Posts made by winecurmudgeon

@viewer2012 Thanks.. that worked.

Is it possible to remove the extension icon from the address bar in Opera 69? I don't need it, since I use the sidebar -- and it just popped up after Opera updated.

I've tried right clicking, dragging and dropping, and all to no avail. I'm running Xubuntu 18,04.

Thanks for your help.

The Trufflepiggy extension sort of does the same thing as Instant Search. You can click the icon in the toolbar, and it loads a floating search box on the current page. It's not very minimal or pretty, but it does work. No way to move the icon to the sidebar, though.

There's also a Chrome and Firefox extension called Sidebar+, but I haven't been able to get it to work in Opera, Chrome or Firefox.

Instant search was easily the best thing about Opera. Honestly, what's the difference between any of the modern browsers? That it was discontinued "because not enough people used it" speaks to how decisions are made in developing software these days. How many people are enough?

It's the same reason I can't move the hamburger menu in Firefox from the right to the left, and why the Lightning extension sometimes vanishes when Thunderbird is updated. Software is developed to make it easier for the developers, and not the users.

An Instagram extension? Who is kidding who? How many Instagram users use Opera?