Opera One's UI size is horribly enlarged and for no apparent reason, here you can see a screenshot for comparison between the same website displayed in Brave and Opera One:

As you can see, Opera's UI is significantly larger and for no reason. There new so-called "tab islands" are oversized and they aren't better than the old tabs inspired by the old real life paper folder's tabs.

Here the "tab islands" have a shadow underneath that is already taking up valuable pixel space that could be used to display more of the website. For this I suggest to either remove the shadows or shorten them significantly so they don't take up useless space. Alternatively, bring back the old appearance of tabs where they are attached to the main chrome of the browser.

Another issue is the new "frame" around the vertical sides of the browser, encompassing the webpage. This is something the new versions of Edge are doing and it's not good at all. (Just like the tab islands which originated in Firefox are a horrible idea)

This frame that encompasses the webpage is also taking away valuable space from the horizontal parts of the webpage, displaying less of it when there is no reason for this.

What's worse is this frame is pushing the scrollbar further inside so it's no longer possible to move the mouse to the rightmost edge of the screen and grab the scrollbar. Now a person has to stop the mouse a few pixels away from the right edge to do that.

This is unacceptable and horrible! No other browser does that, no other program does that either... Even Opera 99 didn't do this!

These UI changes in Opera One are absolutely horrible and bad. They are making the Opera experience worse in every way. They aren't bringing any new features whatsoever. It's the type of UI change that Firefox likes to do every few years when it feels more and more irrelevant - they refresh the UI to trick people that their dead browser is evolving.

The irony is that beyond the topmost layer of the UI, Opera still uses the same old UI for its settings page. Now the new UI has a purple accent color, but the funny thing is the accent color for the settings is still blue.

This is unprofessional and inconsistent. Please, Opera Team, reconsider reverting some of the changes for the UI, they are horrible and making the browser from a pleasant into a horrible experience.

Before I would suggest the browser to everyone and use it as my only browser, now I'm using Brave and not recommending Opera to anyone after version 100.

Ever since the first beta for Opera 100, I installed it excited to see the changes and here are the problems:

You can see in the image Brave on the left and Opera 100 on the right. What is the difference you might ask?

The difference is the new UI introduced in Opera 100 makes it really oversized and not really beautiful or useful. Now tabs don't look like the folder tabs where the idea for tabs originally came from.

Now they look like some ugly "tab islands". First Firefox came up with this stupid idea, then Edge copied it and now Opera copied it...

Now they take so much more space - you can see where the Brave UI ends and where the webpage begins and compare it to where Opera 100's UI ends and where the webpage begins.

It's mostly because those stupid, useless and ugly "tab islands" obviously need to have shadows, because without those massive shadows, Opera 100 will not be useful enough.

I think this UI redesign is ugly and pointless and it's making the browser worse.

I ask to add at least an option to revert the tabs' appearance to their old version that look like actual folder tabs and take up less space.

Just think about it - everything that makes the Opera 100's UI bigger than that of Brave is because of useless eye candy that doesn't make anything better.

P.S.:

Also, you still can't move the mouse to the rightmost end of the screen and grab the sidebar in Opera 100, nothing happens, on every other program, browser or Opera 99 and older, you could do it.

I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry, this new UI revamp for no reason and for the sake of making useless changes is a disaster. Whoever came up with this idea should be reprimanded and demoted and either the old UI reinstated or some new UI that is functional, compact and not a buggy mess be developed.

Opera is popular because it's fast, but when updates just add more bloat and horrible changes, it makes me want to uninstall it and never look back.

When I first heard about Opera One coming with version 100, I was excited for the changes, but after I tried out the beta, I was left scared and concerned about my future use of Opera and was apprehensive of what's coming next.

I even submitted feedback, about 3-4 months ago about all the things that changed for the worse, I will list them below, and I hoped that in a few months time, these issues will be resolved, but they are not, and it seems like Opera is even worse now.

The issues are mostly stemming from UI changes.

Here is a side-by-side comparison on the same website loaded in Opera One and Brave:

As you can see, the margins on Opera's UI are bigger, which results in less of the webpage content to be visible compared to Brave when both browser UIs are only displaying two rows of roughly the same content - tab bar, back/forward, reload, address bar, etc.

1. This is the number one issue with Opera One - the UI became enlarged for no reason whatsoever. The regular tabs in Opera 99 and prior, which were modeled after folder tabs are now replaced with these "tab islands" or whatever they are called. I think first Edge or Firefox started using them, then the other copied them and finally Opera copied them.

The problem with tab islands is they take up so much useless space that can be used to reduce the overall size of the browser chrome (or UI). They have these artistic shadows underneath the selected tab to imply a sense of depth, but this is largely useless, since if the selected tab was connected to the address bar, like it used to be before, it will still be the tab that stands out the most... like it used to be and the UI will be a few pixels thinner vertically.

Here is another image of Opera's UI, this time, the context menu:

2. As you can see, this is problem two - the rounded corners of the browser context menu do not correspond to the highlighted item (in purple), which on its own does not have rounded corners, so if you zoom in and look closely, the purple highlight goes out of the rounded context menu by a few pixels.

I know this is not a huge issue, but it shows that whoever works on the UI is very unprofessional and sloppy with his/her work. I'm also using Windows 10, which still doesn't have rounded corners like Windows 11, but it only makes the problem more apparent - Opera One's UI doesn't translate well between different OS versions.

3. Problem #3 is that Opera One changed the UI in such a way, that made the browser very difficult to use, in my case - pretty useless. Before Opera One, we were able to drag the mouse cursor to the topmost edge of the screen and select the tabs, the Opera menu and the minimize/maximize/close buttons, this relied on a muscle memory that has been built into people for decades of using a computer - where they can drag the mouse cursor on certain parts of the edge of the screen and click to perform an action without shifting their focus to that part of the screen, but now Opera One has removed this.

Not only this, but they have added a frame around the web page content, which also makes using the scrollbar for scrolling through the page harder as I described above. Before we were able to drag the cursor to the rightmost edge of the screen where the scrollbar is and then grab it, but now it's impossible, because it results in grabbing this newly added border instead and dragging results in resizing the whole window and dragging it around the screen.

Same happens if you try to open the Opera menu or close the browser when minimized - you will drag the cursor to the top left or right corner and click, but nothing will happen.

It's strange, because they have made this works for selecting tabs, but not for the other buttons. For me this is inconsistent UX design and very unprofessional and redundant. It's as if the people who designed this UI don't use Opera or are some 18 year old interns who were born with smartphones in hand and have no experience how to use a desktop so they aren't even realizing they are ruining Opera with Opera One.

4. The next problem is the reduced customization options in Opera. Not being able to edit or create a new search engine is ridiculous, because Chrome, or Chromium to be precise, which Opera uses as a base allows this, Brave allows it, Vivaldi allows it, it's only Opera who is blocking this. I want to use Startpage as my default search engine and on other Chromium browsers I can use it, only on Opera I can't unless I go through some weird hoops, which I won't bother with, I will just use another Chromium browser instead. It's actually very simple.

Opera when it was using Presto was all about customization and serving the user, now the power dynamic has shifted completely where the browser is very limited and it feels like it's the user who is supposed to serve the browser or in other words - adapt to its crap factor instead of adapting it to his/her needs.

I remember, Opera 14 and probably all the way up until Opera 20, it was limited, compared to Presto Opera, but at least the UI was good, there was more freedom to customize it.

It's hard to find old images on the internet from the Opera 14-20 days and I won't bother trying to install one to prove my point, so here are some images of it I found just for people to see and be reminded how beautiful Opera used to look and how clean and compact the UI was:

And this was after they switched to Chromium or Blink. In fact the change was so good back then, that I immediately loved Opera and thought it will become the best browser. In fact, back then and still today, Opera for some reason is really fast at loading itself and loading web page content.

But since then Opera has become more worse and bloated. The UI became worse, there were more limitations imposed, a lot of the customization options were removed. Yet somehow despite becoming a bloated browser, Opera was still lightning fast. Before version 100, or Opera One, I was still considering using it as my main browser despite not being able to set Startpage as my default engine, but when Opera One released and now a few more versions followed and the problems with the horrible UI/UX are still present, I am 100% certain I can't use Opera anymore or recommend it to my friends or install it and set it up on their computers, because it's not good anymore.

I'm not even going to touch upon that AI crap that's also another useless bloat to the browser, just like the useless existence of Opera GX and the Opera Web3 alternatives, it looks like a desperate attempt from Opera to stay relevant, which reminds me of that Steve Buscemi picture where a tone-deaf old fart is trying to pass off as a teen and fails to realize how much of a failed attempt it was:

So these are my grievances with Opera One. I've been using Opera since around 2006-2007, less so before 2013 when it dropped Presto for WebKit/Blink, but I still have used it a lot and comparing what it used to be then to what it is now is night and day difference... for the worse.

That's it, whoever read this far, thanks for taking the time reading my rant, I certainly took my time and enjoyed talking about the things I like and dislike about Opera. I do wish the people calling the shots in Opera read this and hopefully some of them weren't born after the year 2001 so they can understand the problems with the current state of Opera One and consider doing something about it, even reverting to the version 99 UI will probably fix 90% of these problems, but somehow I doubt this will happen. The most likely scenario will be my thread will be locked or deleted, because this will be viewed as something bad and someone's feelings will get hurt from it. In the best case scenario, it will just be ignored and another unheard voice in the vast desert added to the list.

Have a good one!

I tried it and it's not better, it's worse:

This is a picture that shows the same webpage loaded in Opera one and in Brave. The comparison shows that the UI of Opera One takes much more real estate space than Brave, which results in less content of the page being visible in Opera One.

I think that the UI in Opera One is needlessly oversized for no reason and the tabs that look like floating buttons is ugly. Just because Firefox did it and Edge copied them, doesn't mean it's something that's good looking or better or more functional that you should copy as well.

Even if you are dead set to keep it that way, at least make the UI thinner and more compact so it doesn't waste so much space on useless things like showing the shadows of the tabs.

Also I found out due to the new tabs being "floating buttons", you can no longer click the topmost edge of the screen and select the tab, now you have to put in extra effort to click in the middle of the tab button.

This also applies for the scrollbars that now stand a few pixels away from the right edge of the screen so another muscle memory of clicking the rightmost edge of the screen to grab the scrollbar no longer works.

Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed with how these changes affect Opera. It feels like "change for the sake of change" to me rather than something that enriches the Opera experience.

@arturo182 Gotta chase trends, doesn't matter that the browser is getting worse, the points are going to fix everything, they will stop war and hunger too.

When I switch from the Aero theme to the Basic theme in Windows 7 and when I watch a video or just go in full screen in Opera and then I leave full screen there is an empty border between the tabs and the edge of the screen.

Here is a video demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJICq6NYb2c

I have also discovered that even if the theme is returned back to Aero, the bug is retained on the same window, only a new window opened after the Aero theme is enabled isn't affected. This happens while the windows is maximized at all times.

I have discovered this issue back in November 2017 and have reported it numerous times, please fix it already.

Opera is a very fast browser that I really respect for its sheer speed despite all the bloat that comes with, especially the sidebar with all the social media garbage built-in. No matter how much more bloat Opera developers add, the browser still remains lightning fast, probably the fasters desktop browser that I know of.

What I don't like about Opera since it switched from Presto to Blink, is that with each new version, the UI gets uglier, more bloated and less customizable.

Here are a few examples:

The UI of the first versions of Opera, starting with 14 was the most beautiful, most clean UI ever that was just the right size - not too compact, not oversized like Opera One is trying to be. For the record, Opera team, not everyone is using a touchpad, no need to make Opera One's UI big enough for big toes.

I wish for Opera developers to come to their senses and remember how beautiful Opera used to look. Even the current pre-One Opera has a lot of bloat, like buttons on the right side of the address bar that cannot be disabled. Why are you forcing people to see buttons they use that are just taking up valuable space?

Even the Speed Dial button is one button that I don't need, probably clicked once to see what it does and never clicked again, but I can't disable it.

I think the Opera One launch will be a disaster, because you can no longer click the top edge of the screen to select tabs and you can't click the right edge of the screen to grab the scroll bar. These are basic features that need to be accessible. Even the worst browsers that nobody use allow that. Come on, Opera, don't be so short-sighted.

Opera is a great browser, don't ruin it like Firefox or Edge do - making UI changes for the sake of changes, even though said changes bear no benefits whatsoever. Firefox for example has had at least 4 UI changes for no reason since they released version 4.0 in 2011 and those changes did not improve anything, while their more core UI elements like History Sidebar hasn't changed since the 1.0 days in 2002 or something, their History and Downloads are still in windows in 2023, just like they were in 2002. Don't be a walking, talking joke like Firefox, please.

Oh no... why not just focus on debloating the browser from social media stuff like facebook or whatsapp and making them optional, not bundled with the browser? The current stable 98 has a problem with the Opera button that gets misaligned and appears lower than the where it should be and the browser need to be un-maximized and re-maximized for this to be fixed... The browser UI gets worse and more broken, Opera One will be the last nail in the coffin as it's the most tone-deaf UI revamp I've seen and you add Opera points... like the browser was almost perfect and the Opera points were the last bit needed to make it the most perfect creation of humanity... get a grip Opera.

If you ship the new UI like it currently is, you are doing a massive disservice to every Opera user.

The most basic of functionality is missing and it's unnacceptable:

• you can no longer drag the mouse cursor to the very top edge of the screen and select a tab (or middle click a tab to close it)
• you can no longer drag the mouse cursor to the very top left corner and select the Opera menu button
• you can no longer drag the mouse cursor to the very left edge of the screen and select the scrollbar

This is basic muscle memory that every user has because every other browser has this. What you are doing is borderline criminal.

I am a big Opera user and supporter, but if Opera 100 ships like this in Stable, I will uninstall Opera and tell everyone that I previously told them to use Opera to uninstall it too.

When I first heard about Opera One coming with version 100, I was excited for the changes, but after I tried out the beta, I was left scared and concerned about my future use of Opera and was apprehensive of what's coming next.

I even submitted feedback, about 3-4 months ago about all the things that changed for the worse, I will list them below, and I hoped that in a few months time, these issues will be resolved, but they are not, and it seems like Opera is even worse now.

The issues are mostly stemming from UI changes.

Here is a side-by-side comparison on the same website loaded in Opera One and Brave:

As you can see, the margins on Opera's UI are bigger, which results in less of the webpage content to be visible compared to Brave when both browser UIs are only displaying two rows of roughly the same content - tab bar, back/forward, reload, address bar, etc.

1. This is the number one issue with Opera One - the UI became enlarged for no reason whatsoever. The regular tabs in Opera 99 and prior, which were modeled after folder tabs are now replaced with these "tab islands" or whatever they are called. I think first Edge or Firefox started using them, then the other copied them and finally Opera copied them.

The problem with tab islands is they take up so much useless space that can be used to reduce the overall size of the browser chrome (or UI). They have these artistic shadows underneath the selected tab to imply a sense of depth, but this is largely useless, since if the selected tab was connected to the address bar, like it used to be before, it will still be the tab that stands out the most... like it used to be and the UI will be a few pixels thinner vertically.

Here is another image of Opera's UI, this time, the context menu:

2. As you can see, this is problem two - the rounded corners of the browser context menu do not correspond to the highlighted item (in purple), which on its own does not have rounded corners, so if you zoom in and look closely, the purple highlight goes out of the rounded context menu by a few pixels.

I know this is not a huge issue, but it shows that whoever works on the UI is very unprofessional and sloppy with his/her work. I'm also using Windows 10, which still doesn't have rounded corners like Windows 11, but it only makes the problem more apparent - Opera One's UI doesn't translate well between different OS versions.

3. Problem #3 is that Opera One changed the UI in such a way, that made the browser very difficult to use, in my case - pretty useless. Before Opera One, we were able to drag the mouse cursor to the topmost edge of the screen and select the tabs, the Opera menu and the minimize/maximize/close buttons, this relied on a muscle memory that has been built into people for decades of using a computer - where they can drag the mouse cursor on certain parts of the edge of the screen and click to perform an action without shifting their focus to that part of the screen, but now Opera One has removed this.

Not only this, but they have added a frame around the web page content, which also makes using the scrollbar for scrolling through the page harder as I described above. Before we were able to drag the cursor to the rightmost edge of the screen where the scrollbar is and then grab it, but now it's impossible, because it results in grabbing this newly added border instead and dragging results in resizing the whole window and dragging it around the screen.

Same happens if you try to open the Opera menu or close the browser when minimized - you will drag the cursor to the top left or right corner and click, but nothing will happen.

It's strange, because they have made this works for selecting tabs, but not for the other buttons. For me this is inconsistent UX design and very unprofessional and redundant. It's as if the people who designed this UI don't use Opera or are some 18 year old interns who were born with smartphones in hand and have no experience how to use a desktop so they aren't even realizing they are ruining Opera with Opera One.

4. The next problem is the reduced customization options in Opera. Not being able to edit or create a new search engine is ridiculous, because Chrome, or Chromium to be precise, which Opera uses as a base allows this, Brave allows it, Vivaldi allows it, it's only Opera who is blocking this. I want to use Startpage as my default search engine and on other Chromium browsers I can use it, only on Opera I can't unless I go through some weird hoops, which I won't bother with, I will just use another Chromium browser instead. It's actually very simple.

Opera when it was using Presto was all about customization and serving the user, now the power dynamic has shifted completely where the browser is very limited and it feels like it's the user who is supposed to serve the browser or in other words - adapt to its crap factor instead of adapting it to his/her needs.

I remember, Opera 14 and probably all the way up until Opera 20, it was limited, compared to Presto Opera, but at least the UI was good, there was more freedom to customize it.

It's hard to find old images on the internet from the Opera 14-20 days and I won't bother trying to install one to prove my point, so here are some images of it I found just for people to see and be reminded how beautiful Opera used to look and how clean and compact the UI was:

And this was after they switched to Chromium or Blink. In fact the change was so good back then, that I immediately loved Opera and thought it will become the best browser. In fact, back then and still today, Opera for some reason is really fast at loading itself and loading web page content.

But since then Opera has become more worse and bloated. The UI became worse, there were more limitations imposed, a lot of the customization options were removed. Yet somehow despite becoming a bloated browser, Opera was still lightning fast. Before version 100, or Opera One, I was still considering using it as my main browser despite not being able to set Startpage as my default engine, but when Opera One released and now a few more versions followed and the problems with the horrible UI/UX are still present, I am 100% certain I can't use Opera anymore or recommend it to my friends or install it and set it up on their computers, because it's not good anymore.

I'm not even going to touch upon that AI crap that's also another useless bloat to the browser, just like the useless existence of Opera GX and the Opera Web3 alternatives, it looks like a desperate attempt from Opera to stay relevant, which reminds me of that Steve Buscemi picture where a tone-deaf old fart is trying to pass off as a teen and fails to realize how much of a failed attempt it was:

So these are my grievances with Opera One. I've been using Opera since around 2006-2007, less so before 2013 when it dropped Presto for WebKit/Blink, but I still have used it a lot and comparing what it used to be then to what it is now is night and day difference... for the worse.

That's it, whoever read this far, thanks for taking the time reading my rant, I certainly took my time and enjoyed talking about the things I like and dislike about Opera. I do wish the people calling the shots in Opera read this and hopefully some of them weren't born after the year 2001 so they can understand the problems with the current state of Opera One and consider doing something about it, even reverting to the version 99 UI will probably fix 90% of these problems, but somehow I doubt this will happen. The most likely scenario will be my thread will be locked or deleted, because this will be viewed as something bad and someone's feelings will get hurt from it. In the best case scenario, it will just be ignored and another unheard voice in the vast desert added to the list.

Have a good one!

@purplet

I also used to use Opera as my default browser, but I have uninstalled it ever since update 100 released. Now I use Brave and would advise everyone to use Brave. It has a built-in ad-blocker and tracking blocker, that is 92323652365 times better than that of Opera, if you combine it with uBlock Origin, no ad gets through. The UI of Brave is better and more compact than that of Opera, which is 2 times bigger and fatter, it doesn't have the ugly borders on the side that serve absolutely no purpose.

I think at this point Opera just blindly copied the UI of Edge and Firefox in the worst way possible, the result is Opera highlighted the worst design decisions about this UI with floating "tab islands" and some ugly borders around tabs and everything in general just being oversized and taking copious amounts of screen space for absolutely no reason.

Or maybe Opera thinks 99.99% of its userbase is people with visual disabilities that need to have everything oversized so they can see it, but I'm asking myself why are they making it impossible to make things not oversized and broken? Are they afraid that people can fix their broken mess?

Opera One's UI size is horribly enlarged and for no apparent reason, here you can see a screenshot for comparison between the same website displayed in Brave and Opera One:

As you can see, Opera's UI is significantly larger and for no reason. There new so-called "tab islands" are oversized and they aren't better than the old tabs inspired by the old real life paper folder's tabs.

Here the "tab islands" have a shadow underneath that is already taking up valuable pixel space that could be used to display more of the website. For this I suggest to either remove the shadows or shorten them significantly so they don't take up useless space. Alternatively, bring back the old appearance of tabs where they are attached to the main chrome of the browser.

Another issue is the new "frame" around the vertical sides of the browser, encompassing the webpage. This is something the new versions of Edge are doing and it's not good at all. (Just like the tab islands which originated in Firefox are a horrible idea)

This frame that encompasses the webpage is also taking away valuable space from the horizontal parts of the webpage, displaying less of it when there is no reason for this.

What's worse is this frame is pushing the scrollbar further inside so it's no longer possible to move the mouse to the rightmost edge of the screen and grab the scrollbar. Now a person has to stop the mouse a few pixels away from the right edge to do that.

This is unacceptable and horrible! No other browser does that, no other program does that either... Even Opera 99 didn't do this!

These UI changes in Opera One are absolutely horrible and bad. They are making the Opera experience worse in every way. They aren't bringing any new features whatsoever. It's the type of UI change that Firefox likes to do every few years when it feels more and more irrelevant - they refresh the UI to trick people that their dead browser is evolving.

The irony is that beyond the topmost layer of the UI, Opera still uses the same old UI for its settings page. Now the new UI has a purple accent color, but the funny thing is the accent color for the settings is still blue.

This is unprofessional and inconsistent. Please, Opera Team, reconsider reverting some of the changes for the UI, they are horrible and making the browser from a pleasant into a horrible experience.

Before I would suggest the browser to everyone and use it as my only browser, now I'm using Brave and not recommending Opera to anyone after version 100.

Ever since the first beta for Opera 100, I installed it excited to see the changes and here are the problems:

You can see in the image Brave on the left and Opera 100 on the right. What is the difference you might ask?

The difference is the new UI introduced in Opera 100 makes it really oversized and not really beautiful or useful. Now tabs don't look like the folder tabs where the idea for tabs originally came from.

Now they look like some ugly "tab islands". First Firefox came up with this stupid idea, then Edge copied it and now Opera copied it...

Now they take so much more space - you can see where the Brave UI ends and where the webpage begins and compare it to where Opera 100's UI ends and where the webpage begins.

It's mostly because those stupid, useless and ugly "tab islands" obviously need to have shadows, because without those massive shadows, Opera 100 will not be useful enough.

I think this UI redesign is ugly and pointless and it's making the browser worse.

I ask to add at least an option to revert the tabs' appearance to their old version that look like actual folder tabs and take up less space.

Just think about it - everything that makes the Opera 100's UI bigger than that of Brave is because of useless eye candy that doesn't make anything better.

P.S.:

Also, you still can't move the mouse to the rightmost end of the screen and grab the sidebar in Opera 100, nothing happens, on every other program, browser or Opera 99 and older, you could do it.

I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry, this new UI revamp for no reason and for the sake of making useless changes is a disaster. Whoever came up with this idea should be reprimanded and demoted and either the old UI reinstated or some new UI that is functional, compact and not a buggy mess be developed.

Opera is popular because it's fast, but when updates just add more bloat and horrible changes, it makes me want to uninstall it and never look back.

@arturo182 Gotta chase trends, doesn't matter that the browser is getting worse, the points are going to fix everything, they will stop war and hunger too.

Oh no... why not just focus on debloating the browser from social media stuff like facebook or whatsapp and making them optional, not bundled with the browser? The current stable 98 has a problem with the Opera button that gets misaligned and appears lower than the where it should be and the browser need to be un-maximized and re-maximized for this to be fixed... The browser UI gets worse and more broken, Opera One will be the last nail in the coffin as it's the most tone-deaf UI revamp I've seen and you add Opera points... like the browser was almost perfect and the Opera points were the last bit needed to make it the most perfect creation of humanity... get a grip Opera.

Opera is a very fast browser that I really respect for its sheer speed despite all the bloat that comes with, especially the sidebar with all the social media garbage built-in. No matter how much more bloat Opera developers add, the browser still remains lightning fast, probably the fasters desktop browser that I know of.

What I don't like about Opera since it switched from Presto to Blink, is that with each new version, the UI gets uglier, more bloated and less customizable.

Here are a few examples:

The UI of the first versions of Opera, starting with 14 was the most beautiful, most clean UI ever that was just the right size - not too compact, not oversized like Opera One is trying to be. For the record, Opera team, not everyone is using a touchpad, no need to make Opera One's UI big enough for big toes.

I wish for Opera developers to come to their senses and remember how beautiful Opera used to look. Even the current pre-One Opera has a lot of bloat, like buttons on the right side of the address bar that cannot be disabled. Why are you forcing people to see buttons they use that are just taking up valuable space?

Even the Speed Dial button is one button that I don't need, probably clicked once to see what it does and never clicked again, but I can't disable it.

I think the Opera One launch will be a disaster, because you can no longer click the top edge of the screen to select tabs and you can't click the right edge of the screen to grab the scroll bar. These are basic features that need to be accessible. Even the worst browsers that nobody use allow that. Come on, Opera, don't be so short-sighted.

Opera is a great browser, don't ruin it like Firefox or Edge do - making UI changes for the sake of changes, even though said changes bear no benefits whatsoever. Firefox for example has had at least 4 UI changes for no reason since they released version 4.0 in 2011 and those changes did not improve anything, while their more core UI elements like History Sidebar hasn't changed since the 1.0 days in 2002 or something, their History and Downloads are still in windows in 2023, just like they were in 2002. Don't be a walking, talking joke like Firefox, please.

If you ship the new UI like it currently is, you are doing a massive disservice to every Opera user.

The most basic of functionality is missing and it's unnacceptable:

• you can no longer drag the mouse cursor to the very top edge of the screen and select a tab (or middle click a tab to close it)
• you can no longer drag the mouse cursor to the very top left corner and select the Opera menu button
• you can no longer drag the mouse cursor to the very left edge of the screen and select the scrollbar

This is basic muscle memory that every user has because every other browser has this. What you are doing is borderline criminal.

I am a big Opera user and supporter, but if Opera 100 ships like this in Stable, I will uninstall Opera and tell everyone that I previously told them to use Opera to uninstall it too.

I tried it and it's not better, it's worse:

This is a picture that shows the same webpage loaded in Opera one and in Brave. The comparison shows that the UI of Opera One takes much more real estate space than Brave, which results in less content of the page being visible in Opera One.

I think that the UI in Opera One is needlessly oversized for no reason and the tabs that look like floating buttons is ugly. Just because Firefox did it and Edge copied them, doesn't mean it's something that's good looking or better or more functional that you should copy as well.

Even if you are dead set to keep it that way, at least make the UI thinner and more compact so it doesn't waste so much space on useless things like showing the shadows of the tabs.

Also I found out due to the new tabs being "floating buttons", you can no longer click the topmost edge of the screen and select the tab, now you have to put in extra effort to click in the middle of the tab button.

This also applies for the scrollbars that now stand a few pixels away from the right edge of the screen so another muscle memory of clicking the rightmost edge of the screen to grab the scrollbar no longer works.

Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed with how these changes affect Opera. It feels like "change for the sake of change" to me rather than something that enriches the Opera experience.

So far Opera looks like it's at point between the era of Windows 8 and Windows 10 and hasn't evolved further than that.

It still features that flat, blocky, boring design with sharp edges and worst of all is whoever works on it is doing a really bad job. The buttons are completely misaligned:

It applies for most of the other buttons on the browser. Whoever is the UI designer is doing one horrible and unprofessional job.

It's also time to redesign the UI to fit Windows 11's rounded look, which is also present in Linux and Mac OS. And also redesign the button icons so they aren't so unprofessionally and laughably misaligned.

And it should be done before Windows 12 releases, which could be as early as 2024.