Posts made by ricardob

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"New look"

This is the "New GX Look".

I would like an option to disable it. Too bad it is being forcefully imposed now. I hate forced things that affects personal tastes.

Opera GX was the last refuge against Opera One bad UI. Not anymore, it seems.

Nice copy+paste of the changelog of the previous version.

@bestcodes said in Eric André and Opera GX bury boring browsers in chaotic rampage:

P.S. If you have issues with Opera, the tech support is awesome, just ask them to fix it and be positive and thankful.

Clearly, neither you nor Opera QA care to fix important bugs; people are reporting the same bugs in every single release since Opera One (v100). One or two critical are fixed every 2 or 3 months, but a truck of critical regressions remains.

I care about Opera, but it has taken the path of corruption. The less than 3% market share it has is proved by its [missing] quality.

Paying fanboys to lie about your problems is the way to become more irrelevant.

Good bye.

@lord-of-the-lost "Opera Software" is a single company, it should not waste money anywhere. Unless it wants to break.

GX, imo, is a temporary product made more likely for marketing purposes; some day it will be discontinued. Perhaps the broken One ui will be force-pushed into it even before it is discontinued.

One ui shouldn't have been pushed into Stable channel yet. It is clear Opera Software doesn't have developers capable of fixing it properly, and so the worst decision was made: rush it the way it was (a big unstable mess).

One may argue that Opera is trying to earn more money with such marketing partnerships . Well, it has been doing that for several years already, but the quality of its product is only decreasing. Inefficient strategy.

Other than that, the video is a good metaphor for what the Opera team is doing with the reputation of the browser, ie, hammering it until there is nothing good left to remember. Or, from a different perspective, this may be what old users will do to their computers after using Opera One for a few days.

I bet that the money wasted in this marketing campaign could pay some months of a new developer capable of fixing a lot of bugs.

"opera_gx_splash" itself is a nuisance that I'm sure never made a single user happy. Opera has long become a browser to be avoided, except for one or other feature, just like any other thing made only for invasive marketing purposes.

I'm glad GX still uses the not-so-broken traditional UI, now that "Opera One" UI is a broken and unusable thing since its birth.

Hey Opera team, you are ruining the reputation of Opera Browser every single day!

@leocg Not irrelevant is a company that pretends to be trustworthy, but hides a crap video like that and pushes a new version just to add it.

@leocg No, this video is hidden inside a file resource on the new version. You can notice the installer size increase:

Opera_GX_104.0.4944.60_Setup_x64.exe = 133,65 MB (140.138.816 bytes)
Opera_GX_104.0.4944.70_Setup_x64.exe = 142,80 MB (149.735.248 bytes)

This is the result of this video being included in splash.exe in addition to the other two normal tiny videos used in the splash screen.

So, Opera GX v104.0.4944.70 was released just to bundle an 8MB bizarre comedy video inside opera_gx_splash.exe, really?

Instead, security updates next time, please.

See the video here

@raphaelbm They should have updated to this: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html

Congrats for upgrading Chromium to an old version, now that a new one was released yesterday.

@burnout426 It wasn't updated for this stable release. Perhaps you could remember the responsible.

@aokog They are preparing for a major UI redesign for next version (100). Be prepared for a full wagon of new bugs, coming soon. For example, the option "Disable tab bar's top spacing when browser window is maximized" will not work anymore.

Hey Opera mods, you gonna publish the update for this extension? Dev already pushed the update, you need just to publish it.

Not on changelog, but it seems the empty space at speeddials' top was fixed. Thanks.

Tony Stark doesn't approve devs working on Aria instead of fixing bugs.