 28, 2008 4:34:32 AM

can I change the tabs height?

yes Adjust the values of Padding Top & Padding Bottom under [Pagebar Button Skin]

Unregistered user Friday, November 28, 2008 4:43:41 AM

tf76 writes: Thanks so much Tamil I am the website owner of www.topfreeware.net. Take a look you might find some useful programs there :) Now one last question. Is it possible to have 2 lines for the tabs. So it would read like www.topfreeware.net Best Freeware etc... tf76 http://www.topfreeware.net Best Freeware Downloads and tips to optimize your system Member of The Freeware Revolution

Tamil Friday, November 28, 2008 8:42:13 AM

Is it possible to have 2 lines for the tabs.

Right click on tab bar → Customize... → Wrapping → Wrap to multiple lines

Unregistered user Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:55:13 PM

Damien Argento writes: Thanks for the tip. Worked perfectly!

Unregistered user Monday, September 21, 2009 10:22:17 PM

Anonym writes: Hi Tamil, Can you have a look at this again. It seems not to be working in Opera 10.

Tamil Monday, September 21, 2009 10:37:31 PM

It seems not to be working in Opera 10.

Yes. sad

Unregistered user Saturday, September 26, 2009 1:46:07 PM

Operator writes: For Opera 10 look here: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=288423

Unregistered user Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:04:57 PM

Anonym writes: Thanks very much, Operator! I'm happy now :)

Unregistered user Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:53:15 AM

Operator writes: You're welcome! :)

Unregistered user Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:43:20 PM

Anonymous writes: does Not work >> "Adjust the values of Padding Top & Padding Bottom under [Pagebar Button Skin]" I did this but it didn't work: 1)closed Opera 2)in the file standard_toolbar.ini added the following lines [Pagebar Button.Skin] Padding Top = 50 Padding Bottom = 50 3)saved standard_toolbar.ini 4)opened Opera (version 1010) 5)Nothing changed!!!! i tried values from -1000 to 1000 and nothing changed

Unregistered user Thursday, December 24, 2009 7:30:35 AM

Anonymous writes: for version 1010 see>>> http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/how-to-change-the-height-of-various-toolbars-in-an-opera-skin Note the above works to change various bars in a skin but does not work for the tabs. Anyone figure out how to change the height of the tabs ?

Tamil Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:33:19 AM

I did this but it didn't work

This is for changing tab width and not height.

Note the above works to change various bars in a skin but does not work for the tabs.

It worked for me.

Unregistered user Friday, December 25, 2009 2:17:40 PM

same Anonymous as before :) writes: "It worked(http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/show.dml/4326145) for me." ??? It does not look like it worked for you, in your screen shots(follow the link you provided) it looks like you are haveing the same issue. The tab bars are the Exact same height in both screen shots. The only difference I can see is that one of the tab bars shows three dots '...' below it, indicating that thumbnails for tabs is turned on but the tabs bar is shrunk it's minimum height which has the same behavior as not having the thumbnails turned on. This led me to figure out you can make tab bars higher than the Opera default height if you first set the tab bars to show thumbnails BUT you Cant make tab bars height less than Opera default tab bar height with these settings. So how do we make tab bar height less than Operas default height for tab bars? the file operaprefs.ini has these settings that will allow you to set tab bar height higer than Opera default if you set thumbnails to true. Use Thumbnails Inside Tabs= Pagebar Height=

Unregistered user Sunday, January 3, 2010 10:02:22 AM

Anonymous writes: bump tamil? so how do we make the tabs shorter?

Tamil Sunday, January 3, 2010 10:26:39 AM

It does not look like it worked for you, in your screen shots

It is because I reduced one or two pixels only.

Unregistered user Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:10:23 AM

RIJESH writes: thanks ... U R great

Unregistered user Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:15:52 AM

Anonymous writes: how can i change the space between the tabs. When i have about 50 tabs open in one row, the space between each tabs is about the half as wide as the width of each tab(becasue the tabs are getting very narrow when there are this many tabs open, allthough the space between the tabs remains the same size no matter how many tabs are open 2 to infinity). I would like to have zero or no space between the tabs. note that the active tab has no space between it and the tabs on the right and left of the active tab-thats what i want for all tabs not just the active tab.

Unregistered user Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:33:33 AM

Anonymous writes: hi, tried the height in 10.51 but no effect. does it still work?

Tamil Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:41:34 AM

This is for changing width and not height.

Unregistered user Thursday, June 24, 2010 3:10:15 AM

Anonymous writes: it works. Thanks so much.

Unregistered user Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:22:45 PM

Remork writes: It does NOT work at all. It just changes the personnal bar icons width. I SAID IT DOES NOT !

Tamil Monday, July 19, 2010 7:55:30 AM

It does NOT work at all.

Checked and it works.

KS-10 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 2:40:51 PM

Thanks to author. I removed "+" from tabbar and set tab width to 147px (was 150px) and now have 8 tabs in width instead 7. (Opera 10.61, 1280x800px)

Unregistered user Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:18:48 AM

Carrozza writes: Thanks Tamil, this tip works like a charm with Opera 11.

Unregistered user Sunday, December 19, 2010 8:33:15 AM

Anonymous writes: can I also edit the Minimum Button Width? the differences of each tab is pretty annoying for me

Tamil Sunday, December 19, 2010 9:25:15 AM

the differences of each tab is pretty annoying for me

Between pinned and unpinned tab?

Unregistered user Sunday, December 19, 2010 9:59:41 AM

Anonymous writes: no. this would tell my problem: http://i.imgur.com/5DFBC.png

Tamil Sunday, December 19, 2010 2:16:11 PM

Set maximum button width value.

Unregistered user Sunday, December 19, 2010 4:17:26 PM

Anonymous writes: yes the maximum button width is already 200.. and that's what happen, the google and yahoo tab is smaller than the others. can I make it all the same size (200)? like I said, the differences are pretty annoying

Tamil Thursday, December 23, 2010 1:51:46 AM

Sorry, no idea.

Unregistered user Thursday, December 23, 2010 7:51:55 AM

zorobabel writes: It doesn't work in my situation: tab bar on the left. Tabs remain at 150 pixels wide even with toolbar.ini modified. If I customize the toolbar from within opera, it overwrites the button width to 150 again. I'm trying this on Opera USB 9.52.

Unregistered user Thursday, December 23, 2010 9:44:48 AM

zorobabel writes: I managed to do it by modifying the skin.ini. I spent a lot of time trying things, only to notice the ";" disabling the line at one point... Well at least I learned a few things, and modified the tab padding and stuff.

Tamil Thursday, December 23, 2010 10:28:14 AM

up

Unregistered user Saturday, January 29, 2011 4:02:39 PM

Jasban writes: hello, how can i change width of pin tabs in Opera 11 (via skin)? i use pin tabs for not accidentally close an important tab but i want see tab title can you help me? thanks

Tamil Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:27:35 PM

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/show.dml/23651052

Unregistered user Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:50:22 PM

Anonymous writes: This is one of a few things that makes Opera less viable. In Firefox i can get about 32 tabs on one line (19'' monitor) using Pitch Dark theme and TabMixPlus, but with Opera (40% width) i get about 4.

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