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

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    • andrew84
      andrew84 @ericartman92 last edited by

      @ericartman92 said in Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right:

      should also "remember" your choices

      Sure, like it works in TabMenu.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @superduper last edited by

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

        I personally think that the #search-in-closed-tabs flag will keep the button

        If you mean the tabs menu one, it will not. However you will be able to search your closed tabs.

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        • superduper
          superduper @ericartman92 last edited by

          @ericartman92 I don't think stopping updates is a viable long term solution. I did stop updates once myself when I wanted the "copy to Notes" feature kept. It was in version 12 something. I held on to it for about 3-4 months, but eventually had to start updating, because things did not work right.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Removed the only option that made you prefer Opera. Madmen. A moderator with the rhetoric "No one needs" is also quite indicative.

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            • superduper
              superduper @andrew84 last edited by

              @andrew84 It looks to me like the "Search for tabs" option is functionally the same as the "Recently closed" one. Moreover, it offers a choice of showing more than just 3 closed tabs. So, it looks to me like the feature will go on even in the version 70, albeit under a different name. But who cares about the name?

              By the way, how do you get version 70? Mine is only 68 something.

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              • andrew84
                andrew84 last edited by

                Currently 70 is Developer version, 69 is Beta, 68 is Stable.

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                • roberto64
                  roberto64 last edited by leocg

                  Please: Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right!!

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                  • avmon
                    avmon last edited by avmon

                    Incredible but they have eliminated the option to continue using it in Opera 70.
                    Was it so difficult, at least, to leave the flag to continue using the button?

                    Why their effort to eliminate useful functions?
                    Do you want us to move from Opera to another browser?

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                    • superduper
                      superduper @avmon last edited by

                      @avmon They sure did. The put instead that sorry substitution "Search in closed tabs," in which only three closed tabs are shown. I downloaded Vivaldi browser. It seems to have the same functionality and does have the Closed tabs button.

                      I simply don't the reason why they would shoot themselves in the foot like this.

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                        • roberto64
                          roberto64 last edited by

                          You should consider the claim of many users and give a positive response:
                          Please: Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right!!

                          There are many more users who claim it, but they do not take the trouble to write it in the forums, but many of us do not like this change!

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            While the recently closed tab feature is something I am missing it's not that world ending.

                            On the other hand the thing that actually bothers me is that I used that button to show open tabs on other devices in simple manner.

                            Now I have to enable sidebar, click on tabs, click on device, click tab I want to open, disable sidebar. So instead of getting simple drop down menu and getting the tab I want in 2 clicks I have to go through loops and hoops from one side of screen to another like some demented hamster in his wheel.

                            So please, either revert or give us an option to enable additional button/s for tab explorer on device (in that drop down menu it was) and/or closed tab list.

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                            • rocketank
                              rocketank last edited by rocketank

                              Check this out. There will be show more button. Quite more acceptable...

                              Opera Developer v71.0.3763.0
                              You have to enable #search-in-closed-tabs-show-more in flags.

                              Screenshot_1.png

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                              • csongor242
                                csongor242 last edited by

                                What was their problem with the drop-down "recently closed" tabs? Why they had to change it to this full-window thing? I never used the search for open tabs function, not once, but I use the recently closed constantly and I think it was pretty good as it was, just click on the droppdown and you barely have to move your mouse. Now it does this whole darkening the background animation and all, and it's just irritating. Why do they have to overcomlicate everything?

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                                • the.illidan
                                  the.illidan last edited by

                                  i'm not restarting my browser so it can't update, waiting for version with recently closed tabs

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                                  • ericartman92
                                    ericartman92 last edited by

                                    I never thought this thread would find so many people that miss this feature. Let's hope our opinions are heard by the people making the decisions, although we all know the chances are pretty slim.

                                    Anyway, what people seem to forget when saying "why do you even need to have many tabs" is
                                    a) we might not have them all open, but we go through a lot of them. My personal work is somewhat related to research and I go though many web pages and I do need to go back to a closed one, or check which one I closed and so on. I think what we initially had was a very solid feature with a very normal and relatable use case to it. In my view, it should not have been removed, but, alas, it has.
                                    b) honestly, I find it quite arrogant that people tell others that "the feature had no use and it's right that they removed it". It is obviously irrational, since it did in fact have use, as proven by the number of people complaining about its removal.

                                    I am sad that opera had made these decisions, I can't demand an explanation from them, but as a software developer, they could have at least told us in a sentence or two how the workflow should now be, or of they have an alternative in the making and we need to wait.

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                                    • superduper
                                      superduper last edited by

                                      Nothing that I could at to this, but only second it a countless number of times. I simply see not reason why such a useful feature could be taken off, unless it's some sort of a social experiment.

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                                      • superduper
                                        superduper @rocketank last edited by

                                        @rocketank First of all, I don't have this flag in my version of Opera. Second, what was the need to take out so a useful feature and then substitute it with a crippled version of it?

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                                        • nickfrag
                                          nickfrag @superduper last edited by nickfrag

                                          @superduper No need at all. People do stupid things all the time. Other people come later and try to fix these things.

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                                          • CharismaOperaDisplayName
                                            CharismaOperaDisplayName last edited by leocg

                                            I am low vision and need it right there so I can compare. Please make this an option. All the moving my eyes around the screen, then clicking more than once is far too difficult. I'm begging you. This is the best browser for my vision problems.

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