@allanfelipe said in How do I get the old look back? Do I have to downgrade?:

The animation when switching workspaces is indeed terrible. Also there's another thing that annoyed me: the scroll bar doesn't touch the side of the screen. So you can't access it just throwing the mouse all the way to the right.

Yes, another issue with this stupid bubble look and the borders around everything. Too many phone-addicted kids on the programming team, maybe?

@notlocalhorst I knew I lost a couple of seldom-used workspaces after the update, wasn't sure it did that, but seems it did.

WTF are the devs smoking with this new version, they've made quite a mess of things...

@mrmufa5a Geez, what's with the devs, they have made so many quite frankly stupid changes to this new version. Do they not actually use the app they create, or do they all just use it on tablets and never test the desktop version?

Same here, this is not a feature, it's a PITA.

@notlocalhorst It's damned annoying, but seems to be related to sync, do you have sync on or off. I keep it off all the time and use local and cloud backups of all Opera config files, I've always found Opera sync to be iffy at best. I knew the other day when I turned it on that I shouldn't have been doing that way, I won't use it again...

Agree, not a fan of the new look. I also noticed that while experimenting, I turned off workspaces for just a second, when I turned it back on, all tabs from all workspaces ended up in the main workspace and I had to go through them all and put them back in the right place. I don't recall this happening before, I've turned it off previously without this mess happening.

Why do they have to keep messing with interfaces that already work well? What's with the stupid bubble look, and why is the browser so slow compared to the old version? Might have to downgrade to 99 if they don't add options to turn off the silly animations and the hokey bubble look...

Well, Opera One got me today. Closing a tab, it crashed and wiped all my tabs in all workspaces and history. Have gone back to V99 and disabled autoupdate.

I guess I'm looking for an alternative now...

@burnout426 The thing is, if you turn workspaces off and then back on, it remembers the workspaces and they just reappear, so why it shifts all the tabs is an odd behaviour, why not just remember the tabs in those workspaces? A single accidental click on the workspaces toggle makes a terrible mess when you have tabs totalling in the hundreds.

@tinnted Hadn't heard they were implementing workspaces in Edge, would be a sad thing to have to go back to an MS product, but if it works, so be it. Opera are really shooting themselves in the foot with this issue.

@rex20d That's insane, clearly a serious bug. Give Vivaldi a go, bit of a learning curve, but worth it I think.

@vegelund Great attitude. My tabs change constantly, it's totally impractical to keep backing them up as bookmarks every hour or two. The browser is supposed to retain the session, if it has a bug where it wipes both all tabs and all history, then it is a total failure as a browser. Happy using Vivaldi now...

@tinnted Yes, I am missing the workspaces icons on the bar, much easier. The other thing I really miss is being able to highlight a piece of text and a context menu popup to copy, search etc. Especially for units translations, like miles to km etc, that's going to be a real pain to no have that.

@rex20d That's insane, clearly a serious bug. Give Vivaldi a go, bit of a learning curve, but worth it I think.

@tinnted Well, after spending quite a bit of time setting up Vivaldi, I'm done with Opera I think. Vivaldi also has a full email client and calendar, notes, etc, and is extremely customisable. Mercedes even uses it as the default browser in some of their cars.

I've been using Opera almost since it was first released, but this latest version has been a total botch and I've got better things to do with my time than rebuild hundreds of tabs across multiple workspaces because of their buggy code...

@tinnted Just trying Vivaldi, it's workspaces work more like Opera, so may end up using that...

@tinnted Ok, just had a look at Edge and seems workspaces is already implemented. It's not quite the same as Opera's system but certainly passable as an alternative.

@tinnted Hadn't heard they were implementing workspaces in Edge, would be a sad thing to have to go back to an MS product, but if it works, so be it. Opera are really shooting themselves in the foot with this issue.

Well, Opera One got me today. Closing a tab, it crashed and wiped all my tabs in all workspaces and history. Have gone back to V99 and disabled autoupdate.

I guess I'm looking for an alternative now...

@marguerid Opera has definitely gone backwards with the latest version, but I've looked around and never found a browser with all the functionality of it, most aren't even close. I use workspaces all the time, that's pretty much a must-have for me and I haven't seen any other browser with that. Some have tab groups etc, but that's a clunky, half-arsed way of doing it, really don't want to have to move to that system.

Anyone got any suggestions for a viable alternative browser?

@notlocalhorst It's damned annoying, but seems to be related to sync, do you have sync on or off. I keep it off all the time and use local and cloud backups of all Opera config files, I've always found Opera sync to be iffy at best. I knew the other day when I turned it on that I shouldn't have been doing that way, I won't use it again...