16 Comments

1. 1 Anonymous Apr 26th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
   using Safari 312.6 on Mac OS X

   In Opera, keyboard shortcuts can be custom-mapped. Thus, it is possible to have a shorter keyboard command for duplicating a tab. That’s another reason why customizability is superior.

2. 2 James Cassell Apr 26th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
   using Opera 9.10 on Windows Vista

   I actually use this keyboard shortcut quite often. Whenever I need a copy of the current tab, it’s Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N.

3. 3 cousin333 Apr 26th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

   Are you boring, so you publish this small “article”?

   Anyway, that’s a well known and often used feature for me. One reason I love Opera (because the history also duplicated, not just the tab).

4. 4 Daniel Goldman Apr 26th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

   cousin333, I’m not sure I understand your first sentence. Every so often I like to blog some tips about Opera.

5. 5 cousin333 Apr 26th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows Vista

   They are the minority (those articles). And this tipp is even “smaller” than the others. Or, at least, it looks like that for me… Never mind, it’s late

   By the way: when I wrote that post, I was listed as “using Opera 9.20 on Windows Vista”, which was true. How the hell did it become Windows XP?

6. 6 Steven Apr 26th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

   4. Right-click on tab, drag down.

   The quickest way

7. 7 Daniel Goldman Apr 26th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

   cousin333, your originally comment was held for moderation. I accidentally deleted it, instead of approving it. So I reposted under your name.

8. 8 Brotherbob Apr 26th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
   using Opera 11.00 on Windows XP

   I await for an article to show me how to close a tab…

9. 9 ResearchWizard Apr 26th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
   using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

   Steven, your number 4 doesn’t work for me, it just opens a new tab – seems to be a customized gesture and I’m interested in the section it’s in (Tools – Preferences – Advanced – Shortcut – Mousegestures+Edit – Quickfind: “duplicate”, what’s the headline?)

   Daniel, i got two other useful possibilities to use duplicate (little customizing needed):
   4. Menu: Window – Duplicate
   5. Custom Button on any toolbar except personal bar (Tab bar would be the natural choice)

   needed customizing:
   for 4: Tools – Preferences – Advanced – Browsing + check: “Show window menu”
   for 5: drag (up or down, not left or right) the “Duplicate” button from
   OperaWiki – CustomButtons “Duplicate Current Page (with ‘Cascade’ image)”
   or
   TTT-Buttons (several “Duplicate” buttons)

   There are even more sophisticated buttons for duplicated tabs, e.g. have both tabs (the original and the duplicated tab) visible on the screen next to each other with “Split page” (only vertically worked for me) on Non-Troppo’s OperaWiki. The mentioned “Split-Screen Mode button” doesn’t work relyably (probably due to a timing problem), but you can do this manually:
   Minimize all (via right click on tab + arrange OR menu window OR my minimize all button)
   & Restore page (simply click on the tab)
   & Duplicate page (described above)
   & Tile horizontally or vertically (same place as minimize all)
   If you have only one tab open it’s much easier, just duplicate and tile.
   Background: only not minimized tabs are tiled, which is the same behaviour as on the Windows (XP) task bar.

   For the “Create linked” button on Tomu’s TTT-page: this creates a linked tab from the current tab and if you click on any link on the current tab the link-target is opened in the linked tab (which you can drag off the Opera window to the desktop and further to a second screen). You can achieve the same manually by the Create linked menu entries next to the Duplicate tab entries (Right click on tab or Menu: Windows).

10. 10 Daniel Goldman Apr 26th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    Brotherbob, hehe…

11. 11 David Naylor Apr 27th, 2007 at 12:35 am
    using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP

    That’s a nice feature… I’ll have to find an extension for that.

12. 12 Gleb Arestov Apr 27th, 2007 at 4:29 am
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    It is old stuff.

13. 13 Øyvind Ø (at work) Apr 27th, 2007 at 4:46 am
    using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP

    For some reason I am so used to do it the hard way with all browsers, at least it works in most browsers except IE:

    Alt+L
    Ctrl+C
    Ctrl+N
    Ctrl+P

    Looks hard, but it has become second nature, and it’s hard to turn around Thought it doesn’t copy the history, but most often when I do it, is becuse I need the history, but only in one tab.

    - ØØ -

14. 14 illiad Apr 27th, 2007 at 6:44 am
    using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0 on Windows 98

    so how about making the next article about ‘customising opera’ – menus, keycommands, mousecommands…

    also ‘extending opera’ buttons can be defined, using the info from menus, etc…

    Tomus page shows what can be done, but may be frightening for newer users…

15. 15 Street Apr 27th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
    using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP

    Thanks for the tip Daniel.

    I have been using Opera as my primary browser since shortly after the dawm of time. Okay, more like version 3.62. Opera is so feature rich that I am still discovering useful features all the time.

    Keep the tips coming!

16. 16 Steve Barker Apr 27th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
    using Opera 9.20 on Linux

    I had not found this feature.

    Useful for replies on MySpace, since the original thread is not shown to check what you want to comment on. Hence, need for duplicate tab.