Opera 70 comes with easier access to closed tabs, simpler searches, and new Workspace icons

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Opera said: ...making it easier to find history items

How far back in time does the browser remember webpages visited?
My searches can only find data starting from April 2020.

WIN10-64. Opera 70.0.3728.71 Norwegian. HWA on.

[Loysek]

Loysek last edited by

I don't understand how is this a better access to recently closed tabs compared to before? There are only 3 recently closed tabs shown (I think it was 20 before) and I can't see my synced tabs with mobile Opera anymore. Is there a way to at least access synced tabs?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@vegelund As far as I know, Chromium limits it to around 90 days.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Loysek last edited by

@Loysek You can see synced opened tabs using the Tabs icon in sidebar or by typing opera://activity in address bar.

[Loysek]

Loysek @leocg last edited by

@leocg: Thank you - I can access it trough the link but there is no Tabs icon on sidebar neither in list under "Opera tools".

[henitokisou]

henitokisou last edited by

It's good you fixed massive CPU leak in v70 because that cursed 69.0.3686.95 was giving me +50% CPU usage on empty tab/speed dials and options every time window was in focus.

[homisite]

homisite @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 said:

*Good is that I prudently blocked the autoupdate (mainly because of the removed TabMenu flag).

I still don't get it why this feature was removed! Besides that I used the Closed Tab Menu all the time (and until now never Search in Tabs), it is now more complicate:

I have to make more steps to open older closed tabs. And if I open Search in Tabs via the upper right button, I have to move my mouse cursor back to the center of the screen.

[andrew84]

andrew84 @Loysek last edited by

@loysek: it was 32 before.
They implemented a 'Show more' button in the latest Dev build to see more than 3 recent tabs. But I can't call it handy especially if I have only few tabs opened, why should I press 'Show more' if the 'open tabs' section is almost empty. The algorithm of showing the open/recent tabs should be reworked and depend on how much open tabs are open currently.
*For example I don't need the 'open tabs' section often because I usually have no more than 5 -10 tabs opened at the same time that's why I suggested to make the 'open/recent' section expandable as it worked previously in the TabMenu.
https://forums.opera.com/post/219177

[andrew84]

andrew84 @homisite last edited by

@homisite Yes, but not only cursor. I must first look at the top right corner (to press the button) and then move my eyes view back to the center again each time. Not comfortable exercise for my eyes I should say.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera @Loysek last edited by l33t4opera

Hi @Loysek, because the previous feature is replaced by the new one "Search in Tabs". However, most probably we may be using "Show more" button for closed tabs, which is already introduced in Opera developer 71, that you can check by enabling the #search-in-closed-tabs-show-more flag, which seems to be working here.

[andrew84]

andrew84 last edited by

Weird release. Too early for the Stable version yet. Yesterday there was some update for 69 version (69.0.3686.95, only for Win) and today is 70 version already.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 I guess they don't want to be too far behind Chromium.
Chromium 85, base for Opera 71, is already in beta stage, for example.

[treego]

treego last edited by

Thank you, Maciej! Nice update!

[ghirahim]

ghirahim @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 said:

They implemented a 'Show more' button in the latest Dev build to see more than 3 recent tabs.

I can't see anything. Where?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ghirahim last edited by

@ghirahim In latest Opera 71 developer build

[minho]

minho last edited by

Why was the flag to re-enable the old menu to reopen recently closed tabs/windows removed? Now there is no way to distinguish between recently closed tabs and windows
and only the last 3 tabs are listed in the popup opened when we click on the magnifier icon.

[krteq]

krteq @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 said in Opera 70 comes with easier access to closed tabs, simpler searches, and new Workspace icons:

@loysek: it was 32 before.
They implemented a 'Show more' button in the latest Dev build to see more than 3 recent tabs. But I can't call it handy especially if I have only few tabs opened, why should I press 'Show more' if the 'open tabs' section is almost empty. The algorithm of showing the open/recent tabs should be reworked and depend on how much open tabs are open currently.

Well, this was not even implemented in developer branch yet

[ghirahim]

ghirahim @leocg last edited by

@leocg: I only use developer builds. No buttons there.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ghirahim last edited by

@ghirahim Did you enable the flag?

[andrew84]

andrew84 last edited by andrew84

@krteq
@ghirahim
#search-in-closed-tabs-show-more flag.

I just wonder how slowly they restore the TabMenu's functionality. It seems we must wait 2 releases more for the dark theme, 2 more releases for the ability to close the open tabs within the Search in tabs popup.
*By the way, most probably forgot that TabMenu had the 'Tab preview' feature. The old TabMenu is 2x time more functional and handy than the modern one.