[OU] "Tab layout settings, O 9.64"

[Mitchell Marks]

(Posted on Opera help forum with title: "Tab layout settings, O 9.64"
I hope mailing to this list is not inappropriate.)

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I recently updated my Opera installation from some 7.x version to the 
current download at that time, version 9.64. This is on Windows XP 
desktop. I let it make a separate installation, which was just as 
well, since it cleared out some accumulated cruft.

However, I seem to have lost some settings whose behaviors I can't 
seem to re-create in the newer version.

These all have to do with the layout of the smaller internal browser 
windows within the overall Opera program window. These apparently are 
called Tabs in some settings or documentation, understandably in 
analogy with Firefox or IE tabs -- though I should note 
thatabsolutely the topmost feature of Opera that makes me want to use 
it as default browser is that the "Tabs" internal windows can be 
free-floating and re-arranged with full freedom within the outer 
Opera program window. (In FF and IE you can't even lay two 
tab-windows next to each other for side-by-side comparison, without 
opening another full heavyweight program window.)

Within that general topic, there are a few behaviors I wish I could 
change, and which were the way I liked inthe version 7.x installation 
I had been using:

1) The main thing is that when I open a New Tab, it currently opens 
as maximized to fill the whole outer Opera program Window. I would 
prefer to have New Tab internal windows open as midsize, internal 
floating wndows. Is there a setting available to change this defalt? 
Or some special way I should be creating that new tab window?

2) After opening a new tab window, which fills the whole outer opera 
window, I want to "restore" it to a normal size and free-floating. So 
far the nearly best ways i've found of doing this are by selecting 
Cascade or Tile. (I've put buttons for these on the toolbar.) But 
this rearranges all other Tab floating wndows. I'd prefer a keystroke 
or menu command to make that giant internal window a floating Tab 
window. (I did find Ctrl-W to close that one window when done, 
without dsturbing the layout of the other Tab wndows floating behind 
it, but not a command to restore/resize it without disturbing those 
other tabwindows.)

3) And Cascade isn't doing a very good job of choosing a new layout. 
Some of the smaller Tab windows end up wth their titlebar up outside 
the boundaries of the main Opera program window, and I can't evengrab 
them for manual rearrangement without doing a Tile.

4) Are "New Window" and "New Tab" supposed to do the same thing,or 
different? I seem to recall inprevous versions, at least, that New 
Window would make a new instance of the whole heavyweight Opera 
program window (maybe with a single new tab subwindow opening within 
it). Is that still the expected behavior of New Window? I instead get 
a new internal Tab window within the cntinuing single outer Opera 
program window. Could there be a setting I've messed up, or a way I'm 
doing that wrong?

Thanks much for any help you can offer! (Don't hesitate to post 
solutions which involve popping some text into one of Opera's .ini files. )

==Mitch4




Mitchell Marks
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