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Opera has tab jumpback!

Saturday, 15. September 2007, 08:40:04

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Did you know Opera's way of handling tabs is amazing? You know how it goes back to the previous tab you had active when you close the current one, instead of the one that's immediately next to it like it does in Firefox?

Well, apparently the folks who develop the Camino browser thought it's an amazing feature enough to market their browser and even created a buzzword for it: Tab jumpback.

This is a direct quote from their features page:


Camino’s legendary tabbed browsing is even better in version 1.5.
[...snip...]
With “tab jumpback”, when a site opens a new tab, you can “jump back” to the page you were viewing simply by closing the new tab.



Kind of funny how they mention something trivial like that on their features page. Makes me think there aren't enough "real" features in their browser. I think it is the only correct way to handle it though - I'm always bothered by the way Firefox does it if I use it.

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NoteMe 15. September 2007, 10:01

I think that feature is utterly confusing. As well as the default tab cycle feature in Opera. I hate it both in Opera and Visual Studio as well as where ever else I see it. It is the first thing I change.

"Open tab next to"
and
"Cycle with no list"

or what ever they are called.



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zomg 15. September 2007, 10:17

I've always thought that it's the single correct way to do it.

If I'm on tab #2 and open a link from there to a new tab, which goes to, say tab #5. Then I look at stuff on tab #5. When I close it, 90% of the time I want to continue viewing the page where I was when I opened the new one, so Opera saves me a click when it goes back to it, instead of having to click the tab. And the remaining 10% is like 50-50 chances that I want to see the page immediately next to the closed tab.

I really don't know why people don't like this. Don't tell me you never have the same situation I described above P:

NoteMe 15. September 2007, 10:29

As long as you open "in the next tab". You will NEVER have that scenario :wink:. Hence no need to "jump" about, confuse your head and all that :wink:. Then when you close that tab going back to the last one you used is always the first one on the left, no matter what your initial tab number was :wink: It also helps you gather similar tabs next to each other. Lets say you have 3 tabs. One about Opera, one about Microformats, and then one about OpenID. You are at the Microformat one, and you open a new one, it will become number 3, and the OpenID one will be number 4. The link you opened from the Microformat one will probably have something to do with Microformats, so it is only sane as I see it to have it next to the Microformat one, and not on the end after the OpenID one.


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zomg 15. September 2007, 10:39

Ah yeah, if you use something like that it makes sense I guess. Having the browser go back to where you previously were should still not cause problems since it would go back to where you came from even if its the next tab on left.

Never thought about using "open next to active", but I think I'll give it a shot to see if I like it.

NoteMe 15. September 2007, 10:48

We are all different, and all used to different things, so I won't get surprised if you don't like it in the end. The only improvement I can see with this method is that the 3 starting tabs should have had different colours. Then the one you open from the Microformat one, should have the same colour as the microformat one. That way it would be easier to see the "borders" between the tabs you have open.


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Wandering electrons 15. September 2007, 11:23

The Camino marketing folks know their job! This is what's called "spin" when it's applied to politics: it doesn't really matter what you do, what matters is your ability to sell it.
IMHO and ITHOOALOO (in the humble opinion of a lot of others) Maxthon has the best tab integration because they give the choice to the user. This is my last big wish-list item for Opera: give me the choice in the preference menu as to how tabs behave when you close them.
Yes, yes I know that you can program this with keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures, and I've set all that up as a workaround, but golly it'd be a lot quicker if it was in the preferences.

Anonymous 18. September 2007, 09:25

Anonymous writes:

I usually go to google searching for something then open bunch of new tabs for each results I'm interested in and it's a pain in the ass to get back to Google results each time I close a tab as I want to read the next tab... Would be great that we can choose how this should behave

Anonymous 27. September 2007, 03:36

Anonymous writes:

95% of the time I'm opening up a list of tabs at once. Either all my news tabs, all my online comics, the first 5 or 10 results in a google search, etc. Once I'm done with the first of that list, I close a tab and I want it to go to the next tab in my list. Going back to a list of links, then to a new tab, is a PITA.

I uninstalled Opera because of this behavior. Can it be fixed?

Wandering electrons 27. September 2007, 07:08

Yes it can be fixed! You can use keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures to tell Opera to go to the "previous" tab (the tab immediately to the left of the tab being closed) or the "next" tab (the tab immediately to the right). See Tamil's article:
How to close current tab and go to previous/next tab in Opera?
I put "close and go to previous" to Ctrl+W and then programed my middle-side mouse button to do this action. So working backward through a series of articles is as simple as pressing that button on my mouse.
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