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Once you pin a tab, it should be unclickable
Sometimes we are filling a page with long forms etc. I'd like to pin the tab if I have to leave the PC and go elsewhere so that someone doesn't accidentally click a link in the page and make my filled forms dissappear.Too many tabs extension for firefox does have this function and it is extremely useful
It's inbuilt in your os and the keyboard binding in windows is [win]+[L] 
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Originally posted by serious:
It's inbuilt in your os and the keyboard binding in windows is [win]+[L]
Not a lot of people know these windows key shortcuts. That's not one that I ever need to use since I live alone, but I sometimes use Windows + R to get to regedit, or Windows + D to tidy up the desktop.
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Wow, when I think users can't think of any more ways to mess up with the Pin tab / Lock tab / page / App tab feature or whatever it'll be called in the next releases they surprise me!
@HarmanHundal would you be interested in locking the whole browser or just one tab?
Because you have the option to Ctrl + Shift + Alt + H to minimize Opera to the system tray, which makes it less accessible... But it won't stop an user from restoring it though, where a "Lock browser" feature would be needed (I ask for this option here).
@HarmanHundal would you be interested in locking the whole browser or just one tab?
Because you have the option to Ctrl + Shift + Alt + H to minimize Opera to the system tray, which makes it less accessible... But it won't stop an user from restoring it though, where a "Lock browser" feature would be needed (I ask for this option here).
@Rafaelluik : If I were to chose between the two options, then I'd chose the 'unclickable tab' over the 'lock browser' idea. Simply because once you make a tab unclickable once, the browser would be in a sense be locked and not close till that tab is made clickable again. This lock the browser when you make a tab unclickable could be given as an option somewhere among the preferences.
That was the idea in my mind, I am sorry to not have conveyed this with clarity.
That was the idea in my mind, I am sorry to not have conveyed this with clarity.
Don't mind my joke... I just find it interesting how there are many ways (different behaviors) of wanting to locking a tab / page.
I get what you meant... Actually if you "pin" a tab it can't be closed (you can hit back and most sites will have the form content recovered - which isn't very good), but the browser can be closed.
I think you'd like an aggressive page locking (it'd lock the URL, the navigation of the tab and make all links clicked on it open in a new tab) feature plus that when you click X on the browser window it would warn you there are pages locked and instead of asking confirmation for closing the window it'd wait until you manually find the locked page and unlock it. I kind of support this idea, as specific as it is (could be an option for the hypothetically new page locking feature), I just don't want it to be implemented on top of the current "Pin Tab" feature since it's already messed up and I'm already wishing its new behavior is separated into a different feature.
Sorry if it's too much info, maybe I'm throwing so much of my discontentment with Opera's move to change the behavior of "Pin Tab" recently without giving the option to have the old behavior back / making it into what it should be: a new feature called "App Tab" that would have the exact functionality as it has on the other browsers and prevent confusion.
I get what you meant... Actually if you "pin" a tab it can't be closed (you can hit back and most sites will have the form content recovered - which isn't very good), but the browser can be closed.
I think you'd like an aggressive page locking (it'd lock the URL, the navigation of the tab and make all links clicked on it open in a new tab) feature plus that when you click X on the browser window it would warn you there are pages locked and instead of asking confirmation for closing the window it'd wait until you manually find the locked page and unlock it. I kind of support this idea, as specific as it is (could be an option for the hypothetically new page locking feature), I just don't want it to be implemented on top of the current "Pin Tab" feature since it's already messed up and I'm already wishing its new behavior is separated into a different feature.
Sorry if it's too much info, maybe I'm throwing so much of my discontentment with Opera's move to change the behavior of "Pin Tab" recently without giving the option to have the old behavior back / making it into what it should be: a new feature called "App Tab" that would have the exact functionality as it has on the other browsers and prevent confusion.