Posts made by rafaelluik

@leocg In theory, VP9 decoding can be done by NVIDIA RTX 2060 (PureVideo Feature Set J) up to 4K.

@aquilawhite Check the contents of the page chrome://gpu, perhaps it's disabled or blacklisted for some reason.

@Rogerb Yup, flag already removed in Opera 70 developer version.

@superduper said in Bring back the "Recently closed" button on the top bar on the right:

@rafaelluik Screw Vivaldi. I have been using opera for I don't know how long, may be over 10 years, and I don't want to switch to no vivaldis.
The closed tabs button has not been removed, but simple turned off in the Settings.
There is a parameter in Settings that allows to turn it back on. Look up the way to do it in this tread.
Goto the URL opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs, disable the flag, and restart Opera.

This flag will be removed in Opera 70, good luck with that.

Please provide a screenshot of the prompt.

@acidinmyfridge You can simulate the same workflow in Vivaldi (or Opera) if you use the address or search field (Ctrl+L or F8 to focus the address field or Ctrl+E for the search field) and press Alt+Enter to open your search in a new tab, and when you're done Ctrl+W will close the tab and return to the one you were on previously as long as you have that set in the settings (When closing a Tab... Activate the last active tab). Also, the Quick Commands window that opens when you press F2 can search the open tabs and do other stuff like create notes or quick math operations and can be configured to always open the result in a new tab too (or used Shift+Enter) (but it lacks search suggestions so it depends on your needs).

@raphaelfrf @p11rat Switch to the Vivaldi browser because they don't remove features like that. That's the only way out Opera devs are giving us to have the features we want.

@superduper Download the Vivaldi browser made by previous Opera's CEO/co-founder and some other Presto-era guys it has these features intact and improved.

Forget Opera, just switch to Vivaldi where the devs would never remove features from users, and put your support where it's appreciated and not used to enrich its CEO through obscure cash draws and stock market guys while exploiting poor developing countries folk. Vivaldi has a big recently closed tabs list in the same place Opera used to have and as a bonus it already lets you add any webpage you want to the sidebar, without having to be stuck with the sanctioned choices made by Opera guys (or Facebook/Telegram sponsored??).

Opera (no idea why) is more interested in change for the sake of change (perhaps desperate to attract new users? throwing all kinds of changes around to see what is a hit or a miss?) and removing features because they aren't used "99,9% of the time" and they don't want to realize that this 0,1% usage is that one time in the week when you really needed the feature and it was there. And no, searching the closed tab via its title text isn't the solution, no way you can expect the user to remember word by word of the closed tab (and that's when it has a proper title at all).

@artexjay Yes, I'm not using Opera anymore since I became aware of the Hindenburg Research report. I'm not supporting a company so it sends money to the CEO's other business (Qihoo 360) and put it as "paying for advertising services" in the financial report when it isn't even an advertising company, I don't endorse Qihoo 360, I don't endorse Opera using the money they gained from browsers to become a fintech acting as a loan shark with hideous annual interest rates in developed countries. I can't endorse the company that once acted as a defender of open web standards and internet innovation bowing and becoming a tool so that shareholders can make some money above any ethics. And when they're called upon on it, they give a blank meaningless default PR statement to the public lying about their practices and declaring themselves innocent. For the misfortune of its employees as brilliant as they may be, if it can't be separated from the parent company/owners, Opera should die...

I migrated all my data to Vivaldi and cleared the data from Opera sync. I'm grateful I won't even have to cope with Opera removing the full list of closed tabs and choosing for me what I'm supposed to have in my panels in the next version (put Instagram but doesn't let the user add his own web panels which is basically the same frigging tech), because for who knows why they decided to mess with that sh!t. I recommend Vivaldi to everyone who have ethics and loves what Opera used to be, because Opera is no more. I can also recommend Firefox for people that need lees features and can cope with its UI (I hate that scrollable tab bar with passion haha, same for the mobile version lack of good UI and features) because now it's the only player able to maintain Chromium's advances towards the open web standards in check, and as Vivaldi it's a company that doesn't have "make money for the shareholders" as their sole purpose. I'm still using Yandex browser in Android because of the full bottom UI and features (text wrap, ad-blocking/extensions support) but I'm not sure if I can recommend it because it's a big company present in the stock market and it's present on a lot of morally gray business I don't support like late capitalism gig economy and who knows what else, I can't really find good contextualized/historical information on this big Russian company in the languages I understand, so I should be looking for an alternative.

@leocg But the browser is under the same company of the loan apps. They are using the money they get from Opera browser to finance those abusive loan apps! They disrespected Google's terms on purpose and they are charging poor people 300%+ annual interest rate on purpose!! For me this is the end, I won't use/support Opera browser knowing that they'll get the money for having me as a user and act as a loan shark in the lives of poor people of less developed countries.

@icetom87 @artexjay This is a very old misunderstanding on statistics that appears time and time again in discussions about Opera. Please, pay close attention to the explanation.

Yes Opera's market share may look stale or even at a decline, but this can happen while the number of users go up. How? The total population from which the stats are measured increases. Every time a new Android phone is sold that's a new "Chrome user by default" and every time an iPhone is sold there's a new obligatory Safari user. It happens while new parts of the world population buys/switches to their first smartphone or their first device capable of surfing the web even! (Don't forget developing countries where there are people that can't even access the web.)

It doesn't take users away from Opera directly, most of the time it's a new web user browsing on the default browser of their device and they don't know better or don't care. And hey Opera tried, they have partnerships to have the Opera browser pre-installed in some phones, but Google and Apple are at an position where it's basically impossible to compete, just look at Mozilla Firefox presence on mobiles and how Google smashed them in desktop after promoting Chrome everywhere where they used to promote Firefox.

I must comment (with some delay) that the cookie dialog blocker was an awesome idea, if there's a chance you expand it to block "download our app" banners that some websites insist on spamming (Reddit is a prime example) it'd make Opera more attractive. It's an old problem we mobile web browsers have to live with: https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/05/12/this-tumblr-says-what-everyone-is-thinking-i-dont-want-to-download-your-app/

I also want to note that I used to be a fan of Opera's tab switcher but it has been worsened on each iteration (it used to display more tabs on-screen now it's 3 AFAIK). Nowadays it feels slow to use (the screen transitions between the open page and the switcher, plus the vertical swiping and one more tap to access the tab I want) and the thumbnails remain blank until you first switch to the tabs (open in the background) making the useless.
Practically I'm not a Opera mobile user anymore because the Yandex browser for Android just feels faster to use, yeah I know, it's a list of tabs but it's a matter of simplicity over form that makes operating the browser faster (just get out of the way and let me use the websites haha), and it also has some good actions to manage tabs in addition to Close all, like Close all tabs above / Close all tabs except the current.

The whole UI on the bottom including the address bar is another factor that makes me stick with Yandex, and when I start to use the page the UI compacts and gets out of the way and feels like it's not there anymore but it's still easily accessible with a tap or swipe, it's just magic... But I still kinda like Opera and your ideas, I'll be watching your next steps.

If anybody is here looking for information about what happened to Opera Coast because Opera didn't post any news about it, here it is: Coast has been discontinued according to some ex-employees/business contacts/friends(?) on Reddit.

kaysb: Opera removed of most of the developers positions in the Oslo office last year, and with that, killed development of things like Coast.

gsnedders: AFAIK, most of the people heavily involved in Coast left long before that, and there was some small skeleton team left. But I could be wrong, it's been a long time since I've spoken to anyone who was much around it.

demonstro: Currently working with one of the designers. They're all out. An Android build was just around the corner, but now it will never happen.

kaysb That could be. My memory of that period is already a bit foggy
I quit my job at Opera 5 days before the rest of my team (Core Services and Operation, or what ever the name was at the end) was told they would shut down the development in Oslo.
I did have a veeery small part of Coast; I designed, implemented and maintained the server side of Coast Card, the bookmark sharing built into Coast.
I hope the rest of the company is still doing great, but I must say that it is a bit of an eye opener to see the company from outside. Or, to be more precise, not see the company at all, even as a interested hard core user. After they removed the first-run page informing about the latest changes etc. there is very little that engages users in the product.

No news about it, and it disappeared from Opera.com website. Can we consider it discontinued?

Because Opera is further abandoned every day. Yandex has cross-device password sync.

I'm surprised to see there was a new update. I was guessing, wondering, whether Opera for Android has been abandoned. The engine is still outdated and months passed with no major modifications.

If you think about it for a while, since Android Lollipop and later allows apps (therefore browsers) to use an updated Chromium engine through Android System Webview apk it'd potentially allow Opera to drop the full browser engine in favor of this method. I'm don't know the technical details but if such feature allows some customizations to provide what they want (like text wrap) we could see Opera for Android being phased out in favor of an unified Opera Mini (which already uses the Webview for the low/no compression modes and the Presto server only for Extreme mode) which is already under a very similar UI and has a lot more users. I also consider Opera Software's new owners may want to push Opera into this direction (I'm not saying it's wrong, it may be the optimal one and the benefit to reduce costs with development of a very little used product is there).

Just dropping my thoughts...

I'm not using Opera as my main browser at the moment because there are a number of perks and UI is lacking some basic stuff like being able to type something in the address field and have the autocomplete/search suggestions with the arrows beside it that allow you to put that text in the address field to continue typing to give a simple example.

You just need to copy the SD bookmarks from Other Speed Dials to the SD of your other machine.

Which is a manual copy that won't be synchronized further so it doesn't serve the purpose of this topic. (I know you get this, I'm just making it clear that this solution is not a solution at all for us.)

Because it's a gradual rollout, not all phones are getting the update until Opera decides to serve the new version to all users.

Opera (even the mobile Chromium-based one) used to have fast back then it stopped working / feature has been phasen out without announcement. You also used to be able to hold the back button to show tab history.

  When you makr text there's another tool box

It doesn't change anything in my phone.

Here's video https://youtu.be/jxLcVEngEZs
Watch the bottom of page after copy

Oh... It doesn't look very useful as there's already a "Search the web" in the marked text menu overflow...