Opera changes focus when hovering over main tab

[rgranger]

rgranger last edited by leocg

OSX 13.2.1 (does not seem to do it on my Monterey Macs, only M1 on Ventura)
Opera 97.0.4719.17
It is really annoying to have windows just pop to the foreground without clicking on anything.
So two Opera windows , if I have #1 in front and then move the mouse and hover for a moment on on the left most tab of Window #2 behind it activates and brings it forward.
Is his a known issue or an advanced, undocumented feature?
Thanks
Rob

[rgranger]

rgranger @rgranger last edited by

@rgranger I rolled back to 96.0.4693.16 and the issue is still there. Will try going back further. I don't remember this when I first upgraded to Ventura.

[davidoliver-1]

davidoliver-1 last edited by

As you hover over different main tabs (Home, Features, Products, etc.), the corresponding sub-tabs will change to reflect the new topic. For example, hovering over the "Home" tab will display sub-tabs for "Announcements," "Trending," and "New."

[rgranger]

rgranger @davidoliver-1 last edited by

@davidoliver-1 I understand it updating the tab, but when just mousing around, if you just pause over the left tab it brings that window to the front. This does not happen in Chrome or Safari.

[dewluca]

dewluca @rgranger last edited by

@rgranger Same problem here. I find it very intrusive, distracting, and annoying. I keep several windows and multiple tabs open in OPERA and have never had the "jumping window" problem before now. If it's a "new feature" I consider it a "pesky bug"!

[rgranger]

rgranger @dewluca last edited by

@dewluca I guess we are the only ones that this bugs the heck out of.

[crybaby123]

crybaby123 last edited by

Thanks for clarifying why and when this happens. I have googled the problem 10+ times with many different wordings.

It feels like Opera just sends the active window back randomly.

I've had this problem for a while now on Monterey / Opera (always latest versions). It makes Opera very hard to use with multiple windows.

There's also another problem with Opera's window handling that amplifies the problem further: Opera doesn't support "command-drag to move an unfocused window, keeping it behind other windows".

[crybaby123]

crybaby123 @crybaby123 last edited by

@crybaby123 replying to myself with a correction: I have Ventura, (13.3.1 now) not Monterey

[rgranger]

rgranger @crybaby123 last edited by leocg

@crybaby123 I opened a bug.
Opera Help Center/Opera bugs & suggestions report form/BS-54340

This is new to me since upgrading to M1 Mac and Ventura… and dang it is annoying. I have 5 macs, Opera only seems to do this on the M1 with ventura. It could do it on a regular mac with Ventura also, but I don’t have one. Sometimes just passing over an Opera window brings a window in the background forward….again, very annoying and Safari and Chrome don’t do this. It is only windows in Opera. Are they running in the same process and triggering each other. If Chrome is has the focus and I mouse over Opera it doesn’t make Opera come forward…only when Opera has focus and I mouse over another Opera window…very odd and not expected. Please change it back.

Attached: Chrome is active and mouse is hovering over Opera tab and everything is normal.

System Information
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/98.0.0.0 (Edition beta) (en-US), ANGLE (Apple, Apple M1 Pro, OpenGL 4.1)

[liteyear]

liteyear last edited by

Was just about to concur and say this is still a horrible problem, but I thought I better check for updates first.

Problem fixed!

In the radical new "Opera One" (version 100.0.4815.76 running on macOS 13.4.1) I can't reproduce the raise-background-window behaviour. Phew, what a relief!

[rgranger]

rgranger @liteyear last edited by

@liteyear Yes! I just upgraded a few days ago and noticed that it was fixed. Now if we could get the speed dial icon back on the address bar
Rob