General Opera One Appearance Feedback Topic
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A Former User last edited by
And the continuous inconsistency. Purple is used as highlighting color in Menu list and Bookmarks bar, while not used in History and Bookmarks.
Chrome, Edge, and Firefox use gray as marking color.
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A Former User last edited by
@cmspencer said
I'm getting the impression that the Opera dev team are starting to adopt the same attitude as MS "We know best and users will do as we say".
Kinda like Apple. Apple does not care what consumers want on product development.
The difference is that Apple has unlimited resources for building, testing, and evaluating products before launch – so they get changes right.
People still complain, but soon realize that the Apple product team have done their job and eventually users feel the new version is superior.
We also complain, but here the story will not be like Apple’s.
Opera needs to listen to feedback, because I believe they are making numerous mistakes in the evolution of their design and features.
Hopefully Opera will understand that it was a wrong path and adjust – or perhaps they have market research and user data that diverges from the voices on this forum.
I doubt the latter.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@leocg said
@marinadze I like that.
Well, you liked it before when it was grey.
If they change it to orange or rainbow colors, you will also like it.
It's as if you have no opinion or preference on your own, outside the current Opera build.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@vegelund said:
Kinda like Apple. Apple does not care what consumers want on product development.
Yet lots of people rush to buy new Apple products as soon as they are released. Even if there aren't any significant changes or improvements on it.
Opera needs to listen to feedback
They do listen. However, they can't base their decisions only on a forum topic.
Hopefully Opera will understand that it was a wrong path and adjust
I don't think it was. And adjusts will always happen and are welcome.
or perhaps they have market research and user data that diverges from the voices on this forum.
There are high chances.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@leocg said
There are high chances.
Do you believe Opera Norway knows something about the browser market and user preferences that Alphabet Inc. does not have full overview over?
You sure are a fanboy. Bonne chance.
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zauberfritz last edited by
To many colors, too intense, too frivolous, to crowded, busy etc. Like happened earlier, the tab icons are muddy, crammed; you can't find your tabs anymore. A browser is not a Christmas tree.
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flaviu2 last edited by
I pretty sure they would not make Opera browser back to the previous design, they worked too much on this one to do that.
I noticed Opera is most likely Mozilla as look and feel. It is a matter of taste, I agree. Personally, I prefer steady design like Edge or Chrome. For business case, 99% users prefer that. Maybe Opera browser doesn't target those users.
In my opinion, even Opera GX looks better than Opera One, because tab area is coupled with address bar. And if Opera One looks like Mozilla does, at least Mozilla stretch the view on the entire screen. Better ! I don't expect Opera team hear us, if Opera has telemetry, maybe they see how many users give up using Opera ...
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weirdtuned last edited by leocg
The new design of v.100 sucks a lot: too vibrant highlights, tacky and absolutely disgusting layout - the rounded outlines on search panel, bookmarks panel and extension panel make it all feel so unnecessary disjointed along with the weird "bundling" of tabs into separate outlines. All of this is annoying visual clutter. In other words, I don't want the excessive GX's style thrown into a cosy pristine browser that Opera pre-100 was. I hate these eye-popping acid purples thrown into my browser, and if you're going as far might as well give us the option to completely colour-correct our browser with custom colours for everything.
One more thing - Opera devs, hello, we aren't on mobile phones, we don't need to have stuff at the bottom of the sidebar when all of our tab interactions are happening upstairs, duh. The person who decided to move the sidebar icons down and not give an option to switch back needs to get their head bonked real hard. Hopefully, this is a bug, because I still have hope that some devs at Opera have figments of sense left inside. -
InfinityApps last edited by
I will never install the update for the new UI. It is horrible.
Please show me where and when users requested this new UI?
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voom108 last edited by
Seemingly opposed to most of the posts on the new design, I must say that I really like the design; it matches Windows 11 design philosophy and is better integrated visually than even edge.
It seems the interface is very efficient, as it runs much faster than any other browser on my system, even with my basic set of plugins installed and running.
The design also reminds me of the obsidian.md interface, which I like a lot.
What I find to be true, is that customizability for now is mostly nonexistent. I expect, though, that it will be (re)added in the future.
The tab islands are great; it would be nice to be able to close a complete island with one click.
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voom108 last edited by
In addition to the previous post, ad customizing - I would like to be able to move the sidebar to the right.
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flaviu2 last edited by
@voom108 said in General Opera One Appearance Feedback Topic:
It seems the interface is very efficient
Really ? And why if you accidentally put the mouse maxim right (or left) and scroll, nothing happen ? Why ? Because the view is not stretched on whole view, because of actual "beautiful" design.
And why I don't match always the current tab with the associated address bar, and that's also because of this "beautiful" design ...
Honestly, this design its a crap.
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voom108 last edited by
@flaviu2 It surely is a matter of taste, not "objectifiable"... I have no issues with scrolling, but the browser is on the center screen anyway, so I can't "press the mousepointer to the edge of the screen" anyway. I move it to a sidescreen to test, what you are referring to, but can't really say I find that an issue there as well. I scroll with the wheel of the trackball, I use the keyboard for jumping to top and bottom and grab the scrollbar for faster movements on the screen, though page up and page down are also an option for that. I guess it is all a matter of habits. It can be hard to change those, but often it is worth the effort.
That said, I suppose stuff like this can be solved in the code without dismantling the overall design concept.
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voom108 last edited by
@flaviu2 said in General Opera One Appearance Feedback Topic:
And why I don't match always the current tab with the associated address bar, and that's also because of this "beautiful" design ...
Also, what is the issue with that anyway? The active tab is highlighted nicely, why would it need to be "attached" to the address bar? This "pill" design for tabs can be found in many apps now, and is part of the design changes MS introduced with Windows 11. In apps like "Groupy" or obsidian.md I can choose to have the pills, or the attached tabs. Maybe the themes for Opera One could be more flexible in that matter in the future. Or use Vivaldi, which is insanely customizable - but also buggy in comparison, probably that is a prize to pay for that level of customizability. I am switching from Vivaldi to Opera One now, because I really like the new concept and while I appreciate more customizability in the future, I am quite content with what it has already.
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A Former User last edited by
@voom108 said
and grab the scrollbar for faster movements on the screen
That is what you can’t do by moving the cursor to the right edge of a maximized window. As opposed to all other main browsers.
