The "minimalist" design is not quite minimalist, as it leaves too much space between address bar and view, and between tabs and address, and so on. Who benefits from this ? No one else than who designed. It is not practical, it's not nice either. Why the view has not the entire space between left display and the right display ? Why address bar is so thick ?

It is very hard to gain a user for your browser, but it's very easy to lose it.

Let me exemplify you when your design can annoying and force users to leave this brower.

Suppose you scroll a long page. And accidentally put the mouse in most left side (or right). Suddenly, the scroll, doesn't work. Why ? Because you didn't stretch the view from left to right side of the display. Why ????

@hanteras
Very true. Users needs a browser easy to use, fast, less consuming resource and reliable browser. With their last update, they fail every point, except maybe the speed. With their new design, they force to migrate a lot of users from Opera to another browsers. Why to have a brick like design and to be puzzled which tab and which address is paired ? Why to have rounded view(s) ? It's not handy at all and ugly as well !

Pity.

@voom108 said in General Opera One Appearance Feedback Topic:

It seems the interface is very efficient

Really ? And why if you accidentally put the mouse maxim right (or left) and scroll, nothing happen ? Why ? Because the view is not stretched on whole view, because of actual "beautiful" design.

And why I don't match always the current tab with the associated address bar, and that's also because of this "beautiful" design ...

Honestly, this design its a crap.

@maximilianth
Yes, the design is matter of choice, I agree, but to see if this new design is better or not, please check the functionality and you will see. There are more drawbacks for this new design, and I will mention just one of it:

The working view is not stretched from left to right side of the display, and because of that if you have the mouse pointer in that dead and useless (and ugly) space, you will scroll in vain.

So, it is better design ? Take the conclusion for yourself.

P.S. Do you thing that much space between tabs and address bar is looking good ? It looks like they are different windows ... ugly !

@righteyereaper said in General Opera One Appearance Feedback Topic:

I will keep Opera on my PC for a couple months to see if things get fixed. But for now I'm going to have to use MS Edge

I do the same ... that's pity, because Opera use to be a good browser, not its not

Opera used to be a tidy browser, more tidy than Edge/Chrome ... now, with new look, make the "performance" to look worse than Edge, the top zone (tabs + address bar) is thicker than Edge ....

You ruine Opera browser piece by piece !

Opera One(version: 108.0.5067.20) / Win11 64bit

When I open a new tab and this tab is large enough, when I go to mouse over this new tab, for the first time I don't see the Close Tab icon, and if I go out of this tab and go back over the tab, the Close Tab Icon become visible.
Can you check this?

@leocg

I pretty sure they would not make Opera browser back to the previous design, they worked too much on this one to do that.

I noticed Opera is most likely Mozilla as look and feel. It is a matter of taste, I agree. Personally, I prefer steady design like Edge or Chrome. For business case, 99% users prefer that. Maybe Opera browser doesn't target those users.

In my opinion, even Opera GX looks better than Opera One, because tab area is coupled with address bar. And if Opera One looks like Mozilla does, at least Mozilla stretch the view on the entire screen. Better ! I don't expect Opera team hear us, if Opera has telemetry, maybe they see how many users give up using Opera ...

Did you look over this bug? Has been reported since several versions, the bug is still present ...

Here is a permanent link to a video that shows the bug: https://1drv.ms/v/c/dedcb6ef190b8fd4/ER99Lgio_a1MoJR9Gal8aL4BhNzIkQzf8dHUTh_Se2PomA?e=WqLinR

@flaviu2
Update video link: https://streamable.com/zqb7oe

On the latest version, 119.0.5497.40, when I click on a tab, the focus is forced to move on the minimize button:

I've made another video to show the bug: https://jmp.sh/s/zEICp86WWgBB8PTZiaZ6

P.S. 119.0.5497.38 / Win11/64bit

@flaviu2
Encountered another close button issue on 119.0.5497.29 (Win11, 64 bit)

See the video: https://files.fm/u/b5j264xwbs

@Nousernameforyou
Yes, I have the same feeling that Opera One teams does not listen this forum. I also reported two bugs, easy reproductibile, and since 2 major versions nothing happened.

In the version 118.0.5461.83 this issue is still present, basically if you position the mouse to a close tab button and start to close tabs, the next tabs will not have this close button icon, if you have a tab island in closed state.

@leocg Yes, that's how I remember, but I cannot try it, I cannot downgrade my currnet version: 118.0.5461.41

I noticed Alt+Home does not put the cursor at adress bar. But Edge (maybe Chrome also) does that. Can you solve that?

Be aware, not always happens this, sometime the cursor is put at the address bar, sometimes not.

@nkgrzegorzewicz

I also tested and I got crashing:

Crash from Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 4:23:43 PM
Status: Not yet uploaded, or ignored
Local Crash Context: e2862718-39ba-48b2-9fca-436bad831aa2

My version is 118.0.5461.41