Topics tagged with feature request

[Suggestion]Add an "Auto-Mute Mods when Minimized" Toggle Feature

jamicax — Invalid Date

I absolutely love using custom Mods with unique background music and typing sounds. However, I’ve noticed a minor annoyance: whenever I minimize Opera GX to work on something else or play a game, the mod's background music keeps playing in the background.

Right now, the only workaround is to manually mute the background music every single time before minimizing, or completely close the browser.

Proposed Solution: It would be a massive quality-of-life upgrade if developers added a toggle in the Mod settings called "Automatically mute mod audio when browser is minimized." This would keep the immersive experience intact when active, without disrupting our workflow when we step away. What do you guys think?

Auto-Hide Bookmarks Bar

djtd2854l — Invalid Date

Hi Opera Team,

I've been a loyal Opera user for a long time, especially for features like Lucid Mode and the integrated sidebar. However, there is one essential UI/UX feature missing that is making the browsing experience feel cluttered, especially for users on smaller monitors or those who prefer a minimalist setup.

The Problem:
Currently, we only have two options: always show the Bookmarks Bar or always hide it.

Always Show: Takes up valuable vertical screen real estate, which is frustrating during active browsing.

Always Hide: Makes it tedious to access bookmarks quickly without using shortcuts or the sidebar.

The Solution:
Please add an option to "Show Bookmarks Bar only on New Tab / Speed Dial." This is a standard feature in almost every other Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave).

Why this is important:

Efficiency: It allows quick access to bookmarks when starting a new session but hides them automatically once a website is loaded to provide a full-screen experience.

Modern UI: It aligns with Opera’s philosophy of a clean and immersive interface.

User Retention: Many power users are considering switching to other browsers just for this specific toggle.

Implementing this wouldn't be a huge task since the engine already supports it, but it would be a massive Quality of Life (QoL) update for the community.

Looking forward to seeing this in the next developer stream or stable build!

Best regards,
An User

option to hide bookmarks while typing in the searchbar

clement4962 — Invalid Date

option to hide bookmarks while typing in the searchbar

hello, i think that it could be a good thing for the look of opera and a good feature (that every other browser have right now) and it would be a good privacy feature in the same time if someone is trying to search something on your computer... this feature would make opera looks cleaner showing just what you toggled on/off in the searchbar

[Suggestion] Ability to Save AI Conversations as Offline Pages

theodat — Invalid Date

Dear Opera Team,

I hope this message finds you well. I am a user of Opera AI and truly appreciate the powerful assistance it provides. However, I have noticed that currently, there is no option to save our AI conversations as offline pages.

It would be incredibly helpful if you could consider adding a feature that allows users to save or export their AI chat conversations for offline access. This would enable users to revisit important information, suggestions, or ideas anytime, even without an internet connection.

Split Screen in Opera Air

ribeirowski — Invalid Date

@Mlipka Niceee! Very good to know!

Request Option to delete specific synced data from Opera cloud

leocg — Invalid Date

@Mohammed-Meraz1233 I guess they would have to completely change how synchronisation works and storing the data encrypted probably would not be possible.

Option to center bookmarks on the Bookmarks Bar

LynZK — Invalid Date

I’ve been a long-time Opera user, and one feature I really miss is the ability to center the bookmarks on the Bookmarks Bar.

Currently, bookmarks and folders are aligned to the left, but I use a lot of folders and I’d prefer to keep them centered for better visibility and balance. Having a setting or toggle (left / center / right alignment) would make the Bookmarks Bar much more flexible and user-friendly.

On a personal note, I sometimes struggle with organization, and having the bookmarks neatly centered would help me keep things more visually balanced. Besides being more practical, I think it would also look beautiful.

I’m using the regular Opera Developer version (early build) (Regular Opera)

Center the bookmarks on the Bookmarks bar

LynZK — Invalid Date

@sgunhouse Thanks mate, the translator sucks.

Yeah, actually i have this "need" of organization in bookmarks because having it full sucks

anyway, i will rewrite this

[Request]Return a distinct theme again for private window

[[global:former_user]] — Invalid Date

@OpBrow

yes some kind of marker to easily identify if its a private window would be great. why has it been removed ?

[Request:] Sinhala Language Support in Opera’s Built-In Translator

Sandaru-Wije — Invalid Date

Dear Opera Team,

I am a loyal Opera user and appreciate the excellent design, smooth performance, and built-in features your browser offers on Android. I especially value Opera’s built-in web page translator, which is very convenient for reading global content.

However, I have noticed that the current built-in translator does not support the Sinhala language (සිංහල), which is spoken by millions of users in Sri Lanka and around the world. Sinhala is the primary official language of Sri Lanka and is increasingly used in online content, including news, social media, and academic websites.

Adding Sinhala language support to Opera’s web page translator would be extremely helpful for Sinhala-speaking communities who want to seamlessly browse and translate web content. It would improve accessibility, user experience, and expand Opera’s appeal across South Asia.

Please consider including Sinhala in the list of supported languages for your built-in web page translator in future updates. It would be a valuable and much-appreciated addition for many Opera users.

Thank you for your time and for your continued innovation.

Kind regards,
[A dedicated Opera user from Sri Lanka]

[Suggestion] Allow mass "add to offline pages"

chilldude22 — Invalid Date

We can mass select tabs, and we can even "add to" all selected tabs, but offline pages isn't an option in the mass select.

Add to offline pages available for a single tab:

Add to available for multiple tabs selected:

But offline not an option:

[Suggestion]Show which trackers were blocked

Chi-oma — Invalid Date

Let me see who's tracking me — not just block them

Opera should stop hiding the war. We (the users) want to see it.

Opera silently blocks trackers, and cookies and while that’s good, we (the users) can't verify if it works because Opera does so silently. The browser protects you in the shadows. That’s not enough. I want visibility, insights and evidence.

Opera should show me which sites try to fingerprint? Who’s pinging third-party servers? Which scripts are trying to detect my device configuration, canvas ID, audio stack? Who’s building a shadow profile off my font list and screen resolution?

Opera should not just block, rather, it should expose.

Opera should give us (the users) a per-site privacy dashboard. Every time a tracker is blocked, I want to know when it was blocked and have a knowledge of it being blocked. A notification, an alert, or a log should show up when creepy things happen behind the scenes when a site is visited. Opera should let me drill into the details. It should tell me who tried the creepy behaviour, what method did the user or organisation use to try the creepy act, and when did who-knows-who try the creepy act?

Right now, privacy on Opera is a black box. That creates trust for some, but limits control for the rest of us. Power users don’t want passive protection. We want a transparent firewall, a window into the fight.

Opera should let us (the users) whitelist specific scripts, let us (the users) see attempted tracking events, not just the ones you caught. Name the culprits (the user (s) or organisation (s)) responsible for it.

Opera already has a browser AI. It should feed the data into it. Let the AI summarize tracking attempts, score privacy aggression per site, detect emerging fingerprinting techniques — and let it speak to us (the users).

Data visibility is privacy’s second half. Without it, I’m blind, even when I’m protected.

Opera can lead the industry here. Brave already does this, but Chrome doesn't. Firefox makes it obscure (uncertain). Opera should make privacy visual, interactive, and actionable. It should let users feel the friction. It should let us see the claws behind the glass.

It should give us insight, not just insulation.

Benefits of this feature:

It empowers users with real-time awareness of tracking attempts.
It builds trust by showing what Opera is actually doing under the hood.
It encourages transparency and user education on digital privacy threats.
It appeals to power users and privacy enthusiasts who demand granular control.
This differentiates Opera from some other competitors with a unique, AI-powered privacy visualization layer.

Privacy boost — give users real control, not checkbox illusions

leocg — Invalid Date

@Chi-oma One suggestion per topic please

[Suggestion]Desktop view by site and not by domain

Chi-oma — Invalid Date

Have you ever get stuck in desktop view on a mobile browser just because one page on a domain needed it? It’s a bad experience. Here's the core issue: Opera applies desktop view at the domain level, not the site level. That means if you enable desktop view for messages.google.com, it carries over to gemini.google.com. Gemini and Google Messages are completely different services and they have totally different layouts. One setting shouldn't hijack both sites or other sites with the same domain.

This isn't how modern browsing should work. Subdomains are separate entities with different UI requirements. Treating them as one service, just because they have the same domain name, ignores how the web actually functions.

Opera needs a smarter layout control system.

Here are my suggestions/what we (the users) need:

A toggle that can be used to switch between mobile view and desktop view per site and not per domain.
For example, mail.example.com is not news.example.com.
Persistent layout memory: Let users lock a site in desktop or mobile mode until they say otherwise.
Temporal overrides: Sometimes you want desktop view just this once. Opera doesn't have to save it unless the user asks.
A layout manager UI: A list of saved layout preferences, will help we (the users) to view and edit which sites are locked in which mode.

This upgrade is just about users' control. The Opera Team should give we (the users) the freedom to tailor our browsing experience site-by-site, not be stuck with clunky domain-level assumptions.

Opera’s always been the browser that dares to do things differently. This is another time to push that boundary again.

[Duplicated][Suggestion]Possibility to save Aria's chat on the Opera account

[[global:former_user]] — Invalid Date

I would like all the chat on Aria to be saved on my Opera account and can be transferred to other devices with Opera and my Opera account.

[Suggestion]Functionnality to pin any chat on Aria :3

[[global:former_user]] — Invalid Date

I would like to have the possibility of pinning any chat on Arial to prevent her deletion and getting him up at the top of the list

Search History Using "Natural Language" through Aria LLM

leocg — Invalid Date

@nimbark76 Probably because you didn't reach the minimum requirements for that yet.

Due to a recent attack of spam in the forum, the criteria for allowing start posting without approval had to be changed.

[Suggestion]A toggle to hide all the UI, including the Top Navigation.

leocg — Invalid Date

@mpstaton Opera has its own snapshot tool and you can use it to take a screenshot of just the page

Tab actions

leocg — Invalid Date

@HandIzivi We will know when they release a version with those features.

By the way, one suggestion per topic please.

What happened to highlight feature in Opera gx?

StuckGuy — Invalid Date

Hey, anyone else miss the feature where if you highlighted a number (like 100kg), it’d pop up with the conversion (225lb) right above it? or highlighting a word and options pop up above it, I can’t find it anymore. Was it removed or am I just missing a setting? If it’s gone, can we get it back? That thing was super useful.