Opera Introduces AI-Powered Tab Management Feature in Browser

Opera's new feature lets you group, pin and close tabs through natural language commands

Opera browser has a new AI-powered feature that lets you take action on tabs through natural language queries. Things you can do include grouping, pinning, bookmarking and closing tabs with these commands. The company said people can trigger the Aria command bar -- by pressing or -- and type out requests such as "Group all video tabs" or "Bookmark all currently open tabs." Opera noted that the browser does all the processing for these commands on the client side. It means that no data leaves the user's device to understand what they mean. You can also give commands related to specific sites or specific categories. For instance, you could write "Close my YouTube tabs" or "Group all my shopping tabs." If you're the kind of person who has many tabs open at once with a mix of work and entertainment-related tabs along with your personal rabbit holes you fall into, you can use these commands to clean up some tabs. This is also useful when you have hundreds of tabs available, even though forming tab groups won't help you reduce the number of tabs open. Alternatively, you can also invoke this feature by right-clicking on a tab if you have more than five tabs open. The company is rolling out this feature today through its AI feature drop program included in its developer version of the browser. But hopefully, this will make it to the general release version, too. Last year, Opera released Opera One with a new tab group concept called Tab Islands -- it automatically groups some tabs based on the overall context. Typically, browsers have relied on AI assistants to release chatbots to summarize websites and let users ask questions. However, with today's new tab control feature, Opera is using AI to simplify browser usage.

Opera introduces a new way to manage tabs with AI via Tab Commands By Investing.com

, /PRNewswire/ -- Opera [NASDAQ: OPRA], the browser company from that first introduced tabs, is releasing a new tab-related feature: Tab Commands. This new feature lets users manage their tabs by chatting with Aria, Opera (NASDAQ:OPRA)'s built-in browser AI. From now on, Opera One users can summon Aria to close, group and pin tabs, as well as create bookmarks by typing in a prompt to Aria via the browser's unique Command Line. Available now on the developer stream of Opera for desktop, this new AI Feature Drop represents the company's commitment to innovation in key areas of the browser such as tabs and AI, and combining them together to provide more than just a chatbox. This way, Aria can perform tasks within the browser and become a functional tool that brings value to all the browser's users. "As the company that invented tabs more than 20 years ago, we continue to be obsessed with them. Last year we revolutionized tabs with Tab Islands, and this year we're bringing AI into the mix with Tab Commands to make tab management even better," said , Product Director for Opera One. An AI feature with privacy in mind The new Tab commands also represent Opera's commitment to innovation in the area of privacy. When the user employs this feature, no information about their tabs is sent to the server " only the prompt itself is being processed. When the Aria server receives the user's prompt, it generates a set of instructions that indicate to the client (the browser) what to do with the tabs and how, for example, to group all video tabs in a . This means that no data is leaving the user's device, because Aria server only needs to process the prompt itself; which makes Tab Commands a feature that puts the user's privacy first. Innovating since the inception of the web Opera has already released features that enhance the Command Line and take Aria out of the chat box, an example of this is the Page Context Mode. This was made as part of the AI Feature Drops Program. Additionally, the company has also made big innovations to tabs in the past " besides from actually inventing them " with the introduction of Tab Islands to Opera One in 2023. Today, the introduction of Tab Commands brings a new way for users to interact with their beloved tabs via the browser's ever useful Command Line. The Tab Command feature is now available in the Developer version of the Opera One browser that can be downloaded here. To access it, users need to open the Command Line by pressing Ctrl+/ and typing a prompt related to their tabs. Alternatively, with 5 or more tabs open, they can right click a tab and select the "AI Tab Management" option from the drop-down menu. About Opera Opera is a user-centric and innovative software company focused on enabling the best possible internet browsing experience across all devices. Hundreds of millions use Opera web browsers for their unique and secure features on mobile phones and desktop computers. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in , Opera is a public company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol OPRA. Download the Opera web browsers and access other Opera products from opera.com. Learn more about Opera at investor.opera.com. The command line can be accessed through the shortcut: Ctrl + / on Windows and Cmd + / on Mac.In some cases " and depending on the user's keyboard layout " the Aria Command Line can vary due to different positioning of the forward slash ( / ) character, for example, in the Nordics it is ctrl/cmd + shift + 7.

I desperately want this Opera AI feature to come to Chrome and fix my tabs nightmare

Google and Microsoft may be pushing AI advancements with their Gemini and Bing chatbots, but when it comes to web browsers Chrome and Edge might be trailing behind a lesser known alternative following a new content drop. We're of course talking about Opera One, which just got a new AI tab management tool to help those of you who currently have far too many open. The Opera One assistant Aria can be used like other AI chatbots - using prompts to generate written responses like a content plan for your next stream or an on-the-fly DnD character - and it can also help manage your actual web browsing. Which is where the newly added Tab Commands come in. You can ask Aria to help group your tabs so they're better organized, linking together tabs based on the website, or you can ask Aria to close all but certain tabs - like those long-forgotten pages you haven't visited in a day. And best of all, Opera says these new tab commands won't sacrifice your privacy if you try them out. According to Opera only the prompt is ever processed by servers, no information about the tabs themselves leaves your device. Unfortunately the new feature isn't available in the public or mobile release of Opera One, but it's not too much hassle to give it a try today if you don't want to wait for it. You'll need to download the developer stream of Opera for desktop. Just head to official page and hit the button, you don't need any developer credentials to give it a whirl. Once you've installed the Developer version of Opera One you can access the AI tab management tools either by opening the Command Line (by Ctrl + / on Windows and Cmd + / on Mac) or right clicking a tab and selecting 'AI Tab Management' if you have five or more tabs open. There's no word yet on when similar abilities will make it to Opera's rivals, but given that AI is the main focus for so much oif the tech industry we wouldn't be surprised if other entires in our best web browser list started to follow Opera One's lead.