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Get More Out of Tabs in Opera

By Aleksander AasAleksander. Monday, August 6, 2012 8:42:16 AM

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Did you know that Opera has some of the most advanced tab features out there? From private tabs to tab stacking, tabs help you do more of what you want, the way you want to do it, on the web.

Sometimes we take for granted just how much you can do with tabs in Opera, which is why we were glad to see this super-helpful tutorial on tabs put together by the kind people at HowToGeek !

Learn how to pin your most-used sites such as Choose Opera, Opera Mail and Facebook. Then with the sessions management tool you can group the tabs that contain your work, school and personal stuff, and keep it separate from everything else. If you are one of those tab power users who love to keep hundreds of tabs open at a time, you probably already know how to use grouped tabs.

For the rest of us, there's always more to learn. From basic shortcuts like Shift+Ctrl+left-click to open a background tab (i.e., staying in the tab you're already in, while opening a new one at the end of the row) to using some of our most popular extensions to manage tabs on a computer, you can get a lot more out of Opera when you know more about tabs.

Check out HowToGeek's guide and let us know about your favorite Opera tab features!

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Comments

Ятоки СакаmySmut # Monday, August 6, 2012 9:21:40 AM

Вкладки распологаются друг за другом... Когда их слишком много неудобно ими пользоваться... Пожалуйста, сделайте так, чтобы когда вкладки заполнились в одну строку и дошли до грагницы окна они бы начанали распологаться друг под другом!...
The tabs are placed one after the other ... When they are too uncomfortable to use them ... Please make sure that when filled with tabs on one line and reached the window, they would gragnitsy nachanali are placed under each other! ...

Kr0pr0Xkroprox # Monday, August 6, 2012 9:25:47 AM

can't navigate without tabs!!! xD

ClashCityRockerclashcityrocker # Monday, August 6, 2012 9:30:39 AM

My biggest annoyance about Opera, is why THEY don't do guides like this on Opera's awesome functionality.

Lucas da Costa DantasWDHellS # Monday, August 6, 2012 10:14:59 AM

Follower Tabs,very good.

Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 # Monday, August 6, 2012 10:17:14 AM

Sucks that all private tabs share the same session though. If I log into my webmail in one private tab and visit the webmail in another private tab, I should be asked to login again and not be logged in using the session info from the first tab.

Also, for the "Thumbnails in tabs" feature, one can double-left-click the little tab strip to automatically expand the thumbnails. The problem is, since middle-click works like double-click, middle-click also triggers this, which causes me to accidentally expand the thumbnails *all the time* when I middle-click to close a tab (as I middle-click near the bottom of the tab). Because there's no way to turn that off for middle-click, I can't use "Thumbnails in tabs" *at all*. It's been a show-stopper with the feature from the beginning.

Alexandersanerk # Monday, August 6, 2012 11:58:33 AM

Originally posted by mySmut:

Вкладки распологаются друг за другом... Когда их слишком много неудобно ими пользоваться... Пожалуйста, сделайте так, чтобы когда вкладки заполнились в одну строку и дошли до грагницы окна они бы начанали распологаться друг под другом!...
The tabs are placed one after the other ... When they are too uncomfortable to use them ... Please make sure that when filled with tabs on one line and reached the window, they would gragnitsy nachanali are placed under each other! ...

Добрый день! Это возможно, щелкните правой кнопкой мыши по панели с вкладками, выбираете Customize -> Appearance -> найдите селектор Wrapping и выберите Wrap to multiple lines. Жмём "Ок" для того, чтобы сохранить изменения.
К сожалению нет под рукой русской версии, но я думаю, найдёте.

Hi! It's possible, just click right mouse button on toolbar with tabs and choose from drop-down menu Customize -> Appearance -> in opened window find "Wrapping" and select "Wrap to multiple lines". Click "Ok" to confirm changes. That's it!

Wraith5 # Monday, August 6, 2012 1:56:46 PM

Originally posted by sanerk:

Hi! It's possible, just click right mouse button on toolbar with tabs and choose from drop-down menu Customize -> Appearance -> in opened window find "Wrapping" and select "Wrap to multiple lines". Click "Ok" to confirm changes. That's it!

"That's it" only if you don't want to stack tabs. You can't do both tab-stacking and wrapping to multiple lines, you have to pick one, because the former doesn't work properly with the latter setting. It's a long-standing bug that, to my knowledge, still hasn't been fixed.

Joel Spadinspadija # Monday, August 6, 2012 1:59:23 PM

The shortcut to open links in a background tab is Ctrl+Click now. Shift+Ctrl+Click still works, but holding Shift is no longer necessary.

strumpfhose2006 # Tuesday, August 7, 2012 8:51:51 PM

every opera developer that reads this please read this topic:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=880132&t=1344331360&page=5#comment12862242

a disable option really has to come, please

ErikshaktiIIIgta # Wednesday, August 8, 2012 12:29:20 AM

Just to point out that that one is a good tutorial for beginners and just to say two ideas...

- an option to disable staking could be an option in Preferences... I'd bet that is a low priority for devs though
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Maybe something should be done to improve the Sessions management, for example you pin some tabs and those are included in the session, cool for saving, but lets say I close all others. I open a current session in the same window and BAM !duplicated pinned tabs... not cool.

Current features immediately after installing Opera still beat other browser though, that is for sure.

Robert RotariuRRR14 # Wednesday, August 8, 2012 12:08:48 PM

Originally posted by spadija:

The shortcut to open links in a background tab is Ctrl+Click now. Shift+Ctrl+Click still works, but holding Shift is no longer necessary.

Seriously, who writes those articles on My Opera?! Do they get paid?! Do they even use Opera?!
And the tutorials all suck. Nobody knows about Middle Click to open links in background tabs. Instead, they teach you to open follower tabs. Seriously, WTF?!