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    Side bar for only Speed Dial option | Opera 60

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    • burnout426
      burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

      In earlier versions, when you turned off the sidebar, the start page would show its own sidebar. Its sidebar was implemented in code in the start page itself. Opera removed that start page sidebar code and hasn't said why. They also haven't said whether they're bringing it back or not. But, I hope they do.

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      • burnout426
        burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

        There's another thread https://forums.opera.com/topic/31727/side-bar-for-only-speed-dial-option-opera-60 right below your thread.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

          @burnout426 It seems like people are talking about it already, so maybe we don't need two threads for the same thing. Thanks!

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

            Similar topics merged.

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            • temkem
              temkem last edited by

              Make a switch near the side panel itself, so that when you click on this switch, the side panel opens / closes (as done on Opera Presto or Vivaldi)

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              • opera-user-from-2002
                opera-user-from-2002 last edited by

                Guys, Opera team is very busy working on more serious issues related to sidebar:

                https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-62/
                DNA-78081 [Mac][Lin] Sidebar menu button doesn’t work
                DNA-78090 [Mac] Browser crashes when logging out from Telegram sidebar app
                DNA-76911 Sidebar messengers error pages doesn’t recognize dark mode
                DNA-77467 [Mac] The extensions sidebar is white in dark theme
                DNA-77571 Highlighted O-menu inverse colour when sidebar is hidden

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                • lonelyblade
                  lonelyblade @opera-user-from-2002 last edited by

                  @opera-user-from-2002
                  Your point being?
                  How are we supposed to let the developers know about user frustrations if not on these forums? In my view they are an excellent place for discussion and I'm sure that's why they were created. If the team are working on (in your view) 'more serious issues' then I'm sure they would appreciate knowing about other linked problems so they can be considered at the same time. Makes sense to me.

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                  • opera-user-from-2002
                    opera-user-from-2002 last edited by

                    @lonelyblade It was a bit of irony. I am sure devs are aware of this issue and they are intentionally ignoring it.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Hopefully a setting for putting the side bar only on the speed dial would be optional, not fixed. With the more recent versions of Opera, bookmarking no longer works from the heart symbol in the addressbar, and I need to use V7 Bookmarks in the sidebar.

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                      • lonelyblade
                        lonelyblade @Guest last edited by

                        @concretable You may have another issue there. The bookmark heart symbol has always worked fine for me and still does.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          The problem with bookmarking seems to be selective. With some pages there is a problem and with others there is not (at least not the first time I try it). Pages in this forum and most other pages I have tried only produce a blank doorhanger from the heart symbol if I try to bookmark them.

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                          • skoy21
                            skoy21 last edited by

                            I UP this too!

                            It's very useful on the speed dial, easy and quick access to various features, but I don't want it on while browsing, not much of a use.

                            Please bring back the option to only show it on speed dial!!!

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User last edited by

                              Hello.
                              I was about to post a topic regarding this 'issue' but found that it's already here.

                              Having a sidebar is great.. at the speed dial page!
                              Having a sidebar in every tab - not great!

                              Main reason being the white space on the left part of the screen where you click while browsing stuff. It's a 'default' white space easy to navigate to (swipe mouse to the left), to clear any selection on the page or activate a page. Right side of the browser is the scroll bar so you can't easily swipe and click there.

                              But when the sidebar is present in every window, this default functionality disappears so to speak.
                              Thus we have to disable the sidebar in order to have fast and smooth usage of the web.

                              Yet the side bar stuff itself is great, having whatsapp, bookmarks, Flow, and news right there with one click. But please have it in the speed dial only, just like it was there before.
                              Or have an option to choose where the sidebar should be active.

                              This needs to change back as it was before! The first adoption of the new sidebar was awesome. In user experience Opera has always been ahead of the others, at least the last 15 years I have been using this as a default browser (also use FF and Chrome daily, side by side with Opera).

                              Thank you!

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                Bookmarking in Opera is still not working well for me. I have V7 Bookmarks which makes bookmarking easier, and that is in the sidebar. I need to have the sidebar visible for any page. If that were an option along with the one to have the sidebar only on the speed dial, fine. Hopefully, nobody is proposing that people use another browser to bookmark a new page and then copy the bookmark over to Opera later.

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                                • madmaxpnz
                                  madmaxpnz last edited by

                                  Up. Sidebar on SpeedDial only my choice too.

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                                  • temkem
                                    temkem last edited by

                                    я перешёл на браузер Vivaldi. Opera пошла не по тому пути.

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @temkem last edited by

                                      @temkem Use English in this forum.

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                                      • joe
                                        joe last edited by

                                        ok. They don't hear us. That's crap. Now it's time to looking for a new actual browser....

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

                                          @joe
                                          Slimjst is also a Chromium browser, and it does not normally have a sidebar. You can get bookmarks to appear in a sidebar, but you need to trigger that with a keyboard shortcut.

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                                          • manuelb
                                            manuelb last edited by manuelb

                                            I know it's not a bug, but I created a issue to let this know.

                                            This "change" is very annoying, and lot of users complain about it, so I create an issue for it.

                                            There a a lot of explanation of why users want sidebar only in speed dial or opera pages only in the main thread in opera forum :

                                            • Main thread : https://forums.opera.com/topic/31727/side-bar-for-only-speed-dial-option-opera-60/82
                                            • https://forums.opera.com/topic/32581/sidebar-on-startpage-gone
                                            • https://forums.opera.com/topic/32697/sidebar-only-on-start-page/5

                                            Without it, flow becomes useless as we need to do a complex process to access saved flows on desktop...

                                            I really hope this feature will be back soon,

                                            Manuel

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