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    • Barkuti
      Barkuti last edited by leocg

      In essence, when opening bookmarks, history, downloads or saved pages from the menu, you get “out of context” from the browser window. This means you lose sight of and cannot interact with any browser tabs, and you can only go back or do something within the aforementioned enclosed menus (crypto wallet and flow could also be added here to, but I do not use these and so cannot say). There's not much you can do within the “enclosed menus”, with their top-right function pull down menus being too limited. But as I say, the main problem is that when these browser functions are opened the whole browser “gets owned”, leaving you enclosed in a hole in the wall and unable to do anything else:

      Opera bookmarks and history IMG_20220326_232816.png
      Not cool at all.

      There is a solution to this, and it is to contextualize and embed these browser functions (bookmarks, history, downloads and saved pages) within tabs, i.e. you would be able to open and see your browser history in a tab titled “History”, your bookmarks in a tab titled “Bookmarks”, and so on. This way, for example, it would be possible to have history or bookmarks open in a tab, which would be a blessing for people who frequently interact with their bookmarks, and for everyone in general.

      Well, I think the idea is fairly clear.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @Barkuti last edited by

        @barkuti You can open opera://bookmarks, opera://history, etc and pin them

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        • Barkuti
          Barkuti @leocg last edited by

          @leocg said in Open pages from sidebar/menu in a tab:

          @barkuti You can open opera://bookmarks, opera://history, etc and pin them

          Screenshot_Opera_20220403-074009.png
          Screenshot_Opera_20220403-074022.png
          Seriously? 😕
          Of course such a thing doesn't works.

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @Barkuti last edited by

            @barkuti Sorry, though it was about Opera for desktops since sidebar was mentioned.

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