Joining Many Tabs Using the Mouse
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In 4 quick steps:
- pressing ctrl key (or some other)
- Mouse down - starting on tab
- Mouse move - across all tabs to join
- Mouse up - menu appears with options as below:
- Join (selected) tabs
- Move (selected) tabs to new window
- Hibernate (selected) tabs
- Wake up/refresh (selected) tabs
- Close (selected) tabs
- Save (selected) tabs as a session
- Save (selected) pages as files in folder (-> choose folder)
- Save only text (note hollow bullet means submenu to save pages as files in folder)
- Save all content
- Save only pictures
- Save only videos
Much more efficient than dropping tabs on each other when you have many tabs to exclude/join in a pool
Extremely awesome option - for me: saving hours of my life in future
Supposedly easy to introduce.
Mod Edit: Edited to improve formatting. Moved to tabs category
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@ksus Most of these options are already on the context menu when multiple tabs are selected:
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@Pesala said in Joining Many Tabs Using the Mouse:
Most of these options are already on the context menu
Yes but The Thing is to select tabs faster. Now I need to put each tab on next tab one by one. Menu is just example what next could be done after.
Imagine I have realized that 20 out of my 40 opened tabs in a window I want to join to put into new window (to click the option "Move x Tabs to"). Now I need to move tabs one by one 20 times stacking on each other by mouse. It needs 20 moves of mouse instead of one move and click menu.
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@ksus You just select the 20 tabs with Ctrl+Click, or
Ctrl+Shift+Click (if they are contiguous), then create a new Tab Stack with Selection (20 Tabs).No dragging of tabs is required.
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@Pesala said in Joining Many Tabs Using the Mouse:
You just select the 20 tabs with Ctrl+Click, or Ctrl+Shift+Click (if they are contiguous), then create a new Tab Stack with Selection (20 Tabs).
No dragging of tabs is required.Still 20 times clicking instead of one. If somebody is rarely using this option it's ok. But I use it truly a lot. 20 tabs out of 40 is really "moderate" example. In a month this could save me hours.
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@ksus If the tabs are contiguous (next to each other) it only takes two clicks to select them all.
- Ctrl+Click on the first
- Shift+Click on the last (Edited)
One way or another, you have to tell Vivaldi which tabs you wish to stack. Your steps 1-4 to select tabs will only work for contiguous tabs.
If they are all on the same domain, you can use "Stack Tabs by Host" from the context menu on any one of the tabs, without selecting any tabs, and they can be anywhere on the Tab Bar, they do not need to be next to each other.
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@Pesala said in Joining Many Tabs Using the Mouse:
@ksus If the tabs are contiguous (next to each other) it only takes two clicks to select them all.
Ctrl+Click on the first
Ctrl+Shift+Click on the lastHey I have upgraded Vivaldi 1.3 to 2.2 because I just thought it may not work in my version (last 1 hour to do so) and check it again in 2.2 and I can not do it as you say!
When I tried to select contiguous pages like you said only first and last are selected (are blue; and appearing menu says only about 2 selected). Others between not affected.
And YES I used shift key while clicking on the last contiguous tab.
I found https://help.vivaldi.com/guide/key-features/creating-tab-stacks/ and there is nothing such described as you say. There is section "New Tab Stack from Selection" but "holding down Shift / Ctrl / ⌘" like they described doesn't make any effect as well so I can't check if it could work in such case as you described.
Can you really do so on your browser? Do you have MacOS? or testing version of Vivaldi? It is just not working to me.
(Windows 7, Vivaldi 64 bit)
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@ksus It works fine — I just forgot the correct shortcut.
- Ctrl+Click on the first
- Shift+Click on the last
If one enables Settings, Tabs, Tab Selection, "Include Active Tab in Selection," it is even easier. Just Shift+Click on the last tab (assuming that the first in the target group is active).
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@Pesala
Thanks very, very, much - it works! :smiling_face_with_open_mouth:It will ease my job a lot all dough I still think selecting by mouse would be a bit faster and more convenient. But surmise you say not worth to do!
Happy New Year!!!
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@ksus Thanks for your patience. I figured that you were new to Vivaldi, and not familiar yet with the many existing methods.
After a while of using them, you might find them adequate. The Window Panel is also useful for working with tab stacks, especially reordering them, etc. Drag and drop is also easier there.
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@ksus There's so many, so very many, posts & indeed threads on this, all here in the forum for you to have found. Only a few days ago i posted yet again the method using ctrl+click for non-contiguous tabs, & shift+click for contiguous tabs. Dropping tabs onto each other is NOT your only option. Additionally, it only takes a little time to personally explore the Settings, & to simply experiment, to discover these basic V features oneself... possibly less time than needed to write yet another repetitive post on this endless topic.
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@ksus In case you sometimes have to select a lot of tabs that all belong to one main site but are all scattered on your tabbar, there is even one further method you can use.
To see how this works just open a few tabs that contain sites from the vivaldi forum and drag them anywhere on your tabbar now Ctrl + double left click the vivaldi forum tab you have active at the moment and it will instantly select every other tab that uses forum.vivaldi.net/...
Of course this works with every other site as well. -