Opera is Reborn

Re:Opera is Reborn by nonsince on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:44AM (#14306797)

I really like the concept of bringing i3-style tiling management to the browser space, but why is it specific to messengers? Since most well-designed websites work at any size, couldn't you just have a permanent tab at the side of the screen of, say, twitter, or some browser-based IRC client? Admittedly, I'd probably use facebook messenger as this tab anyway, so my needs are covered, but it seems like a missed opportunity. Obviously more technically-inclined individuals on more technically-inclined OS's have this already with proper tiling window managers but Windows and MacOS users probably don't want that system-wide and the browser would be the perfect place to introduce it.

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Re:Opera is Reborn by nly on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:57AM (#14306844)

Opera had tiling some 12-15 years ago. By default tabs were just 'maximized' to the full window, and they made it harder and harder to access with subsequent versions. I'm not even sure if it made it to the latest presto release (version 12).

Edit: the Wikipedia page shows tiling in Opera 1.0 in 1995... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Opera_web_brows...

I'm with you though. I dumped Opera the moment they became a featureless skin around Chrome. Such a sad event

Operas best days were the early to mid 2000s

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Re:Opera is Reborn by bigbugbag on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @05:29AM (#14306965)

Just fired up the real opera (v12.16 b1860) I still have around and use occasionally to this day to test this.

Sure enough the tiling feature is there. Right click the tab bar and go to the arrange menu.

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Re:Opera is Reborn by maaaats on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @05:47AM (#14307041)

Vivaldi (by the original Opera people) has tiling.

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Re:Opera is Reborn by bigbugbag on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:44AM (#14307440)

I find vivaldi is not really suited for my several hundreds opened tabs navigation style yet. But I have good hopes for vivaldi and encourage people to try it and even use it as their main browser.

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Re:Opera is Reborn by thablackbull on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:15AM (#14307876)

> I find vivaldi is not really suited for my several hundreds opened tabs navigation style yet.

What is the solution you are currently using that you want them to implement?

Is quick commands (F2) + typing the tab name to navigate around not sufficient on Vivaldi?

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Re:Opera is Reborn by filchermcurr on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:49AM (#14308121)

Unfortunately the quick commands window is very slow. It definitely doesn't live up to its name.

I love it, though, and I truly hope performance is something they tackle soon.

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Re:Opera is Reborn by thablackbull on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:07AM (#14308262)

This may or may not be a problem specific to your own installation though. While I don't have 100+ tabs, I've been using quick commands for everything since I started using Vivaldi without any issues - it is very snappy for me.

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Re:Opera is Reborn by filchermcurr on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:49PM (#14313081)

Could be. I've noticed it slows down more when you have a lot of bookmarks. Ideally you could choose what type of results quick search would return. I'd be perfectly happy only searching tabs and commands.

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Re:Opera is Reborn by jonmccull on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @06:09AM (#14307104)

Vivaldi's "Web Panels" are doing this with a lot more flexibility - you can add any site you want as a custom panel in the sidebar and resize the width to adjust the ratio with your main window.

Granted, a lot of people use it for social/messengers, but it's also super useful for resources and tools like Stackoverflow or Google Translate.

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Re:Opera is Reborn by Corristowolf on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:36AM (#14307667)

I like Vivaldi as a whole. Very nice browser and a lot more flexible then chrome and firefox (at least in the UI sense).

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Re:Opera is Reborn by claudius on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:54AM (#14306834)

Ironically, the old Opera did have this feature, where you could arrange tabs side-by-side within the browser window…

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Re:Opera is Reborn by H4CK3RM4N on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:47AM (#14306811)

Safari has their pinned tab which makes it easily accessible, if not always open.

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