General Opera Feedback Topic

[skoutas]

skoutas last edited by

I think I only signed up to this forum to express my frustration with Opera. I still only use it because I was a fan of the old Opera.
I can't believe that in just one day, without shutting down my computer, Other Speed Dials is gone and I have to sync again.
I don't care what the reasons are.
n.b.
This is a google translation. If something is not clear - the reasons are in this powerful intellect

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I'm very happy with my Opera on Windows and macOS. But it's a disaster on my freshly installed Linux Mint 21.1
I'm getting frequent crashes out of nothing. There are a lot of sites that crash and won't load: Telegram and WhatsApp eg. (in main window and in the sidebar as well). Happens also with the welcome window on the first launch of the browser.
There's still the annoying bug that you can't right-click and have the menu open. It appears to open for a blink of a second, but then disappears very fast. So it's not possible to change the search engine in the settings. I could only change default Google to DuckDuckGo by syncing. But the reversal doesn't seem possible.
Otherwise everything seems to run without problems. I've made this fresh install with a new profile out of the flathub package that's offered in the app-manager - so I think it must be the latest version.
You can't even change the language of the UI, which is a minor issue for me. But it's not very user-friendly, by the way.
So is this only me or are these known issues that affect other Linux users as well?

Fortunately I don' use this old laptop for productivity really but more for checking mails and some fast information. Otherwise using Opera on this system would hardly be possible.

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@himmelsheriff Oh, at least the right-click-thing seems to be solved after the second launch. Still wondering why it happened at all.

[Tempale2]

Tempale2 last edited by Tempale2

Already even "naked" chrome does not do this. Why are opera developers such assholes?
They take bare chrome, remove touchpad gestures, remove lazy loading of inactive tabs.
It's like they're doing it on purpose so that no one uses their browser.
Although what am I talking about? For more than 10 years, they have not been able to do a full-fledged synchronization.
For the user to enter a username and password and get a ready-made solution. Instead, we are forced to separately install extensions for each authorization and constantly copy tabs from one device to another.
It's just a scam. It shouldn't be like that. But it is easier for developers to put two kissing blacks niggers on the logo than to provide basic functions,
which are the standard for all modern browsers.
Instead, let's draw another interface and come up with a new name. "Come on Chinese masters! Give us some more money!"

PS: The developers of Vivaldi are the same assholes. But on the contrary, they have a poor interface, and there are many functions.
Perhaps you should join?

[aam2018]

aam2018 last edited by

This is the second time your updates have screwed up my browser. This time - no speed dials, black screen - no wallpapers, and couldn’t even go online. Similar issues with the last update. Luckily I had the installer download on my system and ran that. It fixed my problems except I cannot show a background picture. And why do I have to continuously adjust the DPI settings because the interface is too big? You are trying my patience in keeping you as my main browser. How do I get my wallpaper back?

[kman198]

kman198 last edited by leocg

So I've given this update about two weeks and I'm jumping ship. I'm so sick and tired of whatever "improvements" they though they were doing. This browser was tolerable until this last update. Spead dial by the navigation buttons is completely gone. Now every time I search for something, it only searches the first two letters i typed in, ever damn time. It is so frustrating to search for everything and do everything twice. I am done with this browser. Goodbye opera. I gave it a try, you completely ruined something that was half decent. At this point i would rather have internet explorer back. this thing is junk! adding screenshots. you can see my other post for the speed dial screen shot. Screenshot 2023-07-02 055847.png

[MrMuFa5a]

MrMuFa5a @kman198 last edited by

@kman198
Cant replicated (opera one portable) , maybe you can downgrade to opera 99 (thats my solution)
Old versions
https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/
Rip auto updates
https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/disable_updates_windows/

[A Former User]

A Former User @kman198 last edited by

@kman198 said

Now every time I search for something, it only searches the first two letters i typed in, ever damn time. It is so frustrating to search for everything and do everything twice.

To get that result page you must press enter.

Why can't you continue with more letters before pressing enter?

[AntonyLP]

AntonyLP last edited by

Frame around tabs looks afwul especially on dark ones. Also when you download something download tab didn't pop up, you need to open it manually .Who approves this changes? C'mon guys...

[Meeker-Morgan]

Meeker-Morgan @leocg last edited by

@leocg

Really the workspace changing animation should be optional.

BTW good job on the new AI stuff.

[Rob11]

Rob11 last edited by leocg

Navigation in Opera's newest update is a lot more difficult. I can't click on edges. I want to be able to put my mouse at the right edge of the screen and click and have it interact with the scroll bar. Instead it does nothing unless I adjust the mouse over to the left a few pixels. The same thing is happening for selecting open tabs that are a part of a group, clicking the top of the screen does nothing unless you move your mouse down a few pixels. This makes navigation very frustrating. Please fix this.

[ValsoBG]

ValsoBG last edited by leocg

I was thinking about writing this feedback somewhere. Until today I didn't even know there was a forum about Opera - Aria told me about it.
I really can't understand how you can make such a great browser for smartphones and yet the desktop edition can be such a... what's the opposite of "great"? There are some good features on the desktop edition but as I said in the title, OFD will never be my default browser. Mostly bc of that limitation that doesn't allow to change the home page. There's a browser extension for Firefox which I love and can't live without (GroupSpeedDial) but I can't use it on Opera bc of the said limitation and that's not the only extension that doesn't work on OFD.
Also, the latest update adds rounded corners and there's no option to disable them. These rounded corners remind me too much of the pure GNOME3 (gross!).

I can only hope that some day you - the developers of Opera - will remember to give the users back the choices of customization and stop behaving like Microsoft who impose their views on the users. If I wanted someone to dictate what my browser will look like and behave, I'd use Internet Explorer or whatever it's called nowadays. Whereas Firefox, even with the web extensions (as opposed to the legacy addons) still offers the best customization level that no other browser on the market offers. Mine is so heavily customized that if I don't tell you it's Firefox, you'd never guess it.
Nearly half of the extensions I use on Firefox (and on Chromium) don't work on Opera and their developers say the reason for that are the constant limitations that you impose into the browser.

Opera used to be a great browser before it adopted the Chrome engine and before it became bloatware.

It really doesn't matter whether you'll approve this topic or not - the important thing is that you would have read it.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @ValsoBG last edited by

@valsobg Actually, if I don't approve it, I'll be the only one who sees it. But there is no swearing in your post or other reason I wouldn't approve it.

[beacon07]

beacon07 last edited by

The back arrow to the left of the browser search tab is not working! Used to be able to directly access the login links from my saved passwords in settings can't do that either! This Opera one update is unnecessary! The big tabs and sidebars just make the browser look more bloated and congested as opposed to the slick and simple UI of the previous Opera, I'd really appreciate the ability to revert back to the previous version! But for now the issue is that back button

[Rukiaaa32]

Rukiaaa32 last edited by

OMG! i love new sound that play when it starts

[gmel]

gmel last edited by

After the desaster of Opera One regarding the size of the speeddial pictogramms I succesfulls downgraded to Opere 99 and disabled automatic updates.

Now I#ve again the view I likes so much , although there is stil the grey background in each speeddial summary field. for duifferent web pages.

[kman198]

kman198 @Guest last edited by leocg

@vegelund I do, I type it in completely and hit enter, but every time it only searches the first two letters. Every Single Time.

[FranzRiem]

FranzRiem last edited by

Opera one stops working for more than ten minutes. Repeatedly.

Because of all the problems we are experiencing (see my other reports), I will give order today to all of our company's employees and customers to refrain from opera.

Our system managers recommended Firefox instead.
Good by, Opera!

[cmspencer]

cmspencer last edited by cmspencer

So, other than the missing 'Speed Dial", the added useless (IMHO) Account button, the failure to restore tabs on restart, other reports from users of various things MIA, the sidebar where the frequently used bookmarks and history buttons are relegated to being to be as far as possible from the area where the mouse spends most of its time, I now have frequent page crashes and out of memory errors (bug submitted), my machine has plenty of free memory. This is using the same sites and browsing behavior as before. It doesn't help when you are trying to explain things you need doing to developers and support staff if when you open a page it crashes !
It's fine on refresh/reload, so it's not the page !
Anyway, the reason Windows 8 sucked is because it was an attempt, probably with far too much input from sales and marketing, to homogenise the user experience across desktop and mobile, it failed spectacularly and doomed the MS phone, which, while it wasn't large, had a loyal, mainly enterprise, user base.
Is V100, given all the issues users are having as well as some of the less than spectacular design decisions going to drive users away ?
Especially as FF has not had performance issues for several years, one of the reasons I started using Opera back in the day.

[piris44]

piris44 Banned last edited by

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