General Opera One Feedback Topic
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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.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
@leocg demand is one thing and usage and request is another. And you are saying demand as if Opera has big userbase? I messaged and requested to Brendan Eich and his dev several times like I did to you and your team but who cared for users. Brave. I am not dev but your team has so is a simple thing to do.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 Nor Opera nor any company has to implement everything that is requested. If they don't think that the costs and efforts to add or change something will be worthwhile, they probably won't accept the request.
So, if they don't think that there's enough demand, that the feature won't be used by an amount of users that would worth the implementation efforts, they probably will not add that requested feature.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
@leocg I dont want to argue but please tell me which features your team has added in last 5 years. It is all same, esp for desktop. I was also hoping for immersive reader TTS read aloud for webpages like edge has but looks like, it is not worth it. For dyslexic and autistic people, opera isnt meant to me.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-immersive-reader-microsoft-edge-chromium
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 As you should know already, I don't work for Opera and, therefore, I don't have a team to add anything.
Now, talking about features that Opera have introduced recently, I can say Pinboards, messengers in sidebar, snapshot, workspaces, tabs search, force dark pages, built-in VPN, and so on. -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 Regarding having a feature to read aloud pages, I don't know how things are nowadays but it used to cost lots of money to be allowed to have such tool, due to the licenses that would have to be bought.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by leocg
Pinboards, - Could never found it useful or use it anyway. First you have find it and then use it. If you dont know it, then you dont this feature. For reading list, you can access it via right click on the tab and see on the sidebar. Easy, visible and useful and cross syncing.
messengers in sidebar, - I dont use facebook and those who use, will not use opera for facebook.
snapshot, - Chrome introduced this in flags via Desktop Screenshots Edit Mode, cant find anything new.
workspaces, - Just like Pinboards, it is useless, unreliable and doesnt work as promoted. If I vision WS as profiles, then it should be differentiate between users. If main profile or main crashes, then all workspaces crashes and all is lost. Plus WS, hangs the opera and device seriously. I used it once and lost my data.
tabs search, - Chrome has it for years near the top 3 right buttons. If it could safeguard tabs lost in crash or closed accidentally in a new section, then I can say it is a opera feature.
force dark pages, - chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark. This was introduced by chrome.
built-in VPN, - Good, was better but past 1 year, it is slower than other free vpns. Plus google shows recaptchas and sites know real location. So, it is more of proxy than a VPN. Plus do a google search within opera browser about opera VPN and you will see good news about it.
I am talking Opera specfics not the ones introduced or made by Google and chrome team like vertical tabs in brave is brave team's USP, vertical tabs in edge is Edge team's USP.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
@leocg It doesnt and I will tell you smart way.
On windows desktop, if you use it go to time and lang under settings and then go speech and languages. You can download as many as voices and speeches you want to.
On android mobile, if you use it go to Speech Services by Google app or under accessibility, and you can same as said before. Download as many voices and languages as you can.
Now bring TTS feature within browser that detects voices from device. The best opera can do, is bring their own 1 male and 1 female voice that works under all circumstances.
Recently firefox introduced this TTS when you enable read mode for the webpage. But I dont use FF so, wouldnt go there. But was good and useful.
On a side note, please check aquile reader, koodo reader on windows and moon reader app, FB reader app, liberera book reader app as they all have deployed TTS function like edge did across platforms not just windows. And I use it very often and mostly offline to read webpages or anything when my eyes give up after work. My brother does use your app on mobile but finds it less useful as compared to edge.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
Horribly designed. I am no dev but I expert at using and deciding and giving suggestions for improvements in UX and this literally bad. The buttons at bottom needs to be on top and sidebar could be introduced with this but then dev at opera one must be god.
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FORESTWORKER90 last edited by
Use opera browser to block ads. Use Opera adblocker and block ads.
If I have to see ads then what harm does chrome doing to me? Chrome isnt crashing but opera does every few mins.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 Your question was about features added by Opera in the last years, there were nothing about they being original ones.
The tool to enable/disable force dark pages in the UI and on a site basis was introduced by Opera.
Snapshot tool was implemented in Opera first
Opera has tabs search since a long time too.
Talking about vertical tabs, Opera was the first with them back in 2009.
And let's not forget that Opera spent more than twenty years being the first to introduce various of the features that are now common in browsers
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canadagoose4everreturns last edited by@forestworker90 Chrome track you and sell your information to third parties that develop profiles, thereby threatening your privacy. It may seem a little thing but those profiles in the hands of certain officials could end up harming your way of life in ways you don't foresee. Privacy (as well as security) is a funny thing: once it is lost, it cannot be restored.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 Some other recent original features:
Aria
Video pop-out
AI Tools in sidebar
AI Tools in highlighted text
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@forestworker90 I know about those OS features, but is Opera or any other company allowed to use them? For free?
