Can't use Opera One due to not being able to have too many tabs opened
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MiltonH last edited by
I switched to Opera some years ago because it was fast, seemed to have a low memory footprint, and it was possible to have lots of tabs open (a vice of mine, I admit, but also very useful!). The tab scrolling function that was added (or maybe I added from the settings?) not too long ago has now disappeared. So when I have, say, 60 tabs open, they're all squashed together so tightly that it's impossible to select one of them. And the disappearance of tab scrolling means I can't even see what they are anyway. Before "One", I not infrequently had around 1,000 tabs open with no similar problems. Madness, you say... ? Yes, I agree. But the reason it tends to happen for me is because of the nature of my work. At least in the old days I could register the fact that I had an absurd number of tabs open, then go through them and close a whole bunch. That, too, is now basically impossible. (Incidentally, if Opera would fix these issues, and also add a "page" where you can see all of your tabs in an array, like in Pale Moon, it would be the perfect browser fromm my point of view.)
But also - and worse - is the fact that the browser now freezes (for example, whenn I'm trying to scroll up or down on a page) and crashes quite often, with far, far fewer tabs open than the previous version managed without grumbling at all.
Clearly, "One" has stuff going on under the hood that I, and most users, will be completely unaware of that's eating up memory capacity and bringing the whole thing, in my case, shuddering to a halt. Maybe that's all essential security stuff, or something else that's very important - but I have my doubts.
Anyway, I'm moving back to Firefox or Pale Moon until they restore what, for me, was Operas vital USP.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@miltonh said
I not infrequently had around 1,000 tabs open with no similar problems. Madness, you say... ?
Yes, I agree. But the reason it tends to happen for me is because of the nature of my work.What is the nature of your work?
I keep asking people who have +1000 tabs open in a browser this, because I'm genuinely curious about what use cases do this many tabs.
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fantomlightning last edited by
@miltonh Agreed here, it doesn't even take 1K tabs, I have probably around 100-150. I don't know who is managing Opera and running software dev but they all need to be fired. Chrome and Chromium are a plague on the browser world that has made everything worse and killed off any type of unique browser. I moved to Opera years ago before the Chromium shift because of the tab management system with tab stacking for organization. That was dropped with the Chromium shift, still stuck with them because performance was good. I had to downgrade from Opera Beta which I had been running forever when it became unusable due to the lack of scrolling tabs, only for the issue to reappear on this version of Opera, did no one at Opera test this or look at feedback before it was rolled out??? What was the need for disabling scrollable tabs in the first place? The tab "Islands" do not negate the need for users with multiple tabs open to have scrollable tabs. Also the tab "Islands" are a terrible attempt at reimplementing the original tab stacking. I shouldn't have to go into "experimental settings" to enable something that was readily available on a previous version and is a common sense usability feature. I really don't want to leave Opera and try to find something else, but this is insane. Something seems to get worse/end up broken with every update. You could literally take the last stable version of pre-Chromium Opera patch and update to make it secure and it would be superior in every way to the current version. Nothing but wasted dev time into a product that gets worse and worse.
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