Posts made by andrew84

History Redesign: We’ve polished and updated our history feature

It's still bad (the both sidebar panel and full page).

1. As for the sidebar.
   I was complaining earlier that the History/Bookmarks panel shouldn't react on page default zoom in Settings. I use 125% and it means more scrolling. Now the 'redesigned' History panel is even larger. Taking into account the filters on top and items having the large vertical spacing I see twice less items in the redesigned panel. And still 'recently closed' on top.
2. There's no option to open full page. On the old one there was option at the bottom and the icon on top.
   *I think it'll be enough making the 'History' as link to open the full page

3. the search fields are poor.
   It's simply not clickable and focusable to type if clicking not directly on the tip's text area. The same is on the full page.
   

4. search text is still cut (because of being shifted to the left each time) after pressing spacebar (in all the redesigned search fields).

5. If there's no matches, the page still jumps on top and it's not possible to continue typing/delete text because the search field on top is not in focus.

RNA-228 Enable #color-theme-extra-palettes on all streams

What palette? Where it possible to check?
I thought it's something related to the 'edit' theme dialog colors.

@Destroy666 said in Manifest v3 Opera:

official statements about it.

There was one positive (relatively old, about a year). https://blogs.opera.com/news/2024/10/opera-support-manifest-v2-ad-blocking/

*Also, here I have Edge Stable on 139 version already and uBlock still works. So it seems it's really possible to support even after 138 version if opera is really concerned regarding this.

@krishnakrverma Last time I did this I got a weird response and the thread was immediately locked. So I decided not to annoy in the main article
https://blogs.opera.com/news/2024/07/opera-dma-request/#comment-355401

Am I wrong or the things described in the News article https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/08/opera-brazil-cade-complaint/
Is a bit similar to what Opera does regarding the search engines? I mean that on start page search engine locked to google and default one can be selected only from predefined list, predefined can't be removed or rearranged.

@burnout426 I don't have the crash but I'm on Win10 and my History is almost clean, But if they aware, it means they determined the issue.
*My only guess is that smth. related to the new History page. Maybe it's worth trying to disable 'redesigned' flag and check.

@Opera-QA-Team what's the point to report new suggestions if old ones issues are still not fixed or improved for months or even years.

Whatever feature is 'redesigned' recently means the feature is broken/complicated in use

@DerSchlingel said in Opera Listens: Introducing New Community-Inspired Themes to Opera One:

I'm glad they've introduced this rather calm and flat dark theme

I guess the same result can be achieved using the classic theme (edited) in dark mode.

@DerSchlingel said in Opera Listens: Introducing New Community-Inspired Themes to Opera One:

I feel they're slowing down my laptop and all these sounds in the background or when typing are no music to my ears. But maybe I'm just too old for this kind of stuff.

I have the same opinion.

Instead of introducing more and more predefined themes it'd better to improve the editing and customizing options, currently it's very limited.
I don't understand why there's is such big attention is paying. The themes creating tool should be open source so enthusiasts can create a bunch of cool themes. And there can be dedicated section on the opera addons page.

@andrew84 another one thing I noticed is that when selecting the predefined anchors, the list looks partially hidden and thus actually selected category is wrong.

So I click 'Yesterday' but the list's top is hidden and the bold text is for 'Older' category.

After I move cursor and scroll to the top of the 'yesterday' list, the category is automatically changing (bold text) to the correct one ('yesterday').

*So I click on one category but visually it shows that another (wrong one) was selected.

In overall, I really don't get why there should be so huge search field (appearing/disappearing and causing glitches ) and thus wasted space on top.

Simply make it static (dedicated a bit) next to categories bubbles.

*Also, it'd be nice to have more predefined options to select like 'last week' and 'last month' and 'All'. If I don't mistake, it used to be in the past.
**Also, I think that 'remove entire domain' option should have some confirmation popup.

@Opera-QA-Team said in Opera 122.0.5615.0 developer update:

As for the search issues: it sounds like after typing three characters, if there are no matches, the history list updates and the input goes back to its default (larger) version. If that’s what’s happening, it’s expected behavior - but we’ll take another look to make sure everything's working smoothly.

just try search on old version and it'll be clear that the search is broken on the redesigned one.

it sounds like after typing three characters, if there are no matches, the history list updates and the input goes back to its default (larger) version. If that’s what’s happening, it’s expected behavior

After some manipulations I can type more character (what's obvious)

*it's quite funny that recently you started trying to present obvious flaws as intended ones (maybe again thanks to AI).

Redesigned history page (still smoothing out a few bugs)

1. The recently closed section on top should be optional.

2. categories bubbles have not obvious selection indication. The tiny border is not enough.

it'd be better using the filled inverted bubble like on downloads page.

3. the search is glitchy

• the big one search field cuts text after pressing space and then the search field becomes partially responsible
  

• after scrolling down and using the small one it allow here to enter three symbols and then jumps to the big one above and prevents typing
  

• In other words, after typing the field's width becomes too small.

@daria19 I didn't claim it's generated by AI, I meant with the help of Ai.

The mess with tabs on the tab strip continues. The older Opera's functionality is still not fully restored and still works a way smoother in 'old' Opera.

Now I noticed additional bug (if I don't mistake the similar bug already used to be recently). After tab detaching, a newly created tab overlaps other tabs (keeping the empty space) while sliding it, after mouse button release.

Edit: there's no need to create new tab, the bug happens simply when sliding and dropping tabs,
The same was in 2023 https://forums.opera.com/post/333280

@daria19 said in Opera 122 developer:

on darker backgrounds it can be harder to see. At the moment, we use a black icon to ensure visibility on lighter backgrounds, where a white one would effectively disappear

Sorry, but I absolutely didn't understand ( I suspect the reason is AI) your point(taking into account that other buttons are white as well).

This is what the dimming area meant for, isn't it? To unify the controls view on all backgrounds.

white icons on the light (but dimmed) background

In normal Opera

Are you ever going to improve the PiP? And why you removed the 'redesigned PiP' flag?

The controls are still poor (especially the volume control and the horrible full dimming video on hover).

Additionally the closing cross is black.

Another one issue I noticed is that the reduced PiP produce oversharpened video look.

Compare normal Opera vs One.

*I can predict a question regarding the Lucid mode. But as I mentioned above video becomes overasharpened while reducing it (the smaller is size the bigger is sharpness), lucid is off. I use h264 extension for yotube if that matters.

**It seems more related to Chromium because in Edge there's the same effect.

@newton2346 said in Opera 121.0.5600.0 developer update:

to "opera.exe". Then it ran normally.

yes, but it opens previous version 121.0.5593.0.

@sham69-0 said in The latest dev release won't work/won't install!:

latest opera dev releases won't work for me

It's broken.
Also discussed in their blog https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2025/07/opera-121-0-5600-0-developer-update/

@burnout426 said in Opera 121.0.5600.0 developer update:

"Failed to prepare update"

The same here.

Also, according to the changelog it seems they decided to skip 136 version and update directly 135 > 137

I have no wish experimenting with all these installers, I just leave all the things broken.