Posts made by rafaelluik

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...

When you makr text there's another tool box

It doesn't change anything in my phone.

Interesting place where place forward button

"Interesting"

While

Back button on the bottom menu completely duplicates standard android "back" button

Hey what does the advanced setting "Copy and search" do?

I guess (m.)facebook.com will keep you logged as long as the tab process is not dumped out of memory (RAM) by Android. Try closing the tab or swiping Facebook web app/site manually from the Android app switcher if you care about your status, that should make you offline in a few seconds.

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

Damn Opera is really out of touch with workflow lately...

Common, a gradual beta?

Simple, show us a screenshot of it (port it to imgur.com or similar) otherwise it'll remain difficult to understand.

:sherlock:

Ok, então, lembrei de ter lido em algum lugar que quem define o espaço máximo que pode ser alocado por sites é o navegador/"browser vendor". A documentação do Chromium explica que eles fazem um cálculo baseado no espaço livre do disco pra definir, mas ela parece falar de outro tipo de armazenamento temporário invés do File System que na teoria deixa o site requisitar quanto espaço quiser, porém encontrei tópicos falando que desenvolvedores de sites não estão conseguindo usar mais de 10 GB no Chrome.

Talvez você já tivesse mais que 2 GB na sua pasta File System no perfil do Opera, o que impediu o armazenamento de mais 8... A especificação não define quanto espaço deve ser disponibilizado então ficou a critério de cada navegador e você provavelmente teria o mesmo erro em outros navegadores com esse arquivo ou um pouco maiores que ele.

Ou pode ser que eu tenha achado informações irrelevantes pro problema aqui... Ao pesquisar por "Out of HTML5 Offline Storage space" algumas pessoas recomendam acessar chrome://settings/cookies pesquisar pelo armazenamento do mega.co.nz e excluir os dados deles, aparentemente liberando novamente uma janelinha que pergunta se o site pode usar mais espaço no seu disco quando você tenta fazer o download novamente e funcionando...

O MEGA usa uma pasta de armazenamento HTML5 no perfil do navegador e só depois te permite copiar pra pasta de destino do seu PC... Você tem < 8 GB livres na partição onde o perfil do Opera está?

Many people loved this feature.

Well, i guess many people may have strange preferences. I really don't get how people could prefer to use the app switcher to switch between tabs of a browser instead of the browser itself.

You can switch between tabs and apps instantly instead of having to tap the button to switch to the browser then tap the button to open the tab-switcher (then deal with the different UI/scroll) then tap the tab you want to access.

Overall blurry the lines between apps and web apps / browser, it could be the start of a web-based multiplatform OS in the users' eyes.

Bookmarks file, and BookmarkExtras is the thumbnails file.

How Opera was installed?

To make the question better: was it installed for "current user", "all users" or "standalone (portable)"? Or simpler: on what folder do you have Opera installed, program files or somewhere else?