Comments on: Tweak Opera for large amount of tabs

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:06:56 +0000

@ATL Not sure what feature in IE are you talking about. I don't like IE8 and rarely use it, hadn't looked at beta of IE9 at all.

By: ATL

ATL — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:47:22 +0000

I use alot of tabs too but I’ve been suggesting quick tab like IE has ever seens the tab came out in 8 or 9 I think. But they have yet to put that feature in.

Can someone any one put post up talk to coders of the this great progarm to get this feature in.

By: The DataRat

The DataRat — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:57:33 +0000

“Right-click tab bar >
Customize > Appearance >
Wrapping (closer to the
bottom of dialog)”

Thanks ! Got it.

The DataRat

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:11:53 +0000

@DataRat

Don’t remember if that got changed or I mistyped something. Look for:

Right-click tab bar > Customize > Appearance > Wrapping (closer to the bottom of dialog)

By: The DataRat

The DataRat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:04:08 +0000

“You can make tab bar extend
to next line when needed
– Right-click tab bar > Set
Wrapping to Wrap to multiply
lines”

Am using Opera v. 10.01, and all a right click on the tab bar
brings up is “Customize”.

Wrapping to multiple lines sounds great ? But ~how~ do I find
that option ?

The DataRat

By: Opera User

Opera User — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:18:53 +0000

Thanks.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:06:26 +0000

@Sinjin Smythe

I considered including this tweak, but from my experience very few people can adapt and like vertical tab bar (as well as taskbar or whatever).

Since Opera also has extensive vertical sidebar – that doesn’t leave much space for tabs even on [mainstream] WS monitors. YMMV indeed. :)

By: Sinjin Smythe

Sinjin Smythe — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:44:19 +0000

You can also position the tab bar to the (left/right) side of the screen.

This gives you a large vertical space for tabs at the cost of some horizontal screen real estate.

Nowadays with wide screens websites are usually displayed with a large amount of white space on the sides.

I’m not a big fan of this setup but YMMV.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:10:49 +0000

@Mike

I like to keep stuff fullscreen and use every pixel for app in focus. :) |Switching between windows is quite fast.

I also had Opera installed for some years and it got to the point it barely worked. I never encountered clear explanation but many notice that performance degrades after numerous updates in place.

Opera 10 will get self-upgrade (like Firefox) and it would be interesting to see if that fixes issue.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:04:14 +0000

Nice post! I have Opera set up to always open new tabs full-screen, and one thing I’ve started doing recently is using the “Restore” functionality to get some tabs to show up side-by-side within the Opera window. This is great for when I’m doing some reading on one site, and participating in a chat session in another.

I’ll definitely have to try your tips on improving performance, as I’ve had Opera installed for years now and it does seem to take a while to start up.