Opera beta 67 - news

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by

The Opera 67.0.3575.2 has entered the beta stage ;-)
The change log, and the announcement.
 
Pop-up visual tab-cycler

We’ve implemented a pop-up visual tab-cycler to give you quick access to your open tabs.

Using "Ctrl+Tab", you’ll get a clear visual of your open tabs – up to 5 thumbnails side by side – and be able to cycle through them.

 
Sidebar setup panel

The Sidebar settings menu has been replaced with a new panel, which is opened from the "three-dot" icon at the bottom of the sidebar. The new panel is well-organized – making workspace and sidebar management more comfortable and intuitive. For starters, you are now able to edit or remove all of the sidebar elements individually. Starting from the top, you can customize your Workspaces by: adding, removing, showing or hiding them. Also, all of the messengers are now listed on the sidebar.

In the Special Features group, you’ll find Opera’s features like: My Flow, Instant Search and CryptoWallet. Opera Tools is the last category with browser management areas like: History, Downloads and Extensions. History and Bookmarks can now be configured to be opened from either the sidebar panel or the full-page menu.

 
Some changes, fixes and improvements:
- DNA-82866 Create UI for setting DNS over HTTPS options.
- DNA-83690 [Mac] Make sure to add tabs closed by mouse to recently closed tabs.
- DNA-66232 Crash at media::software::VTVideoDecodeAccelerator::ProcessTaskQueue.
 
New Opera's flags:
#horizontal-tab-cycler (enabled by def. - ready to check)
Enables new tab cycler UI.

#sidebar-setup-panel (S/A)
Enables the setup panel for the browser sidebar.

#highlight-duplicate-tabs-on-hover (disabled by def. - work in progress)
When hovering a tab, display any inactive tab in the same window and workspace, which has the same address as the hovered tab in hover state.

#suggestion-scoring-improved (S/A)
Enable better scoring for history Speed Dials entries in Address Bar.

#sync-passphrase-papercuts (S/A)
Enables enhancements to make it easier to deal with lost, or forgotten implicit encryption passphrases in Sync.

Opera's flags enabled by default in this build (ready to check):
#history-onboarding
After close 3 or more tabs, history onboarding will appear. This is one time action.

#workspaces
Allows organizing tabs into workspaces.

Removed Opera's flags: #chromium-ua-compatibility, #crypto-wallet-ios-instructions, #ffmpeg-demuxer-everywhere and #ffmpeg-demuxer-in-platform-audio-file-reader.
 
Chromium is updated to version 80.0.3987.7.

   

[viewer2012]

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[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by l33t4opera

New update - Opera beta 67.0.3575.8 ;-)
The change log, and the announcement.
 
Some changes, fixes and improvements:
- DNA-82434 [Snapshot] Zoom in and zoom out, when trying to type 6 and 9 with advanced shortcuts enabled.
- DNA-83944 Tweak video pop-out window geometry.
- DNA-83971 Fix "OutOfMemoryError" on Components page.
- Several crash fixes - more details in the change log.
 
Opera's flags enabled by default in this build (ready to check):
- #opera-doh,
- #highlight-duplicate-tabs-on-hover,
- #suggestion-scoring-improved.
 
   

[newworldman]

newworldman @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera Horizontal tab cycler is awful! I find the current implementation excellent as it is. In fact, escaping from Firefox's horizontal tab cycler was my No. 1 reason for abandoning Firefox!

I typically have roughly 50 tabs open, more when I'm at work and it's handy being able to see most of them in the vertical tab cycler. The preview helps as well, as sometimes you can't quite tell from the title or link whether you're selecting the right page or not.

Will the current behaviour still be available?

I'm OK with browsers offering new features or changing defaults but it's annoying when they remove old ones when the newer ones are inferior.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @newworldman last edited by l33t4opera

Hi @newworldman, for now, you can switch it off by disabling opera:flags#horizontal-tab-cycler, and restarting the Opera.

In the future, even if the flag will be removed, you can avoid of displaying it as follows: go to opera:settings/keyboardShortcuts, scroll down to "Switch right through tabs", and add "Ctrl+Tab" for it and "Ctrl+Shift+Tab" for "Switch left through tabs". It will warn you, that it's used for "Cycle forward/backward through tabs", but you can press "Yes, replace", and the shortcut will be reassigned.

Answering your question: I am one of the users, so I can't tell you for sure, whether the flag will be removed in the future, and instead of it, there will be the switch in the Settings to toggle it, or not.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by

New update - Opera beta 67.0.3575.13 ;-)
The change log, and the announcement.
 
Some changes, fixes and improvements:
- DNA-82722 Google Translator blocks PDF viewer.
- DNA-83271 Let youtube.com domain use WebComponentsV0.
- DNA-83899 Enable toggling of DoH via section click.
- DNA-84075 Don’t alter chromium DoH prefs basing on chromium experiment flags.
- DNA-84042 Fix broken tabs state after navigation (Highlight duplicate tabs on hover).
- DNA-84007 Fix the skip to main content bug on Mac.
- DNA-81636 Crash at media_router::MediaRouterBase::UnregisterRemotingSource(SessionID).
- DNA-83882 Fix crash loop, when opera.pak is corrupted.
 
Chromium is updated to version 80.0.3987.53.
 
   

[newworldman]

newworldman @l33t4opera last edited by

@l33t4opera We'll have to wait and see what they do. I hope they don't totally junk the way it currently works. Apart from this, Ctrl+Tab "browse in most recently used order" is a must for me. No browser can be the default for me without it. Opera, Vivaldi, Firefox and IE are the only mainstream browsers that have it.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by sgunhouse

New update - Opera beta 67.0.3575.23 ;-)
The change log, and the announcement.
 
Some changes, fixes and improvements:
- DNA-80336 Missing icons for some bookmarks.
- DNA-83794 First added sidebar extension is not visible in the setup.
- DNA-84365 Crash at void opera::partner_bookmarks::TraverseBookmarksTree(bookmarks::BookmarkNode const*, opera::partner_bookmarks::SpeeddialData&&).
 
Chromium is updated to version 80.0.3987.87.
 
   

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by

New update - Opera beta 67.0.3575.28 ;-)
The change log, and the announcement.
 
"In this build we’re introducing the video pop-out enhancements, such as: video timer, back to tab button, and next track button."
 
Some changes, fixes and improvements:
- DNA-81644 Port the video pop-out timer.
- DNA-81645 Port the video pop-out mute/unmute button.
- DNA-83968 Add “previous track” and “next track” controls to the video pop-out.
- DNA-83970 Enable MediaSession API.
- DNA-84077 Hide "seek" and "timer" controls in the video pop-out for YouTube's live streams.
- DNA-84335 [Linux] Widevine is not working due to changed path of libwidevinecdm.so.
- DNA-84439 Opera's extensions update requests are sent to Chrome's, instead of Opera's server.
 
Chromium is updated to version 80.0.3987.100.