Opera 76 Stable

dwing

dwing @leocg

@leocg said:

@dwing If it was easy to reproduce, there wouldn't be people unable to reproduce the problem.

Yes, there are people who unfortunately cannot reproduce.

There are missing steps and/or conditions.

These steps are to just carefully re-read my two posts.

And they can't fix the problem if they can not reproduce it.

If there was a group in Telegram messenger then i could make a video.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @dwing

@dwing There are lots of places where you can host a video file and link it here.
Although I don't think that a video is necessary.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @dwing

@dwing If the problem can't be reproduced by everyone, then it's not a global, general issue and may depends on specific conditions to be triggered.

dwing

dwing @leocg

@leocg said:

@dwing If the problem can't be reproduced by everyone, then it's not a global, general issue and may depends on specific conditions to be triggered.

The strange and maddening behavior of Opera was simple described above in my two posts here https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2021/04/opera-76-stable/#comment-250811 and here https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2021/04/opera-76-stable/#comment-251051

@palx (thanks a lot to him for his involvement) https://forums.opera.com/uid/314726 understoods what the problem is here in his posts https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2021/04/opera-76-stable/#comment-251060 , here https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2021/04/opera-76-stable/#comment-251118 and reproduced it here https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2021/04/opera-76-stable/#comment-251122

How else can i help?

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @dwing

@dwing You can try to find out what do you two have in common that may be triggering the issue.

dwing

dwing @palx

@palx said:

@leocg OK. I now have 7 Workspaces and around 100 tabs open on them, and when I close and re-launch Opera it remembers around 1-3 of them correctly.

Dear @palx, could you show anybody from developers the strange behavior of Opera reproduced by you and described in your post here https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2021/04/opera-76-stable/#comment-251122 ?

Please follow-up.

palx

palx @dwing

@dwing I initiated a personal chat with you, lets find the similarities on our settings/extensions first and see if we can have any results, on why this is not happening to anyone else as stated.

Alphablake

Alphablake @tina

@tina Ok done as instructed. Any chance of getting a fix ?

tina

tina Opera @Alphablake

@alphablake I answered to you in BS-8451. Please attach logs to your report

dwing

dwing @tina

@tina said:

Hi @dwing: , I can't reproduce this unfortunatelly. When switching Workspaces, Opera takes you to the last active tab in this Worskpace. Have you checked your settings 'On startup'?

Hello @tina, after updating to version: 76.0.4017.123 the terrible problem is still exists - if you have multiple Workspaces (i have abt 200 Tabs total at 6 Workspaces) and you start or restarting Opera, then after switching from the main workspace to any other workspace, you are thrown to randomly selected Tab instead of last left active Tab. This is enraging! :(((

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ccm27

ccm27

Hi I am on opera 76 and I am only allowed 7 workspaces. Is there any way to get any more?

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ccm27

@ccm27 I've created ten workspaces earlier today.

What happens when you try to add more than seven workspaces?

ccm27

ccm27 @leocg

@leocg It replaces a random list item with the new icon and name set. I need a few more workspace for my work and coding process, as well as other side projects.

ccm27

ccm27 @leocg

@leocg Any ideas?

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ccm27

@ccm27 Wait at least 24 hours to bump a topic.

No ideas on why you can't add more workspaces.

ccm27

ccm27 @leocg

@leocg For information, I am on opensuse opera 76

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @ccm27

@ccm27 Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera.

Then, open the "Preferences" file in the profile folder with JSONedit and switch to "Tree" mode like in the pic on the site. Or, use a different JSON editor if you're on Linux.

Expand the root/ui section. You should then see a "workspaces" section. Expand that.

What you want to do is compare the workspaces section with the workspaces section of the Preferences file for a standalone installation (or fresh profile using the --user-data-dir command-line switch if you're on Linux) to make sure things are correct (after creating the same workspaces in the standalone installation). If things are not the same, you need the fix the entries (while Opera is still closed) and save your changes.

Next, under root/ui/browser/sidebar/item_prefs, you want to make sure your see workspace entries 0 - 25 like in the Preferences file of the standalone installation. Under root/ui/browser/sidebar/item_prefs/visibility, you want to make sure there are workspace entries 0 - 25 there too like in the standalone installation.

The reason things might be messed up in your Opera profile is because workspace settings changed a bit along the way while they were being developed. If you've been upgrading for a while, you might have gotten some old workspace settings stuck in there.

Now, if you don't mind recreating your workspaces, adding the tabs back in them and re-customizing your sidebar, you can right-click on the "root/ui/browser/sidebar" node and choose "delete node". You can then do the same for the "root/ui/workspaces" node. Deleting them and saving your changes should cause Opera to recreate them fresh when starting up, which might solve your problem. Of course, if you use Opera Sync and sync your settings and open tabs etc., I'm not sure what will happen.

You can back up your "Preferences" file and "sessions" folder in the profile folder (or the whole profile folder) first if you want, just in case.