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    • shinobu
      shinobu last edited by

      Hello,

      As the title says, Opera closes the whole window instead of the current tab. It has been happenning randomly since yesterday.

      Anyone got the same issue?

      Bye!

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @shinobu last edited by

        @shinobu I have the same issues and this sucks. Closing windows is a different shortcut, why does this happen? This happens everyday both on iMac and Macbook, different OS.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          I have the same issue, it's infuriating.

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          • rogbar
            rogbar last edited by

            Happens to me as well on latest Opera/Mojave. The only workaround I found until now is trying to remember to close tabs by mouse only, which I unfortunately sometimes forget…

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              I've been having the same issue on my Mac. Sometimes Cmd+W closes just a tab, and sometimes it closes the entire set of tabs in a window. It's an annoying bug, but at least I finally figured out that under the History menu, there's a Reopen Last Closed Window command as a way to deal with it for now...

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Same for me, quite annoying! Please fix this!

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                • umutkazdal
                  umutkazdal last edited by

                  I want to +1 this just for exposure so that Opera knows there's something going on and try to investigate it.

                  It's very annoying when you have 10s of tabs open and suddenly everything goes away.

                  Also I just received an update yesterday and was hoping it would fix this but it didn't.

                  Hoping to hear from Opera folks ASAP.

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                    An update was released today fixing this issue.

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                    • umutkazdal
                      umutkazdal @leocg last edited by

                      @leocg said in Cmd+W closes the window instead of the tab.:

                      An update was released today fixing this issue.

                      Thank you, just installed the update, I will come back here if the issue remains.

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                      • rogbar
                        rogbar last edited by

                        @leocg said in Cmd+W closes the window instead of the tab.:

                        An update was released today fixing this issue.

                        Unfortunately I just happened again on 56.0.3051.102 / Mojave.

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                        • rogbar
                          rogbar @rogbar last edited by

                          @rogbar said in Cmd+W closes the window instead of the tab.:

                          @leocg said in Cmd+W closes the window instead of the tab.:

                          An update was released today fixing this issue.

                          Unfortunately I just happened again on 56.0.3051.102 / Mojave.

                          And again… Seems the update did not include a proper fix for this issue…

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                          • umutkazdal
                            umutkazdal last edited by

                            Mine just came back too. It was fine since the day I updated (5 days ago) but suddenly came back today.

                            Version: 56.0.3051.102
                            OS: Mojave 10.14
                            Hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

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

                              Hi all, just had this issue for the first time, after my solution it didn't seem to stick around. I don't know if it happened for all the tabs, but it only happened to me with the first (left most) tab.
                              CMD+W or closing the tab with the mouse both closed the window instead of that tab, so I had to use my tab manager (in my case Tabs Outliner) to close it. After that the issue seems to have stopped.

                              Version:56.0.3051.99
                              MacOS Mojave 10.14

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                              • umutkazdal
                                umutkazdal last edited by

                                I received an update yesterday

                                Version:56.0.3051.104

                                So far the issue seems to be gone, I'll wait for another couple days and update here. Last time the issue came back after 5 days of no problems.

                                Thank you

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                                • rogbar
                                  rogbar last edited by

                                  The issue is worse in the last update (56.0.3051.104)…

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                                  • umutkazdal
                                    umutkazdal last edited by

                                    It was all good until today, it just came back. Last time it took 5 days to come back, now 4 days, still an improvement though 😜

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                                    • jspuds
                                      jspuds last edited by

                                      56.0.3051.104 on 10.13.6/High Sierra and it's still happening.
                                      I've been back on Opera for about a month after many years absence, and this one bug is becoming a bit of a show stopper to an otherwise excellent piece of software.
                                      As others have said, Cmd + Shift + T to reopen tabs, or once opened, close Opera completely/properly (Cmd + Q), then reopen and that seems to hold it off for a while.

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        It's a very annoying bug, and I'll switch to other program if not fixed soon

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                                        • umutkazdal
                                          umutkazdal last edited by

                                          Version: 57.0.3098.76
                                          OS: 10.14

                                          Still happening. Also I noticed when typing something into address bar and hitting ctrl+enter doesn't complete the domain name but adds a new line to the address bar like a text editor! Opening a separate thread for this issue now.

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                                          • shinobu
                                            shinobu last edited by

                                            Version : 57.0.3098.76
                                            OS : 10.14.1

                                            Still happening too. It has been less frequent in the past weeks but the 4-in-a-row from the last minutes really got my thinking changing my browser. Fixes help but never completely solve the problem...

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