Open a new tab
Press Ctrl-Shift-I to open the developer toolbar
Select the Network tab
Paste the problematic url and press ENTER
Check if an entry appears in the Network tab (in my case it doesn't but just downloads the file)
If it doesn't, check in the Console tab to see if there's any message (just in case)
Of course, also try with a portable version to make sure there's nothing else affecting your browser. Are you using the latest one?
Well, I have Magic Actions for YouTube in order to make the videos buffer, the problem is that, until I dont focus on the tab, the video wont start buffering.
I believe this is some behavior that changed on some Opera update maybe?
The clean install should be done to Opera profile, the profile may be corrupted so, just follow the steps of the post, start Opera with a clean profile and test.
Or you could try to adapt to the new environment. Opera is now build upon Chromium which provides some very specific features. I also run an older version on my FreeBSD laptop and well... Obviously this is all personal preference and all but I think you could easily grow a liking to the newer version.
Note that you can get a bookmark bar (control-b) and that using the alt key also activates the Opera menu. So you still have some ways to control Opera's behavior using the keyboard only (assuming that this is what you're after).
As always with these things start by firing up private mode (control-shift-n) and try again. If things work while in this mode then it's almost certain that a plugin is causing problems for you.
Next also check your settings (alt-p), the "websites" section to be exact. You'll find some very specific settings in there, such as "Allow sites to run Flash" which could be of some influence here.
Thanks for an idea about css! 🙂
I added img block to feed.css, and that worked for RSS feeds.
I think adding same code to mail.css would also hide images in email, can't check now since I have no html messages at the moment.
Maybe now I can switch from my current memory hog (Thunderbird) to Opera Mail.
V7 Bookmarks adds a bookmarks sidebar to Opera. You can easily search for bookmarks inside of it. It also adds a bunch of other nice features. Finding and organizing bookmarks inside of it is super easy. You can also bookmark pages in it. Just open the folder you want to put the bookmark in and right click the folder and add the bookmark. The one thing you can't do is create/change the bookmarks icon. Other than that it is pretty much perfect.