Feel free to point me in the right direction if there's a forum about future releases that detail the following features!
So I've only been using Opera for about 2 days but already I'm liking it better than Chrome. I've been looking for an alternative for Ages since Google started changing stuff even after consumers told them they didn't want it. Here are some small but quality of life features I think Opera should consider;
A Home Button
-Now I know we have the Speed Dial button and honestly SD is a really cool thing, but personally I'd like to have the option of a custom home button there next to it, as normally I have Google search on a home button to quickly hope back to it. Currently I'm using an extension that adds a home button but it's on the right hand side, waaay away from all the other useful buttons I'm using.
Bookmarks Manager
-Honestly only have a couple of critiques for BM as everything else is perfect, please never pull a Chrome and change it for no reason, but anyway. Firstly I'd like to have more settings for customizing BM, particularly an option to change ALL bookmarks and folders to the list or tile view and not just change one folder at a time. I have a tonne of bookmarks and folders and going through one by one changing them to list view will take forever. Secondly, anytime I go to save a bookmark it takes a good 10 to 20 seconds to open the dropdown menu, this could be a problem with my computer however I think it might also be because of 1. the thumbnail that loads for every bookmark, and/or 2. the dropdown menu has to load every single folder I have. It's almost crashed Opera a couple of times mid-load, so I think having the Chrome method of opening a separate mini window to pick the folder I want to save something in would work much better, especially since I have to open up folders in folders sometimes and the tiny dropdown menu is kinda' awkward for that.
Right Click, Search Image
-I know I know, another Chrome feature, but it's a feature I and many others use daily and not having it on Opera is lowkey a deal-breaker. Chrome is set to replace the "search with Google Images" feature on the right click dropdown menu with the highly inferior "search with Google Lens", and I for one despise this choice, but I've been burned before with Google just not giving a damn about their consumers and changing things anyway (see above). Once Google officially rolls out the Google Lens replacement I can see a lot of people looking for cheats and alternatives, in fact that's already happening, a quick "how to turn off Google Lens" search shows hundreds of thousands of results of people complaining and looking to go back, rightfully so might I add. It's quite literally the best time for Opera to adopt the right click search image feature.
I might come back to this and add more at some point, but for now these are the biggest things I'd personally love to see. I look forward to a bright future where I can comfortably escape Google's claws!
