@hien-reese +1 for Chrome-style tab grouping.

The code is presumably public and all that needs to happen is to adapt it to Opera's style.

Even with workspaces, it's still handy to have (sub)grouping. I literally have a dozen or more contexts of tabs. I don't want a dozen workspaces. I want to subdivide workspaces into groups of tabs occasionally.

https://blog.google/products/chrome/manage-tabs-with-google-chrome/

@leocg said:

@davidgould said in Opera 84.0.4316.0 developer update:

Lastly, can we have a setting to stop giving small extensions their own thread?

That's how Chromium works, so Google would need to change it.

Ahh yes, was too busy remembering problems and forgot.

There are apparently some options in Chromium. None do what I want but might play with it anyway.

https://superuser.com/questions/654565/how-to-run-google-chrome-in-a-single-process

@hien-reese +1 for Chrome-style tab grouping.

The code is presumably public and all that needs to happen is to adapt it to Opera's style.

Even with workspaces, it's still handy to have (sub)grouping. I literally have a dozen or more contexts of tabs. I don't want a dozen workspaces. I want to subdivide workspaces into groups of tabs occasionally.

https://blog.google/products/chrome/manage-tabs-with-google-chrome/

As of a couple of months ago, this extension causes Opera to crash and lose all tabs roughly 20% of the time you close a tab from it.

I'm trying the Chrome versoin.

Bookmarks heart indicator stopped working. Underlying function unaffected.

Sorry for the necro but I just spent half an hour trying to get this to work and almost gave up.

Yes, Opera overwrites the extensions, but you can put the backup in a temporary directory.

When loading the unpacked extension, you need to go into the subdirectory with a version number.

As of 4351, I still have the major screen "painter" issue as mentioned here:
https://forums.opera.com/post/273445

Will try 4359 now but it's not an issue that's easy to reproduce.

[The WhatsApp issue is probably a beta bug as it's occured in spite of removing WhatsApp from the sidebar]

@leocg said:

@davidgould said in Opera 84.0.4316.0 developer update:

Lastly, can we have a setting to stop giving small extensions their own thread?

That's how Chromium works, so Google would need to change it.

Ahh yes, was too busy remembering problems and forgot.

There are apparently some options in Chromium. None do what I want but might play with it anyway.

https://superuser.com/questions/654565/how-to-run-google-chrome-in-a-single-process

@leocg said:

@davidgould said in Opera 84.0.4316.0 developer update:

Also, the default of picture-on-picture really screws up playing music on YouTube. Can we revert it?

What would be the problem? It seems to work fine here.

@leocg: Yeah it works great, I just don't want it if I'm merely listening to music.

I've a couple of problems to report:

The first, I'm not sure if it's an Opera bug or extension bug. Here, a "painter" thread crashes on low memory. It only seems to happen with certain sites and doesn't affect most tabs. Opening the site in a new window always works.

WhatsApp in the sidebar seems to screw up WhatsApp Beta. It sometimes just stops being able to log-in, forcing one to set up a new connection. I assume this is down to the sidebar sending some half-baked transactions.
The thread priority of the sidebar is probably too low for me but this is a slow laptop (early AMD Fusion).

Also, the default of picture-on-picture really screws up playing music on YouTube. Can we revert it?

Lastly, can we have a setting to stop giving small extensions their own thread? It's easy for them to take up 1GB whether they're being used or not.

Opera no longer handles .URL files. The following is an EPIC .URL to bypass their awful launcher.

[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,0
[InternetShortcut]
IDList=
IconIndex=0
WorkingDirectory=C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games
URL=com.epicgames.launcher://apps/4756b80eb0f74d45b77922e54052cfed%3A4d3e7e2358e448c381626d326cb9587f%3AFalcon?action=launch&silent=true
IconFile=C:\Program Files\Epic Games\MutantYearZeroRTE\ZoneUE4.exe

@ralf-brinkmann I don't think it's memory leaks. I suspect the new version of Chromium, and that Facebook simultaneously became even more bloated.

I reverted to the prior version and the problem is still evident albeit much reduced.