Opera’s 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 Ctrl + / or Cmd + / — 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.
