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As of late I'm getting the impression that Opera is adding more and more flashy and funky features to the browser like Sonic theme in One or cats into Air.
This may appeal to some audience of course. But for me, a browser is mainly a gate to the internet and I do some heavy work with it.
So, I'd wished there were mere features to streamline productivity like the sidebar, easy files or split screen. I guess, they're maybe not that sexy to promote but actually more useful.
@SkibidiRizzlerFromOhio You're welcome. I remember from my iPhone times how desperate I felt with this issue.
I'm sorry, but still this inconsistency in customized themes as in the former version:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/86771/opera-123/4
Not solved yet, unfortunately.
Referred to by you as (RNA-1072)
https://forums.opera.com/topic/86771/opera-123/10
@SkibidiRizzlerFromOhio You can look here for a workaround: https://forums.opera.com/topic/85312/flow-doesn-t-connect/9
@flaviu2 Thank you very much for your extensive answer. I'm not in a position already to give a thumps up, unfortunately.
I can agree to almost every point you're saying. That's what keeping me with Opera for almost 3 and a half years now. Especially when considering that every other major browser has flaws of its own.
With the Chinese ownership you nail it, actually. But as I also see China with lots of distrust, I don't think there's so much to worry about with Opera. But anyway, who asks himself who owns Alphabet or Microsoft? And at least you can check who owns Opera as they are traded publicly.
In self declared privacy circles there's a lot of fuss about Brave. But in this case you don't know who owns it and where their earnings really come from.
So, thank you very much for your detailed answer again.
@flaviu2 Thank you very much. Do you think there is some special reason for you or even one or two more, that doesn't let you give up on Opera?
I'm using Opera for almost three and a half years, but I'm always tempted to change to another browser. Only to see that each of them has some flaw.
But if you compare Opera to its competitors, you'll likely see that,
Brave and Firefox have more privacy
Edge has almost every feature that Opera has and some others more
Vivaldi is way more customizable
Edge's Copilot seems to be better integrated than Aria and often delivers better results
Brave's and Chrome's interface is cleaner
Opera's background isn't without some issues, doesn't make it the more David against Goliath type of company it once was
If it were not for Chrome's extensive data collection, Edge's nagging into the MS eco-system, Vivaldi's sluggishness, Brave's shady bitcoin and right-wing libertarian background and Firefox's dwindling market share and compatibility issues, I'd easily choose one of those.
If you were to convince me to stay with Opera for reasons that makes it stand out, what would you point to?
@DerSchlingel What probably hast happened here:
My actual setting is shown as being: "allow all third party cookies"
Factually the setting seems to be" "don't allow third party cookies" as retrieved from my synched preferences.
There's no option to change the setting
@Opera-QA-Team
I reinstalled this version afresh and was totally surprised not to find an option to choose between different Third Party Cookies settings.
As of late I could choose between those three:
allow third party cookies
don't allow third party cookies in private tab (which was the default setting, if I remember correctly)
Actually, I'm not really sure if this is the actual setting or if it's only an issue with the settings page. As funny as it is, it says: "Add websites that are allowed to use third party cookies".
Now I'm not even having a choice with "Allow third party cookies" set as only alternative. Maybe there's a chance to add custom sites, but the whole thing seems to be broken in a way.
Pink arrow where I'd expect to select my preferred settings, but there's none.
Green circle indicating where I could add sites that are allowed to use third party cookies, although my setting is said to be "Allow third party cookies"
I don't think that matches, it rather looks like something's messed up here.
@leocg Thank you, Leo, for pointing me to these two blog entries. I was rather thinking about how Opera itself handles my data than how they protect me from outside harm. You know, if they get access to all of my open websites, that's far reaching.
I wonder which implication this has for privacy and data security. If Opera's AI is given access to the content of my opened websites how can I be sure this is not going to leave my computer and that it will generally adhere to GDPR? Otherwise as interesting this sounds, I should have to leave Opera aside or just not use AI in it any longer. Would be great to learn more about that.
@Opera-QA-Team said in Opera 123:
@derschlingel: Hi, thank you for your opinion. Speed Dials suggestions show you websites that can be interesting for you. But, of course, if you don't like the functionality, it can be turned off in Settings (toggle 'Show Speed Dial suggestions').
Thank you very much for replying. Maybe I was unclear in my post. I was talking about site suggestions in the enhanced address bar. There in my humble opinion "Speed Dials" shouldn't be suggested as site.
I think you were talking about site suggestions on the Speed Dials itself which of course can be toggled off. But that's another case.
I'd like to bring to your attention another issue which almost certainly could also be considered a bug:
It's from the favorite websites suggestions:
I don't think it's intended that sites like "Speed Dials" and "Bookmarks" should appear here, in the case of "Speed Dials" even twice, once in English and once in German.
They didn't appear in earlier versions of Opera at all, or if so, only shortly after first installation until by surfing the web other websites appeared.
I wouldn't like "Speed Dials" to be suggested at all. So, in my eyes that also seems to be a bug.
Still the bug in the theme consistency:
As created and intended in the design maker (I chose red as for clarity):
And as it comes out: The tab doesn't appear in the lighter form of red, but in grey instead:
And you'll also see this inconsistency on the settings page even more so, where you should have a shade of red in the tabs and probably the same one as the background instead of the black.
I could replicate this with light theme as well, giving the tabs a slighly blueish theme. And it appeared independently on Windows and Mac.