Yeah, I had followed the path first thing, but only to find a shrunken "4KB" file; nothing like the porker I left last evening.
No ".bak" (or the like) waits in the wings for the poorly prepared, alas. My best option Lies in "Favorites," mouldering in my seldom used IE browser.
Much appreciated attempts to help!
I see the writing on the wall. I'm left to serve as a caution tale for all those too busy to back up the evanescent 'Bookmarks.' Nice to serve a purpose. 😕
I just have windows defender installed on my machine and as i said earlier its wierd the pages load fast and complete in private mode where as the same page takes time loading on regular window.
So I did an experiment to check the same when I try to open www.google.com on regular window and a private window at the same time the private window shows the google page where as the regular window still loads and completes after a couple of minutes.
I wanted to know why Opera has not released a security fix for Opera 24 Stable!
Maybe because the fix will come in a upgrade to a new version, like in Chromium?
Don't forget that they need time to incorporate the changes and some do tests before releasing a public build. And since Stable 25 is in its way to be released i think that releasing a update to Stable 24 and update stable to 25 a couple of days later wouldn't make much sense imho.
opera:flags is an accumulation of features that may or may not make it into future versions.
They are mostly unstable, unfinished and unpolished (some of them may not have any effect at all yet). That's why they are hidden in flags and not in settings or available to everyone.
So keep that in mind if you start playing around with them.
I get a blank area too, even after I uninstall and then reinstall the latest shockwave player for opera. Plus, when I go to the Google translator page, the normal "speaker icon" does not appear, which relies on shockwave player. Hence I infer that the shockwave player on my opera does not work, but I don't know why. Does anyone has any working solution?
I found a way to make Image Search work! Masking as Firefox didn't work, so I assumed IE wouldn't either -- but today I checked just in case, and it does. Select "Mask as Internet Explorer" under site preferences. The camera icon will appear, and so far it's working fine for me.
(To be specific, what I'm talking about here is the search-by-image function, a.k.a. reverse image search. That's what Google blocks in Opera for some reason. The regular text search for images works in any browser.)
Sounds like a corrupt preference file, which can happen if Opera does not shut down properly or crashes for some reason, or there are quite a number of other reasons this can happen.
You better back them up nonetheless. Not in .adr though...
It seems they say you might need to have your old Opera be your system default browser, then heed the process/options while installing (they say it might acquire stuff from the existing Opera on the initial install, providing the old version is a default browser).