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Thanks @personal1985. Trust us it's important for us that the browsing experience should be smooth for our users.
Everyone else that are asking about the data savings button and home tab logic, both of these issues are under review and we are looking at improving the user experience in both of these cases.
It's great to see big passion you have about the product, and we thank you for being with us during this new stage of the product!
Hi, thanks for giving feedback! We will investigate this and see what we can find regarding the stutter issue.
Thanks for the input, I will relay this to our design team.
Ok I see. The most likely reason for this is the Chromium backend has changed in some way causing this to break, since it's also broken in Chrome for Android.
If you are using mobile user agent string the page is working as intended, is this something you could try in the meanwhile while we are looking into this issue?
@eyemvx
The flag you mention are for the desktop product, not Opera for Android.
Hi @saskatchenwan,
Yes this is by design. The home page is a static tab, so you will always have at least one tab open.
We know this was a deviation from the previous behavior and it might be confusing to users. The interaction is currently under review, where we are investigating where to take this.
I meant it that way you should set up som UI concept and go along with it and not every (not bug fix) update change layuot of features and controls...
@mrninko, I assure you that we do fix bugs as well, but yes UI changes, Chromium upgrade, and features have had higher priority for this release.
Regarding UI we are closing in on where we want to be, but there are likely some more changes coming up in the next few releases next year. I hope you can bear with us while we are working on this. And please continue give feedback in here, it might seem like we don't listen, or fix every issue reported, but your voices are heard and affect where the product will head.
Hi,
Could you please STOP changing UI every (not bug fix) update? It's starting to be annoying a lot!! Do you even know what you want?
@mrninko, the changes we are doing is because of user feedback. We are continuously working on improving the user experience and stability of the product. But we hear you, there have been a lot of changes lately. We hope that the changes we are doing will make it easier for you to use the browser.
Thanks for the feedback @personal1985, @kenriley001 (and everyone else). We know there are still issues we need to iron out, but we hope you enjoy the new product while we work on making it even better!
Hi,
What kind of device are you using and Android version? Does the browser freeze or is it the content of the page that you can't interact with?
I tried loading drive on my device, Samsung S6 Android 6.0, and the page loads and I can open files as expected.
@cubot We moved setting default search engine to Settings. You can find it under 'Advanced'.
Edit: Some context why we did this. We noticed that a common user behaviour was that users selected a search engine just once, like IMDb, and then switched back. But we also wanted to allow people to change default search engine.
@ppilihp thanks for the feedback, we will consider this.
@mrninko since we are doing four Chromium upgrades (37 -> 41) at once we want to be a bit careful and observe the response to the update. We expect to go 100% shortly!
Hey, folks!
We are very happy to announce the release of Opera 41 beta.
It has been a long time coming, but it is finally here! We have upgraded to the latest Chromium 54 version. It includes some overdue security, performance and stability improvements that we have been missing and will be going back to a release cycle closer to Chromium again. Sorry to keep you waiting!
The update also brings a few more things that has been finished since the last release.
First, we added support for voice search. A convenient way to search without having to fiddle with your keyboard. You can find it by clicking the search bar, tap the new microphone icon and speak!
Many users have been requesting the option to clear their data and browsing history when exiting the browser. So we obliged. How to use it? Just close Opera via the Exit button, make sure to check the box in the Exit dialog to clear history and data and you’re home free.
In addition to this we have unified the share experience to follow material design. This new share menu always sort your targets based on usage, so you will always have the apps you share with the most at the top.
Finally, we know many of you still have questions and opinions about the new design and behaviour of the browser. Rest assured, we hear you.There are several tasks in process targeting the major pain points your feedback have uncovered. We aim to deliver these changes at a steady pace in the upcoming releases.
Opera 41 beta includes the following changes:
The update has been pushed to Google Play and should be available very soon. Please download Opera 41 beta for Android and leave us your feedback. We hope you like it!
Hi,
In the latest beta we give you the option to disable the news feed. Under Settings -> Home, you can select to not show news feed.
Hi,
In the latest beta we have added support to set custom search engine and it will stick after you restart.
Hi,
Go to Data savings and drag the slider under Image quality to off.
Also when you have open several pages and you are watching (from tap selector perspective) the last/rightest one and click on back button to close tjat page it throws you to SD page first/leftest one page instead of next one page which was opened befrore. For illustration : How it acts: Opened: SD, pg1, pg2, pg3, pg4 You are viewing pg4 and close it with back button It throws you to SD How it used to work and should: You are viewing pg4 and close it with back button It shoul throws you to pg3
@mrninko can you describe more in detail. When I test:
This is how it works. In what scenario doesn't this work?
Major thanks for the feedback! All of you bring up good points that we will work on to improve. We know it's a major change, especially with the new focus on news and certain features being moved to different locations.
@fscorpio:
Your point about certain features being harder to reach is a good point. We will think about ways to make it easier for users to reach these key features of the browser.
Since only US and ID get the new news feed some of the features in the browser doesn't make sense, like the refresh button in the bottom bar. We are working on making news available for more countries. But I agree that if you only have Speed Dial page having the (disabled) refresh button makes no sense.
@xirit32:
Synced speed dials will be back soon. How common is the tab selector issue you mention? Does the browser freeze or do you get a crash?
@mrninko:
We will look into making the text smaller.
Thanks again for helping test out the new browser, we will look into all other points mentioned too!
@mrninko yes translations is coming in an update for all supported languages!
Help us test the new Opera browser for Android!
Today, we’re starting to roll out an upgrade of Opera for Android to our beta channel. We’re doing this gradually, so it might take a little while before you see it on your device.
A brand new UI
The first thing you’ll notice is the UI overhaul. We’ve rebuilt the main browser interface completely, while the settings section has gotten a lick of paint as well.
News in the US and Indonesia
In the US and Indonesia, the start page looks a little different: Speed Dial is still there as a panel on the left, but in the center, there is a news feed powered by a totally overhauled Discover engine. It allows you to read the latest news right when you start the browser, and you can easily dive in and start exploring.
We expect this feature to be rolled out to more countries and languages in the near future as well, so stay tuned for more news.
Under the hood
This release is still based on Chromium 50, but we’re working in the near future on updating the engine as well: that’s why we’re calling this release version 37.1, in case you’re wondering.
We did find the time though to do a number of bug fixes to the “add to home screen” feature (progressive web apps):
Additionally, intent:// URLs, which can be used to jump from webpages to native apps, are now supported as well. You can try this out by visiting Deezer.com and clicking on the blue button.
Let us know what you think about the release!
Hi,
We heard your concerns about the generated SD icons. There are still issues to address, but we've made some significant improvements which we hope will help make it easier to distinguish between SD.
In this update we are also introducing support for web push notifications. This is a new standard that allows web pages to send notifications to your device (with your permission of course!), even while the browser isn't running. We are really excited about this feature, as this brings web apps even closer to the capabilities native apps have.
Lastly, we managed to squeeze in some minor bug fixes to make the experience a bit better.
The update has been pushed to Google Play and is available right now. We hope you like it!