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How to detach and attach a tab to Opera window?

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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

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

By TreeGo, # 26. May 2007, 08:09:02

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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.

By Tamil, # 26. May 2007, 12:32:15

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OK, thank you, Tamil. :smile:

By TreeGo, # 27. May 2007, 04:13:39

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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.

By TreeGo, # 27. May 2007, 04:30:39

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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

By Tamil, # 27. May 2007, 04:45:26

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

By TreeGo, # 27. May 2007, 05:01:41

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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!

By FataL, # 27. May 2007, 17:12:27

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Originally posted by FataL:

Drag and drop to title bar seems much easier.
:yes:

By Tamil, # 27. May 2007, 17:14:08

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Anonymous writes:

Excuse me, but what

is a tab

and what is a window

what are the differents ?

By anonymous user, # 1. June 2007, 20:25:46

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Excuse me, but what is a tab and what is a window
Window contains tabs. The first figure has 1 window with 5 tabs.

By Tamil, # 2. June 2007, 03:37:12

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Anonymous writes:

what about doing that on Mac OSX ?

By anonymous user, # 3. August 2007, 14:50:07

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what about doing that on Mac OSX ?
Sorry, I don't know.

By Tamil, # 3. August 2007, 14:52:09

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Alan writes:

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

By anonymous user, # 16. September 2007, 01:17:39

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

By trevorspoke, # 4. October 2007, 15:21:11

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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.

By anonymous user, # 30. October 2007, 15:12:59

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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?

By anonymous user, # 15. June 2008, 07:20:25

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Is there a way to fix this?
AFAIK, :no:.

By Tamil, # 15. June 2008, 14:34:38

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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.

By FataL, # 18. June 2008, 20:33:59

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Anonymous writes:

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

By anonymous user, # 9. July 2008, 03:10:58

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Anonymous writes:

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

By anonymous user, # 11. July 2008, 10:41:28

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Opera 9.51 was already released.

By Tamil, # 11. July 2008, 10:49:05

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Anonymous writes:

but it is still not there :frown:

By anonymous user, # 11. July 2008, 11:25:30

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