General Opera One Feedback Topic
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teluobir last edited by leocg
I am so sorry, I had tried briefly Opera in the past on several occasions and was enthusiastic. I looked further into features proposed etc., and decided to move to Opera since I wasn't satisfied by either Chrome or Firefox. Three weekd after moving in, there has been so many issues, so many simple fixes that don't exist, that I have taken the decision to leave Opera and strongly recommend against it to anybody. Synch don't work. My history regularly disappears. Settings are ultra limited. Advertisments everywhere... And stuff like the "x" button to close tabs, that people have been asking for the option to move it from the left side to the right side for decades, and nobody has provided this feature. This is utterly deceiving and there are just so many problems that I found discussed at length for years in this help forum, to reach the conclusion that there is no solution… but also that no Opera team is attentive at all to these complaints and to user satisfaction in any sense, it seems. Now, I'm trying to leave and I find (agaaain) that basic features in other browsers, like exporting the browsing history, just do not exist here. Again, simple fixes that have not been done, IMHO unacceptable when dozens of people ask for the same thing over many years.
This is a traume, TBH. Best of luck for those of you who stay here. Using Opera for three weeks has even convinced me to mentally place it alongside "Internet Explorer" as the browsers from hell. THis is the exact opposite of the view I had of Opera before. I lose so many hours, so many data, so many nerves in 3 weeks… Unforgivable.Now that I am filling this, I realize there is also a bug on this very page. There are fields hidden at the bottom that I can not scroll down to access… W-O-W. It's be quicker to list Opera's features that work than listing those with bugs or problems.
Tried to submit this, and I got "error"… (what error, IDK, but I can't even post this (what will be the next surprise? Will opera explode when I uninstall it?))
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Hinokami98 last edited by
going to stop raging about the fact that 80% of the interface works about 50% of the time. don't have any real faith left in the development team anymore. cheers on your broken browser. maybe if you guys spent about 5 minutes more on actually working on your browser instead of censoring crriticism on your forum, maybe we'd have a working browser
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MattMPhoto last edited by
Hi All,
I want to say thank you in advance for any and all assistance that you're able to provide me. I'm on a M1 Max 16 inch MBP running the latest version of MacOS Sonoma and using Opera as my default browser. The first issue I'm having is that every time I open Opera it pops up wanting me to synchronize the bookmarks, passwords, etc even though I already am logged into the browser with my Opera account and I already have it enabled to synch everything that I need it to synch. Is there any way to keep this from popping up? It's really getting annoying to me. My second issue has to do with how the browser window opens. The browser opens with maybe an inch of the top of the browser window showing above the dock on the bottom of the screen. I have to click and drag it up in order to maximize the window to the point to where it is usable for me. Is there any way to fix this please?
MattMPhoto
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bertsflies last edited by
I'm going to stop using opera, because I'm losing control over basig features, and can't find anything in the help search,
For example I can't see the scroll bar any more, it's too narrow and I can't find out how to fix it - scroll bar does not appear in the general settings, and the help search provides no results.
I have to create a personal account and consent to my data being collected in order to ask a question or provide feedback.
The developers of Opera have disappeared behind an unnavigable mess.
It's too complicated, too many features, too hard to find out how to get back to a basic clean interface.
I started using Opera because I found it more simple and intuitive to use than other browsers. Not any more.
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Uberprutser last edited by
Please, Opera Browser, stop your campaign to try and become my default browser! It's not going to happen, and it's just very annoying! (just like that captcha I just had to complete)
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idgat last edited by
Can no longer put up with the intrusive, invasive, indiscrete and just downright annoying blaring trumpet fanfare just because Opera has done nothing more than should be expected, that is providing a program update.
And the sloppy programming practice of creating a new version folder for each update makes for an bloated untidy Program Files/Opera sub-folder structure.
Enough is enough.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@idgat said in General Opera One Feedback Topic:
And the sloppy programming practice of creating a new version folder for each update
Opera Developer has gotten rid of launcher.exe (if you do a fresh install) and has opera.exe in root of the install folder now so that the path to opera.exe (used for various things) never changes. That's a little improvement at least. Also, in the future, Opera might make it so there's always only one version folder to keep things tidy. Would definitely be nice.
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Rodanne last edited by leocg
@leocg tried Brave on the test site and got these results;
Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.Is Your Browser:
Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? ◕ your browser has a randomized fingerprint -
Rodanne last edited by
@leocg Generally I'm pretty impressed with Opera One on macOS 14.4.1. Its worlds away, as I guess we should expect, from the first time I tried it back in 2017.
Unfortunately it will still need to go a little further with security features as it currently does not block "fingerprinting" as some others like Brave browser does.
In all other respects I'm liking it more and more.
The Aria AI is cool, I was surprised when I highlighted some text in Indonesian to get a popup notification offering to translate to English by Aria amongst other options like "look up" and more.
Basically it's easy to setup and use and easy on the eye.
It's system resource use is fairly low although not as low as some.
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greatgat12 last edited by
I found a few big cons in Opera for me, this was the reason, why I deinstalled it:
- Can't clear browsing data on exit.
- Can't create apps for websites like in edge.
- Browser doesn't close when the last tab is closed, and there is no option for it.
- Lack of customizability. (Like move around objects everywhere and change anything how you like it)
- Too round interface.
What I found good (in comparison to Edge): - Not mandatory synchronization.
- No edge's red dot of doom.
- Flow.
- Free VPN, but it would be good if we had a button for it on the search bar or side bar.
Though your browser is better than edge on android, I didn't find any big cons, so I still stay with opera on my phone.
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illostraight last edited by
I am leaving Opera because it does not save Passwords in Sonoma. Bye Bye.
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Snorlax12 last edited by leocgThis is feedback.
Hello guys! I tried Opera and Opera dev and they are perfect!
(I will give you some of my favorite features Opera/Opera Dev has.)
- VPN
- Aria
- Workspaces (reason: no need for workspace extensions when you have OPERA!)
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quardature last edited by
I have been using opera for nearly 20 years. I like many of its features. One of these is the speed dial feature. It allows me to quickly access news in my area of interest. However, there are also sites that make clickbait news that I do not want to see here. I want to be able to manage these news sources. I want to have an area where I can select news sources. Thank you for your interest.
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vyrgozunqk last edited by
@mushin i've figured it out... It's just the way Opera handles the tabs... If you close opera from the "Close"(X) button -> all tabs are closed.
If you quit opera through Alt+F4 or CMD+Q on Mac, all tabs are stored... I can't understand who thought of that behaviour, it's really weird but it's like that. -
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TheDoubleTap last edited by
The User Experience on this browser has been an absolute catastrophe. This is one of the worst User Experiences ever and I can only imagine it turns people away all the time. I don't know how the Opera Marketing Team has the gall to claim that this is a superior browsing experience to literally any other browser. I'd honestly rather use Safari and, as a developer myself, that's saying a hell of a lot. No, I'll go further, I'd rather use Edge Browser.
To summarise my experience:
- The automatic import from Chrome didn't work. Didn't bring anything over except a handful of Bookmarks (not even all of them).
- Manually importing my passwords through CSV says that it worked, and tells me how many passwords it imported, but then the Password Manager remains empty.
- To get around that I set up LastPass and installed it as an extension but (you'll see this is a theme) any time that I close my browser I have to log in again completely.
- I have the browser set up to remember my last session, but not only does it not do that, it doesn't even keep me logged in. I have to log back in to the browser every time I open it.
- The Sync options will not work, I'm asked to sign in (again) to activate sync but then when I do sign in, nothing happens.
- The Tab Islands are a nice feature but they're trumped completely by Chrome's Tab Groups which allow you to customise the colours and the text in the tab, for actual organisation. Having several randomly-coloured tab islands is not at all useful for finding what you want again later. Even just changing this colour would make it a bit more useful, but of course that's not an option.
- Workspaces would be a feasible alternative but, again, whenever I close the browser, my workspaces vanish.
- I like the built-in player but, again, it forgets me when the browser closes.
- I like the idea of having AI easily accessible from the sidebar and since I pay for ChatGPT I figured I'd use the built-in ChatGPT feature. I think you know where this is going. It doesn't work. The pop-out that opens just crashes.
- I like to be able to hover a tab and see what's on there to quickly find what I'm looking for again. Chrome does this beautifully with a little pop-out tooltip. The Opera version of tab previewing is a massive ugly modal that covers the page you're currently looking at and 9/10 just says "Preview not available"
I could honestly go on but I'll leave it there. This is a shoddy poorly-built excuse for a browser and I'm just aghast at the contrast between how they market it and the actual user experience.
I do know that it's a much better experience on PC, but to just blatantly overlook the experience for everyone on Mac is mind-blowing.How do you all cope using it on Mac? Do you just not use any Quality-of-life browser features at all? Have you all had to hack together workarounds? I'm genuinely curious to know what people love about it, especially on this iOS where support for it is clearly the lowest possible priority.
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damnyou last edited by
Opera has been my browser for many years, but that's going to change. It's just too prone to break down. True, I can usually fix the problems, but why should that be necessary so often?
Face it, Opera is unreliable, and my experience is that it has to be re-installed every few months to keep operating properly.
Opera is pretty, and it's fast, but that last reinstallation did it for me. I'm now going to look for a browser that will function for years without having to be reinstalled.
PS: Oh, yeah, I also want a browser that is recognized everywhere.
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error-user-not-found last edited by
Annoying bugs:
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If I select the address bar and then click on in again, the second click doesn't work. Neither do any of them if I try again and again and again. I have to click somewhere else and to be able to click the address bar again, and after I do that, the process repeat.
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Can't drag files from the download list or download page, and this is really annoying since Chrome can do it perfectly.
Using a desktop i3 10100 computer running Windows 10 64bits, 16Gb RAM.
Regards.
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