@leocg Understood. In that case, my issue is, then, that this new feature is less usable than the old one. My request is that it becomes usable like the old one was.

I'm currently running 68.0.3618.125, and every time I try to cycle tabs via control+tab or control+shift+tab, opera closes abruptly and restarts.
I have no idea why this is happening, but I apparently made a thread about it over two years ago, and it's still going on.

This is a great update, except it removed the flag that kept Recent Tabs in place of Search in Tabs. I love the new background music, but I want my feature back.

@leocg I… no? It isn't? Am I misunderstanding some specific meaning of "request"?

@leocg Understood. In that case, my issue is, then, that this new feature is less usable than the old one. My request is that it becomes usable like the old one was.

@leocg The old feature had a dropdown from the icon, which was very quick and efficient to use.

The old feature required me to click the icon, move my cursor an insignificant distance, and click the item I want to go back to.

The new feature with the show more button requires me to click the icon, move my cursor a significant distance, click another button (the show more button), move my cursor an insignificant distance, and click the item I want to go back to.

Do you see the difference now?
This is not a solution to my problem, because my problem is that the new feature is significantly less usable than the old feature.

@leocg Right. And as I said, my issue isn't with a lack of functionality, but that the form it now takes is less usable than the form it previously did.

That was the entire point of the second paragraph of my initial post. Did you not read it?

@leocg I… no? It isn't? Am I misunderstanding some specific meaning of "request"?

@leocg That doesn't address my actual concern. I mentioned the existence of the feature's function in the "Search in Open Tabs" menu in my original post.

This is a copy of my GX forum request, since main-browser users presumably want the feature back just as much as GX users.
(forums.opera.com/topic/43627)

A recent update to opera removed the opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs, which allowed users to keep Recent Tabs in leu of Search in Open Tabs.
I'd like the flag back, or (given that the search in tabs feature can now also show recently closed tabs) an option to have the new feature show up in the same way the old did.

The old feature showed up in a dropdown from the icon, which was great for when a user needed to quickly get back to a tab they'd just closed, whereas the new feature shows up over the center of the browser, which is great for searching, but not so great for getting back to recently closed tabs.

This update to GX removed the opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs, which allowed users to keep Recent Tabs in leu of Search in Open Tabs.
I'd like the flag back, or (given that the search in tabs feature can now also show recently closed tabs) an option to have the new feature show up in the same way the old did.

The old feature showed up in a dropdown from the icon, which was great for when a user needed to quickly get back to a tab they'd just closed, whereas the new feature shows up over the center of the browser, which is great for searching, but not so great for getting back to recently closed tabs.

This is a great update, except it removed the flag that kept Recent Tabs in place of Search in Tabs. I love the new background music, but I want my feature back.

I'm currently running 68.0.3618.125, and every time I try to cycle tabs via control+tab or control+shift+tab, opera closes abruptly and restarts.
I have no idea why this is happening, but I apparently made a thread about it over two years ago, and it's still going on.

@leocg I'm having the issue too, and it seems to happen as soon as opera so much as tries to load the video.
So no.