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Tab Stacking is here

By Tami Weissoperatdub. Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:12:46 AM

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Last week we already introduced you to some new features in Opera 11. Today we release Opera 11 beta with a new surprise feature: tab stacking.

How do you like your tabs? Many of us like tabs and lots of them.
We've added functionality to enhance your tab experience. Tab stacking allows you to organize your browsing, optimize the space on your tab bar, and keep yet even more tabs handy for use.

Dragging and dropping tabs on top of one another creates stacks. Hovering a stack gives a visual overview of what's inside the stack. Expanding and collapsing stacks allows you to optimize the space on your tab bar any way you like.

So, if you're already using lots of tabs, you might want to:
Stack for looking at later
Stack for different tasks
Stack for checking out after work
Stack for just creating more space for tabs

Whatever you like to do with your tabs, tab stacking should help you organize, identify, and access lots of content directly on the tab bar. Check out the video here. And . . .

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Comments

Asires Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:14:26 AM

Already on main page http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ up

Previous (1104) snapshot Peacekeper points (+gpu-enabled Chromium)
http://files.myopera.com/Asires/screenshots/peace7.png
(Peacekeper site don't work now).

Benjaminvivabrevis Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:15:20 AM

up

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:15:45 AM

Nice. And maybe better alternative to Tab Candy/Panorama in Firefox.
Edit: Love the "goes to eleven" design on Opera.com. love

pursanovd Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:19:09 AM

Really handy feature! Thank you for it. One small thing is that if i dont usually use mouse-it seems that i cant stack/unstack tabs with keyboard. BTW, you forgot to mention new pinned tabs smile
*UPDATE* Used it for 2 days already! The tab stack is really killer feature smile) Tho still needs some improvements.

Eric Bladeeblade Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:19:09 AM

My girlfriend and I are going to probably have all of wiki collectively opened simultaneously. we're just like that.

ruaman Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:20:45 AM

cheers yes

Dmitriy Kvasnikovfarmacevtua Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:21:38 AM

Opera folder still is named " Opera 11 alpha"
And where is international version?

operic Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:21:57 AM

why do pinned tabs become so small, narrow? confused

Eric Bladeeblade Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:25:19 AM

Hmm. I jus tried the Tab Stacking. It took the tab I dropped onto, and put it inside the tab that I wanted inside the tab I dropped it onto. It operates backwards from what you would expect sad

marbross Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:26:56 AM

Thank team smile

Abhinavdecodedthought Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:28:52 AM

one word AWESOME !

JosemiJosemi16 Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:31:51 AM

Am I the only one seeing speed dial 5x4 more widely than before?

bEuwe Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:32:19 AM

The new installer icon looks especially nice.

Joshua PhelpsJoshuaPhelps Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:33:32 AM

Will download it when I get a good night's rest. OMG. sohappy! :-)

Eric Bladeeblade Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:35:50 AM

Originally posted by Josemi16:

Am I the only one seen speed dial 5x4 more widely than before?



It did look wider than before, but the options didn't change, so I thought maybe my eyes were weird.
Guess not.

youngjr Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:36:04 AM

Great! Tab stacking is very impressive, but some skins should be updated to support that feature.

Lukášlukaydo Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:38:27 AM

Originally posted by Josemi16:

Am I the only one seen speed dial 5x4 more widely than before?



the same here, it´s very wide and quite big

Pastor DavidLionandLamb Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:41:17 AM

Originally posted by Josemi16:

Am I the only one seen speed dial 5x4 more widely than before?



It IS wider...love it!

Pastor DavidLionandLamb Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:41:54 AM

Originally posted by youngjr:

but some skins should be updated to support that feature.



Right you are! We need the skins updated, especially the transparent ones.

James Cassellelitegeek Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:42:02 AM

I like how the build number is 1111 smile

testing it out now!

edit:
the tab stacking is definitely a killer feature!!! -- I often have hundreds of tabs opened across several windows, which gets quite crowded

Strabs Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:45:14 AM

I've noticed the mouse gestures are back in their former glory, nice!
Have to get used to tab stacking.

UseLesS Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:46:48 AM

http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml is broken on Linux (ubuntu 10.04 64bit).
Video-controls don't show and if you start the video via right-click you hear the sound but no video is displayed.

nimu_channimuchan Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:49:59 AM

Wow..!! Thanks
Just download up

sirnh1 Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:50:29 AM

Tab stacking seem to work great here. Can extensions have any influence over the stacking?

I just noticed that 'pinned tabs' only show their favicon. I guess this was intended?

Originally posted by lwiczek:

OK, tab-stacking is nice (but it would be even more awesome if you add possibility to make them tree-like if tabbar is placed on the side (righ/left) with tabs opened from given tab as children and option to collapse different levels of tabs.


+1

genegold Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:52:40 AM

Originally posted by mjpa:

These are for the beta: Not liking the new designs on the tooltips when you hover over the tabs (or the fact that they like to stick around until I either click or hover over something like a link on a page).

(This is a continuation of a discussion of 1111 that started near the end of the 1095 comments.) In fact, the tooltips do stick if you keep the cursor over the tab, instead of moving away quickly; i.e., move the cursor over the tab and when the tooltip comes up, keep the cursor there for awhile, then move away slowly without clicking. The tooltip stays until you click somewhere. Good catch. The question is whether or not the developers will see that as a bug. Fortunately, that's no longer a problem with the kind of links that bring pop ups (tooltips or whatever they are called), such as at Scottrade.com. There, running the cursor even in the vicinity of a linked item brought pop ups, such that I could have 3 or 4 open at once and all sticking. I had filed a bug report about that in August (DSK-310421). That part is solved with this build. However, those pop ups are still coming up instantly, i.e., too fast, without the slight delay that FF and IE use. The advantage of the delay is that if the user doesn't intend to bring up link's pop up, then the continued movement of the (mouse) cursor prevents it. With screen tabs, I'm not sure the delay in their coming up is needed, though, since presumably the user doesn't run by them on their way somewhere else, but intentionally goes to them.

Michaelpurgat0ri Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:53:46 AM

This version breaks multi-key shortcut sequence mappings, e.g: I cannot map 'g,t' to execute 'next tab', as specified in my current keyboard mapping (modified Vimperopera). Looks like I'll be using Chrome until this is fixed sad

stranded Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:57:09 AM

Works very nice! And the new feature is great. Keep 'em coming!

KonstantinKostik-N Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:59:10 AM

html5 video still not working in linux x86_64 version - no video, only audio

KirillkirilC Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:59:29 AM

Someone explained to me when Opera gets FULL hardware acceleration?! Not only VEGA, but fonts and Canvas, and everything in IE9

Ahmed GhanemAhmedGhanem Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:02:13 AM

Awesome, downloading!

Darkwing Duckchp101 Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:03:09 AM

Great move with tabs-stacking! Very useful, not as complicated as FF and just about time smile Thank you!

Rijk Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:03:13 AM

Originally posted by sirnh1:

Tab stacking seem to work great here. Can extensions have any influence over the stacking?
I just noticed that 'pinned tabs' only show their favicon. I guess this was intended?

Not yet, and yes.

Originally posted by operic:

why do pinned tabs become so small, narrow?

To make it easier to have a bunch of them without filling up your tab bar. And you are likely to know what they contain, so the tab bar space is better used for other tabs. But I agree it is a bit of a tiny area to hit with the mouse.

x64pls Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:03:19 AM

Moderator edit: Spam removed.

micfey Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:04:24 AM

If i click on a pdf-link opera tries to open it as htm and shows weird symbols. But one can save as pdf and everything's fine.

Darkwing Duckchp101 Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:05:09 AM

Great move with tabs-stacking! Very useful, not as complicated as FF and just about time Thank you!


PS pinned tabs - just like in Chrome (that frequently used tabs so you know them by icon alone)

7ane Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:06:13 AM

Tab stacking is excellent! Thank you. However, on the pop-up you get when hovering a stack, you should be able to close tabs by middle-clicking them.

kolistivra Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:08:46 AM

Good feature! Where is the full changelog over the last build?

sabisan Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:09:38 AM

Testing new beta...

1) Opening new tab FROM tab-stack doesn't open new tab next to active (tab-stack).

2) Sometimes when selecting a page from tab-stack -> tab-stack doesn't dissapear automatically

3) Had some crashes on closing Opera

Z1-AV69 Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:10:03 AM

Peacekeeper benchmark stops during string tests with an unexpected error (win7 x64), anybody else experiencing this?

theRollol Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:10:04 AM

Love the new "Pin Tab" and the stacking function.

Small problem with it: If my stack is on the right of all other tabs and I try to pull the tab which is on the far right inside the stack outside of the stack, it does not work.

It does work for the other tabs inside the stack. And it does work if there is another "normal" tab next to the stack on the right side.

Anybody can confirm?

SADIQ ALI .Nsadiqna Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:10:10 AM

Nice feature tab stacking !!!!.In this builds too i think mouse gestures didnt get anticipated results (fast and accurate response).Sometimes they dont give results,i have to do twice sometimes.Pls give an option to turn off visual gesture,although it is useful for who doesnt know anything about gestures,its nice idea but for who used to it seems annoying .

Qbikqbik13 Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:10:43 AM

When You duplicate tabs it should be added as grouped with original wink

Rijk Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:11:04 AM

Originally posted by kirilC:

Someone explain to me when Opera gets FULL hardware acceleration?!

W.I.R.

Originally posted by purgat0ri:

This version breaks multi-key shortcut sequence mappings, e.g: I cannot map 'g,t' to execute 'next tab', as specified in my current keyboard mapping (modified Vimperopera).

Such shortcuts are currently not supported in 11.00.

serious Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:11:07 AM

you guys are crazy (in the positive way). one new feature every week ^^

bahumat Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:11:34 AM

Can't install on windows 2000: [img]http://files.myopera.com/bahumat/files/opera_11_installer_error.jpg

maybe it's because I don't have administrative rights?

Rijk Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:11:46 AM

Originally posted by sadiqna:

Pls give an option to turn off visual gesture

search for 'gesture' in opera:config for such an option.

unic0rn Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:14:22 AM

Show Gesture UI setting works now, and... STACKING STACKING STACKINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG yes

THANK YOU! smile

Asires Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:14:27 AM

Mouse gestures is broken, gesture threshold not help much.. It makes gesture more sensitive (lesser steps) at 0-2 but even not perfect gesture down will close tab now.

genegold Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:14:34 AM

Has the shape of the individual items in the Speed Dial been elongated? My SD is 5x5 and with this build the items appear shorter, but I'm wondering if that's really the case or it's more a perceptual illusion due to their having been elongated. Something's definitely different and it's not as pleasing to my eye.

7ane Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:15:07 AM

Another thing: Pinned tabs are full-sized when they're part of a stack.

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