Just because devs thinks it's nifty from a user interface standpoint ( at the time of a clean install), that doesn't mean it improves the actual user experience. Instead of always having to hunt through a jumbled mess of disorganized icons to find the one you're looking for, the ability to rearrange icons allows you to know where and how each extension can be accessed at all times.Īnyway, even if the trend in browsers development is less user customization rather than more, that doesn't mean locked toolbars are a useful feature (or even a good idea in the first place). In fact, the placing of extensions which sometimes require an icon click (like LastPass, SimpleUndoRecents, Session Buddy, Flash Video Downloader, Video downloader professional, Click&Clean, uBlock Origin and HTTPS everywhere, just to name a few) can be pretty important. It'd be nice if Opera finally offered the same functionality.
But yes, many of us want to invest space in a classic menubar, and the reasons are above.Chrome currently allows you to rearrange extension icons. Of course, I respect that other users may not find it useful, and I'm OK with it being optional as it was in Opera 12.x. This alone is a reason why, for me, the classic menu bar is worth much more than the space it supposedly "wastes". This means that (1) you don't have to learn how to perform these standard functions in each program because they can be performed in the same way in every program, and (2) if you use several programs during a session (as most of us do), you don't have to think "now where was the print option in this particular program?" They all have a standard interface so printing something is pretty much unconscious, and therefore immediate. For example, "Print" is always under "File", "Find" is always under "Edit", and "Zoom" is always under "View", and there is always a "Help" menu which is the last one to the right - this happens not only in Opera 12.x with the menu bar enabled, but in every application that uses menu bars and has those functions. Classic menu bars have common standards that apply across all programs.
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