Opera 68 is here with built-in Instagram in the sidebar
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg useful [ yoos-fuhl ] adjective
• being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect.
Users will feel that browser functions have various degrees of usefulness.
For me, on a scale of one to ten: Having tabs is a 10, video pop-out a 0 and easy access to recently closed tabs a 6.2.
When you wonder “why” next time, try applying Occam's razor principle:
The user probably finds that thing useful.
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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Opera 68 is here with built-in Instagram in the sidebar:
@treego I undestarnd that it's something important for the person, I'm just trying to find out why. For me, having a list of recently close tabs - and not all closed tabs - may be useful but I don't see a reason for having it in a one click menu.
OK, that's fine ... your replies sometimes seem curt and unwilling to see the poster's point of view as being valid.
If Opera had the feature in the first place, Opera must have had a reason for it.
It would be nice if Opera would explain why they are removing features that others have found helpful and useful, sometimes.
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg we still don't have any answer about removing Instant Search. Why? It's such a great feature.
The worst part is this Search in Tabs "new" feature, which was also present in Instant Search, but I never used it. I really miss Googling with CTRL+SPACE instead opening a new tab like a cave man.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@treego Usually features are removed because they are not being used by a signicant number of people to justify keeping it. See https://forums.opera.com/post/207332
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andrew84 last edited by
@leocg I don't agree that 'very few'. I saw enough complaints on forum in dedicated topic and there are enough complaints in the topics regarding the blog (I'd say 15-20 complaints from different users in total). And you can see pretty much complaints here right now.
You don't ask why 'snapshot' option is activated by one click and integrated into the address bar (you probably use it every hour at least then) -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@ab-garcez Here is an answer: https://forums.opera.com/post/207332
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andrew84 last edited by
@ab-garcez said in Opera 68 is here with built-in Instagram in the sidebar:
Search in Tabs "new" feature, which was also present in Instant Search
Yes, I wonder too. Instead of 3 features we have 1 now and the most useless I should say. I never used "Instant Search" but I don't mind keeping it for those users who find it useful. Moreover, the Instant Search was switchable off.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@andrew84 See https://forums.opera.com/post/207332
Usually what happens, according to my experience of more that twenty years uisng and following Opera's development is:
- A new feature is added
- People complain abou that feature
- (After a long time) The feature is renoved
- People complain that the feature was removed
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg thanks. I replied the dev about it. Let's hope they consider making it back.
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg it's not, but I have no use for it. I only (really) miss Googling without opening a new tab.
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andrew84 last edited by andrew84
@leocg
If the new feature is switchable off, there can't be complaints.
I do not use the 'Instant Search' so I switched it off and I don't complain, I also don't mind if someone likes it.'Search in Tabs' is not a new feature. This is an old feature that was part of another feature previously. So they could just remove the 'web' part from 'Instant Search' and call it 'Search in tabs'.
Regarding the provided forum's link.
I don't know how they do gather their statistics (what kind of telemetry), but let's say that 'Instant Search' was not popular. But I do not understand how does the TabMenu refer here then?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@andrew84 It would be a perfect scenario but, in the real world, this is not how things work. Simply there can't be options for everything, everytime.
Regarding the link, it tells the (main) reason for a feature to be removed. Just change Instant Search for any other.
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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Opera 68 is here with built-in Instagram in the sidebar:
@andrew84 It would be a perfect scenario but, in the real world, this is not how things work. Simply there can't be options for everything, everytime.
Regarding the link, it tells the (main) reason for a feature to be removed. Just change Instant Search for any other.
Well, that seems to be the philosophy of Vivaldi ... pack the browser with tons of features so that the user decides how he/she wishes to browse the world-wide-web. If that is truly Opera's philosophy as you say, I think you will see more migrating Vivaldi's way -- I definitely keep my eye on it -- I cannot believe that TabMenu and Instant Search wasn't widely used enough to keep it in the works, at least as an option.
I think Opera gets most things right, but I have to disagree here some, honestly.
