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    • blackbird71
      blackbird71 last edited by

      Have you tried playing with Opera's "fit-to-width" on the chance that it's engaged when it shouldn't be, or that it might help by engaging it if it's not engaged? Toggle fit-to-width using Opera's Fit-to-Width button or by checking/unchecking the box at Shift+F12 > Webpages > at "Page zoom", check/uncheck the "Fit to width" box > OK.

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      • oczer
        oczer last edited by

        Thanks for the tip but that's not it.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          I'm having the exact same issue, Opera 12.17. Not tried on the 'Discussions' tab you're on, but any video with comments on it. The video and related videos look fine, but comments are skewed.

          Enabling or disabling fit to width does not resolve the issue.

          I'd say this happened up to a week ago. Definitely an error on Youtube's fault. But Google likes to switch around designs every other month, so no surprise, really.

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          • oczer
            oczer last edited by

            Im not only seeing this issue with youtube. It has happened on other sites aswell. But the errors do not appear in other browswers, or even in Opera 24

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            • stng
              stng last edited by admin

              Not a long ago, Google removed Opera/Presto support and blocked proper functioning of their web sites in Opera 12. But if you set a proper masking you can get the most of Google's resources working in Opera 12 again!

              1. Use this instruction: https://forums.opera.com/topic/5577/new-youtube-problems-with-opera-12-17/32
              2. Also, add the user-agent masking for "google.com" by editing override.ini and using this custom User-Agent string: ** Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 Opera 12.16**

              And you'll get:

              1. Working Youtube's comments (displaying and commenting)
              2. Working Plus.google.com portal
              3. Valid google search engine (instead of simplified half-functional design) with the most of functions working (such as "find similar image") again.
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              • Deleted User
                Deleted User last edited by

                And how long is this workaround going to serve? It's crazy to try and keep an old, discontinued browser going...hoping that it remains secure and hoping that no more sites will pose issues. It only makes sense that these current issues are going to become more and more pronounced as time goes by.

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                • oczer
                  oczer last edited by admin

                  Not a long ago, Google removed Opera/Presto support and blocked proper functioning of their web sites in Opera 12. But if you set a proper masking you can get the most of Google's resources working in Opera 12 again!

                  Use this instruction: https://forums.opera.com/topic/5577/new-youtube-problems-with-opera-12-17/32
                  Also, add the user-agent masking for "google.com" by editing override.ini and using this custom User-Agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 Opera 12.16

                  And you'll get:

                  Working Youtube's comments (displaying and commenting)
                  Working Plus.google.com portal
                  Valid google search engine (instead of simplified half-functional design) with the most of functions working (such as "find similar image") again.

                  Thanks, that fixed YT at least, but it broke paypal. I guess i will finally have to move out of opera.

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                  • stng
                    stng last edited by

                    Thanks, that fixed YT at least, but it broke paypal. I guess i will finally have to move out of opera

                    1. Use selective masking via override.ini! Paypal wouldn't be affected.
                    2. Don't apply global masking via opera:config#UserPrefs|CustomUser-Agent. It can cause problems with other web-sites.
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                    • tamer
                      tamer last edited by admin
                      1. Download any hex editor, ie http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm
                      2. Patch opera.dll by following the instructions https://forums.opera.com/post/49301
                      3. Right click on the "Comments" section -> "Frame" > "Open in New Tab"
                      4. "Site preferences" - "Identify As Firefox"
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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by admin

                        Download any hex editor, ie http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm
                        Patch opera.dll by following the instructions https://forums.opera.com/post/49301
                        Right click on the "Comments" section -> "Frame" > "Open in New Tab"
                        "Site preferences" - "Identify As Firefox"

                        Why? For what?

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                        • blackbird71
                          blackbird71 last edited by

                          @jetro, it updates the Firefox user-agent string that Presto Opera uses to identify itself to a website when using Opera's "mask as" function. That string is embedded in opera.dll, and the original one is becoming stale... that is, a growing number of websites reject it for that reason, since Firefox itself is up into version 30+ already. Since Opera ASA is not updating such things in Presto Opera any longer, the only way to keep the when-needed masking alternative reasonably current is for the user to do it himself.

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