Opera has released a beta version of its Opera 11 browser, claiming a sea-change improvement in tabbed browsing.
According to the company, “tab stacking” provides an innovative way of organising tabs to either save space on the tab bar, or to group them together by subject, project or for checking out later.
“Many of us like tabs and lots of them,” wrote Tami Weiss on the Opera blog. “Tab stacking allows you to organise your browsing, optimise the space on your tab bar, and keep yet more tabs handy for use.”
The tool works by dragging one tab on top of another to create a group of pages stored under a single tab. Hovering over the tab displays a pane that includes a large thumbnail of each web page window. It echoes a similar concept introduced with the Firefox 4 beta earlier this year, called Panorama.
Opera is borrowing another feature first introduced in Firefox, namely browser extensions, which make their debut in Opera 11. Earlier this month Opera announced improvements to the way in which it deals with extensions, which will now run on secure sites by default, as well as an extensions privacy setting that disables add-ons in privacy mode or on encrypted sites.
Opera has only a 2 percent share of the browser market, according to figures from w3schools.com, but it has a reputation for developing new features and was the first to introduce tabbed browsing.
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