welp, guess that tells me there's nothing available yet...
that's unfortunate -.-

hopefully someone can build an extension that looks like the Chrome menu.
(that's including me if I ever have room on my plate, and time to learn, but by that time Opera devs may simply move the Opera menu)

on a side note, I'm not complaining about not having integrated window buttons because I just stretch the window frame rater than maximize it.

but back when I'd used Opera 12 I disabled the Opera menu for the standard menu, but that's before I switched to Comodo Dragon on WindowsXP, and then Chromium > Chrome > Firefox on Linux

now that I'm finding out I can't even get the standard menu, it's rather annoying...

reason I'm using Opera again is because I found out it was more secure than Comodo Dragon, and far less memory intrusive than Firefox.

I only switched to FF because Chrome (for being more secure than FF) started using 3GB on startup (1 tab), and I only have 4GB.

but with FF, I could only open about 3 tabs before it started using 2GB.

with Opera, I currently have 4 tabs open and I'm not even using 1GB.

I'm happy the Opera menu is disabled, but now I don't even have a menu to access... heh
that's why I was asking if there was an extension.

is there some sort of extension that can add it back in the proper place??

Hi @tcll5850, it should disable the Opera's menu, even you don't have Unity ;-)

alright, I tried it in a launcher command ( building a launcher to a shell script is a B )

^ I expected an error with this, but needed to try anyways, and yep:

I dug around in the xfce4 panel configs to text-edit my launcher, and it turns out the launcher was already set for Unity to begin with, but I added the var anyways to see if it did anything, and nope

if needed I can try a shell script, but I hate setting those up... lol
anything else you could recommend??
thanks btw

EDIT:
if you're wondering why I use --disable-gpu, it's because I have a dual-monitor setup, dedicating 1 GPU per monitor.
doing this allows me to drag the browser across monitors.

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity /usr/bin/opera

yeah, that didn't disable the annoying menu position I'm afraid...
otherwize I already have a launcher widget in an xfce4-panel at the top of my screen for a makeshift mac-bar doing the same thing.
I don't even have unity desktop on my system

so yeah, not much help I'm afraid, but thanks for trying.

but yeah, I've built a GUI in raw OpenGL before, so it can't be too difficult
(my GUI even used stacked layers with single-layer transparency by abusing the depth buffer)

I've also worked with Qt before and even wrote my own struct-highlighting hex viewer...
I'm sure gtk is at least somewhat similar...
but I still doubt the difficulty level is anywhere near impossible.
it may even be easier than percieved.

And please do not mention vivaldi does have that option. In order to have this, and many more, vivaldi is made in a crappy, resource hungry toolkit (electron), while opera (and chrome/chromium) are made on a mainstream one (gtk).

I get that it's a ploy on the app icon menu, but the devs should at least respect the users who don't use that...
it's not like an option couldn't be built into the settings