Bring back opera://flags

A Former User

Like many others I ask to have the 'opera://flags' back since sometimes changing a flag can assist in diagnosis of a bug and even can make everything work as it should.

The alternative is not having these flags as is now the case.

A flag like disabling the "Android SurfaceControl" would have made Opera smooth at Xiomi and Samsung devices. See Opera stutter thread.

Example of why opera://flags should be considered.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1057459

cherenok

cherenok

@ginger1984
I am also asking for this feature. I bought a phone (Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro) with DC dimming specifically so that my eyes don't hurt from PWM. But I can't use my usual browser due to poor rendering performance. According to the website testufo.com , the frame rate is reduced to 40-43. This can be fixed by disabling the "Use Android Surface Control" option. Other Chromium browsers have this option in flags. I ask the developers to pay attention to our request.

A Former User @cherenok

@cherenok thanks, I can confirm that Samsung devices running android 10 or higher are all affected. I tried chrome, brave, vivaldi and they all worked fluently only after setting the surface flag to disabled. Without it those browsers are pretty useless. Samsung internet doesn't have flags and firefox has no flags in release but has in developer preview. This is really bad. A simple tiny switch can make a browser utterly unfunctional. And guess which browser all these years was never affected? It starts with an S and ends with ...sung.