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    New YouTube Problems with Opera 12.17

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    • Deleted User
      Deleted User last edited by

      Maybe someone from Opera should contact YouTube / Google and tell them about this? I'm sure it'll get to the relevant people faster than the user feedback form. In fact, I'm a bit surprised they haven't noticed yet.

      Unless this is some kind of deliberate plan to force people to downgrade to Opera 25.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        I doubt very much if it's deliberate, but Opera has never (even now) been officially supported by Google.
        Things should still work OK with Opera 15+ as it's based on Chromium, as Google Chrome is, but Presto Opera was always dodgy at best with Google sites, needing a lot of workarounds and tweaking with browser.js etc., none of which is now being updated by Opera themselves.
        It is something Presto Opera users will have to increasingly live with I'm afraid, and will eventually mean that people will have to abandon the browser altogether, as people have had to abandon Netscape and IE6 before it.
        I was just hoping there was some magic user.js trick or something that would fix this, but I fear not this time.
        😞

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        • fefrie
          fefrie last edited by

          Seems to work with opera 12.16

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Including the comments text display?
            That is interesting, as 12.16 and 12.17 are not very different at all, just a couple of security fixes.
            🙂

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            • fefrie
              fefrie last edited by

              Yup.

              I came here because of the broken comments section.

              17 is not a recommended build for whatever reason, so I stick with 16.

              I run opera fresh from an image on every reboot, so I don't have a lot of cumulative errors with my browser.

              Did the recommendations as lukaria suggested. Works fine again.

              Don't forget to thumbs up him.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Yes, of course I should have done that, I have now!
                Unfortunately that fix doesn't work for me as it breaks other sites, specifically PayPal.
                ;_;

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                • fefrie
                  fefrie last edited by

                  try this.

                  http://ud.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/2ivkg4/opera_12_versus_youtube_how_to_fix_broken/

                  And revert back to 12.16 Everything works fine for me.

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                  • fefrie
                    fefrie last edited by

                    oh and my main youtube page takes a long time to load too.

                    Glad it's not just me and my slow computer.

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                    • stng
                      stng last edited by

                      @davehawley

                      Unfortunately that fix doesn't work for me as it breaks other sites, specifically PayPal.

                      Use selective masking by editing override.ini file.
                      Global masking via "Custom User-Agent" (opera:config) is a detrimental solution.

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                      • stng
                        stng last edited by admin

                        @fefrie

                        oh and my main youtube page takes a long time to load too.

                        Try to use this solution: https://forums.opera.com/post/29123

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          Thanks all of you!
                          :cheers:
                          I had actually already applied that last fix ages ago, but when I now checked it I found that somehow it had become "undone".
                          I've reapplied it and now YouTube pages are loading fast again with no freezes!

                          Thanks for the pointer to the override.ini editing tip as well, that's fixed the comments display.
                          I always thought one of the things they should have added to the site preferences was to allow site-by-site user agent strings to be added (that and fit to width) and I did try once before doing it by editing override.ini, but it didn't work. This time it did!

                          Long live Opera 12!
                          :party:

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                          • fefrie
                            fefrie last edited by

                            @stng

                            Thanks for the link on the slow YT main page.

                            I have a css running on the page running already to eliminate ads, so I just added the recommended code.

                            Eliminated the subscription mess on the right, but the page still loads slow. I have a core duo computer so that might be the problem. I'll respond in the other forum.

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                            • fefrie
                              fefrie last edited by

                              try this.
                              http://ud.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/2ivkg4/opera_12_versus_youtube_how_to_fix_broken/
                              And revert back to 12.16 Everything works fine for me.

                              I have to retract this. Using the override.ini does NOT work for me.

                              I'll have to delve into what is going wrong wth the ini code.

                              Lukarria is the only fix for me, although I've removed it to see if I can get ini working again.

                              EDIT: Disregard. I run opera on a ramdrive that starts brand new except for certain files like Override.ini of which I store on the regular drive.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                Yeah I just noticed some of these issues myself, slow start page and comments formatting. Funny thing is I had enabled auto previews somehow and I can't recall how I did that if it was an extension or youtube settings I used. So now it is slow trying to load all those videos

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                                • Deleted User
                                  Deleted User last edited by admin

                                  Try to use this solution: https://forums.opera.com/post/29123

                                  That does make the comments display correctly, but seems to make it impossible to post (i.e., can't type into the new comment box).

                                  17 is not a recommended build for whatever reason, so I stick with 16.

                                  Not recommended? IIRC, it was a security update.

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    Confirmed, I can't type in the new comment box either now!
                                    ;_;
                                    Fortunately I rarely comment on YouTube videos!

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      You can share the thing on Facebook and place your comment in the text body, then discuss stuff on there. And to Hell that that's not working.

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        YouTube works nice with 11. 😛

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User last edited by

                                          Are people not aware Opera 12.x is not being worked on any more? Any problems you have will not be fixed.

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            Thanks for that, I think you'll find that we are all well aware of this!
                                            :rolleyes:

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