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Why is it automatically assumed one would only want to close all the tabs to the right from current tab? I've often came to a point where I had tons of tabs open, but I wanted to close them to the left of currently active tab. Why is this not an option available to the user?

When is this useful? When you for example open several image galleries and bunch of individual images from each of these galleries. But then you want to close all the tabs with galleries that remained on the left and only leave opened images on the right, because you only need images in the end. Currently, this is not possible because "Close tabs to the left" doesn't exist as a function.

Can we please get syncing of search engines? It's so annoying re-doing it EVERY bloody time on every system when I add a new search keyword to one of my systems. And same goes for Extensions. I use many of them and changing or adding them by hand on every reinstall or change gets really annoying. I mean, we have the Sync feature which is there for this exact purpose. Why not use it? Search engine keywords are one of the most awesome features I've used in any browser. No more clumsy search fields, you just drop a keyword and word you're searching for and it'll look it up. It's why sync is so important for it, so you have same search engines and keywords in all browsers no matter how much you add or remove them.

@leocg So, why it can't "co-exist" on iOS too? And don't tell me same lame excuses how iOS browsers aren't really whatever they are elsewhere. I don't know why Firefox can perfectly sync stuff. And how Opera could with Opera Mini before they sacked it. Or how Chrome, Edge and to some degree Brave (buggy but it has sync).

Is Opera ever going to get synchronization of search engines and extensions. I mean, for those of us who use several machines, it's really annoying to maintain every installation of Opera by hand for every change you make. And that also includes extensions and search engines. I want the same things in all my Opera installations. And syncing would allow that. Firefox does it, Chrome does it, just Opera doesn't for some bizarre reason.

Since Opera Mini for iOS was apparently sacked, there is no way of getting desktop bookmarks on mobile device since Opera Touch doesn't even have bookmarks, just MyFlow which isn't really useful at all. Are there even any plans for bookmarks syncing to see the day of light in Opera Touch?

Can you guys at Opera please change the behavior of tabs when many are open to be scrollable sideways at fixed size instead of shrinking them till they become 2 millimeters wide? It's ridiculous. Opera shrinks them so far you don't even see any text on them anymore. And to make things even worse, if you're using it on a touch device like my hybrid HP X2 netbook, using touch to select a correct tab is like trying to press a keyboard button using Boeing 787 left wing.

Firefox has this far more elegant. Tabs remain fixed size, so they are easily selectable, you can see the title on the tab, close it with the X button on it and to access more tabs, you simply drag the tabs and they scroll left and right.
Why can't Opera use such system instead of idiotic one from Chrome? Google makes many good designs, but with this one, they totally missed all the GUI and UX design basics. Like, entirely.

For example, Vivaldi allows installation of Chrome extensions out of the box, but for Opera you need to install an extension which by itself is consuming tons of memory for no logical reason other than simply being there. Why? Why not just make it a part of browser like Vivaldi has done?

Opera Mini for iOS is garbage with forced Google search and stupid news and Opera Touch does't have synced bookmarks.

My Flow is imo the most useless thing I've ever seen. Synced bookmarks mean you have bookmarks accessible on any device in their entirety. My Flow requires you to send specific thing, otherwise you have nothing. Not to mention I don't understand why Bookmarks can't be synced alongside. There's nothing preventing it. But Opera people decided to just exclude bookmarks altogether. I know iOS has its own stupid limitations, but none of it limit functionality of these browsers. It's the devs who just decide to f**k it all up so I have either good desktop browser and shitty mobile one or vice versa. It's ridiculous. Opera Touch would be great if only they added bookmarks syncing. And that's it.

@leocg Yet it replaced it because Opera Mini had Sync and it's gone and now all we have is useless pointless Flow.

What title says. And why? Xiaomi Mi5 64GB, MIUI 8.2.2.0 Global (Android 7.0).

This thing is really irritating. How on earth can this be so incredibly hard to figure out by devs? It's not like all Windows apps just randomly create "scoped_dir" named folders for the downloads. There is obviously a piece of code in Opera that does this specifically under certain situations entirely unknown to users.

The submission is bullshit. I was denied submission because allegedly my extension was only pointing to a website (lets ignore the fact you can't create a login for it because it's using special client side encryption -> ProtonMail). Also lets ignore the fact it was designed to always open new tab no matter what page you had open, it would open a new tab and load the login form for ProtonMail. And final nail in the coffin that pissed me off is the fact that people have such extensions on fucking Opera Addons page that literally just load a webpage, but mine was denied because "reasons". And all this time no one gave ANY frigging reply for weeks. I was just waiting like retard until I got pissed off and started demanding answers and then someone arrogantly said it was denied because it's "just a link". Bullshit. Now I have to host the damn thing on my site and I basically stopped using it because I use it as a bookmark now and have to always specifically open an empty tab for it. Anyway, rant off, I'm surprised Opera Addons page isn't more dead given how shitty their support and submission process is.

@leocg That's BS and you know it. Then why was superior Opera Mini with Sync replaced with garbage a** Opera Touch without sync, but has the useless Flow? What else is that than Flow replacing Sync? Also why the hell would you need "something to quickly share something between phone and desktop"? If you're sharing it from a phone, that means you're not actually near a computer, otherwise you'd be doing it on a computer in the first place. And it can't be "oh I did something on a phone and want to put it on PC now". Sync does that without you having to explicitly "send" something through stupid Flow which is just a glorified messenger where you can essentially only chat with yourself. Most useless thing I've ever seen ever and they killed other stuff in favor of this trash.

Why? And I'm suppose to copy it manually on all my systems every time when Opera Sync could do this automatically? This is literally why Opera Sync exists. S you don't have to manually do everything on all systems. It just syncs by itself and you have everything everywhere.

This is the 3rd time this month that Opera has just decided for whatever reason that ALL of my extensions are somehow unsafe and that they ALL have to be disabled. Twice on my laptop and just moments ago on my PC. What the hell? Stop doing this, it's freaking annoying.

I want to use DuckDuckGo, but it's so annoying to manually switch from Google to DuckDuckGo for every damn search. So, why can't we define a preferred default search engine of user choice and not stuff damn Google down our throats for everything?

@gustavwiz said in Synchronization of search engines and extensions, when?:

And I'm suppose to copy it manually on all my systems every time when Opera Sync could do this automatically?

Correctly understood.

What's the point of having Sync then? Like, seriously...

Are we going to see this feature on desktop Opera as well? I know you can use extensions and stuff, but I prefer when Opera does all this out of the box, because it's more efficient than fat extensions that take gazillion megabytes of memory for most trivial things...

I want extension syncing as well. But settings and state of extensions (enabled or disabled) should be per-PC. Sometimes you want different settings between PC and laptop devices. But having them synced is certainly a must.

In fact I want 3 more things to be synced:

• extensions
• RSS subscriptions
• search engines

Almost everyone use more than 1 device these days and managing all this stuff over and over again for each PC is just ridiculous, especially for things that are universally useful across all systems (liek synced custom search engines and keywords for them).

I love Opera, but what really annoys me is the fact it updates itself and then opens up some general "What's new page" that doesn't really tell me what got updated (for example Opera 51 release showed the same "What's new" page as it was for Opera 50), so that's not exactly helpful. Can you guys make it work like Firefox does it? When it updates, it opens up a nice webpage of all the important highlights for the given update. I know you can go to Opera Desktop Blog, but the sorting of posts there is a mess and the info often comes a lot later which is annoying. Why not present it directly to the user so we always know what new goodies exactly we got. You can go explaining them into details later on Opera Desktop Blog, but a summary of new stuff like Firefox team does it would be greatly appreciated. It's one of things Mozilla does best out of all browsers, hands down. Having option to later access the changelog for version you're currently using (and all the old ones) would also be a nice thing to have so you can always check again what was the new stuff for your current version and also what was released in the past.

FIREFOX EXAMPLE:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/