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    • rogbar
      rogbar last edited by

      The issue is worse in the last update (56.0.3051.104)…

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      • umutkazdal
        umutkazdal last edited by

        It was all good until today, it just came back. Last time it took 5 days to come back, now 4 days, still an improvement though 😜

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        • jspuds
          jspuds last edited by

          56.0.3051.104 on 10.13.6/High Sierra and it's still happening.
          I've been back on Opera for about a month after many years absence, and this one bug is becoming a bit of a show stopper to an otherwise excellent piece of software.
          As others have said, Cmd + Shift + T to reopen tabs, or once opened, close Opera completely/properly (Cmd + Q), then reopen and that seems to hold it off for a while.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            It's a very annoying bug, and I'll switch to other program if not fixed soon

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            • umutkazdal
              umutkazdal last edited by

              Version: 57.0.3098.76
              OS: 10.14

              Still happening. Also I noticed when typing something into address bar and hitting ctrl+enter doesn't complete the domain name but adds a new line to the address bar like a text editor! Opening a separate thread for this issue now.

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              • shinobu
                shinobu last edited by

                Version : 57.0.3098.76
                OS : 10.14.1

                Still happening too. It has been less frequent in the past weeks but the 4-in-a-row from the last minutes really got my thinking changing my browser. Fixes help but never completely solve the problem...

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  Version: 57.0.3098.102
                  OS: 10.14.1

                  The bug is still here. Very annoying. No other software on my machine demonstrates this issue so I assume it's an Opera bug.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    This thing seriously annoying. When it can be fixed?

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Hi all,

                      I'm having headaches with this issue. I didn't customised any shortcut in Opera and from time to time when I use the Command + W shortcut to close a tab the complete Opera Window is closed. Without any error message.

                      Other Opera windows are still open so I'm sure I'm not accidentally hitting Command + Q.

                      Any clue how to fix this?

                      Thanks.

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                        Known issue.

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            For now, there is a temporary work aroun: After you've hit Command + W (and the window closes instead of the tab) do the following: Command + N (to open a new window) followed by Command + Shift + T (to re-open the last tab). This will actually open the last window you've closed including all tabs (granted it wasn't an incognito window).

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                            • shinobu
                              shinobu last edited by

                              Yes I tried that too. Hasn't happened once since I reinstalled Opera yesterday...

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User @Guest last edited by

                                For me the best workaround for this issue is:

                                1. Open again opera
                                2. Chooce "History" option from the top
                                3. Choose option: reopen last closed window
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                                • shintoplasm01
                                  shintoplasm01 last edited by

                                  This just happened to me too (and not for the first time either)...

                                  Opera Stable 57.0.3098.116
                                  macOS Mojave 10.14.2
                                  MacBook Pro+Touch Bar (mid-2016)

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                                  • shintoplasm01
                                    shintoplasm01 @shintoplasm01 last edited by

                                    @shintoplasm01

                                    Presumably this is now being fixed in the Developer version 59 (under DNA-73684). I've asked if this could at least be backported to the upcoming Stable 58...

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                                    • headspacedude
                                      headspacedude @Guest last edited by

                                      @hub It won't be fixed as cmd+w is a macOS system wide keyboard shortcut to close windows. Looking into it, it seems dumb that Opera would include this as a shortcut to close current tabs, when it is a system wide mac command.. All I can think of is that macOS is over riding it and that Opera should introduce a new shortcut to overcome this. See list of mac shortcuts here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201236

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                                      • avl
                                        avl Opera @shintoplasm01 last edited by

                                        @shintoplasm01 said in Cmd+W closes the window instead of the tab.:

                                        @shintoplasm01

                                        Presumably this is now being fixed in the Developer version 59 (under DNA-73684). I've asked if this could at least be backported to the upcoming Stable 58...

                                        It has been backported to O58 stable, let us know if you still see anything like this problem!

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                                        • shintoplasm01
                                          shintoplasm01 @headspacedude last edited by

                                          @headspacedude All browsers, including FF, Safari and Chrome include Cmd+W as a shortcut to close tabs and none have displayed this bug. I'm glad that O58 looks likely to have fixed this, by the way, as confirmed elsewhere.

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            Still same problem wit O58, Very annoying. I'm seriously considering switching back to another browser, even if I liked Opera a lot,

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