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How to detach and attach a tab to Opera window?

Friday, May 25, 2007 5:41:47 PM

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Ways to detach a tab from Window

  • Drag & drop the tab from tab bar to title bar.
  • In Windows panel, drag & drop the tab to the bottom.
  • Right click on tab and select Detach.

If you can't see Detach item in right click menu on tab do the following.
If you don't know how to edit menu setup see this. Under [Pagebar Item Popup Menu] change the line 

Platform Unix-QNX, Item, 69884  = Detach page
to 
Item, 69884  = Detach page

Detach a tab from window
Detach a tab from window

Ways to attach detached tab to Window

  • In Windows panel, drag & drop the tab to required position in main window.
  • Close tab, go to main window and open it from trash can.

Attach detached tab to window
Attach detached tab to window

Update: May 26, 2007

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Comments

TreeGo Saturday, May 26, 2007 8:09:02 AM

I don't see "Right click on tab and select Detach" on tabs' right-click menus.

Tamil Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:32:15 PM

Originally posted by TreeGo:

I don't see "Right click on tab and select Detach" on tabs' right-click menus.

I have updated the post. See #3 of Ways to detach a tab from window.

TreeGo Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:13:39 AM

OK, thank you, Tamil. smile

TreeGo Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:30:39 AM

It's interesting that 'Detach' still does not appear on the right-click/context menu unless I left click on the tab first before right-clicking the tab.

Tamil Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:45:26 AM

Originally posted by TreeGo:

It's interesting that 'Detach' still does not appear on the right-click/context menu unless I left click on the tab first before right-clicking the tab.

Under [Pagebar Inactive Item Popup Menu], add the following
Item, 69884 = Detach page

TreeGo Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:01:41 AM

OK, Tamil ... you're awesome! Thanks. smile

FataL Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:12:27 PM

I always did detaching of tabs by dragging and dropping them to task bar. Drag and drop to title bar seems much easier. wink Thanks!

Tamil Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:14:08 PM

Originally posted by FataL:

Drag and drop to title bar seems much easier.

yes

Anonymous Friday, June 1, 2007 8:25:46 PM

Anonymous writes: Excuse me, but what is a tab and what is a window what are the differents ?

Tamil Saturday, June 2, 2007 3:37:12 AM

Excuse me, but what is a tab and what is a window

Window contains tabs. The first figure has 1 window with 5 tabs.

Anonymous Friday, August 3, 2007 2:50:07 PM

Anonymous writes: what about doing that on Mac OSX ?

Tamil Friday, August 3, 2007 2:52:09 PM

what about doing that on Mac OSX ?

Sorry, I don't know.

Anonymous Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:17:39 AM

Alan writes: @Anonymous: If you follow the steps, you get "Detach" in the menu, however it doesn't work that well.

trevorspoke Thursday, October 4, 2007 3:21:11 PM

I added "w alt=Detach page" to my keyboard shortcuts.

Anonymous Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:12:59 PM

Anonymous writes: What an incredibly un-intuitive way to detach windows. Probably my least favorite thing about Opera so far - I can just imagine the nightmare of trying to explain to my parents how to get pop-up windows outside the main window.

Anonymous Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:20:25 AM

Anonymous writes: Hi Tamil, When doing this in Opera 9.5, instead of getting a window with no toolbars like before, dragging the tab to the the title bar just creates the tab in a new window... Is there a way to fix this?

Tamil Sunday, June 15, 2008 2:34:38 PM

Is there a way to fix this?

AFAIK, no.

FataL Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:33:59 PM

I hope they will provide an option for old-style detaching.
Or at least they can open resized to tab window -- that can be compromise.

Anonymous Wednesday, July 9, 2008 3:10:58 AM

Anonymous writes: argh that's annoying :( i don't want a whole new window when I take my tab off the tab bar.

Anonymous Friday, July 11, 2008 10:41:28 AM

Anonymous writes: :-( i'd like to se in 9.51 the old style detaching

Tamil Friday, July 11, 2008 10:49:05 AM

Opera 9.51 was already released.

Anonymous Friday, July 11, 2008 11:25:30 AM

Anonymous writes: but it is still not there :(

Anonymous Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:01:25 PM

ZA writes: Got same problem when detaching windows :-(

Anonymous Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:16:58 AM

BUFFBOY writes: yeh its still the same... i liked the older style detaching with version 9.27 the new version deteches it in another window WTF... is there a FIX ???????????????????????

Tamil Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:59:24 AM

AFAIK, there is no fix.

FataL Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:52:54 AM

Everybody who wants old detach behaviour back is welcome to related forum tread.

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