I also believe that this option should come back. I don't understand the reason why it's replaced by this non-functional search in the tabs feature... also instead of removing instant search please enhance it more, for example let us be able to change the search engine other than google...

@diegosdf

Could you please tell me why you guys removed Instant Search (google) from the latest version? A lot of people liked the feature, please tell me there are plans to bring it back.

people are complaining about this everywhere. I hope they bring it back if they are not going to I hope they can give us an explanation about what did they think? why did they drop that feature?

is there any dev in here that can tell us anything about this? obviously a lot of users are upset...

hello,

• instead of closing the window with cmd+w / ctrl+w it would be nice to turn back to the start page.
• I believe it's a useful feature because sometimes I quickly close all the tabs one after another and end up closing the whole window and then open a new window again. instead of this, it would be nice if opera stops and displays the start page.

thank you.

@ab-garcez

I also miss the top right drop-down menu.

you can still have it just disable opera://flags#search-in-open-tabs

@leocg @diegosdf

Sometimes keeping a feature that very few people use may not worth the cost.

I understand this "costs", but opera is an innovative browser right? instant search was a super innovative feature. they should be improving it more, not dropping it. I prefer opera to see this feature as something they can promote for more people to use. they give up too quickly.

problem is what kind of user base they are aiming right now? if the quality of that user base will determine the features in the future and if opera choose to make a browser for more average user it makes me a bit worry because I don't know how innovative and feature-rich it can get with this approach. this is why I think they need to keep listening to some of their users who demand more capability and practical design.

I believe more advance user base what opera needs. for promoting itself, defending itself against haters, etc. if you give me a good product that I really believe and feel like I'm a part of, I'll promote it and defend it.

@avl why not both can exist at the same time? why it has to be one or the other? instant search feature should be enhanced in my honest opinion. we should be able to search in tabs, bookmarks, history, extensions, under the hood shortcuts, web search with custom search engines, etc.

another option I can think of -and I believe this can be a bit more sustainable in your part; is using the enhanced address bar in a similar way. like how firefox did. you can make it bigger on focus and look (maybe) and behave similarly to the spotlight in macos? I really liked the enhanced address bar and maybe it can become a very cool feature and make everyone happy?

I can't believe we don't have this man... just... sigh...

@andrew84 I believe they don't care about their users anymore and that's a very good excuse to leave Opera and start using Vivaldi...

people are concerning about chinese ownership and saying that china has a bad record with human rights. same people are giving all their info to google and/or facebook voluntarily and become their product and this is better than what they think about china? neither is good and I believe some of this concerns can be acceptable. what opera should do with this is that they should be more transparent about all this, not complete silence. people are thinking that some things are not right. this is just bad management of a corporate image. they should do better.

@jhoguinal google is evil

I think adding all this to the sidebar discord, twitter, etc. are all related to the ram usage of the browser. if devs can find a way to make it work within the acceptable levels of ram usage they would add them immediately.

maybe you just missed it in the settings.

@pb4072 sorry I couldn't help more. you can try reddit r/operabrowser don't go back to safari, I suggest you to try vivaldi and firefox first.

again it makes no sense what you are describing as a problem. it should be working wfine. I'm not having any similar issues as you are, it's not reproducible. cheers...

@pb4072 normally you should be able to drag them when you are on the bookmarks page. it works fine for me. there shouldn't be a problem.

are you using the latest stable opera release? do you have any addons installed? which macOS what kind of mac?

@pb4072 if you want them to appear in the bookmarks bar you just need to drag them to Bookmarks Bar on the left.

it sounds weird. maybe you can file a bug report for this.

@pb4072

Where are my bookmarks?

Alt+Cmd+B

Why aren't they already showing?

This is a default behaviour in most of the browsers as far as I know.

I've turned on the "bookmarks bar," but, it's just empty.

You need to bookmark some webpages for this or import yours with an HTML file.

@blackbird71 opera is testing new browser features on bats and other different animals in labs. don't tell me you never heard that?

opera has a built-in instagram feature, but instagram account of opera has its last post on september 2019, which is a bit interesting...

I think they are going to add recently closed tabs feature into this search in tabs feature? no? if so, what they are doing is right. because this is a search feature, so it makes sense that they are building it first and then other features will be added. if it's going to stay like this it really makes no sense.

@pchamorro exactly, it's about opera. which is a chromium-based browser.