Not a solution (because it's buggy and not really supported), but right-click on launcher.exe in Opera's install folder, goto "properties", switch to the Compatibility tab and set compatibility Windows 7. Then check the colors of the tab bar.

Didn't have any effect.

I had Opera with tabs right across. No "title bar" left to drag the window!

If you're using an up-to-date version of regular Opera, there will be a blank space on the tab bar between the + button and the search-in-tabs button that you can use to drag the window. If using Opera GX though, that space is missing due to a bug.

Either way though, if you goto the URL opera://settings/userInterface and disable "Disable tab bar's top spacing when browser window is maximized", you can drag the window by grabbing at the very top of the window.

Why didn't they put the tab bar under the title bar?

Chromium doesn't use a title bar. You'd have to ask the Chromium authors why.

With that said though, in Vivaldi, goto the URL vivaldi://settings/appearance/, check "Use native window" and restart Vivaldi. I don't know how hard it'd be for Opera to make that work, but if Opera had that, you'd probably love it.

Kind of. I'm saying to have the tab bar be at the top of the window, the title bar can't be showing. Then, since the title bar isn't showing, the tab bar needs to double as a title bar by supporting some of the things a real title bar does. In Opera's case, the tab bar doesn't support the system color stuff that you like.

Why didn't they put the tab bar under the title bar? In fact that just annoyed me today, I had Opera with tabs right across. No "title bar" left to drag the window!

Of course it would be great if Opera could obey windows color scheme/theme - but this likely doesn't attract any new users to Opera (and does not alienate old users either) and gives no financial gain to them anyway.

It alienates me. And surely it's part of Windows anyway, to deliberately disobey the Windows setting must take more work.

@hucker Offers and notifications like I said.

I used to get over 100 email messages in a day ten years ago but now I get 10, 20 percent of it.

You are most unusual, everyone I know uses email more than before. It's the easiest way for any friend/relative/company to contact you.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker I'm a normal person, I won't freak out or be bothered because some milliseconds of difference.

A lot more than milliseconds, more like half a second.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker I didn't say that.

Didn't say what? You didn't quote anything.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Lots of people use only one monitor.

That would be luddites.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Like I said, I don't care.

About?

Are you saying to enable being able to put tabs on it, they had to not set up a normal title bar, then had to simulate all the title bar functions? It certainly behaves as one in every other way, like double clicking it to maximise.

Kind of. I'm saying to have the tab bar be at the top of the window, the title bar can't be showing. Then, since the title bar isn't showing, the tab bar needs to double as a title bar by supporting some of the things a real title bar does. In Opera's case, the tab bar doesn't support the system color stuff that you like.

... Hmm, it seems that someone has some difficulties in adapting to changes ...

Why would everyone always need to adapt to every change? Computer is a tool (at least for me), like hammer - I would not welcome, if someone for example coloured my hammer blue purely 'by esthetical reasons' or something. You may ask, what difference blue hammer makes - but I can't find it afterwards, because I know without thinking that it is (has always been) orange and I look for orange thing. Sure I can adapt to new state of things, but why should I? It takes time and generates stress.
(I likely would buy me a new orange hammer - but as it always happens, there are no more orange hammers available... Same situation in software world.)

Well, no more crying here

Of course it would be great if Opera could obey windows color scheme/theme - but this likely doesn't attract any new users to Opera (and does not alienate old users either) and gives no financial gain to them anyway.

I for example am using paid e-mail desktop program, both at home and at work; I hate customer servers, where active and inactive windows both have white titlebars without any border and I have no time to reconfigure that (try to navigate between dozen of file explorers and notepads this way); sure I have installed 3-rd party shell application to mimic older windows start menu and other options; no, I have not installed windows 11 - and so on and so on; I just don't think Opera forums are best place to cry about that

... We used to have options, we could customize windows. There's no need to take away basic stuff like that.

Keep in mind that every software contol "option" requires code to support it - at least two paths toward two other chunks of code, each implementing their respective "choice". Each piece of new code takes resources to write, debug, and maintain. Optional code paths create tree-branches in code, all of which accumulate to geometrically complicate the possible overall functional operations of the code. The more complex the code tree, the more difficult it is to maintain and upgrade portions of it without affecting other paths and parts of the tree.

The end result is that there is constant pressure on developers to simplify their code whenever an opportunity arises... often at the expense of removing choices deemed lesser-used or of lesser importance. If the removed choice was never used by a user, that user couldn't care less about its removal; if it was used, then removal results in inconvenience or worse to that user. NOTE: this is not to say that developers necessarily "get it right" in all this... only that this is the explanation often underlying such "change".

I used to get over 100 email messages in a day ten years ago but now I get 10, 20 percent of it.

@hucker Webmails nowadays are better than a decade ago. I have an Outlook based email and there is no noticeable difference between using it in the webmail or in the app.

Local Email:

1. click to open app.
2. click the email you want to read.
   That's it, it's displayed in a 1000th of a second.

Webmail:

1. click to open browser.
2. click to go to webmail page.
3. wait for it to load.
4. log in.
5. wait for it to load.
6. click an email.
7. wait for it to load.
8. get notified you've exceeded your space allowance.
9. fail to open the email because the file format of the attachment confused the system.
10. wonder if they saw the naughty email you just read.

@hucker In the real world, it's not possible to keep all options are preferences forever, some needs to be removed at some point.

Everytime something changes in a software, there are lots of people complaining about it and the same amount praising it.

There wouldn't be if there were options. We used to have options, we could customize windows. There's no need to take away basic stuff like that.

Everytime something changes in a software, there are lots of people complaining about it and the same amount praising it.

@hucker The color in the title bar is for you to know which app is the active one. If the app is maximized, you know already that it is the active one. At least with one monitor.

You seem to keep changing what you're saying. Just now you said the colour is still present when it's maximised, then you say it isn't.

And who uses one monitor? Somebody who only goes on their computer once a day to read facebook?

@hucker Webmails nowadays are better than a decade ago. I have an Outlook based email and there is no noticeable difference between using it in the webmail or in the app.

I wouldn't use their app either. MS have never made a decent email program. I've only ever used Netscape email (back in the 90s) then Opera.

There's a big difference in speed when what you're clicking is on a 3500MB/sec NVME drive 2 feet to your left or a disk 1000 miles away through a connection passing through hundreds of routers.

@hucker How can't I or anyone not use less email? It's been less and less required each day.

Email nowadays is basically to get offers and notifications. Eventually to get links to confirm a new account or the change the password of an existing one.

Sales and purchases on Ebay. Bank statements. Messages from friends worldwide. Messages from relatives worldwide. Notification of a reply in countless forums. I read about 50 to 100 a day! It's this thing called the internet, and email is an excellent place to gather every incoming communication. Plus there's a the newsgroups in the same program. Try using that on the web, ugh!