How to Customize Tabs in Opera
Available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, the Opera web browsing program offers many helpful features, including page zooming, mouse gestures, strong secure web page encryption, and built-in malware and phishing protection. Opera also provides tabbed browsing along with a number of ways to customize this feature's look and feel.
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Adjust thumbnail settings. Expand and display Opera tabs as thumbnails by double-clicking the drag handle, located at the bottom of the tab bar and marked by three dots. Double-click the drag handle again to collapse the thumbnails. Disable the thumbnail option by right-clicking the tab bar, choosing "Customize," then deselecting the "Enable thumbnails in tabs" option.
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Adjust tab cycling settings. By default, holding the "Ctrl" key while pressing the "Tab" key lets you cycle through all open Opera tabs in the order they were most recently used. Change this setting by opening the Tab Preferences menu, located under "Preferences" > "Advanced" > "Tabs." You can choose to cycle through tabs in the order they appear on the tab bar, with or without the list appearing on your screen.
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Adjust tab closing settings. Opera returns to the most recently viewed tab after another closes by default. You can instead choose to view the next tab on the tab bar, or view the first tab opened from the recently closed tab. Adjust these options under the "When closing a tab" heading.
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Adjust current tab reuse settings. By default, Opera opens panel items in the current tab. Open these items in a new tab by checking the "Reuse current tab" box.
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Adjust new tab opening settings. Opera adds new tabs to the end of the tab bar by default. Place new tabs next to the active tab by checking the "Open new tab next to active" box.
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Adjust thumbnail hover settings. Page thumbnails are shown by default when the mouse hovers over a tab. Disable this option by unchecking the "Show thumbnails when hovering tabs" box.
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Adjust additional tab options. Click the button labeled "Additional tab options." Check the appropriate boxes on this screen to allow windows with no tabs, to minimize tabs when clicked, to show the close button on each tab, and to open windows instead of tabs. To change the size of new tabs, adjust the "New tabs" setting.
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Save your changes. Click "OK" twice to exit the Preferences menus and save your custom Opera tab settings.
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