Command your tabs with AI in Opera One

March 26th, 2025

Today we’re introducing Tab Commands – which lets you manage your tabs easily with agentic AI. You read that right, Tab Commands are a new way of interacting with your tabs in Opera One using our built-in browser AI, Aria. Just tell Opera’s AI what to do using natural language – such as closing, grouping or pinning your tabs – and Aria will do it for you.

It’s every tab hoarder’s dream come true: organizing your tabs instantly without spending ages clicking and dragging manually. To use Tab Commands, just open the Command Line* by pressing Ctrl / or Cmd / and telling Aria what to do, like “Close all tabs except this one” or “Group all my Pinterest tabs.”

You can then tell your browser to pin your streaming services to never miss the action, or you can also tell it to close all your wikipedia tabs once you’re done with homework – and if you want to save them for later, just tell it to group them in a tab island. With Tab Commands there’s no need to manually do any of it – now your browser can do it for you!

We’ve been testing Tab Commands for a couple of months in Opera Developer as part of our early-adopters AI Feature Drops program. Today, we’re shipping it to the stable version of the browser alongside other Feature Drops that improve the quality-of-life when interacting with Aria. These additional Aria features, excluding Tab Commands, are now also available in Opera GX and Opera Air. To sum them up, this is what we’re introducing today:

Opera One:
- Tab commands

All of our desktop browser (One, GX and Air):

AI is changing the way you browse

With Tab Commands we’re becoming the first browser to integrate a comprehensive AI tab management feature that’s capable of organizing your browser tabs. This feature helps you in those cases when you start opening tabs and suddenly find yourself with over thirty of them. When this happens, it’s difficult to close the ones that are not relevant anymore and keep those that matter. With time, those thirty tabs become sixty and your browser becomes a mess – cleaning that up can be a daunting task, unless you’ve got AI superpowers.

With Aria’s new capabilities you can use Tab Commands to put an order to this messy situation. This feature is not just about telling Aria to close all your tabs – which it can do – but also about having it understand the relation between tabs and manage them for you. For example, you can also close all your inactive tabs for more than a minute, or even create tab islands with it – yes, you can have Aria create tab islands for you!

This is a clever way to leverage the browser’s already existing tab management features – like Tab Islands – and Aria’s AI capabilities for your benefit. The arrival of Tab Commands further demonstrates how agentic AI can be used in different contexts to improve flows of work and quality-of-life issues. We’re currently at a point in which we can use AI to create meaningful features and functionalities within the browsing context.

Using Aria AI to manage your tabs

You can use two methods to access Tab Commands in your Opera browser to close, group, pin or save your tabs as bookmarks:

Via the Command Line* shortcut: Ctrl / on Windows, or Cmd / on Mac. With this method, all you need to do is type your command to Aria and it will handle the rest.
Alternatively, by right-clicking on any tab and selecting the AI Tab Management option (only when five or more tabs are open at the same time) you can choose from the available options.

Keep in mind that this feature cannot be activated from the Aria sidebar chat.

For instance, let’s say you’re preparing for a hiking trip through the Norwegian fjords, and you need to book a place to stay at, buy hiking equipment, and research the areas you’re heading to. Performing all these tasks at once would result in your browser looking a bit like this:

After you’ve found the perfect cabin to stay in, bought the hiking equipment you need, and booked your favorite transportation method – protip: the train is quite scenic here –, you need to decide what to do with all those tabs. In this case, let’s say you’re done looking for cabins, and need to close those fourteen Airbnb tabs – all you need to do is tell Aria to close those tabs for you:

After closing them, Aria will tell you how many tabs were closed and you can choose to keep these changes or undo them.

With Tab Commands, you can instruct Aria to close them all and it will perform this task quickly, saving you the hassle. However, you can also keep them open but organized by asking Aria to group them and it will generate tab islands for each site. Finally, if you really want to keep some of those tabs for your trip, you can tell Aria to pin them or save them as bookmarks.

How it works behind the scenes

When you use Tab Commands and ask Aria to organize your tabs, the AI only processes the prompt you provide (e.g., “close all my YouTube tabs”) – nothing else. All tab-related data remains on your device and is processed locally in the browser, ensuring your privacy and security.

Tab Commands is built with privacy as a priority. In the example above we can see how it works: no information about your tabs is sent to the Aria server – only your prompt. This is especially interesting because you’re not specifying which tabs to close; instead, you’re simply providing an instruction, and Aria interprets it. The result is a set of instructions that are sent back to your browser to execute locally.

This feature demonstrates how agentic AI can integrate into the browsing experience and perform tasks for you without compromising your privacy – it’s a step toward the future of browsing.

New Aria features for Opera One, Opera GX and Opera Air

In addition to Tab Commands, we’re also adding some AI Feature Drops that improve the overall experience with Aria – and we’re bringing them to all of our desktop browsers: Opera One, Opera GX and Opera Air. These features have been part of the AI Feature Drops program as well and have been undergoing testing in the Developer stream of the Opera browser. Today we’re excited to bring them to you, let’s check them out.

Writing Mode 2.0

The first of these features is an improved version of Writing Mode which integrates your feedback to make it easier to access, more intuitive, and also less obtrusive.

Writing Mode allows you to use Aria, Opera’s built-in browser AI, to help you write any sort of text – even fill in text input fields. Integrated in the Command Line*, it works without requiring you to leave your current webpage, making Aria your personal writing assistant as you browse. You can read more about Writing Mode and how it works by reading this blog.

Place Aria in a browser tab

This update to Aria lets you move a conversation from the sidebar panel or the Command Line to a browser tab. This seemingly simple update improves your work with Aria because you can move your most relevant conversations into tabs and jump between them much easier by using keyboard shortcuts. So, if you’re an Aria power user, this update will make your life easier.

Because of this update, you can leverage Opera’s tab management features to interact with Aria. For example, you can use Split Screen to have Aria on one side of your screen and your browsing tasks on the other. Or you could even have a tab island full of your most relevant Aria chats – no need to create more clutter! You can read this blog to know more about this feature and how to get it working.

A quality upgrade in Aria’s responses

Aria’s answering capabilities are being upgraded in this update. You’ll notice this change whenever you interact with Aria and it identifies that the conversation falls into popular categories like cooking & recipes, products & online shopping, as well as video games & gaming. When it happens, you’ll notice that the answers are enriched with better context, suggestions, and links to more information.

This update represents a technical upgrade that proves how answers from a browser AI can give you better information so you can get what you want in an easier way.

Try Tab Commands today and browse with Aria

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*In some cases – and depending on your keyboard layout – the Aria Command Line can vary due to different positioning of the forward slash ( / ) character. For example: the layout from the Nordics, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Latam and Turkey, the Command Line shortcut is Ctrl Shift 7 or Cmd Shift 7 – because the forward slash ( / ) is located on the 7. If you’re using the keyboard layout from the US, UK, Poland, India and Ukraine, use Ctrl / or Cmd /.