Where is the "Recently closed tabs/Tab menu" button on the top right?
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chewy last edited by chewy
Until Opera reverts the disastrous changes to the "Recently Closed" button, there is a far better solution. It closely resembles what Opera took away from the toolbar. It's in the Chrome Store and it's an extension called "Tab Restore" by Banana Sonna. It is almost identical to the old Opera function; it seems to work exactly as the old "Recently Closed".
I think that what the devs just don't get is that taking the user from a quick pulldown (that doesn't shadow out your current tab and window) to this new implementation, is what part of the problem is. They pull the user away from the tab they're on, shadow grey out the whole browser to show you the list is just too different to use like the old way.
I hope this helps!
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@chewy In many cases, just the title of the report is enough to understand what was fixed or introduced.
There are some that may be part of a parent task and that's why their titles may not make sense.
Opera is closed source and have partnerships with lots of companies, so opening the bug tracking system could be a problem.
Also, I'm not sure if people are ready for a public bts.
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chewy last edited by
@leocg Yeah, I am very familiar with the closed source mindset. The fear of allowing people to see the good and the bad could make the "shareholders" nervous.
Thank you once again for taking the time to write about this. Unfortunately, we will have to rely of the benevolence of the devs and Opera to be a little more forthcoming and open about these changes. Perhaps they will even provide clear justifications to the people that actually use their software, why and how these changes come to be.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@chewy Opera was never exactly known for its talks to their users. Maybe on the very beginning, when the Internet wasn't so popular and the community of users were much more smaller and more willing to have a serious discussion.
Nowadays, Opera has to be very careful to what they answer to not be misunderstood.
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A Former User last edited by
Is there any truth to the rumour that this feature is currently available in Opera Developer and will be returning? It'd be useful to know because I am at the point of uninstalling opera and trying vivaldi
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cfyzuk last edited by
@sgunhouse which build? Can't find any notes in latest stable or latest devs. Or I miss something?
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cfyzuk last edited by
@sgunhouse oh this, it's not what we want to bring back, search in closed completely removes the synced tabs from other devices, closed tabs function earlier was more ergonomic than new search - so it's step back...
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ericartman92 last edited by
@sgunhouse said in Where is the "Recently closed tabs/Tab menu" button on the top right?:
Changes are in the blog, including this one. If you want it back, post in the Feature request thread - posting here accomplishes nothing.
I did start a thread in the feature request to bring back the feature we're discussing here, and just like here, it accomplished nothing.
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A Former User last edited by
@sgunhouse said in Where is the "Recently closed tabs/Tab menu" button on the top right?:
The flag is back, plus "Recently closed tabs" are shown in a dropdown if you click on the Search button.
Unfortunately it's not remotely close to the being a replacement. Removal of this feature has been a massive blow to my research workflow
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lynnpin last edited by
Why don't we all duplicate our posts in this forum to the Opera blog where maybe the devs will see the depth of feeling on this so called improvement. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to add your comments.
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2020/07/opera-70-comes-with-easier-access-to-closed-tabs-simpler-searches-and-new-workspace-icons/ -
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
Logged in here to see if the old trick with the flags worked. It doesn't, the browser autoupdated to 70 version and now I'm stuck without yet another Opera feature that was extremely useful.
But that's it. I'm moving on to Vivaldi and I'll make sure that every single one of my friends, to whom I recommended Opera, leave it as well.
I hope this will go down as the single most stupid design decision in Opera's history and it drives aways the hundreds of users like me, who still hung on for years.
People of this thread: this conversation is months old, which shows that Opera's developers really don't care about it, the old trick with the flags won't work anymore and you all should just choose a better browser. Vivaldi and Firefox seems to be great.
Remember to remove the browser from your devices and to delete your Opera account, that's the only way they'll take notice (spoiler, they wont and they don't care).
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