Opera Employees

Starting the discussions

@andrew84 Thanks a lot for the feedback and screenshots, it is really helpful!

• About the "Recently Closed" section at the top: thank you for the suggestion!

• For the category bubbles: the thin border is the intended design to show selection, but we get that it might not be super clear. The idea of using the filled inverted style like on the downloads page is a good one.

• As for the search issues: it sounds like after typing three characters, if there are no matches, the history list updates and the input goes back to its default (larger) version. If that’s what’s happening, it’s expected behavior - but we’ll take another look to make sure everything's working smoothly.

Appreciate the suggestions!

Starting the discussions

@LikhithReddy

We made some in-depth testing and didn't find any anomaly related to the installer.

There is something on your computer, that is running 7-zip in 32-bits, even when it was uninstalled.

You can double-check if you don't have some old instances in Control Panel/Programs and Features.

@opera-browser-user

We currently don't have plans to change the way installer works.

@annoyed-at-updates: Hello! We really appreciate your patience. This issue is logged as RNA-195, and we've recently raised its priority to ensure it gets the attention it needs. Thank you for sharing the crash report.

Dear @salimalbitar

Thank you for your patience. Please find our answer below. It’s a short summary after longer investigation and conversations with the team.

Tab Islands / Tab groups
We decided TI, in its current shape, doesn't fit AIR’s vision and is not aligned with UI. Therefore, it remains disabled to avoid unexpected experiences. We plan to adjust it in future and enable it in AIR, but currently it’s not our priority.
While doing the investigation for you, we were also searching for a solid workaround within the code but didn’t find anything of enough quality.

Extensions from chrome: store
Opera is not Chrome and vice versa. They're specific features that are not available in other browsers. There is a reason for it, and it impacts many things. That’s we have a dedicated store for extensions, which is maintained by a dedicated team. It’s still possible to install many of the chrome extensions outside the store, but we can’t guarantee their functionality.

Vertical tabs
This is an old topic among Opera users, but the answer remains the same. There are currently no plans of supporting such functionality in any Opera.
The vertical tab extension you mentioned from Addons.opera.com is something made by an external user. It’s not our implementation, but was reviewed and accepted by us.

Many thanks for all the in-depth questions, you seem to be a truly engaged Opera user. (edited)

@LikhithReddy
Hmm. So it's some unusual situation.

My current suggestions:

• try to uninstall 7zip and try to install Opera Air again
• try to install with disabled antivirus (if it's not a system default) we had some cases in which some antivirus were blocking the installation

Let me know if anything helps. Otherwise, I will pass this case to our QA team for further investigation.

@opera-browser-user

Oh, ok, I get it.
It's actually the first time someone is asking about such feature. We're not working currently on this part of the browser, however this is an idea worth exploring in the future.

@opera-browser-user

I can confirm, there are no plans to release Opera Air for Linux. It might change in the future, but it's not something on our current radar.

However, thanks for sharing, this is very interesting.