Comments on: Tweak Opera for large amount of tabs

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.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:08:53 +0000

@WillieHad you done a lot of upgrading on top of previous Opera versions? That is one of the most common reasons for performance issues. Try exporting bookmarks, etc and doing completely clean install.As for specific sites only thing that comes to mind is crappy flash on those. Try visiting them with plugins disabled (quick menu on F12 can quickly enable/disable those) or flashblock for Opera. Reinstall Flash to latest version as well.

By: Willie

Willie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:22:03 +0000

What about memory and other settings? When I get about 50 tabs (or more) open, my cpu utilization pegs and my computer crawls. I have 4GB of RAM in it. Usually it’s just a page from certain sites that does it such as MSNBC or multiple LifeHacker.com pages. Also, I configure Opera to be in Multiple Document mode instead tab mode.
Thanks.