@burnout426 This behaviour was still found in Opera stable Linux Version:67.0.3575.137. Disabling the flag did the trick. Thanks.

@morckx I noticed it also happens with maximized windows.

@gmiazga Same issue here using IceWM on Debian 10. Opera Version:80.0.4170.72 Linux is stealing focus from non maximized windows just above it (happened with emacs, xterm and urxvt). I don’t need to use the mouse for this to happen, not even to type in the terminal or editor window.

Hello, Issue is still present in stable release 83.0.4254.27, but there is a simple fix.

alex@Freesia:~$ uname -a
Linux Freesia 4.19.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2 (2020-04-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux
alex@Freesia:~$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 10 \n \l
alex@Freesia:~$ opera --version
83.0.4254.27
alex@Freesia:~$ icewm --version
IceWM 1.4.3.0~pre-20181030, Copyright 1997-2003 Marko Macek, 2001 Mathias Hasselmann.

I use click to raise. Opera stable still steals focus, unless you put it in its own workspace. Hope this helps.

@aglupus Alternatively, you could install an older package.

@morckx I noticed it also happens with maximized windows.

@gmiazga Same issue here using IceWM on Debian 10. Opera Version:80.0.4170.72 Linux is stealing focus from non maximized windows just above it (happened with emacs, xterm and urxvt). I don’t need to use the mouse for this to happen, not even to type in the terminal or editor window.

@tjanos2000
Same issue here using IceWM. Opera Version:80.0.4170.72 Linux is stubbornly stealing focus from non maximized windows just above it (happened with emacs, xterm and urxvt).

I regularly end up with hundreds of open tabs and have to save them as a Speed Dial folder to alleviate the load on the machine. I then virtually never access those Speed Dial folders again. Scanning all the tabs to see which ones I want to close is a lengthy operation which I seldom feel like doing. In the meantime, I constantly use CTRL + SPACE (Instant Search), where I typically see a few tabs listed which I don’t need any more. Clicking on a check box next to each such tab to close it right away would be a simple method to keep the number of open tabs manageable, without having to spend time visiting them and possibly lose your train of thought.

Hi all,
I happen to save specific web pages outside of my default download directory and I am used to type the first letter of a directory to easily select it. This works in many Linux applications and worked as well in Opera until recently. It does not work anymore and does strange things. So how can I select a non default save directory without having to scroll among tens of files?

@burnout426 This behaviour was still found in Opera stable Linux Version:67.0.3575.137. Disabling the flag did the trick. Thanks.

Hi all,

I am a great fan of the "Search for open tabs" feature and its convenient "CTRL + SPACE" shortcut. This option would IMHO be even greater if it displayed on each line a "Close" button (beside the icon on the right to switch to this tab), or alternatively a selection box with a "Close" button at the bottom of the dialog, which would close all the selected tabs (those boxes would be selected by default). I think this would be much more useful than for instance the "Close tabs to the right" option found on clicking on a tab’s header.

@lkjkfjlifjsdf
Creating Speed Dial Folders
Open all the tabs you want to save, right-click one of the tabs and choose "Save tabs as Speed Dial folder" to save the entire session. Opera doesn't assign a name to the new folder automatically, so you need to do it manually. Click "Opera," click "Speed Dial" to open the Speed Dial page, right-click the folder and click "Edit title." Type a name and click "OK." To open all the Web pages in the folder at once, right-click the folder and choose "Open all" from the context menu. To add new pages to the folder, click the folder, then the "+" button, type each address and click "Add it." To display the Speed Dial page when you launch the Web browser, click "Opera," "Settings" and then the "Open the start page" radio button in the On Startup section.

Source: https://itstillworks.com/program-speed-dial-6284962.html