General Opera One Feedback Topic
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by FORESTWORKER90My personal review of Opera One in July 2023
The Opera browser is as always good-looking and most importantly, works way better than chrome and other chromium browsers and doesnt hang like them. The mobile Opera is always better since it was in java and currently it has features I could hardly find in any other browser.
But that is all good I have to say since Opera isnt keen on upgrading itself with time and users.
What I liked about Opera during my school days weren't same when I am using it for professional purposes.
I hoped with Opera One, things would be different but it is same with a little bit of tweaks in design only where a lot of empty spaces are wasted and crashing as a feature.
Till now, Opera lacks or haven't brought in -
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Support to sync installed extensions like chrome or brave or Vivaldi or Edge.
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Vertical tabs (requested brave team since 2021 and they brought it in 2023 for final release and it works amazing).
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Bookmark structuring and ordering where old bookmarks were on top and new went below but now post 90 version of opera, it is new on top and old at bottom without providing user any control or options to decide which way they want it but now is enforced by Opera.
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Support for adding new search engines. Opera mobile has 10 search engines out of the box so it is great but when you go to desktop, it has only 3 and one cannot add any new search engine. I talked to a lot of team of search engines and they said, it is opera fault and you should ask Opera to allow you to do so. I even talked to a opera person and they said, they cannot allow another search engine due to lack of money and the money google gives cannot be cancelled (Opera is obviously oblivious to the fact that if you search through google search, google shows to use chrome and I dont know it is pretty easy to jump back to chrome with that popup, same goes with duckduckgo and bing).
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Support for themes and coloring the browser. I used a lot of other lesser-known browsers like naver whale browser and cococo browser and maxthon browser and they all allow the above mentioned things and provide a color theming from their settings itself, if one doesnt want to install any new themes but opera, alas. Plus all of these browsers are constantly updated so no issues of outdated.
I know this post will not approved since Opera has already blocked on twitter and I have banned from this forum twice before but as a user since 2000, I deserve some respect and words.
I can use Opera but when others are providing me control over what I can do with my browser then why should I jump and stay with Opera when support is also not supportive?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 You can add how many search engines you want, you just can't set them as the default one.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
@leocg Again you ban me and block me because you very well know that you cant add any other search engines in desktop. If you are so cocksure, then tell how to add ecosia search, brave search and mojeek search? I have contacted the searches via email and they have told me you cant until the browser doesnt allow it. And this request is since 2015.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
@forestworker90 Also no reading list that is present in newer versions of chrome and chromium browsers including brave in the sidebar. It is very useful and different from bookmarks.
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A Former User last edited by
@forestworker90 You can use Pinboards for that. It‘s even an advanced way to collect items, where you can also add your own images.
@leocg is correct. You can add whatever search engine you like, but you can‘t set it as default.
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A Former User last edited by
@forestworker90 You can use other search engines very handily by giving them a shortcut like „m“ for mojeek or „bs“ for Brave e.g. And adding these before typing the search item in the address bar.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 If you were banned, you couldn't be posting here making such accusations.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 You can go to the page, right click on its search field and use the create search option.
Or you can go to the search engines section in settings page and add the search engine manually.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 It would be interesting to see vertical tabs back in Opera but only if they were like before, including the option to use visual tabs
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A Former User last edited by
@forestworker90 said
ecosia search, brave search and mojeek search
I had to test a few searches on those sites.
O'boy o'boy...
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by FORESTWORKER90
@himmelsheriff Tried that not once but several times. Complicated and not useful as reading list in the sidebar in chrome. I could never relocated the saved pins again plus I use the saved links in reading list for instant access unlike bookmarks like youtube videos to watch later at night.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
@himmelsheriff what is the point of adding but not able to set them as default? Do you buy phones for look or for usage?
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@forestworker90 Yeah I agree with that one. I mean im not really mad about that default thing because I have no issue with Google search as default but you have a point.
But what is really bothering me is that you cant delete some preinstalled search engines so you cant use its shortcuts. For example I would rather use "y" for youtube search and not for yahoo because yahoo is useless for me. -
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
https://community.brave.com/t/turn-on-vertical-tabs/207799
I see opera dev team being lazy in bringing vertical tabs when one also uses opera for work.
I cant see tabs once they get past the display size of my laptop and browser but with vertical, I can.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
@airforce25228 youtube as search should have been there for years but yahoo. it is ancient plus it brings results from bing as duckduckgo also does, no changes.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
@forestworker90 Constantly crashing on doing anything within browser. Opera is crashing since 98 and is doing same with Opera one dev was launced. I wonder if team is looking into resolving this or is this a feature since tabs and sessions are lost post crash.
And wasting a lot of empty spaces. I think Opera hired newbie developers for opera one. Earlier was simple, never crashed and didnt wasted anything. I wonder why Opera one exists if it is all same and buggy.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 Or maybe they haven't seen enough demand to justify reintroducing vertical tabs yet.
It may also be that the new UI is a step into allowing placing the tabs bar in the sides.
