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

You have plans to improve how the modules visually are separated, especially web page content?

The border around web page content bothers me. I'd prefer no bold black (white in light theme) borders between web page and display's edges (including bottom). And no border between edge of the screen and sidebar or scrollbar.

Remove the same purple selection for menus and dropdowns for both dark and light themes. Make it look normal and pleasant to eyes like in other browsers or software. It means different gray accents for dark and light themes instead of the bright purple.

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

@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.

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'.

@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.

@mcedro said in [Duplicated]Non-clickable gap above tabs:

I thought it was a nice refresh of the interface, so now I'm skeptical about it.

I was skeptical already when I first launched the 'One' version. The refreshed interface looks cool only on their promotional videos and screenshots, but the user experience suffered a lot actually.

@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.

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).

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

Maybe there should be a slider to adjust the level of sharpness.

On the other hand, why only sharpness?
There are also saturation, brightness, contrast adjustments I used to see in built-in options in players on web pages.
Сontroversial feature.

I just don't stop to wonder to all these unnecessary border jumble.
For example when the sidebar is in auto mode.
Sidebar's top/bottom parts look egg shaped, one border looks over another because of the bad shadowing, some curve and 'dirty' rounded corner, still holes when the sidebar panel is opened.
Who designed this, why and what for it was designed in this way??

@sektorl try disabling the #scrollable-tab-strip flag and check.

Despite of being enabled by default, the scrollable tab strip flag causes both visual and usage issues(even if the toggle in Settings is disabled).

@nsx

@jcmlny Yes, I didn't get the visual idea of the 'bubble' design.
When sidebar enabled there will be double border (between screen and sidebar + between sidebar and web page)

I described here that maybe it'd better to have blurred modules on full screen wallpaper. https://forums.opera.com/post/307511
But personally I prefer the previous flat solid design. It just needed to polish and add some visual effects

*And the border is seen even on full screen video >https://forums.opera.com/post/307564

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

@orewayaya I don't use GX but in stock Opera version the feature is already implemented but still hidden in flags. I believe it's more than a year already since the flag first appeared and it's still disabled for some reason(under development).

Regarding the second suggestion there was multiple reports already. Other browsers (Edge, Chrome ) allow to select and move multiple tabs. Looks like this an default Chromium's behavior, not clear why Opera can't

The new UI/UX design in current view is just a failure.

@weilan Totally agree.
Regarding the purple accents, I'd say that the old blue one looks a way better. The purple menu's and dropdown's selected items both in light and dark theme looks just ugly.

Btw, there are separate topics already almost for each described issues.
For example
https://forums.opera.com/post/313493
https://forums.opera.com/post/307792
https://forums.opera.com/post/310198