[Solved]Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right
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xxoliasxx last edited by leocg
The flag is now gone, i hate it so much....
Why would you remove such a great working feature and not even give an option to retain it.... -
Rogerb last edited by
For a browser that is less well known struggling to gain share, it's appalling that a well-loved feature is simply ripped out. Recently closed tabs is my primary tool. I open a lot of tabs and close a lot, then realize I needed one of the closed. Happens often. Opera doesn't care about me, I don't care about it. I'm going to disable updates for now and prepare to switch to Firefox as my goto. #sad
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ericartman92 last edited by
Tried Vivaldi for a couple of days... Interesting. Nothing is perfect of course, but still the train of thought is clearly what we came to love opera for. A weird quirk is that Vivaldi registers the "speed dial" even in the recently closed menu, but otherwise it's just like the thing opera now-used to have (for obvious reasons ).
Looked at the browser usage statistics and I wonder why opera does things that drive away what already is a pretty small portion of the "market". -
roberto64 last edited by
@ericartman92 said in Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right:
Tried Vivaldi for a couple of days... Interesting. Nothing is perfect of course, but still the train of thought is clearly what we came to love opera for.
I have been exactly the same
@ericartman92 said in Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right:
Looked at the browser usage statistics and I wonder why opera does things that drive away what already is a pretty small portion of the "market".
I was also wondering that ... Opera little by little has stopped being something different, designed more for the user, to be more of the same.
I will continue with Vivaldi.
It is more like the real Opera when we all start to love it. -
superduper last edited by superduper
@ericartman92 What I like about Vivaldi is that you can create additional speed dials. I think it's much more convenient than the favorites.
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg No one wants search in opened tabs, we want to reopen the tabs we closed (either accidentally or on purpose).
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ericartman92 last edited by
@superduper To be honest, I probably won't use that feature, but two things:
- I have the option in case I need it (take a hint opera)
- I am more concerned a bit with the fact that the speeddial there is considered a closed tab. (off-topic, sorry)
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superduper last edited by superduper
@ericartman92 I have hundreds of bookmarks and tens of speedial items. Bookmarks in opera are inconvenient to access. To have all the bookmarks on a speedial makes them much more convenient to use. Besides, it allows to categorize them in folders.
Vivaldi also has a Note feature, which Opera did away with sometime in Opera 12-15. It's where you select a text in a web page and copy it to notes.
The history is also much more extensive and more convenient to use.
And, of course, the closed tabs button is there. And the list is much longer than in Opera when they had it.
The only thing which it does not have it's a bookmark bar. But with the many speed-dials feature it's not that critical, although a bit less convenient.Personally, I am switching to Vivaldi. For the time being I will be testing it, to see that it does not have some unacceptable flaws, and if it doesn't, it's farewell Opera.
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Rogerb last edited by
This is a case study on how products and companies die. It's happening in real time, before our eyes.
Those people who are the product's champions, those motivated to communicate and post in forums most users wouldn't bother even discovering exist, are the ones who influence a product's outcome.
Please, company developers, by all means, remove well-liked features and watch your champions openly discuss using your competition out of frustration. That's a great strategy. It worked for Blackberry.
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superduper last edited by
@superduper I was wrong about Vivaldi not having a bookmark bar. It does, it's just a bit tricky to put it on. I imported it from Opera and then opted to have it displayed. Voila! A bookmark bar in Vivaldi.
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A Former User last edited by
More unhappy users: https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/i16vj1/search_in_open_tabs_cannot_be_disabled_anymore_in/
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skoy21 last edited by
That is unbelievable! The change from 12 to the new Opera was terrible, but started adding features back and slowly slowly became ok again, and now they strike back... As if you see what your users want and you do the opposite, just to get us!
A suggestion to Opera developers: Limit the opened tabs to 3! We don't need more. Oh, and limit the amount of history to 3 as well, remove the speed dial or limit the speed dial entries to 3. See? Great improvements, don't you think? You just made Opera worse... Again...
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superduper last edited by
@skoy21 Look, people. Why get all worked up about it? Vivaldi has all the features and then some more. Moreover, it seems to work faster too. Opera seems to have become sluggish lately. I am switching to Vivaldi and will save myself some nerves.
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ericartman92 last edited by
@superduper while I switched to Vivaldi, I cannot say that I am completely happy with it and it's understandable that people want the functionality back, and not switching to other browser. I, for one, would love to see the feature return instead of switching, because the design is different, some other functions are different etc.
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superduper last edited by superduper
@ericartman92 It's just like a favorite pair of old shoes. You get so comfortable with them, that even when they are falling apart you don't want to get a new pair. But finally you cannot use them any longer and are forced to switch to new ones. At first they are indeed not as comfortable as the old pair. But, provided the new pair are quality shoes, you get used to them pretty fast and like them as much as the old pair.
Granted, Vivaldi has somewhat different layout, but as far as I can see it has the same functionality as Opera plus some more. And accessing this functionality is not much different that in Opera. But, of course, everyone has his/her own likes and dislikes, and what is alright for some is not alright for others and vice versa. -
skoy21 last edited by
@ericartman92 Exactly! I don't want to switch to Vivaldi or any Vivaldi. Especially after I "endured" that long ordeal of the change from Presto to Chromium until Opera became functional and unique again. I just don't want favorite and extremely helpful features gone.
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superduper last edited by
@skoy21 That's exactly what I was saying to suggestions to switch to Vivaldi. Scroll this topic up, you will see my reaction. Unfortunately, Opera has left me no other choice. Yes, it will take a while getting used to the new interface, so it feels as comfortable as Opera's, but it's just a matter of time. I will waste no more of my time begging for something that should be provided as a matter of fact.
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riderleangle last edited by
Now that the flag to bring it back is seemingly gone as well I think we need to bring this back, it's one of the most used features and there was no reason to get rid of it.