Lost My Opened Tabs

[bronlund]

bronlund last edited by

Yeah, me too. I've been using Vivaldi the last couple of months and not only did this fix the problems I had with Opera, but the number of options you have in Vivaldi compared to Opera is just mind-boggling.

At this point, I don't think I'm ever going back to Opera. They convinced me with all that talk about multi-threading and stuff, but it just wasn't worth it. The thing I regret most, isn't going all-in myself, but the fact that I recommended Opera to a lot of people - they must think I'm an idiot.

[Trekpluto]

Trekpluto @bronlund last edited by leocg

@bronlund tried vivaldi. it is robust, but as a designer visual artist, Opera got the visual and ui correct. Vivaldi seems clunky, though it has rich features.

Opera has to make it a priority to fix one of the main features in any browser -- Tab management. It's there, but buggy. Fix this please. People have been complaining since 2020 on this. This should have been fixed a while ago. The head of development at Opera has dropped the ball.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I found Vivaldi at least as buggy as Opera, TBH even more so. And it doesn’t surprise me, actually, given their small team and their features. So, no good refuge for people fleeing Opera because of its alleged bugs IMHO.

[dermotmoconnor]

dermotmoconnor @Guest last edited by

@celticcross Well, our experiences have been different. I've had a great time with it on a very cranky 15 year old Dell Inspiron (!) - and no problems at all with my 7 year old HP Zbook. Definitely a refuge for me, thank god.

[A Former User]

A Former User @dermotmoconnor last edited by

@dermotmoconnor For me it was the other way round. Opera smooth, not clunky, simply working without Millions of adjustments, better refined features for me, not so many bugs after updates, and not lost in custemization. After all, even not a needless mail and calendar.
But every user‘s need is different, OC.

[shubhr0]

shubhr0 last edited by

Meanwhile i request opera browser team to please provide an option to manually download a backup file for custom workspace + tabs opened in them. Mostly people use same setup for months or years, it would help us all a lot. Or make a restore point setup for all the settings if possible!

[TanekDK]

TanekDK @shubhr0 last edited by

@shubhr0 make a backup of the files in the %appdata%\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default\Sessions folder, and restore them if you lose your tabs and workspaces again.

[dermotmoconnor]

dermotmoconnor @TanekDK last edited by dermotmoconnor

@tanekdk Many here, myself included, tried this klunky workaround. It did not work. In my case, whatever was borking my tabs may have been borking the sessions feature. Even if it worked, it's not satisfactory as you'd need to be making a backup of every session to be on the safe side.

And still this thing is rolling on, unreal. Adobe level behaviour.

And again, I'm typing this on Vivaldi, ZERO regrets on migrating.

[TanekDK]

TanekDK @dermotmoconnor last edited by

@dermotmoconnor (knock on wood) I haven't had a session wipe happen for about three months, but when it did, Opera had to be closed before copying the files back, as it would otherwise have a lock on some of the session files, and wouldn't restore the session.

I probably jinxed myself now...

[mixchild]

mixchild @TanekDK last edited by

@tanekdk Will this back up workstations as well or just tabs

[TanekDK]

TanekDK @mixchild last edited by

@mixchild it backs up all the tabs in all workspaces

[mixchild]

mixchild @TanekDK last edited by

@tanekdk Well does it also back up tab islands?

[TanekDK]

TanekDK @mixchild last edited by TanekDK

@mixchild I don't know. It wasn't intuitive for me to use islands. Tried dragging, ctrl right click as well as middle mouse click but whatever tabs just vanished and I couldn't quickly group existing tabs together. I probably am doing something wrong.

But I haven't had the tabs wipe since mid november last year or so.