General Opera One Feedback Topic

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My honest and brief comments about the browser:

Operating System: Linux
Usage: Daily office work for 14 days as the default browser.

Advantages:

1. The design of the browser is spectacular compared to my previous browser. It is very sleek, smooth, and visually appealing.

2. The sidebar, although I also used it in my current browser, has surprised me in Opera One with additional features like aria and automatic hiding, which I appreciate.

3. Furthermore, flow and player work very well and are quite useful.

I have been pleasantly surprised by other features that I hadn't seen in other browsers. For example, the music automatically pauses when another audio is activated, which is very convenient. The battery saving feature is perfect for me. The AI prompts are interesting, although they still need some refinement, and video calls appear as pop-ups when I switch tabs.

What I didn't like or missed from my previous browser:

1. Webapps. I don't usually install applications, so I like to use webapps. Unfortunately, this version doesn't offer that option.

2. The split view was a very useful feature in my previous browser, as I could have up to 4 windows split at the same time. I would have liked to have this functionality in Opera One to facilitate my work.

3. I also missed the ability to add the apps I need to the sidebar. In this version, there are only a few apps allowed in the sidebar. At least, having quick access to Slack or Notion was something I missed while using this browser.

4. Regarding video playback on Linux, it required some workarounds to be able to view videos, which was cumbersome for someone who is not familiar with systems. I struggled a lot with this aspect.

5. The lucid mode was terrible in my opinion, as it saturates images and videos with excessive brightness, making them look worse than the original version.

6. In terms of resource consumption, I noticed that Opera One consumes at least 20% more memory than my regular browser. However, I still consider it within acceptable limits compared to heavier browsers in the same category.

7. Privacy-wise, I couldn't find any references on https://privacytests.org, and if we consider the evaluations of its parent company (Opera), it doesn't fare well. I also tested it on https://coveryourtracks.eff.org, but it didn't perform well either. I hope privacy becomes a priority for the company in future updates.

8. Another topic not necessarily related to the program is the difficulty in receiving updates about the browser's status. I don't know what they are working on or when I will receive updates. Would it be possible to receive email notifications or have a forum thread to keep users informed? I think it would be very helpful.

In summary, Opera One is a promising browser. I will continue using it as a secondary browser and hope to update this review with improvements in the future. Congratulations to the team behind the project; they have something good in their hands, and the concept is solid, they just need to polish some details. I hope they keep progressing. Best regards.

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@leocg
When you install Opera One, migrating from your prior version should result in Opera One with the same settings and look and feel. Speed dial should be populated. I synced my older version of opera (Version:99.0.4788.24) and in Opera One, signed in and enabled sync. So far nothing. I think maybe it did in bookmarks. But now what? I have to go through all the settings and install extensions, set my background, etc. Make it easy on your users who want to use your latest software but don't want to spend all this time doing setups. I look forward to seeing where this goes. I have used Opera since the start of my career in 95ish..

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terminatedprocess @leocg last edited by

@leocg Itty bitty thing.. The icon for the Opera User account. Is it suppose to be a flashlight? There are a lot of icons in Opera around the edges. This icon should be recognizable as where your account can be accessed. The prior version of Opera has a person icon (background bluish). If you need it to be different, maybe use a different background color or something more recognizable. Thanks!

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @terminatedprocess last edited by

@terminatedprocess When Opera One reaches stable channel, then upgrade from a previous version of Opere should keep all data.

[mushin]

mushin @leocg last edited by

@leocg It seems that the tabs in workspaces are not retained — not clear to me whether it was because of an update, or just across opening again after closing it.

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mryanmarkryan2 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thanks!

Have you fscked your local propeller head today?

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I updated to 101.0.4829.0 yesterday. It's now crashing quite a bit when I try to change workspaces, sometimes when I try to change tabs, and frequently when I try to drag a tab out of or into a window. Yesterday's update has made it very difficult to use, as it's crashing so very often. Please let me know if there's any additional information I can provide on this.

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mushin last edited by

After copy pasting an URL from the "old" opera to the new one I notice that it interprets any google related page (mail account, "keep" etc.) as a search query. So instead of opening the https.... link it shows the google search page. The link shows on top, so making it easy.

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OMNIKHALASI last edited by leocg

I want Opera One to have all Opera GX features, i would use opera one if it had opera gx features because opera one is so sleek and it has more features

Opera One would be for everyone if it had opera gx features

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mushin @leocg last edited by

@leocg Every time Opera One is upgraded it loses all content of the workspaces. If that isn't fixed any time soon it makes using it ... useless.

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I think it would also be cool if workspaces had unique speed dials. I have a hard time tracking which workspace I'm in. But if I had specific speed dials per workspace, then I could assign saved speed dials based on the workspace's purpose (maybe a specific project, or personal, etc). I don't think the speed dial is being leveraged as much as it could be. Opera invented this concept and it's still the best I've seen out there. It's also a big part of why I've stayed with Opera.

Have you fscked your local propeller head today?

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Animations. I regret updating because of the pointless animation when switching workspaces. It takes half a second before I can aim the tab where I want to go. Please give an option to disable this. Why fix what is not broken?

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lavanyadeepak 0 last edited by

The Opera One Browser seems to be really good and appealing.

During the first launch the startup gives a nice music. Is there a way we can have it to play the same on every launch?

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diagonal @leocg last edited by

@leocg For what reason did the new version of Opera (One) no longer allow you to bookmark your favorites by dragging and dropping directly to the bookmarks bar?

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diagonal @mushin last edited by

@mushin
>>> After copy pasting an URL from the "old" opera to the new one
It was also in the old opera, if the given url was bookmarked. Which was incredibly annoying. The Opera developers did not fix this in any way and were not going to fix it.

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1. Fully minimized Tab islands should show at least icon of the first tab in it. Otherwise it's too hard to identify and open them, because clickable area is too small.
2. Animation of switching work spaces should be at least 50% faster.
3. I, personally, don't like that "Special features" icons on sidebar have no separator from other tools icons.

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lu-menard last edited by

Opera totally broken
Thank you to display updates that are beta version
Linux 21.1

Tabs bar is graphically dead : useless now

[NDSinTX]

NDSinTX last edited by

I'm a long-time Opera user, primarily because of the simple interface. You are moving in the wrong direction.

There are three concepts which are poorly implemented individually, and when mixed together they are worse.

1. Speed Dial would be an excellent tool except that it cannot be customized to fit a workspace. A single configuration is applied to every workspace and therefore nullifies the value of having separate workspaces.

2. Workspaces change based on what is open at the time of the workspace closure. If you happen to have closed a tab during a session, it will not be there when you reload the workspace. In other words, the workspace does not have continuity.

3. The tab island concept is incoherent. You have not explained how tab islands are different from Speed Dial and Workspace, and how the three could be used together in a complementary way.

I find Opera One to be an exasperating step backward - it has not been thought out so as to provide a helpful and coherent experience.

Two thumbs down.

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peak4 last edited by

Opera updated to this new version automatically yesterday, which worked fine, but on shutting down the PC and re-booting for the second time (first this morning was OK) this new version lost all my saved tabs and previous session; just over 300 tabs split over 6 different workspaces.
Annoyingly, it also deleted all my history from all workspaces tabs etc.
Settings do still show to restore previous session on bootup.
The old trick of Control-Shift-T wouldn't restore anything, presumably as all the history had been deleted.
Fortunately, my speed dial shortcuts still worked, as I have several folders containing backups of the workspace tabs from a couple of weeks ago, so only lost most recent tabs completely.
Normally do a full backup of everything before updating, but this one happened in the background without asking.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @diagonal last edited by

@diagonal It's probably not implemented yet in the new UI.