Best posts made by stolis

The sooner you realize that this "fancy" new UI is a total failure and do something about it, the better. After so many complains and dislikes about it you keep walking on the same blind path, which I can only characterize it as "thin ice". I rolled back to 99 from day one and from what I see you don't seem willing to do nothing. Ten friends of mine have already moved to another browser and I'm just one step away from doing the same. You only keep pushing users away from Opera. These are the results of your unnecessary "experiments". The bottom line.

It's a pity.

@tastodd the sidebar button just opens a new tab while the "home" one that's been taken away didn't.

They could at least create a couple of different dark themes, letting users select the one they like

Speed Dial takes much longer to load.

I agree 100%. It's really sad seeing they aren't doing something about this after so long time. I also prefer the older gray color as well, by the way.

@lehuspohus: this is happening for quit some time now. Instead of having as their first priority fixing older bugs and chromium vulnerabilities (without any delays), they just keep adding new "features", creating new bugs-problems and without (most of the times) disabling options. Just by reading comments, you can easily understand how sloppy they've become.
They don't seem to realize that there's also a large number of users which have no need of such stuff and they just want a simple, light and (above all), "safe" browser to do their work.
I keep wonder if they even read users posts anymore.
So don't bother. It's a "take it or leave it" situation.

That little face when will be removed from SD? Completely unnecessary and reduces free space.
Please bring back home button and side bar tools at the top where they were. Or at least give us an option.
I don't like this new UI with rounded corners at all. Can't you at least offer some themes like all other browsers do?

And by the way, since you decided to change the "O" logo from red to grey, why my desktop shortcut remained red?
Will you finally decide which one are you going to use and do some serious work in there?

You may feel thrilled with these changes but a lot of us aren't.

@vegelund said in Opera 100.0.4815.76 Stable update:

@stolis

But according to the Wizards here; what us complaining stupid users don't understand, is that the (silent) majority like the 100 design.

These secret unicorns think it's an improvement over 99 and want this evolution and bubble mess.

Your and my preference is the problem, not the Opera design. Who could have guessed?

Don't worry. They'll soon enough find out that their magic had no effect on gaining new users. As for the "silent" majority just take a look on comments around the net. Everybody laughs. The stats speak from them self. As for us (the stupid ones), we've warned them.

@andrew84 said in Opera 100.0.4815.76 Stable update:

@stolis The same here. I'll continue using pre-100 version for daily browsing and Chrome or Edge for online payments and etc.
I have no wish to test and post bugs here until I'll see some noticeable improvements in the One's UI/UX.

Absolutely. They've messed up everything I loved on opera. Missed your nice and targeted posts by the way.

@kuroodo said in Opera 100.0.4815.76 Stable update:

@stolis Do you know which browsers they have moved on to? I'm also looking for a new browser after being forced into Opera one. I tried Vivaldi for a few days and loved it, but it had some performance issues.

Unfortunately you'll have to test in order to find one that fits you.

@himmelsheriff It's very simple. They were just enjoying opera as it was and now, with this messed up "upgrade" everybody got crazy.

@burnout426 Thanks for replying. About the command, i'm not sure how to use it. Where do i put the "--disable-site-isolation-trials" command exactly!
The problem does appear after login. What i can't understand is how nobody else seems to have this problem. And of course it's not normal to use extra commands every time, in order to make it work. Don't you think?
Just a little help with the command to check it out, though i believe it's a real problem they should fix.

While using Firefox in the past, when i was choosing the "open in new tab" option, it had this really nice feature showing the new opened tab without having to manually select it, like i do now in your browser.
I'd really like to see this in opera.

@leocg said:

@stolis First, Opera has some dozen of millions of users, so ten, twenty people don't seem to represent the majority of users.
Also, as usually always happen, the ones who didn't like the change are more active, making it look like they are a majority.

First: Opera used to have a dozen of million users. There’s a dozen of “desktop browsers market share” sites, showing the exact opposite. Worldwide-March 2020, opera 2,37% usage. Source https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide and many others. There’s no need mentioning.

Second: If you-they consider that the 50% of complaining posts about the withdrawal of previous instant search feature represent a minority of users, I’ve got nothing to say.

Third: The major problem every time they add a new feature, is that they also remove any kind of option for disabling them. At least in most of the cases. Allow me to say that this behavior doesn’t look nice. It seems like they don’t really care about their users. Now you might say that this is just a personal point of view which doesn’t represent the majority of opera users, but on the other side the complaining posts shows the exact opposite. Unless I have to return back to school to learn math’s from the beginning, cause it seems I can’t really understand the meaning of numbers.

So, I’d really like to know how they end up taking decisions about the usability of features if they don’t give attention on users complains in their own blog? From where they get the numbers you-they are talking about? Seems like their ignoring them.

Eventually even the existence of this blog turns to be useless as well.

@leocg said in How to deactivate the pop-up window of play, backspace, and increase opera volume?:

@dominusdrt As said in previous similar topics, try disabling opera://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling

Can you please tell me how to enter flags?

@burnout426 Thanks for the shortcut. Didn't know about it and i couldn't find it into the keyboard settings.
Either way i still believe that such an option into the tab settings it would be very useful.

@davey126: That's your personal opinion and i respect it. But the hole point is to improve
functionality, right? In this case there's a lot of people feeling frustrated with the absence of previous feature. Otherwise we wouldn't see that many posts about it.
So i believe they should reconsider their decision in this case and give users the opportunity to disable stuff they don't like. Don't you think?

@burnout426 I'm going to check on vivaldi as you suggest but i have to insist on this one. I don't want to use extra extensions for something that i believe is so simple to create. At least that's my opinion.
Of course it's up to chromium devs. I suppose it could be a suggestion from operas devs? Don't you think?

I rarely have more than 10 to 20 (max) open tabs, so "search in tabs" is totally useless to me. Please put an option in settings for disabling it or re-enabling the "Recently closed tabs/windows" button.

@javanekhalie said:

@stolis: That's exclusive for you. We're clearly not in the same boat. Even now. Simply bookmark all currently opened tabs. It comes in handy. As you don't lose your projects when you close your Opera Browser program. I am sure it is available on all the supported browsers.

What exactly is exclusive for me and why should i bookmark "all" opened tabs? What's the relevance with previous instant search feature, were talking about?

@alexis-borovik: so in your case (60 open tabs) you agree that removing "instant search" was unnecessary too? Sorry if i'm missing something.

@dnzrzx34 I've tried that, but as you can see yourself it does nothing It's still there.
Are you sure we're talking about the same thing? 'Cause if it doesn't appear to you how do you explain it? And just for the record, I'm on 85...60.