Detachable/Tearable Tabs in Opera 10 Alpha for Mac OS X?

Detachable/Tearable Tabs in Opera 10 Alpha for Mac OS X?

Hi,

I posted this initially in the wrong forum. Another user reported that this works in Windows Vista, but it does not work for me in Mac OS X. Not sure if it's an OS X setting or an Opera option.

I've searched for this on Google and these forums, but found no results. Does Opera 10 have a way to do "tab tearing" as Safari does? What I mean by this is that by left clicking a tab and dragging it out of the current window, it causes creation of a new window containing that tab. At the moment, when I try this, it results in dropping the bookmark on my desktop.

Again, I'm using OS X (Leopard) if it matters.

Thanks!

I just tore a "tab" out of an Opera with 7 tabs and put it on the desktop as it's own window. I did it with the left key held down.

Jerry

PS- I'm using Vista

Thanks, but I know it works in Vista. Any OS X users out there to shed some light?

Do you have a Windows panel? (It isn't enabled by default, you may need to click on the (+) button in the panels and enable it.)

That's the one way to detach a tab which is consistent between Windows and Linux. Grab the listing for the tab and drag it into the blank area at the bottom of the panel (if you have a blank area anyway) and Opera creates a new window containing only that tab. Likewise you can drag a tab from the listing for one window to the listing for another window, and the tab itself is moved to that window. That method should work on a Mac if any method does.

Thanks for that! I just wish it took up less screen real estate. Do you know how I might create a button for this? I'll try to find it now, but I figured I'd ask anyway. A button that would create a new window with the currently active tab would do the trick, and be an acceptable tradeoff.

See if the Detach command works. Let's see, buttons need icons ...

button

Drag that to a toolbar, see if it works on a Mac system.

Worked like a charm! Thanks. On a side note, do you know where I can find a list of the icons I can use for buttons? I had just reached the same conclusion for making the button, but I couldn't find the list of available icons.

Thanks!!!

It depends on your skin. Some custom skins include extra button images, with the default skin you're restricted to standard images. I chose the image from Cascade as being most appropriate - actually, I would have liked a Restore image (two overlapping windows), but couldn't find one.

Thanks for all the help everybody! This is not quite what I wanted, but it's an acceptable substitute since it just doesn't appear to function that way in OS X.

The detachable tab work well here on my Mac

leishen Is what your looking for under tools -> appearance -> buttons

Another method –also quick and relatively^* painless– is customizing your menu(s)…



For example, here's the section for the context menu for the active tab:

[Pagebar Item Popup Menu]
Item, MI_IDM_MENU_PAGEBAR_NEW_PAGE=New Page, 1
Item, MI_IDM_CLONE_WINDOW=Duplicate page
Item, MI_IDM_CREATE_LINKED_WINDOW=Create linked window
--------------------1
Platform Windows-Unix-QNX, Item, M_RESTORE_PAGE=Restore page, 1
Platform Windows-Unix-QNX, Submenu, M_MENU_ITEM_ARRANGE, Pagebar Arrange Menu
--------------------2
Item, M_LOCK_TAB=Lock page | Unlock page
--------------------3
Item, M_CLOSE_PAGE=Close page, 1
Platform Windows-Unix-QNX, Item, M_PAGEBAR_POPUP_MENU_CLOSE_ALL=Close all
Item, M_PAGEBAR_POPUP_MENU_CLOSE_ALL_BUT_ACTIVE=Close other
--------------------4
Platform Mac-Unix-QNX, Item, M_DETACH_PAGE=Detach page
--------------------5
Include, Toolbar Popup Menu

I can't say why this was not a default setting: All I did was add the Mac to the platforms string for the detach item.
(For the Windows menu, the line needs to be added…)
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* Specially if the MyOpera setups area resumes operation…