Opera 68 is here with built-in Instagram in the sidebar
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SilentHugOfDoom last edited by@diegosdf
Could you please tell me why you guys removed Instant Search (google) from the latest version? A lot of people liked the feature, please tell me there are plans to bring it back.
people are complaining about this everywhere. I hope they bring it back if they are not going to I hope they can give us an explanation about what did they think? why did they drop that feature?
is there any dev in here that can tell us anything about this? obviously a lot of users are upset...
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A Former User last edited by
@misterdoge I also miss the top right drop down menu. I use to access it with CTRL+Q and change tabs using TAB. It was awesome. But removing Instant Search was (still is) so upsetting that I only complained about it. I really hope the devs bring IS back.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@leocg thanks to bring the sad news again. Doesn't make sense at all. There is lack of users, ok, but keep it over there. Or put a button to activate if you wanna use it.
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misterdoge last edited by
@leocg Ok but we, the few users of it, were using it extensively, so it's very frustrating to have one of our favorite features removed. If it's not that popular, they should make it an option, and if it's really that unpopular, at least a flag or an extension. No, really, we're all here because opera is a feature-rich software, otherwise we would be on chrome. So it's not a problem if all the features are not used by everyone. For me this update is only bringing disadvantages, and I have hope that the developers can listen to us and bring back this feature that has no downside at all (except using a few MB of code).
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A Former User last edited by
instant search is gone. We want it back it was outstanding feature that you failed to promote to people and not telling us that it was less used that ctr+shift+x to close opera
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@misterdoge Like I said before, having an option is not always an option. Keeping a feature has to worth the cost of doing it.
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kened Banned last edited byI read W3C picture-in-picture API documentation, so I think it's possible to allow how many pop-out video window do you want: "3.8. One Picture-in-Picture window
Operating systems with a Picture-in-Picture API usually restrict Picture-in-Picture mode to only one window. Whether only one window is allowed in Picture-in-Picture mode will be left to the implementation and the platform. However, because of the one Picture-in-Picture window limitation, the specification assumes that a given Document can only have one Picture-in-Picture window.What happens when there is a Picture-in-Picture request while a window is already in Picture-in-Picture will be left as an implementation detail: the current Picture-in-Picture window could be closed, the Picture-in-Picture request could be rejected or even two Picture-in-Picture windows could be created. Regardless, the User Agent will have to fire the appropriate events in order to notify the website of the Picture-in-Picture status changes."
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg the features was already implemented, actually , when you guys removed you put extra cost. I know how things works... I just think you guys need to understand what customers wants. removing opera, no sense to keep using it. thx
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@diegosdf That extra cost may be lower than the cost of keeping the feature.
And I don't think that understanding what users want is necessarily the same of doing what you want. Opera always try to understand what users want, that's why they are always trying to add new things and changing others.
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SilentHugOfDoom last edited by
@ab-garcez
I also miss the top right drop-down menu.
you can still have it just disable opera://flags#search-in-open-tabs
@leocg @diegosdf
Sometimes keeping a feature that very few people use may not worth the cost.
I understand this "costs", but opera is an innovative browser right? instant search was a super innovative feature. they should be improving it more, not dropping it. I prefer opera to see this feature as something they can promote for more people to use. they give up too quickly.
problem is what kind of user base they are aiming right now? if the quality of that user base will determine the features in the future and if opera choose to make a browser for more average user it makes me a bit worry because I don't know how innovative and feature-rich it can get with this approach. this is why I think they need to keep listening to some of their users who demand more capability and practical design.
I believe more advance user base what opera needs. for promoting itself, defending itself against haters, etc. if you give me a good product that I really believe and feel like I'm a part of, I'll promote it and defend it.
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A Former User last edited by
@SilentHugOfDoom said in Opera 68 is here with built-in Instagram in the sidebar:
@ab-garcez
I also miss the top right drop-down menu.
you can still have it just disable opera://flags#search-in-open-tabs
@leocg @diegosdf
Sometimes keeping a feature that very few people use may not worth the cost.
I understand this "costs", but opera is an innovative browser right? instant search was a super innovative feature. they should be improving it more, not dropping it. I prefer opera to see this feature as something they can promote for more people to use. they give up too quickly.
problem is what kind of user base they are aiming right now? if the quality of that user base will determine the features in the future and if opera choose to make a browser for more average user it makes me a bit worry because I don't know how innovative and feature-rich it can get with this approach. this is why I think they need to keep listening to some of their users who demand more capability and practical design.
I believe more advance user base what opera needs. for promoting itself, defending itself against haters, etc. if you give me a good product that I really believe and feel like I'm a part of, I'll promote it and defend it.
Thanks for the words. You said everything. @leocg bring those words to the development team. It seems to arrogant to simply ignore the facts.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@SilentHugOfDoom Every software is (or should be at least) an innovative software.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@SilentHugOfDoom I believe that there is only one user base: Those who use the internet.
There isn't such thing as an advanced user or an average user, there are simply users, that may have different needs. -
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