@korberg Coming here on DEC 2024. This is still happening. Very poor and bad decision to remove the X button on tabs, forcing a click on the tab before the X button appears. Bad decision. Also very poor design decision to put emoji on tabs. Wo makes these design changes in Opera? Opera used to be the fast browser I always wanted. Now, every new version is getting bloated with added non-sense features we don't want just like the rest of them.
