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    Where is the "Recently closed tabs/Tab menu" button on the top right?

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    • chewy
      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
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @chewy 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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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @chewy last edited by

          @chewy You just need to find one post of a release of any build of the same version.

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          • chewy
            chewy @leocg 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
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @chewy 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
                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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                • sgunhouse
                  sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                  The flag is back, plus "Recently closed tabs" are shown in a dropdown if you click on the Search button.

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                  • cfyzuk
                    cfyzuk @sgunhouse 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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                    • sgunhouse
                      sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                      Actually, it was a different flag, but similar. If you click the tab search it lists the last 3 closed tabs, but you can click on "Show more" to see more.tabs though a flag can hide that button.

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                      • cfyzuk
                        cfyzuk @sgunhouse 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
                          ericartman92 @sgunhouse 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
                            A Former User @sgunhouse 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
                              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
                                A Former User @sgunhouse last edited by This post is deleted!
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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                                  @maheshparli It restores (full) recently closed tabs. Tabs menu is gone.

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                                  • SymphonicPoet
                                    SymphonicPoet @chewy last edited by This post is deleted!
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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User @leocg 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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                                      • operast
                                        operast @sgunhouse last edited by

                                        @sgunhouse

                                        please link to the flag that allows the "show more" button.

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                                        • operast
                                          operast @cherryaa last edited by

                                          @cherryaa

                                          You got it back? How?

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                                          • sgunhouse
                                            sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                            Mind you, the question was about Developer - I haven't checked in Stable yet. I'm on my mobile currently and can't look it up, but I just searched for "tabs" and it was among the half dozen matches.

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