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Has anyone found a solution for when the phone doesn't want to connect? When i flash the code on my flow it says you need to set up syncing between your devices even though I am already connected with the same account on both and sync works. When I try to reconnect using the flashcode on opera.com/connect it just doesn't work so I have to use my password and i'm in the same situation as before.
First, thanks to everybody that worked on Opera Touch, because it has improved a lot since the beginning, it really lacked some key features like private mode, search in page, desktop mode and recently the back button behavior. But it's still far from perfect, and I'll be comparing it with Chrome, that I used for years before it and that is, I think, its biggest competitor.
Here's the list:
Back button behavior is still not good. To summarize, just copy Chrome's back button behavior, it's more coherent.
-tapping the back button does not completely remove the tab (when it's opened from an app), in certain cases I still have to close it manually
-if I close a tab in the browser, then click on a link from another app that opens Opera, then tap on the back button, then go back in Opera, the tab I had previously closed reappears (kinda hard to explain but it reopens a tab I had already closed)
-when tapping the back button closes the tab and I manually go in Opera, all the other tabs have to reload even if they were already in the RAM
The tab list is not good: it's not smooth, you don't feel like you're controlling the tab when you tap on it (compared to chrome), and the list of tabs on the computer is a good idea, but it's not very well integrated, I couldn't tell how to improve it, but it just looks weird
It doesn't save passwords
Desktop mode doesn't work in all websites, for example Onenote Online (very poorly programmed but I didn't choose to use it and I have to use it everyday), for that particular website desktop mode does nothing and it's very annoying because the mobile website is absolutely horrible to use. (It works in Chrome by the way)
it's still less optimized than Chrome: it uses more battery and is quickly unloaded from RAM, for example Chrome can stay all day in RAM if I don't fill it during the day, but Opera is unloaded after less than an hour even if I have few apps opened (Oneplus 3 with 6gb of RAM)
The main page is not very useful, the icons are very big so there's no much space left for text and i end up not using it at all, it would be better to have smaller icons and the full name under it, and also replace "best websites" by something that is more based on history, because I still have Facebook and Amazon in it although I have never been on it for months.
So that's it, if all these issues can be solved, this browser would really be PERFECT. I'd be very grateful if you can work on it, thanks!
@leocg Ok but we, the few users of it, were using it extensively, so it's very frustrating to have one of our favorite features removed. If it's not that popular, they should make it an option, and if it's really that unpopular, at least a flag or an extension. No, really, we're all here because opera is a feature-rich software, otherwise we would be on chrome. So it's not a problem if all the features are not used by everyone. For me this update is only bringing disadvantages, and I have hope that the developers can listen to us and bring back this feature that has no downside at all (except using a few MB of code).
Same here, i was already connected before flow appeared on android, now flashing the code gives me this error and if i disconnect my phone and try to reconnect with the flashcode it doesn't recognizes it, I have to connect with my password and i'm back at the starting point.
Because it would just be so convenient. I think it is the single one thing that would improve the most my browsing experience. Opera is already filled with shortcuts and that's why I switched to it from Chrome. Switching between tabs is now the least convenient aspect of Opera, I think this would make it the perfect browser.
(Here's what I'm talking about, it's from a help page that was last updated for Opera 12, and I heard it has been removed since.)
Since the update to 60, when I set a youtube video to fullscreen, it doesn't appears in the alt+tab menu.
Here I am playing a fullscreen video in the background and I can't see the corresponding window in the alt+tab menu. Sometimes I'm playing several videos in separate windows and before I could easily alt+tab between them. With Opera 60, I can't. Please fix this as fast as possible!
@giacomorutili You have to disable the new search button for that : opera://flags/#enhanced-address-bar
Apparently opera really likes to remove useful features these days...