I do not like the dimming of the page in the redesigned address bar. Please keep the old behaviour around.

The reborn bar replacing the extension bar poses a problem.
Whereas the extension bar lived below the address bar, the reborn bar lays on top of everything and when expanded to show an extension panel, it would steal quite a bit of space from the tabs and address bar.

This is particularly egregious at lower resolutions, such as the typical 1366x768 of most run off the mill, cheap-ish Notebooks.

Also it messes with your muscle memory, because it moves around the navigation controls every time you switch.

I would really, really, like an option to confine the reborn bar below the address bar.

I tend to keep my (V7 extension) bookmarks visible and while real estate is at a premium, this new layout messes up my work-flow.

This is my browser window right now, in Opera 53:
*(I still use Opera 53 due to a longstanding bug that disables subpixel font rendering in opera internal pages and interface.)


This is what it would be reduced to, with the reborn bar:


And there are only 22 Tabs. Imagine with 100+...

@andrew84: There is one in the preferences and with right click menu.
What is missing though is the option to change the order of icons within the bar.

I really don't like the reborn 3 dropdown. Especially the fact that it greys out the full page when you start typing.
Can it be made a permanent config option instead of just a flag?

Recently Opera started creating a new session upon startup even when it's already running.

How can I make it reuse the current session instead?

Old Opera had the option to open local files directly, eg. with Libreoffice.
Could that be implemented in an extension?
Also it allowed to pass the url only to the external app. Useful for external downloaders and as a "1 click" function to instantly stream videos in VLC instead of downloading.

BTW - For Fedora users: The "Russian Fedora" Repos has it all nicely packaged. Including the ffmpeg libs.

To opera devs:

Why don't you just unbundle ffmpeg and use the system-default one?

Largely most people have already installed a "competent" ffmpeg library anyway...

The russian-fedora community repo carries all of the opera RPMs. http://ru.fedoracommunity.org/repository