[Tip] How to Disable New Redesigned Address bar in Opera Browser

Opera team just released a new version of its popular web browser “Opera” which comes with new features and fixes. If you upgraded or installed the new version of Opera browser, you might have immediately noticed the new redesigned address bar which appears in form of a pop-up showing matching websites from your browsing history and search suggestions.

This new enhanced address bar automatically dims (grayed out) the opened web page content and puts focus on the address bar entries. This new address bar UI comes with many other layout changes as well such as website titles are now displayed instead of URLs, website logos/favicons are now also displayed in suggestions.

Following screenshot shows the new redesigned address bar in Opera web browser:

This new address bar is actually called “Reborn 3 (R3) Dropdown” and it was under development and testing recently. We told you how to activate and enable this new advanced address bar in Opera browser’s older versions in following tutorial:

[Opera Tip] Enable New Redesigned “Reborn 3” Dropdown Suggestions UI in Address bar

Now Opera team has activated and enabled this new R3 address bar UI for all Opera users and newer versions of Opera browser come with this new redesigned address bar enabled by default.

If you don’t like this new change and want to disable new redesigned address bar and restore old classic address bar in Opera browser, this tutorial will help you.

Following screenshot shows the classic address bar restored in Opera browser’s new versions:

Today in this tutorial, we’ll tell you how to get rid of the new Reborn 3 address bar UI and replace it with the previous clean and minimal address bar UI in Opera browser.

Following steps will help you in restoring classic address bar in Opera browser’s new versions:

1. Launch Opera web browser and type opera://flags in addressbar and press Enter. It’ll open the hidden secret advanced configuration page called “Experiments”.

2. Now click inside “Search flags” text box and type reborn. It’ll show following option in the result:

3. To deactivate and disable the new redesigned address bar UI in Opera browser, select “Disabled” from the drop-down box.

4. Opera will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Opera.

That’s it. Opera will disable the new Reborn 3 UI for drop-down suggestions list in address bar and you’ll get back the classic address bar UI.

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