Background tabs/windows getting into foreground
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weissjan last edited by
@donq I tried disabling all notifications through settings in Opera, does not help.
A nice troubleshooting option is an open Slack tab, after max. a few minutes in any other tab / Opera window I jump back to the Slack tab.
Is there any more documented / official bug tracking than this forum to follow the bug?
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rekameohs last edited by
@jasongr It is very easy to duplicate. Go to a news site of your choice, eg cnn.com (Window A). Right-click on a story and open in a new window (B). Immediately, click back to cnn.com (Window A). Opera will immediately toggle back to Window B while it continues to load. It may help to be on a slower Internet connection, so everything doesn't load as quick.
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iconx7 last edited by
They don't know how to duplicate it? Load a Youtube video into a new window and click pause.. now minimize it as if you intend to watch it later. It will keep popping up no matter how many times you minimize the window. Sometimes takes a few minutes, sometimes an hour or longer but every time I return to my desk that window is front and center. It's like playing whack a mole.
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Northsider last edited by
This doesn't look like it's a bug necessarily but a horrible design decision. Either way, it needs to be fixed because it makes the browser unusable to people who like to open links in the background. For instance, if I read a Wikipedia article, I often open links in the background so I can read them next when I finish reading what I have open now. That does not work now because as long as a new page is loading, I am not allowed to read the original one.
It is a disaster that the user is not allowed to control what page they want to be on. Imagine a streaming service was interrupting you watching a movie by switching over to some TV show every few minutes.
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Daftshadow last edited by
There have been Opera updates since and still this is not fixed!! Omg is so annoying. Think I'm going to switch to another browser temporary.
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elljay23 last edited byI agree this is a complete pain in the @$%!
CPU utilisation also seems to run high if I've got windows open with meta refresh tags. I can make CPU go back down if I close / hold "ESC" on the auto refreshing tabs to stop their refresh cycle.
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taffercharles last edited by
@northsider Yeah I got a feeling it isn't so much a glitch but opera just wants this to slide under the radar. Probably some mid supervisor got congratulated and patted in the back for this %#&# idea of his.
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elljay23 last edited by
Happy to say the latest release has fixed this issue!
The very tacky animated "O" is still there on startup, but this one's fixed...
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deurotelle last edited by leocg
I tried for a week to fix this ; updated, went on a rabbithole search into obscure settings...Nope. i finally fixed it- I made Brave my default browser.
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elljay23 last edited by
@vegelund Yup, "cancel culture" at its best! Maybe once Brave has a problem they'll work their way around all the other browsers until they all have problems and eventually come back to Opera!
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Northsider last edited by
@franta99 It is fixed. Go to your main menu and, check Update & Recovery or the equivalent in your language and check for updates. It is a bit buggy, so you may have to restart once manually, go back to Update & Recovery, and then restart again from a button that appears.
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Northsider last edited by
@deurotelle Thank you for the recommendation. I just downloaded it and will soon give it a go.
Opera has lost a lot of credibility now by force updating something this big apparently without proper testing and dogfooding. Did anyone use this browser at all before release? And the sheer arrogance of decisions like taking away the home button (bothers me continuously) and introducing that horrible sound effect. I am glad I wasn't wearing my headset just now because I could hear it loud even though the headset lies on the desk.
If you have a monopoly on certain things like Microsoft, then messing with your users by changing everything for no reason and making them lose productivity by making them figure out how to do things they already learned to do several times is okay. But browsers aren't the same.
But great to hear they fixed that problem that should have never shipped unless it only affected a small segment of the users.
