Comments on: Better way to manage tabs in your browser

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:07:06 +0000

I keep trying Opera. And after a time, just can’t take it anymore. Where have all the good designers gone?
The only thing Opera has (in aggregate) over FF or others is it is very stable – still not perfectly stable. FF crashes all the time, probably because it is so feature rich and the massive development is not well controlled (well?)
A small view of my issues with Opera:
1. Miminal help on the Web. People who use Opera seem not to be detail oriented. sorry.
2. I can’t drag & drop urls to the desktop or to anywhere in XP.
3. Tabs are unusable. Can’t control them. I click and nothing happens. Then Oooops! it works! I open in a new tab, the page loads but there is no tab. Can’t close the window, can’t figure out where the tab is. click click click on tabs and nothing. Many times only the first few tabs show but the blank area to the right can be clicked and you can get the differnt pages. Should have learned the violin! (no frets, no seeing) – I could go on, but the tabs are pretty unusable. Why? No idea. I have Opera 9.64, XP sp3, 4gig ram, 3.5mhz processor – dual 24″ Dell flat panels. Incredible dual HDMI head GForce graphics card.

I used FF for many years. If it had the stability of Opera I’d be a happy camper. FF is so feature rich -a great add-in community. It could use some nice features that are in Opera but visa versa too. a wash. (awash?)

I often have 15 tabs open in each of 6 or so windows. Of course each browser has great features and missing other essential features. It would be nice if they looked at the other browsers and took notes.

IE, as anything from MS, is only as good as competition forces it to be. & once it has enough dominant market share, they no longer care about what they offer. Only for cultists.

By: Niyaz PK

Niyaz PK — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:17:41 +0000

missingxtension,

Thanks for the advice!!!

By: missingxtension

missingxtension — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:31:25 +0000

well i gotta tell you, ive used the taskbar like that for the longest.
I actually started doing that from linux, i dont remember witch wm it was from, but i am guessing its been around for a while now. One solution could be to put your taskbar like that, and not use any tabs within the browser. I have been using opera for a long time, and it is a very fast browser. As long as you dont have that many tabs open, or the site youre in doesn’t have to load from images from lot of domains. You can fine tune opera, but firefox is much more rich in addons. I recomend Opera on any mobile or low power operating system, its just an amazing browser. But if you have to fine tune it, its not my pick for the browser of the day.

By: Appu

Appu — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:48:00 +0000

Cool

By: Niyaz PK

Niyaz PK — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:04:11 +0000

samaraimike,
I have updated the post.

By: samaraimike

samaraimike — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:14:13 +0000

What are the steps to trying out the tiled vertical tabs in Opera?

By: Niyaz PK

Niyaz PK — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:03:10 +0000

el mismo,
Thanks for sharing your comments. The shortcuts are very useful too.
There are many people who like Opera than IE or FF.
I was never a fan of Firefox.
FF is boring – Nothing new.

By: el mismo

el mismo — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:05:44 +0000

Folks,

I am used to hide the close button in my tabs. I prefer to close them by middle-clicking on them (or via CTL-W). Should I mistakenly close a tab, I can easily reopen it via CTL-Z, ala “W*ndows Undo”. If I want to reopen a particular tab, I just select it from the tab trashcan.

As for arranging tabs titles on my 17” monitor, I let them wrap to multiple lines. As I write, this, I have 11 open tabs whose titles are distributed across two lines. No clutter whatsoever, full tab titles so I don’t have to memorize their order.

Since I discovered Opera, some 5 years ago, I left IE just for work-related stuff. I tried Firefox, but it is so empty at the beginning, it’s depressing. And i’ts a pain in the neck to look for (and pick) the right add-ons to get what Opera gives out of the box.

But hey, guys, it’s just me. YMMV.

By: Diovo » Native UI and Opera

Diovo » Native UI and Opera — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:21:58 +0000

[...] works very fast. If you want to work online for a long time, Opera is the best choice, especially if you want to open a lot of tabs. Opera has many great features that will enhance your surfing experience, but the Opera team should [...]

By: Niyaz PK

Niyaz PK — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:22:34 +0000

Joyce,
Good to see you back after the long gap (I guess 15 days is a long gap in the internet).
By the way, I actually started using Opera after reading your blog and learned about your plugin for Opera – “Torplus”
I haven’t tried it yet, but will. soon.