Re: Turning off tab preview?

I liked the old tab description when switching tab using ctrl+tab in MRI order, but now that it displays a preview, it's fairly useless beyond switching between two tabs.

Is there any way to turn off this preview and get the list back?

I was rather rudely interrupted by a start-up noise in Opera GX following last weeks update. I have all browsers sounds off, and do not want a start-up noise on anything.

Please tell me this bug will be fixed before I next restart - I work in an office and need the audio for other purposes, muting the whole laptop is one heck of a difficult to remember work-around.

I've been an Opera user since version 6 or 7. When it switched to using webkit/blink, I stuck with the old version for a while, then shifted to Firefox. Chrome has always had it's woes. Once Opera was mostly back, I switched back, then bam "Opera GX" was released and I immediately loved it. Unfortunately, I can't stand Windows, and found myself leaving Windows for Kubuntu (I couldn't bare changing to Windows 11, and have been using Kubuntu for years on other machines anyway), but I knew this would bring with it the lose of Opera GX for me.

If only you could bring the most customisable browser to the most customisable platform - Linux!

@burnout426 said in [Request]Opera GX on Linux:

@miliardo Make sure to upvote the first post above. There are only 46 votes so far.

Folks need 5 reputation to do that... which means fresh accounts can't go on and upvote. My ancient account apparently doesn't have 5 rep, so I can't upvote this.

The views and the comments are the only reliable metric considering these restrictions.

@Ryan-Goyal If you read back through the thread, quite a few have suggested Wine, however you'll also see many reasons why Wine is actually not only not good enough, but actually entirely inappropriate for such a browser.

A quick recap on the points so far:

• Opera GX is built to be super efficient, but running it in Wine loses all those efficiencies
• Opera GX is built to accommodate restrictions on its use of hardware, but this doesn't work on Wine
• Vivaldi is a different browser, and is an alternative, not a solution. https://vivaldi.com/
• Firefox GX is also a different browser, an alternative, not a solution. https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx
• Opera GX is built to be super customisable and efficient, like Linux, so the number of potential Opera GX users on Linux far outstrips the number of potential Opera GX users on Windows
• Linux users are more likely to be adventurous with their browser choices than Windows or Mac users
• More and more gamers are switching to Linux, including the growing popularity of things like the Steam Deck which runs on Linux
• It's next to impossible to see the popularity of this request due to the requirement for unobtainable reputation to be able to up-vote the request. Instead, the number of views and replies should be the giveaway: 5 years, 200+ replies from 136 participants, and nearing 300k views - it's probably one of the longest running threads that is still active (I can't confirm this, I would need to scan a lot of forum to find that out).

@mantion said in [Request]Opera GX on Linux:

There should be an option in the browser to turn off the "updated"/"what's new" and so on. It interrupts the user experience and no one I know actually reads it: it's too basic for developers and too specific and involved for non-developers.

Effectively, it has no target audience. The developer tools have the option to turn off "what's new" in them, so why can't we have it for the browser itself?!

@Ryan-Goyal If you read back through the thread, quite a few have suggested Wine, however you'll also see many reasons why Wine is actually not only not good enough, but actually entirely inappropriate for such a browser.

A quick recap on the points so far:

• Opera GX is built to be super efficient, but running it in Wine loses all those efficiencies
• Opera GX is built to accommodate restrictions on its use of hardware, but this doesn't work on Wine
• Vivaldi is a different browser, and is an alternative, not a solution. https://vivaldi.com/
• Firefox GX is also a different browser, an alternative, not a solution. https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx
• Opera GX is built to be super customisable and efficient, like Linux, so the number of potential Opera GX users on Linux far outstrips the number of potential Opera GX users on Windows
• Linux users are more likely to be adventurous with their browser choices than Windows or Mac users
• More and more gamers are switching to Linux, including the growing popularity of things like the Steam Deck which runs on Linux
• It's next to impossible to see the popularity of this request due to the requirement for unobtainable reputation to be able to up-vote the request. Instead, the number of views and replies should be the giveaway: 5 years, 200+ replies from 136 participants, and nearing 300k views - it's probably one of the longest running threads that is still active (I can't confirm this, I would need to scan a lot of forum to find that out).

@mantion said in [Request]Opera GX on Linux:

I would recommend looking at Linux variants and installing an up-to-date browser on an up-to-date OS.

I use Kubuntu. It's based on Ubuntu, but with KDE/Plasma UI, which is more familiar than GNome/Unity for the Windows users, though you may still need to play with some settings. I'm sure some of the other distros are closer to Windows than Kubuntu, so by all means look around.

Opera is available for all major Linux distros.

I would second this by upvoting, but apparently rep is required and hard to achieve.

Perhaps also worth considering other email providers, and chat providers. Google users might want Google Chat in a sidebar separately to GMail. Office365 users might want Outlook.com and/or Teams in their sidebar.

As a long term Opera user, since version 6 or 7, I have always appreciated the level to which we can customise Opera. Things like being able to change the default search engine, search engine shortcuts, removal of search engines that we have no wish to use, and even make sure additional flags are passed when we need them, like "-ai" in Google to remove the AI summary at the top.

However, on my Linux install, I can't seem to create a Google search shortcut for "g" that will search the ".co.uk" site, nor change the existing one to do so. Having looked, it seems my older systems have also had their changes to these removed.

Now, I understand that you are clearly sponsored to provide these, but they are hogging a number of key single letter shortcuts. I suggest one of the following:

• let us change the shortcut for a search engine so we can create a custom one using the shortcut
• let us disable a search engine so we can create a custom one using the shortcut
• provide us with the ability to edit the entire search engine, either with overriding settings, or with drop down fields for "site of choice" and a inject for the query

I've been an Opera user since version 6 or 7. When it switched to using webkit/blink, I stuck with the old version for a while, then shifted to Firefox. Chrome has always had it's woes. Once Opera was mostly back, I switched back, then bam "Opera GX" was released and I immediately loved it. Unfortunately, I can't stand Windows, and found myself leaving Windows for Kubuntu (I couldn't bare changing to Windows 11, and have been using Kubuntu for years on other machines anyway), but I knew this would bring with it the lose of Opera GX for me.

If only you could bring the most customisable browser to the most customisable platform - Linux!

@burnout426 said in [Request]Opera GX on Linux:

@miliardo Make sure to upvote the first post above. There are only 46 votes so far.

Folks need 5 reputation to do that... which means fresh accounts can't go on and upvote. My ancient account apparently doesn't have 5 rep, so I can't upvote this.

The views and the comments are the only reliable metric considering these restrictions.

Everytime Asana or Google Calendar try to send me a notification, I get asked by the browser whether I want to allow the website to send notifications. I always click "block" but it seems there's no way to persist this option, and next time I open the website and it asks to send notifications, I'm asked again.

I've even gone to opera://settings/content/notifications and set the most restrictive of settings for the whole browser, but it seems both the "Use quieter messaging" and "Don't allow sites to send notifications" options are being ignored. Furthermore, I've added custom settings for one of the sites to try blocking it that way, and that also seems to be ignored.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a new tab and go to Google Calendar, Asana, or some other notification site
2. When asked if you want to allow notifications from the site, click "block"
3. Close the tab
4. Open a new tab again and go to the same site again
5. The request to send notifications will come up again when the website next wants to send a notification

I was rather rudely interrupted by a start-up noise in Opera GX following last weeks update. I have all browsers sounds off, and do not want a start-up noise on anything.

Please tell me this bug will be fixed before I next restart - I work in an office and need the audio for other purposes, muting the whole laptop is one heck of a difficult to remember work-around.

Re: Turning off tab preview?

I liked the old tab description when switching tab using ctrl+tab in MRI order, but now that it displays a preview, it's fairly useless beyond switching between two tabs.

Is there any way to turn off this preview and get the list back?