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@lk-hemant Edge is also based on Chromium, so Microsoft has applied some functionality on top of it to do this. In theory, they could bake whatever they've done into the Chromium codebase if the community accepted. Since joining Chromium they have made a few contributions. But, on the other hand, all the Chromium browsers are in competition with each other, so they wouldn't want to propose everything they develop for themselves!

In the meantime I'd say just switch to Edge for situations where you want to use its particular features. I do that kind of thing often. Opera is my default but I switch to Vivaldi for some tasks and have done the same with Edge previously.

@leocg it would be nice if you could do that. The old Opera was more flexible in this, although I was only a very occasional user of the old Opera.

I think the way Firefox works in full screen mode is the way to go, but the other browsers don't do it.

I.e., move mouse to the top of the screen and the address bar and tabs become available.

I agree. It's one of my bugbears. A simple solution would be to do as Firefox does. E.g., have a blue bar at the top of the active tab.

Windows does similar with the active applications on the task bar.

@leocg "full screen with tabs visible makes no sense to me."

That's why it's a toggle operation. You mouse up, click on another tab or navigate in address bar and you automatically return to full screen on that new tab.

Anyway, I shall request it as you suggest.

I notice that when you mouse over a tab it goes distinctively grey but once activated it turns to indistinguishable black. Why not keep it as grey? That would surely be an easy fix. Contrast this with the dark theme in Vivaldi for example. The latter is fine.

@yanta said in Microsoft switches to Chromium:

@coffeelover

I'm afraid Opera could lose market shares to Microsoft if MS should succeed in developing a browser with a nice UI and some useful additional features.

For myself it has proven quite hard to shift me from whatever has been my preferred browser. I was a Firefox user for well over a decade. I've now switched to Opera as default (although I still use Firefox). Edge will have to replicate the features of Opera that I've discovered to be compelling to get me to switch.

I should say though that I do not find any one browser to be superior to all other in all respects. Hence I have several installed and occasionally have a need to use one of the others - even Edge as it happens!

Just tried. Oh man, that is bad. Must be a regression surely?

Just got a new iPad. I have Opera on Android, which has Reader Mode. Can’t see one on iPad. I know Safari has it but would prefer to use Opera if possible.

@stevencee moving the mouse over the magnifying glass lets you see the zoom level. Though it would be nice to be able to see at a glance what setting you're at.

You can also zoom in and out using one-click keyboard shortcuts. By default 0, 6, + and -. You have to enable one-click keyboard shortcuts first though.

Also Ctrl+ mouse wheel if on Windows.

@lucasnorthmi51959 I have several browsers installed too. Main reasons are 1 I'm curious to see what they have to offer that's different from their competitors 2 I find that no one browser is better than all others in every respect. So, depending on context, I sometimes switch for specific tasks.

@tioosaminha if you don't care for specific features then don't use them and/or disable them. Don't assume other users have no use for them. We are all different.

@careware I like the sidebar but I also often want it hidden and I agree the software should honour the user's choices.

@concretable A lot of the time I have too many tabs open to read them anyway (69 right now). I do quite often make use of tab search, which I'd probably use. Typing just a part of the page title or site name is generally enough to find what you want. The incremental search works well.

(I customised Opera so that the instant search does tab-search by default using F2).

@leocg yes, just no sound. Ah, solved. My slider to the right of the speaker icon was always at the left. How come I never spotted that before? I kept clicking on the x.

Sometimes you have to describe your problem to auto-fix it, lol.

@cratte I use several browsers. Opera is currently my default but I was along-time Firefox user. At this point Firefox's auto-complete is still superior to all competitors. It's difficult to explain but basically everyone needs to copy Firefox! It is one of the key features that kept me glued to Firefox for years.

Opera's implementation is not too bad but still not as good as Firefox's. but now the other features of Opera have tipped the balance, hence why Opera is now my default.

@hamstersex I was on 77.0.4054.277 and Gmail was fine. After checking that it auto-updated to your version and it's still fine.

I'm on latest stable version of Windows 10.

My history with my default browser is that you eventually get to a point where some version is almost perfectly optimised to the way you like to browse, with or without supplementary extensions. Then new features get added that may be mildly annoying but you can tweak things a bit, then more features get added (that may included removing existing ones and/or making them worse), then you get sufficiently pissed off to give another browser a try. That browser is usually lacking with respect to some features you are used to. But you stick with it and over time it becomes optimal again. Then they start ruining the experience for you and the cycle starts again!

E.g., here. They always show as muted. It was ok about a year ago and has been broken ever since. Fine in other browsers.

@silenthugofdoom In my experience, once you get to a browser that's perfect or near-perfect, after customisation it eventually regresses.

It's happened to me with Opera. Fortunately, it's still good enough to be my default.

@lavanyadeepak-0 In my case I can get ChatGPT to open but it errors "Something went wrong. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com."

However, when I clicked Regenerate Response it gave a decent answer.

This is with Opera 97 Stable with early access enabled.

I'll try a few more experiments.