- Toolbars
- Menus
- Panels
- Speed Dial
- Bookmarks
- Widgets
- Notes
- Opera Link
- Content blocking
- Fraud Protection
- BitTorrent
- Display modes
- Developer tools
- Preferences
- Advanced Preferences
- Skins
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Using the mouse
- E-mail and news
- Feeds
- Chat
- Dialogs
- Backing up Opera
Tabs
Press Page Down and Page Up to switch slides
Multiple Web documents and messaging views are accessible as tabs on the tab bar.
There are numerous ways to open a new tab:
- from the menu, select
- use the keyboard shortcut ⌘ + T
- click the plus icon ("+") on the tab bar
- double-click the tab bar
and to open a link in a new tab:
- Ctrl-click a link, and select from the menu
- ⌘-click a link, or ⌘-Shift-click it (opens in background)
and to close an active tab:
- use the keyboard shortcut ⌘ + W
- click the close icon ("X") on the tab
- middle-click the tab, or Shift-click it.
To recover a closed tab, open the trash can on the right side of the tab bar, and select the tab.
Tabs can be rearranged on the tab bar by dragging and dropping them.
Tab context menu
Ctrl-click a tab to see its context menu.
| New Tab | Opens a new tab |
|---|---|
| Duplicate Tab | Opens a copy of the current tab, retaining its history |
| Create Follower Tab | Opens a background tab. Any link you click in the current tab will open in the follower tab. |
| Lock Tab | Protects the tab from being closed, particularly useful for chat sessions |
| Close | Closes the current tab |
| Close All but Active | Closes all tabs except the current tab |
| Customize... | Customize the tab bar |
Tab preferences
The preferences let you tweak Opera's tab setup to your liking.
When cycling through tabs with Option + Tab
By holding the Option key and repeatedly pressing Tab, you can cycle through all the tabs you have open within the active Opera window. This setting allows you to choose what order the tabs should be cycled in, and whether you want to see the list of open tabs while you are cycling through them.
- Cycle in recently used order
- The default setting places the recently used tabs at the top of the list
- Cycle in tab bar order
- This setting lists the tabs in the order that they appear on the tab bar
- Cycle without showing list
- This setting uses tab bar order, but does not show the list
Show thumbnails in tab cycle
Check "Show thumbnails in tab cycle" to display a thumbnail of the selected tab in the tab cycle.
When closing a tab
- Activate the last active tab
- The default setting returns focus to the most recently used tab
- Activate the next tab
- This setting returns focus to the next tab on the tab bar
- Activate first tab opened from current tab
- This setting returns focus to tabs created from within the closed tab
Reuse current tab
When you open an item from the panels, such as a bookmark, the default action is to open the document in the current tab. If you prefer such items to be opened in a new tab, uncheck "Reuse current tab".
Open new tab next to active
By default, new tabs are added at the end of the tab bar. Check "Open new tab next to active" if you want new tabs to appear next to the active tab on the tab bar.
Show thumbnails when hovering tabs
By default, a thumbnail of the page is shown when hovering a tab. To disable this behavior, uncheck "Show thumbnails when hovering tabs".
Additional tab options
Show close button on each tab
By default, a close button is displayed on each tab. Uncheck "Show close button on each tab" to remove the close buttons.
Open windows instead of tabs
By default, new tabs open within a single Opera application window. Select "Open windows instead of tabs" to make new tabs open in a separate window.
Copyright © 1995 - 2008 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved.