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    [Solved]Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right

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    • skoy21
      skoy21 @Guest last edited by

      @airforce25228 I think search in tabs could be useful to people that open a lot of tabs and use the recently closed tabs, and this without the annoying list of the tabs we can already see just above. The list is only useful as you said, to people that have a gazillion open tabs. And probably those people want closed tabs back!

      In a sense "search in open tabs" is useless to the people they try to appeal to. They only manage to make a worse experience to the rest...

      It's a nice-to-have feature only if other things don't get demoted because of that...

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      • rsa-vby
        rsa-vby last edited by

        Please bring back the easy, immediate and efficient Recently Closed button, we all need it here

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @skoy21 last edited by A Former User

          @skoy21 I have most of a time openned about 100 tabs and I never needed to search in tabs because it makes no sence. If I have to search something I can search it by this order:
          favicon - tab title - preview - make tab active and look
          But I think have it now! Searching is usefull if you have so many tabs that you dont even see favicons or you cant even click on them because of so small size. The question is why would you do that to open so many tabs that you cant even use your browser properly?!

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Wtf is the problem? Why do you remove the only button i click on every 5 minutes???
            I mean, it is like if a car company says "we know you love that center mirror, so we gonna replace it with a modern art painting LMAO".
            Are you guys high or drunk while programming?

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

              You can just make the user chose between that 2 options, or activate/deactivate any of them. But srsly, I'm now thinking about to switch to Firefox 7-8 years later, cause you got rid of the most useful button in your previous versions, a browser differentiator, and one of the main features that many people used everyday.
              New button sucks, you know it, we know it, everybody knows it, but it seems that you're pushing your users to switch to a different browser step by step.

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              • cfyzuk
                cfyzuk last edited by cfyzuk

                We should rise this problem again and again. With elimination of old behaviour of Closed Tabs button the only way to get your synced tabs across your devices is to enable side panel and add icon to activity, or type every time activity in address bar. This is not handy at all 😞

                I don't using side panel and typing every time to access your tabs isn't good, because you can't add bookmark to activity/ anywhere.

                So the change closed tabs from list to search completely removes other feature! Why??

                Please bring back at least flag or button itself.

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                • andrew84
                  andrew84 @cfyzuk last edited by andrew84

                  @cfyzuk said in Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right:

                  bookmark to activity/

                  You can add it to the bookmarks bar.

                  *When editing the bookmark you can notice that the real address is chrome://startpage/activity and you can add this address everywhere you want. As a workaround because things went more complicated with recent Opera releases.

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                  • Rogerb
                    Rogerb last edited by leocg

                    I prefer the previous downarrow and immediate access to recently closed pages. I can accept the magnifying glass with the popup as less optimal but doable.

                    What I Cannot accept is only 3 recently closed pages. WTF?

                    Why F over your customers by removing popular options. Is Opera that secure in their browser leadership position that they can ignore their most loyal users?

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                    • superduper
                      superduper @Rogerb last edited by

                      @Rogerb Go Vivaldi. It has over 20 recently closed tabs in the list. That's not counting other goodies. And let Opera "developers" stick their product in that place of their anatomy where the sun does not shine, if they don't want to listen to their users.

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

                        @superduper Dloading
                        Bye Opera, til you go back to the useful things.

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                        • ericartman92
                          ericartman92 last edited by

                          Isn't it nice that the following words are on the Opera for windows main page:
                          "Capable
                          The most useful and requested features are already built into the Opera browser."

                          How ironic that the most requested feature is now taken out and the moderator has locked the discussion on that thread.....

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                          • leocg
                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @ericartman92 last edited by

                            @ericartman92 Here is the place to ask/discuss about it and it's still open.

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                            • ericartman92
                              ericartman92 @leocg last edited by

                              @leocg And the other thread with many more opinions and viable options for people was what exactly if not a place to discuss the feature?

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                              • leocg
                                leocg Moderator Volunteer @ericartman92 last edited by

                                @ericartman92 In fact those other topics should have been closed a while ago.

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  The other thread had some options to fix what devs broke on their own browser.
                                  FYI, Vivaldi works very well, you dont depend on getting 3rd party extensions to get useful and well placed buttons, what a surprise.

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                                  • superduper
                                    superduper last edited by

                                    I have been using Vivaldi alongside with Opera for a while now, and I have been quite satisfied with it. However, I have discovered one flaw with it. Namely, sometimes, when downloading with it, the file completely downloads, but the downloading process does not stop and Vivaldi just keeps creating new processes. If you don't catch this in time and kill the job, eventually it hogs all the resources and computer stops responding. The only way to bring it back up is to reset it. It happened to me once and now I am watching for this.
                                    But overall, I am very happy with Vivaldi.

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                                    • primoz
                                      primoz last edited by

                                      I feel a bit sad letting go of Opera, at least for the time being. I've been using Opera since the early 2000s, back when it had ad banners. Several features that I found useful were dropped over the years, but nothing was as much of a deal-breaker as losing Recently Closed Tabs in its "classic" form and usefulness.

                                      I kind of (try to) understand the reasoning why reopening closed tabs is done through search. When looking for a tab I recently closed, I know the topic and words used on that page, therefore typing a keyword should be faster for finding that tab than going through a list. This workflow should be improving the user experience, but I actually see at least two barriers in this workflow:

                                      1. I have to think what words were used on the closed tab, as opposed to just scanning a list and maybe finding the right tab by its favicon. (Minor case, but then there are also tabs that were showing image files directly, with random names like 3a5f3e88c33.jpg.)
                                      2. I have to move my hand from the mouse to the keyboard.

                                      I've seen that 71 will be bringing a Show More to show more than three closed tabs, but that is an additional unnecessary click.

                                      Also, I find that having a list open tabs in Search in Tabs is somewhat redundant, as there already is a "list" of open tabs on top of the window.

                                      What might be a workable compromise for the Search in Tabs popup:

                                      • By default list only closed tabs, as many as fit in the popup, not only three.
                                      • Have a Show More at the bottom in case there are even more closed tabs than fit in the popup. Or make the popup scrollable.
                                      • Search still searches through open and closed tabs.
                                      • Add a setting that also shows open tabs in the popup, to accommodate users who like having a list of open tabs.
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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User @superduper last edited by

                                        @superduper Got it with custom panels (whatsapp web, instagram, twitter etc), it's fast as hell, Twitter videos work nice... Thanks for the recommendation. And also, thanks von Tetzchner for not upsetting their users.

                                        Opera, it was nice while it lasted. You screwed your own product. uninstall

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                                        • ericartman92
                                          ericartman92 @primoz last edited by

                                          @primoz I agree with you. I don't think typing is faster or better or more accurate.
                                          In case of the accidentally closed tab, mouse is definitely faster.
                                          In case if it's random characters or the page caption is in a different language, I don't even have that language on my keyboard layout, so I can't type that.

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                                          • andreahub
                                            andreahub last edited by

                                            Yes this was supporting. Very unhappy with the fact that its gone.

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