Opera One Gets Vertical Tabs, Upgraded Google Lens Experience

Opera announced a big upgrade for its flagship Opera One web browser, with vertical tabs and an upgraded Google Lens experience.

“We are introducing Vertical Tabs, a different tab layout that displays your tabs stacked along the side of your browser window,” Opera’s Patrick Curtin writes. “In addition, we’ve integrated Google Lens into the start page search field, so you can perform an image search right from your browser’s home page.”

I don’t use vertical tabs, which may explain why I never noticed this, but I’m surprised that Opera One didn’t already support this feature. In addition to using your on-screen real estate a bit differently than with a traditional row of tabs, vertical tabs also display more of the title of each tab, which is especially important when you have numerous open tabs.

In any event, the vertical tabs can also be collapsed, of course, and Opera says Tab Islands work and persist if you switch between the two tab orientations.

Opera One has offered an integrated Google Lens experience since last September, but now it’s more accessible and works better. You can perform a reverse image search using it from the search box on the home page or by pasting an image from the Clipboard. And the search results appear in the current tab.