This doesn't look like it's a bug necessarily but a horrible design decision. Either way, it needs to be fixed because it makes the browser unusable to people who like to open links in the background. For instance, if I read a Wikipedia article, I often open links in the background so I can read them next when I finish reading what I have open now. That does not work now because as long as a new page is loading, I am not allowed to read the original one.

It is a disaster that the user is not allowed to control what page they want to be on. Imagine a streaming service was interrupting you watching a movie by switching over to some TV show every few minutes.

@deurotelle Thank you for the recommendation. I just downloaded it and will soon give it a go.

Opera has lost a lot of credibility now by force updating something this big apparently without proper testing and dogfooding. Did anyone use this browser at all before release? And the sheer arrogance of decisions like taking away the home button (bothers me continuously) and introducing that horrible sound effect. I am glad I wasn't wearing my headset just now because I could hear it loud even though the headset lies on the desk.

If you have a monopoly on certain things like Microsoft, then messing with your users by changing everything for no reason and making them lose productivity by making them figure out how to do things they already learned to do several times is okay. But browsers aren't the same.

But great to hear they fixed that problem that should have never shipped unless it only affected a small segment of the users.

@franta99 It is fixed. Go to your main menu and, check Update & Recovery or the equivalent in your language and check for updates. It is a bit buggy, so you may have to restart once manually, go back to Update & Recovery, and then restart again from a button that appears.

@bramborovysalat-0 I didn't mean to irk you, and I apologize for being so direct.

But those companies are the ones who pay Opera so they can keep working, and in exchange Opera guarantees them visibility in their service. At least I don't pay for using Opera. Your question to Opera is akin to asking a non-subscription TV station how to disable those annoying commercials that interrupt watching the show.

@bramborovysalat-0 You should not be using free software that relies on advertiser support to fund work and development, then.

This doesn't look like it's a bug necessarily but a horrible design decision. Either way, it needs to be fixed because it makes the browser unusable to people who like to open links in the background. For instance, if I read a Wikipedia article, I often open links in the background so I can read them next when I finish reading what I have open now. That does not work now because as long as a new page is loading, I am not allowed to read the original one.

It is a disaster that the user is not allowed to control what page they want to be on. Imagine a streaming service was interrupting you watching a movie by switching over to some TV show every few minutes.