Closed Tabs menu, why are you so useless in OSX?

Closed Tabs menu, why are you so useless in OSX?

I love opera. Been using it since 2000. I love how I can use the same browser on Linux, Windows, and OSX, and it feels the same, syncs all my bookmarks and custom search rules.

So why is it that OSX is the only version that when you close all tabs in a window, the whole window goes away? I under stand if you say this is more "Mac-like". I'm ok with it. However, it breaks the trashcan/recyclebin/closed tabs menu.

Here is a normal usecase for me. Open opera window, command + 1, command + t, command + 2, command + t, command + 3, command + t, and start reading the news. When I'm all done, I close those tabs usually by mashing command + w a bunch.

Oh no! I didn't mean to close that last tab! Now the window is gone, how unfortunate. Maybe I can open that last tab from the closed tab menu like I can on Linux and Windows? If I click the last tab button, all I end up with is one entry called Window 1. If I click Window 1, it is empty, and has no tab history associated with it.

I do this a bunch, and never close opera, or reboot. Then I also end up with a tabbed history with about 50 windows open, and none of them are useful. In the rare event where I close a tab and CAN recover it, I have to scroll past all those closed windows, to find the closed tab I wanted.

I love opera. I know that makes me crazy. Am I the only crazy person out there that has this problem?

Originally posted by at165db:

Here is a normal usecase for me. […] When I'm all done, I close those tabs usually by mashing command + w a bunch.

Yup! You're nuts: Don't mash ⌘W to close those tabs… From the tab you're reading, choose Close All but Active from the tab's context menu. (This also preserves your closed tabs list.)
It might also be useful to set a custom keyboard shortcut for this action (Close other is the code…); and a mouse gesture, too — just to be safe.
Or use this button.

But –yes– it is also somewhat broken behavior, too. Especially since the pages are still cached…

Originally posted by at165db:

Then I also end up with a tabbed history with about 50 windows open, and none of them are useful.

Judicious use of Clear List of Closed Tabs should help.

If you're used to using the Window menu, add the following to your^* menu.ini's Browser Window Menu section:

Item, M_CLOSED_MENU_EMPTY_TRASH=Empty page trash

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* Of course, I mean your custom menu.ini…

I suppose if I get in the habbit of opening a new tab (to get speed dial), and then closing all but the active tab, I can work around this.

I do clear the last of closed tabs from time to time, but on windows/linux, it acts like a quick history lookup, sorted by time (because it is full of just tabs, not useless empty window references).