To many colors, too intense, too frivolous, to crowded, busy etc. Like happened earlier, the tab icons are muddy, crammed; you can't find your tabs anymore. A browser is not a Christmas tree.

@darkskys There is some reset, but on my screen they are (overwhelmingly) larger than before. But maybe I changed my settings after the initial shrinkage and mutilation.

Edit: yes, I did, there's an option 'larger tiles'. Unchecked it, and it's back to ' normal'.

I keep using the old version because of this, the result immediately after update:

"like a water color in the rain"

This happened in the past, and it was repaired. Or can anybody tell me whether this is a setting?

And please taske away this welcoming logo, the internet is not a zoo where we come to admire new animals. Most people use their browser as a tool, not as a piece of art.

I think in (certainly rigorous) updates the policy should be inverted: let user choose what they consider useful and what they consider rubbish before ruining the UI completely for those that use internet/Opera for work/useful things. Without asking you end up being disoriented with icons moved, tab icons blurred and muddy and other diverting and distracting silliness. And make a clear button to choose and have executed a complete roll-back after trying the new fads.

Today again I lost all my tabs. This happened just by clicking something by accident. In the settings I checked to be warned when I'd close multiple tabs, but this is not a solution to the prevent this risk. I was not warned. I did not have to click twice. One click and months of work lost.

I know there's a workaround deleting sessions and tabs in a roaming folder and this regularly works, but not so this time.

For years people are complaining about this, and this issue has severe consequences (making Opera more suited for fun than for serious work). I don't understand this still is not solved.

A simple solution might be you can set the number of tabs and sessions 'files' to save, say 5, instead of the two I found now and that both contained only one tab. Both AI and human minds can understand that when the content of the tabs files goes from many to one * ) this is a rigorous change that takes a deliberate decision, so it would be justified to ask '"You are about to delete XX tabs, are you sure?"

Could Opera please be made a safer place when serious working with is concerned?

• ) the major cause of losing all my tabs generally is that some webpage opens a new window without my knowing. Or by accident I do so myself. Today however by accident I opened a page in a new window and at the same time the window with all my tabs was gone. Which I found out after closing the accidentally opened window.

@joshkauff I think the tabs had margins before, now they don't have that anymore, which causes a blur when you have many tabs open. This was on my screen before and after:

Every few minutes the bookmark bar pops up, although the setting is 'no bookmark bar'. When it switch it off, it pops up again within a short time. This occurs since a few days ago. I never used a bookmark bar.

@leocg Thank for responding. I knew that option, and I used to find a previous tab. But I did not consider it a menu ;-). I also knew you could use it to restore the lost tabs (equivalent to a short cut), but I preferred the tried and proven method of deleting the last tabs and session files.

The core of the matter seems to me not the remedy but the cause. Sometimes (or regularly) a new window is opened in Opera without the user knowing. In that case one window, the open and known one, contains x tabs ( x being some to a lot) and the other, invisible and unknown, contains only one tab. When the user closes the window he knows (no warning), the until then unknown and invisible new window appears. Now you have to be alert, prepared and aware you have lost your work and closing this new window maybe makes it worse, you have to know how to proceed. This went well until last week. I don't know exactly what went wrong. There is some (short)key on the right of the keyboard that by touching by accident made this happen.

This could be prevented when Opera would inform you that when you close a window with a lot of tabs (>1?, >10) there still is a window open and you might lose you tabs. It does warn you you close a lot of tabs (including the number), but that warning appears regardless there being another window open.

I have the impression there were more tabs and sessions files before then there were last week, so maybe there was something changed?

Another solution might be a 'save my tabs (for this window)' button appearing when you close down.

How do I get rid of this unwanted timewasting garbage? There is nothing in the settings to switch this off. When you search for 'emoji' there's nothing found. Every time I hover over a tab rolling eyes appear. I feel spied upon. Very uncomfortable.

Suddenly all my history has gone, and Opera only records history for one or two days. Until a few weeks ago it still worked. W7. Checked all my settings, nothing that could explain this.

@leocg I close Opera every night before I shut down my computer. That seems normal to me. The popup then says something like "You're closing X tabs, are you sure? Don't worry, they'll be restored...". Then Opera closes...that window. Generally this all goes well. However, sometime you find there is still another window open. You may have forgotten, but in my case I never knew it was there (like when opened by some website). Then all your tabs are lost. Until recently you could then remove the last tabs and sessions file and you were safe. This does not work anymore. Since this unknown or unaware window is the last one you used, as far as I know, your closed tabs are also gone (hard to test, for if the test fails your tabs are gone). Of course one could be suspicious every day (seems not good for user experience to me) and check whether there's a hidden window still open, but how much effort is it to warn you you're closing your window with many tabs, that you will lose, for there is also a window with only one tab (of a few) still open which (contrary to the reassuring popup text) will mean all your tabs are lost? Over the years I've seen multiple posts here of people losing hundreds of tabs this way. Why does Opera offer all kinds of user-friendliness and convenience, like storing passwords, but in this case tells us to be disciplined? But if possible I'll check the option you mention. I now use history but that only keeps record for three months.

@leocg You generally may not know there's multiple windows open. You may have forgotten, websites open extra windows without you knowing, you may have clicked a mail in a way that opens an extra window. You can't expect users to keep track of the number of windows open.

This is a lasting problem. Happend to me again yesterday. There are remedies; they say there's a shortcut and there's one with removing a file in a folder 'Session'. However, by now it is clear to me Opera (for years by now, this issue is reported regularly) stubbornly refuses to repair this design and programming error. When you close Opera there's a reassuring pop-up, 'Don't worry', you have X tabs open, Opera will restore them when you open it again. This is not true. You may have multiple Windows open, some opened by you, but you forgot, some may be opened by a website. A mail in Outlook may be opened in a separate window, which may happen unintended and unaware easily. When you click 'close' in the popup you will lose all you open tabs, despite the reassuring message. Until recently I could get them back with the Sessions trick, but this doesn't work anymore.

Dear Opera, please repair this: when you have multiple Windows open, at closing Opera please make a popup with a clear warning (in Red): you have X windows open and show the number of tabs in each one. Opera should make sure you don't close (without the correct warning) the window with most, say 70, tabs, when there is another windows with less (generally one) tab still open, throw those 70 away and open the one with the one tab the next time. One shouldn't need remove files to repair this error (the popup is misleading, Opera does not perform as notified). People lose weeks or months of work, just of poor design and programming. It's no rocket science, making this work. You may understand I'm a bit annoyed, so please forgive me the harsh tone. This will take hours to find and reopen my work again.

The R3 update made my PC completely paralyzed. Cursor does not appear anymore in taskbar, Ctrl-T does not respond anymore. Improvement in startup time, from 15-20 minutes to 10. Was far less until three days ago. Yesterday empty Opera screen, now full screen, but no response to mouse or keyboard. By now Opera made me wait for an hour to be able to start working.

I just want it to be seen I think AI is a very bad thing and I switch off everything AI in Opera. AI can be useful, but in the end its main/net effect is found in rewarding bad intentions (eliminating human efforts), bad motivations (laziness), poor judgement (acceptance of sheer nonsensical results as technical achievement). Its effects are also disastrous for the environment (water, energy), which will lead to wars over these resources. AI is not an objective next logical step. People should be more aware and AI should be used and applied more consciously and by that only used by choice.

@CPE420 my guess is Opera is continuously trying to keep out youtube ads. YT is continuously trying to put ads in Opera. I think every day both are trying to fence off each others technical strategies. When the fight is fierce we get these issues. I prefer to have these annoyances over the mind-damaging effects of the youtube ads.

After the new update Opera does not work anymore when started up. It seems to stall for at least five (ten?) minutes. After terminating via Windows Task Manager (that shows action) and starting up again it seems a bit better, but in the end I same result. It seems Opera needs about ten minutes to open. This was far less before the update. Anyway, yesterday and today I could not work for half an hour, trying to get Opera working. Even after closing 40 tabs no improvement today. I'm curious what I gained in functionality with this update.

I now start working in Firefox until Opera has gained consciousness.

@leocg Thank for responding. I knew that option, and I used to find a previous tab. But I did not consider it a menu ;-). I also knew you could use it to restore the lost tabs (equivalent to a short cut), but I preferred the tried and proven method of deleting the last tabs and session files.

The core of the matter seems to me not the remedy but the cause. Sometimes (or regularly) a new window is opened in Opera without the user knowing. In that case one window, the open and known one, contains x tabs ( x being some to a lot) and the other, invisible and unknown, contains only one tab. When the user closes the window he knows (no warning), the until then unknown and invisible new window appears. Now you have to be alert, prepared and aware you have lost your work and closing this new window maybe makes it worse, you have to know how to proceed. This went well until last week. I don't know exactly what went wrong. There is some (short)key on the right of the keyboard that by touching by accident made this happen.

This could be prevented when Opera would inform you that when you close a window with a lot of tabs (>1?, >10) there still is a window open and you might lose you tabs. It does warn you you close a lot of tabs (including the number), but that warning appears regardless there being another window open.

I have the impression there were more tabs and sessions files before then there were last week, so maybe there was something changed?

Another solution might be a 'save my tabs (for this window)' button appearing when you close down.

@leocg Hi, thanks for responding. I never saw any tab menu. I just googled for it, and never saw something like the picture showed. I used the tried and proven method of removing the last tabs and sessions files, but this time that didn't work for the previous version(s) were already gone.

Today again I lost all my tabs. This happened just by clicking something by accident. In the settings I checked to be warned when I'd close multiple tabs, but this is not a solution to the prevent this risk. I was not warned. I did not have to click twice. One click and months of work lost.

I know there's a workaround deleting sessions and tabs in a roaming folder and this regularly works, but not so this time.

For years people are complaining about this, and this issue has severe consequences (making Opera more suited for fun than for serious work). I don't understand this still is not solved.

A simple solution might be you can set the number of tabs and sessions 'files' to save, say 5, instead of the two I found now and that both contained only one tab. Both AI and human minds can understand that when the content of the tabs files goes from many to one * ) this is a rigorous change that takes a deliberate decision, so it would be justified to ask '"You are about to delete XX tabs, are you sure?"

Could Opera please be made a safer place when serious working with is concerned?

• ) the major cause of losing all my tabs generally is that some webpage opens a new window without my knowing. Or by accident I do so myself. Today however by accident I opened a page in a new window and at the same time the window with all my tabs was gone. Which I found out after closing the accidentally opened window.