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The spinner (EQ icon) takes a lot less CPU, but it's still pretty bad. CPU was at around 40-45% before the update, now it's around 12-14%. If you move the mouse cursor to the tab, it drops to 3%. Please fix this once and for all or simply remove the animated icon.
Whoa, what happened to the overlay scrollbars? After the update, they look "normal" (default windows scrollbars). This is not OK, there is no need to have scrollbars always visible, we have mouse wheels for scrolling. Plus, the default ones look super ugly.
Can you at least enable scrollbar from opera://settings for everything? It's a small scrollbar, kind of "invisible", would be a good compromise.
@l33t4opera Thank you. The first option doesn't work for me. Running it with the switch kinda works, the overlay scrollbar is "blinking" while scrolling and sometimes it will disappear completely. I really hope they can create a more stable and permanent solution. Using the scrollbar from the settings page would be absolutely perfect.
@melosaderros I'm glad I'm not the only one who want those overlay scroll bars back. I'm so disappointed, the browser looks so dated now 
Whoa, what happened to the overlay scrollbars? After the update, they look "normal" (default windows scrollbars). This is not OK, there is no need to have scrollbars always visible, we have mouse wheels for scrolling. Plus, the default ones look super ugly.
Can you at least enable scrollbar from opera://settings for everything? It's a small scrollbar, kind of "invisible", would be a good compromise.
I just tested again with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxfcINRwXU
Here's a screenshot, the %s are pretty much average (so not the highest/lowest values):
System is 2500k overclocked to 4.6 ghz, geforce 2060 rtx, 860 evo, 16gb ram. I'm on vacation with my family and this is my "backup" PC, I have an i9 9900k and R7 3700x at home, but won't be able to test them for at least 2 weeks or so.
The animated media icon is still consuming a lot of CPU (EDIT: not a lot, but still way too much). Random youtube video with mouse cursor on the tab - 5-6% (same as the latest Edge Dev), move the cursor away (so the icon is animated), 9-14% (about 10% average). This is not OK, Opera team.
The spinner (EQ icon) takes a lot less CPU, but it's still pretty bad. CPU was at around 40-45% before the update, now it's around 12-14%. If you move the mouse cursor to the tab, it drops to 3%. Please fix this once and for all or simply remove the animated icon.
@leocg: Well it sure doesn't work for me (and never did). The new Edge has three options, light, dark, and system default. If you leave it on system, the browser will change together with your windows theme (light/dark). Opera has only two options and you have to change the theme manually.
And I think @andrew84 meant something similar to Vivaldi. You can create a schedule, from 7am to 5pm use a light (or custom) theme, from 5pm to 7am use a dark theme. It's a really nice feature, would be awesome to have it in Opera.
@andrew84: Timer would be great, but I would also like to see the theme "connected" to the windows theme, like the new edge.