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    • A Former User
      A Former User @blackcoffez last edited by

      @blackcoffez @donq yeah but cmon that would also disable acceleration of videos and such ... I mean, honestly, how can something like this even ship? I got the same issue on a GeForce 1070, so it's definitely not intel only.

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      • donq
        donq @Guest last edited by

        @tabmow said in Graphical problems with inputs/textareas:

        I mean, honestly, how can something like this even ship?

        Oh, have you been involved in software development? I am (not Opera dev of course) - and this is relatively minor issue, affecting mostly only visual appearance.
        Often much more serious problems (like corrupting data - or like latest W10 update, which sometimes just deletes user documents) slip into releases. Read dilbert comics strips - you will discover many (sad) truths about software development...

        As you see problems on GeForce too, then that is for better - we can hope fix sooner 🙂

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          A Former User @donq last edited by A Former User

          @donq Yes I am, working in a very big company in fact ... and user interface is one of the most important things of any product, so how this could not receive the utmost amount of testing is beyond me, especially as this doesn't seem to be a rare issue at all (I have very common hardware).

          PS: oh and that's from me as a service developer. For the end user, having "trivial" bugs in the UI/UX can break your product much more than any technical debt or other stupid bugs that will make us cringe as developers.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @blackcoffez last edited by

            @blackcoffez you re the best!

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              Hi,

              Since I updated the last version of Opera Version :56.0.3051.40
              The text fields and textarea are showing strange sort of shadow on the bottom of them + the text inside is backgrounded blue as it would be selected.
              This doesn't make this under other browser like Firefox and Chrome.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

                @pololopo

                Same question and answers all over the thread. See, for instance:

                'Text problems with Opera 56'

                https://forums.opera.com/topic/29018/text-problems-with-opera-56

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    Text input fields are flashing in an odd manner. When i try it on an unstylized html text input element, the following happens: Once you start typing, after one second anything you typed will be surrounded by gray. If you hover your mouse over it it will turn white again, but after one second it will turn blue. When i hover over another input element (while i was still typing in the first one) the text gets the same gray background as before in the first element, but in addition the rest of the first input field becomes a lighter shade of gray. This lighter shade of gray only goes as far to the right as the right edge of the input element below it. Tried putting on deafault settings did not work. tried in other browsers functions normally. Opera Version 56.0.3051.36 on Desktop Windows 10.

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                      @jakobo Lots of people are encountering this issue. There are other threads on it. Long story short, you need to disable hardware acceleration in settings for now.

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                      • rejzor
                        rejzor last edited by

                        I wasn't getting this with Opera 55, so I'm confused what is causing it exactly. It looks like this:
                        0_1539676068973_reddit_wtf.png

                        Whole field gets highlighted and as I'm typing, all the text gets highlighted like I'm selecting it (or using Ctrl+A). And as I'm typing large amounts of text, whole field starts flashing like it's selecting and unselecting the whole field. Why I'm suspicious it's something specific is because I'm not getting this ANYWHERE else but on Reddit.

                        Only addons I'm using is Feedly Notifier and Bitwarden. I do have integrated AdBlock enabled with all the basic lists selected except Malware blocking list.

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                        • burnout426
                          burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                          Disable hardware acceleration in settings for now.

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                          • burnout426
                            burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                            https://forums.opera.com/topic/29203/buggy-input-fields

                            https://forums.opera.com/topic/29072/weird-highlighting-issues-after-update

                            https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/9n6eqd/strange_text_field_with_changing_colors_from_gray/

                            https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/9oex9a/reddit_comment_boxes_look_like_this_when_i_am/

                            https://forums.opera.com/topic/29067/graphical-problems-with-inputs-textareas

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                            • burnout426
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                              https://forums.opera.com/topic/29135/input-text-fields-showed-strange-shadow

                              https://forums.opera.com/topic/29018/text-problems-with-opera-56

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                                https://forums.opera.com/topic/28985/gamefaqs-gamespot-has-messed-up-text-boxes-after-last-update

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                                  https://forums.opera.com/topic/28779/colored-background-showing-in-text-search-fields

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                                            Merging all topics abou this issue into one.

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