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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Before the new 50 version, whenever you had tabs open and restarted your browser it would load the current state of the page, you could see the news from today.
      But no... Opera team said: "NO! People must hate it, why don't we make it so it saves the state of the page on quitting Opera! Brilliant!"

      So now, if I click a tab I have to refresh it manually like an idiot to actually see the news from today. How do I enable the old behavior?

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        anyone have any idea what could it be?

        apparently this is a new flag that has been added in v50
        "#lazy-loading-on-crash-loop enabled on all streams" but it has no effect.

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

          @whatduck22 What do you mean by 'save the state of the page'?

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          • burnout426
            burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

            See https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/7pvj04/tab_behavior_changed_with_v500/.

            From what I understand, background tabs on startup are reloading from cache instead of fresh. The "delay loading background tabs on startup" option doesn't make a difference. It just controls whether you have to focus first or not before the load. But, it's still loading from cache only on startup where op has to manually refresh every tab.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              so, does no one have the same issue I'm having?
              can it be something in the preferences file?

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                ok I can't seem to edit my previous post,
                so I'll just say that there is another person who has the same problem in the reddit post above.
                I also asked my friend if he faces the same issue and he does.

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                • burnout426
                  burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                  I haven't been able to reproduce yet. But, can you give us a list of sites to open and tell us which once is focused when you shut down Opera so that we can try to reproduce better?

                  @whatduck22 said in Disabling new tab behavior:

                  can it be something in the preferences file?

                  Possibly. You can test that out though. Download the Opera installer, launch it, click "options", set "install path" to a folder on your desktop, set "install for" to "Standalone installation" and installer. Test in that Opera and see what happens.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    @burnout426
                    well I have a lot of tabs and by a lot I mean a looooot
                    so I don't think that's going to help in anyway, usually I'm testing on Reddit because that's where I can test it best I believe.

                    anyway, I've tried what you proposed and use a fresh standalone installation.
                    keep in mind I haven't touched any settings whatsoever, I just installed and ran opera.
                    here's how it looks
                    https://i.imgur.com/QY9gSBE.gifv

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                      Okay. The visual helped. I'll mess around with things. I'll look in ctrl + shift + i -> Network and take a look at the responses to see what the cache headers say too. Maybe there's been a change in how Chromium honors cache headers or something.

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                      • burnout426
                        burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                        Okay, with https://www.reddit.com/r/all/new/ at least, I can confirm that it happens with Opera 50 and Opera 52 (Opera Developer). I can also confirm that it happens with Chrome. In short, I can close Opera over and over again and Opera (when using "continue from last time") keeps loading the same stale version of the page on startup.

                        I tested with Firefox and "Continue where I left off" and it loads the the fresh version of the page on startup each time.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          @burnout426
                          what version of chrome did you try?

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                          • burnout426
                            burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                            Version 64.0.3282.119 (Official Build) (64-bit)
                            Version 66.0.3336.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)
                            Windows 10 Pro

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User last edited by A Former User

                              So apparently this is now a feature!
                              That's how it was meant to work all along... what does it matter it did not since the first version of Chromium?

                              Deal with it users!!!

                              Also who cares there was a flag for exactly this behaviour until the latest update #browser-side-navigation which actually changed this behaviour back to normal. Nope, we removed the flag and made it default! Brilliant!

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