The Opera browser has new AI-powered features that let you take actions on tabs through natural language queries. Things you can do with these commands include grouping, pinning, bookmarking, closing tabs, and more.
According to the company, users can launch the Aria command bar by pressing Ctrl + / or Cmd + / and enter requests such as “Group all video tabs” or “Bookmark all currently open tabs.” says it can be done. Opera noted that the browser handles all processing of these commands on the client side. This means no data is ever leaked from your device to make sense of it.
You can also run commands related to specific sites or specific categories. For example, you can write “Close YouTube tab” or “Group all shopping tabs.”
If you're the type of person who has a lot of tabs open at once, mixing work- and entertainment-related tabs with personal tabs, use these commands to clean some tabs. You can upload it. This is also useful when you have hundreds of tabs available, although creating tab groups won't reduce the number of open tabs.
Alternatively, if you have more than five tabs open, you can right-click a tab to invoke this feature.
The company is rolling out this feature today through the AI feature drop program included in the developer version of the browser. But hopefully this will also be reflected in the general release version.
Last year, Opera released Opera One with a new tab group concept called Tab Islands. This automatically groups some tabs based on their overall context. Browsers have typically relied on AI assistants to release chatbots to summarize websites and ask users questions. But with today's new tab control feature, Opera is using AI to simplify your browser usage.