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by Tomek_ 5423 days ago
It's quite buggy though, e.g. with many tabs opened the "open new tab" button disappears or that you can't switch easily between thumbnails/no-thumbnails view, etc. Hope the good guys and girls at Opera will take notice of the OP and will work on some improvements in this area.

PS. also worth noting that Opera allows for easily grouping of tabs in the manner similar to the one described in OP (no naming though, fortunately (in my opinion at least)).
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CoryMathews 5423 days ago
To be honest I cannot remember the last time I actually clicked that button, but regardless its a design mistake.

What would work is putting a plus next to the closed tabs button (trashcan looking icon) along with the current plus at the bottom of the tabs.

I agree with you on the naming. I don't want to have to name each group. Although it would be nice to add it, possibly after a group has been created, then be able to right click no the group and give it a name so that the name shows instead of the "top" tab.

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mtogo 5423 days ago
> with many tabs opened the "open new tab" button disappear

I just tried it and it seems that there's a sweet spot around 5-6 tabs where the button is partially hidden, but after that thumbnails are removed and you can see it again. A slight problem, but nothing to worry about.

> or that you can't switch easily between thumbnails/no-thumbnails view

Right click -> Customize -> Enable thumbnails in tabs.

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Tomek_ 5423 days ago
Yeah, I know about the "Right click" way, but it's not the easy one (comparing to the simple middle click on the edge of the tab bar when it's on the top of the window). Don't know hot can they solve it though, quite a challenging issue.

Edit: just checked it again (placing tab bar on the left) and now thumbnails turing on/off doesn't work at all - like I wrote: "buggy" :)

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matmann2001 5423 days ago
Are you using a modern version of Opera? I have 30 something tabs open and the New Tab button is still visible.
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Tomek_ 5423 days ago
11.50 here, the newest one I guess. Do they have a bug reporting page? Might report them those couple of issues.
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hoppipolla 5423 days ago
https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/
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