Personally, I need at least twice as much and I'm not even using 40% of the vertical real estate on my monitor, so I completely miss the point of this gratuitous limitation...

Can you please unlock the number of workspaces that can be created, or provide a rationale why it makes sense to have no more than 5 workspaces?

Thanks!

Same problem with 72.0.3815.207.

Open tab, writing on omnibox, is grayed out text and there's no dropdown with history or suggestions... Pressing enter does nothing. It works one in ~20 attempts by opening a new tab.

At least the F5 hack works, but this needs to be fixed asap...

I mean it's not mandatory to have more than 5. If you can't deal with more than 5, don't create more than 5.

But there's no point in limiting the amount of workspaces for those, and there are many, who need more than 5....

I also noticed that pressing TAB 4 times when on the omnibox, makes it work again. You can clearly see that the cursor stays on the omnibox for the first 2 presses, then goes somewhere on the left of the omnibox, and then comes back on the omnibox and it works... So the bug might be related to some focus handler going havoc or something...

I don't know what's the reason for this limitation.. I mean, why not 4, or 6, but exactely 5? Would love to know. Even more, would love to see the limitation go away. If there's a fan of arbitrary limitations, 1000 looks like a nice, round number imho. Wha do you think? XD

@andrew84 72.0.3815.211 includes fix for another internal issue, but not yet resolves address bar problem.

Thanks for chiming in. It's important to hear from Opera on one of the most central features (search and navigation).

Can confirm that the just released 72.0.3815.211 doesn't solve the issue yet. But it's good to know it's being addressed.

Having tried to hack my way through this pointless limitation, I've figured that it might be a bad code architecture decision.

By scanning the different configuration files I've found that the workspaces are actually defined numerically, that is, workspace_1, workspace_2 etc... as opposed to have a generic workspaces structure defined as an unbound set. So, in order to keep things manageable, they had to put this limitation in place.

This was probably a feature given to an intern or junior dev, based on how trivially it has been implemented. To refactor this, they'll need to put some non-trivial effort into it, so my expectations of this happening are really low. I just cannot understand how this could pass the review of a project owner, honestly.

Same boat here, as a long time Opera user eventually converted to Chrome, they have won me back just because of the workspaces... but already looking for a better implementation of this great idea somewhere else...

If there was a way to contribute code to this, I'd do it myself.

We just released stable 72.0.3815.320 which includes earlier mentioned fixed for address bar issue. This will also be followed up by developer update 74.0.3870.0 later today and beta update later this week which were also affected by this issue.

Seems to work! Thanks!

The last update didn't increase the number of available workspaces. This is literally a constant in the code.

Can we please have more workspaces? It's a limitation that makes a useful feature, useless.

Unfortunately, Opera 70 doesn't increase the number of workspaces yet. I am trying to playing with the configuration file and see if it is possible to force something at this point.

We just released stable 72.0.3815.320 which includes earlier mentioned fixed for address bar issue. This will also be followed up by developer update 74.0.3870.0 later today and beta update later this week which were also affected by this issue.

Seems to work! Thanks!

@andrew84 72.0.3815.211 includes fix for another internal issue, but not yet resolves address bar problem.

Thanks for chiming in. It's important to hear from Opera on one of the most central features (search and navigation).

Can confirm that the just released 72.0.3815.211 doesn't solve the issue yet. But it's good to know it's being addressed.

I also noticed that pressing TAB 4 times when on the omnibox, makes it work again. You can clearly see that the cursor stays on the omnibox for the first 2 presses, then goes somewhere on the left of the omnibox, and then comes back on the omnibox and it works... So the bug might be related to some focus handler going havoc or something...

Same problem with 72.0.3815.207.

Open tab, writing on omnibox, is grayed out text and there's no dropdown with history or suggestions... Pressing enter does nothing. It works one in ~20 attempts by opening a new tab.

At least the F5 hack works, but this needs to be fixed asap...

That is an amazing news! Thanks Opera! This should bring the number of available worskspaces to 24.

Having tried to hack my way through this pointless limitation, I've figured that it might be a bad code architecture decision.

By scanning the different configuration files I've found that the workspaces are actually defined numerically, that is, workspace_1, workspace_2 etc... as opposed to have a generic workspaces structure defined as an unbound set. So, in order to keep things manageable, they had to put this limitation in place.

This was probably a feature given to an intern or junior dev, based on how trivially it has been implemented. To refactor this, they'll need to put some non-trivial effort into it, so my expectations of this happening are really low. I just cannot understand how this could pass the review of a project owner, honestly.

Same boat here, as a long time Opera user eventually converted to Chrome, they have won me back just because of the workspaces... but already looking for a better implementation of this great idea somewhere else...

If there was a way to contribute code to this, I'd do it myself.

I mean it's not mandatory to have more than 5. If you can't deal with more than 5, don't create more than 5.

But there's no point in limiting the amount of workspaces for those, and there are many, who need more than 5....

Unfortunately, Opera 70 doesn't increase the number of workspaces yet. I am trying to playing with the configuration file and see if it is possible to force something at this point.

I love Opera but I just don't understand why can't we have more than 5 workspace... I mean, you have just added several icons, but we have no way to use them! Remove the pointless limit on workspaces, pretty please...

The last update didn't increase the number of available workspaces. This is literally a constant in the code.

Can we please have more workspaces? It's a limitation that makes a useful feature, useless.