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As a workaround disable these 2 flags and the old popup will be back.

@leocg Look what I've found https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2017/08/exportable-bookmarks-smoother-videos-design-improvements-opera-47/

Yes, I agree with Opera, this a handy shortcut to my history log.

@Dheinamar said in Where is the "Recently closed tabs/Tab menu" button on the top right?:

new location of the list in Menu->History

This is not a new location, 'recently closed' short list has always been there. When they recommend to use OMenu > History instead they are just trying to justify their weird decision regarding the removed TabMenu. OMenu is not the same as TabMenu, otherwise the TabMenu wouldn't have been necessary and implemented at all in the past.

@leocg said in Where is the "Recently closed tabs/Tab menu" button on the top right?:

try improving tabs management

Obvious conclusion.
And not just a try, it really improved the tabs management, and 'Search in tabs' worsened it.

@nsx

Instead of simply improving/restyling the existing TabMenu and adding a search field there they replaced it with a part taken from the removed 'InstantSearch' feature (InstantSearch had the 'search for tabs' feature, by the way, but it was said that the InstantSearch was unpopular feature that's why it was removed. So it's worth asking why we have a part from unpopular feature in the top right corner now).
Now they are trying to recreate the already existing and well working tabs management popup (I mean Tab Menu), but it seems that the final result (regarding the functionality) will be worse anyway than the existing one. That what I can call as 'wasted developers resources'.

@treego you can disable #search-in-open-tabs flag to return the tab menu.

@andrew84 Something like this (maybe wider) popup and all would be happy, but they trying to invent a wheel instead.

Make the 'top sites' pane optional (expand arrow or switchable off in Setting) and add 'quick action' buttons (Copy/Paste/Print/Find/Full screen/Save as PDF and similar)

*As for the shortcuts, it's better to make it customizable and offer users select what shortcuts each users want. 5-6 shortcuts for example, from the range of browser options (20 -30 most important options/elements/pages).

And my suggestion also is to focus more on options that directly refer to currently opened page and on address field/text, not on some global browsers features (that's why I'd like to see quick buttons).

I'm also on Win 8.1 and I have various results in different browsers (Chrome, FireFox, Vivaldi, Edge Canary on chromium).
With hardware acceleration ON it does work nowhere (small difference is in FireFox where the black screen is appearing when I click 'play' button, in other browsers no response)
With hardware acceleration OFF it plays correctly only in Chrome. It also plays in Edge, but with freezes (not smooth). In FireFox and Vivaldi is the same result as with acceleration off.

Look at Yandex browser's pop-out
Comparing to the current Opera's one it has:

1. video title
2. timing popup
3. full screen option
4. click on a video to play/pause
5. it even has some settings
6. also all the control buttons have the hand cursor.

Why one of the main and well known features is still worse than in competitor's browser?
The old pop-out had almost all the features listed above, why Opera stopped improving the Chromium's one?

@leocg said in Opera 69.0.3638.0 developer update:

can't please everyone all the time.

It's more than possible in this particular case.
Just add switches on the new popup as I suggested above https://forums.opera.com/post/203796

Or restyle the TabMenu to look more modern but with the kept functionality and layout.
Both developers (because there will be another one new feature implemented that can be hyped) and users (because it will be the same feature, loved by most users, but even more improved) will be happy in this case. And the complaints will stop instantly.

@burnout426
@rusmax73-10 I saw a workaround in Opera blog (http://disq.us/p/21vfkgf)
launch the Opera with the switch as follows:
\path\to\launcher.exe --save-page-as-mhtml

It works here on Win8x64

@leocg Why there was no such question 5 or 10 years ago (when the feature was implemented)? I think people who created this feature should know the answer.
After being by one of the main distinctive features (comparing to other browsers) during these years , it's now 'logical' to ask 'why'... Because there were recently closed tabs 10 years ago and there are recently closed now.

@topex-psy https://forums.opera.com/post/200247

@karen-arzumanyan: disable #search-in-open-tabs flag.

@leocg: If previously it was requested from the users side to add more than 10 closed tabs in the TabMenu (and it was increased up to 32 which means that there were many such requests), then 'nobody' obviously is not the case here (you can also make it sure by reading negative comments on forum regarding the removed TabMenu).
Now there are only 3 tabs visible (which is 3x less than in Omenu > History) and the flag is removed too. No dark theme yet, the feature is not completely finished, but it's in Stable already and they removed the flag.

@leocg closed tabs must be visible then I'll remember what I need to reopen, not vice versa when I must first remember what tabs were closed and then search.

@krteq
@ghirahim
#search-in-closed-tabs-show-more flag.

I just wonder how slowly they restore the TabMenu's functionality. It seems we must wait 2 releases more for the dark theme, 2 more releases for the ability to close the open tabs within the Search in tabs popup.
*By the way, most probably forgot that TabMenu had the 'Tab preview' feature. The old TabMenu is 2x time more functional and handy than the modern one.

Ok, the bug when updating is still there. Red dot on OMenu but no progress line and no relaunch button on About page (only the continuous 'Checking for updates...'). It's seems that reporting bugs in the blog is pointless, most probably the bug is already in Beta.