@vgharris Your problem reminds me of what I experienced a couple of years ago and described in this topic:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/26795/getting-logged-out-from-twitter-etc
You can try the solution from the third post and see how it goes.
Posts made by denisftw
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RE: passwords not showing in settings Linux version 63.0.3368.66Opera for Linux
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RE: Everything is smaller after updating to 69.0.3686.36Opera for Linux
I checked other browsers, and it seems that this regression comes from Chromium. Both latest versions of Chromium, Opera and Vivaldi are affected. Take a look at the screenshot (left - Firefox, right - Chromium 83):
The same goes for all images, internal PDF viewers, favicons, icons in menus etc.
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RE: Everything is smaller after updating to 69.0.3686.36Opera for Linux
I'm also on 20.04 Ubuntu, a different flavour.
It's not just the font that got smaller: all rendering is complete rubbish in 69. Just look at the AdBlock icon in the extension bar.
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RE: why do I have copy libffmpeg.so?Opera for Linux
@jimunderscorep Vivaldi is not Electron-based. Brave is Electron-based, but Vivaldi is Qt-based, just like Opera. It is definitely slower than Opera though, not sure why.
@s4n-op You don't actually need to copy anything. As long as the installed Opera version is compatible with the installed Chromium codecs, everything works fine (except Netflix or Stan, but that's a different story).
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RE: Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux MintOpera for Linux
@jimunderscorep Thanks! I just looked at Vivaldi's dependencies. They also include
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
as a recommended dependency, just asopera-stable
does. However, the version from the repository plays Twitter videos without problems. According to its "About" window, the browser is based on ancient Chrome 65 and yet it somehow manages to use the latest (68) codecs. What's the trick? ) -
RE: Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux MintOpera for Linux
@jimunderscorep Yeah, I checked that today and updated both the codecs and the browser. Works perfectly. It seems that putting
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
andopera-stable
on hold until both updates are definitely in sync is the most surefire way to never break video support.Very interesting info on other distributions! Could you also explain why other Chromium-based browsers are different? As far as I know, Vivaldi is also based on Chromium and uses Chromium codecs, but its support for HTML5 video rarely breaks.
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RE: Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux MintOpera for Linux
@messweb You should check the version of
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
. Since you're using Opera 54, which is based on Chrome 67, you need to make sure that the codecs are also at version 67.@leocg Interesting idea, but I'm not sure how packaging Opera snaps is going to help with codec issues. As far as I understand it's still Canonical who publishes codec snaps, and Opera still has no control when it happens.
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RE: Opera 54.0.2952.64 videos don't playOpera for Linux
@jimunderscorep Seems like Ubuntu developers already pushed version 68 to the repository. I've just checked it:
$ apt-cache policy chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra: Installed: 67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 Candidate: 68.0.3440.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Putting it on hold until a new Opera (version 55) is released:
$ sudo apt-mark hold chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
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RE: Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux MintOpera for Linux
@skirual This is pretty strange. As far as I know, Opera repositories are maintained by Opera, not Ubuntu. Opera 53 was compatible with codecs 66, and Opera 54 is compatible with codecs 67 (both are in repositories for Ubuntu 16.04 now and work well). Probably Opera devs forgot to push a new version to the repo?
You can try downloading Opera 54 manually from here:
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RE: Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux MintOpera for Linux
@melangecounselling
If Opera 55 is based on Chromium 68, you'll likely needchromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
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RE: Videos not playing on twitterOpera for Linux
Now that a new version of
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
is finally in the Ubuntu repo, it's time to unholdopera-stable
and do an upgrade. I just did what I suggest in the above post, and Twitter videos work fine (and why wouldn't they?). You can always check that you have version 67 ofchromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
with the following:$ dpkg -s chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra Package: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 4050 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Source: chromium-browser Version: 67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
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RE: Opera 54.0.2952.41: Streaming videos don't work anymoreOpera for Linux
@zhochaka That's why it is useful to understand the root of the problem. If you read the old @jimunderscorep's post, you will see that the problem is that the new version of the codecs is not yet in the Ubuntu repo. Since the repo is not maintained by Opera developers, there is no reason to blame them. In my opinion, Opera shouldn't release a new version to the stable channel until necessary codecs arrive, but this is an operational problem and has nothing to do with the quality of the product itself.
Similarly, although obtaining a new version of
libffmpeg
and copying it manually might work, it is not a good solution. However, if we take into account that Opera 54 was released to the channel too early (relative to codecs), the logical solution is to roll back Opera itself and put it on hold until the Ubuntu team pushes newlibffmpeg
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RE: Opera 54.0.2952.41: Streaming videos don't work anymoreOpera for Linux
@zhochaka The first thread discussing this very problem was created more than 2 weeks ago, and it actually contained both an explanation (from @jimunderscorep and a very simple solution:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/27369/videos-not-playing-on-twitter
In fact, @jimunderscorep explained the idea behind this problem in this 5-month old post:
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RE: Videos not playing on twitterOpera for Linux
@jimunderscorep Wow, thanks a lot for this, very instructive! The whole system of sharing codecs between basically independent projects appears to be very fragile; this explains why it breaks from time to time.
@l33t4opera thanks, but I think this time I'll just wait until new codecs arrive. Should be less work for me
@brumman Yeah, if the package is on hold, it won't be automatically updated. I guess I'll have to check in a week or two if Ubuntu maintainers have pushed version 67 of
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
to the repo and then simply do something like this:$ sudo apt-mark unhold opera-stable $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt upgrade
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RE: Videos not playing on twitterOpera for Linux
Thanks @tampaman , but your link actually points to Opera 54, which kind of defeats the purpose On a related note, why 0.68? I just downloaded the latest in the 53 series, which is .110 and it works fine:
$ wget https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/53.0.2907.110/linux/opera-stable_53.0.2907.110_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i opera-stable_53.0.2907.110_amd64.deb $ sudo apt-mark hold opera-stable
As for @l33t4opera 's solution, it didn't help me for some reason. There was an old method with replacing
libffmpeg.so
(described here), but it seems that the problem is Opera itself, so it makes sense to downgrade the browser and not the codecs. - Opera for Linux
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RE: Getting logged out from Twitter, etcOpera for Linux
OK, I figured it out. In case anyone else stumbles upon it, here is my solution.
On the About page Opera says that it keeps profile data in
/home/user/.config/opera
. TheCookies
file here is just a SQLite database file, so you can use tools like "DB Browser" to view data and write queries. I deleted everything Twitter-related usingdelete from cookies where host_key like '%twitter%'
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Getting logged out from Twitter, etcOpera for Linux
Hi!
I use Opera 53.0.2907.57 on Ubuntu 16.04. Whenever I close the browser, it flushes some of my sessions so I have to log in every time I start the browser again.
The problem always manifests itself with Twitter, but it often happens with other websites as well. It seems that Opera loses cookies way earlier than it supposed to.
Does anyone know where Opera keeps cookies (in terms of the file system) so that I could check the location and investigate? Also, is there anyone else with the same problem? It looks like it started a couple of weeks ago.
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RE: Twitter videosOpera for Linux
Why don't you just install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra since you are on ubuntu? And please remove the oxideqt-codecs and oxideqt-codecs-extra you seem to have installed...
You cannot install both "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg" and "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra" at the same time. The latter includes everything from the former and some additional codecs. However, as I pointed out in another thread, everyone had already had "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra" installed when Twitter videos stopped playing, so it wasn't their lack that caused the problem.
Right now, christophffm's is the only solution that works.
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RE: youtube: your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats availableOpera for Linux
The problem disappeared after replacing libffmpeg.so as described here: