Opera 12.18

robkaw

robkaw

Be aware that not all sites' login pages work with Opera 12's password manager now.

This is often because those sites add autocomplete="off" attribute to their login forms. I've made a User JavaScript that fixes this:

// ==UserScript==
// @include http://stupidsite.com/login.php
// ==/UserScript==

// prevent disabling autocomplete in forms
(function() {
    var tags = ["form", "input"];
    for (var t = 0, tag; tag = tags[t]; t++) {
        var nodes = document.getElementsByTagName(tag);
        for (var n = 0, node; node = nodes[n]; n++) {
            if (node.getAttribute("autocomplete") == "off") {
                node.setAttribute("autocomplete", "on"); // Opera 12 doesn't support autocomplete property
                node.parentElement.innerHTML += ""; // needed to make changes effective for form elements
            }
        }
    }
}());

Place this in a file named autocompleteOn.user.js in your User JavaScript directory (specified here, usually it's C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\userjs) and adjust the site's address in the @include line. You can add @include lines for more sites. Then enable User JavaScript. Note that most login pages use HTTPS, so for this to work you also need to enable User JavaScript on HTTPS, but then please use it with caution as suggested in the docs (at the very bottom of the page).

EDIT: Apparently this dumb forum's software mangles Opera config links, so you need to remove the denied: prefix from them manually...

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Just disable

opera:config#UserPrefs|AutocompleteOffDisablesWand

robkaw

robkaw

Just disable opera:config#UserPrefs|AutocompleteOffDisablesWand

I have this one disabled yet Wand still won't work without the User JavaScript.

A Former User

Yes that option is un-checked for me too and has been for a long time, but I still get sites that won't prompt for their login details to be saved.
Thanks so much again @robkaw for the userjs, I will certainly implement it!
I assume that the double forward slash at the start of the @include line needs to be removed to make the list active?

robkaw

robkaw

I assume that the double forward slash at the start of the @include line needs to be removed to make the list active?

No, the double slash is needed there. UserJS uses special markers in JS comments.

A Former User

Ah thanks, notation like that it sometimes used to mark inactive comments, so I thought I'd better check.
If I add multiple web addresses to the script, do they each go on a new line with their own @include at the start and double forward slash at the beginning?

robkaw

robkaw

Yes.

A Former User

Thank you!

robkaw

robkaw

Glad I could help.

A Former User

Sorry to be so demanding, but I suppose you haven't also got a fix for the typing of comments on YouTube not working properly?
You can type fine, but the space bar doesn't work (shift+space does) and the number keys at the top of the keyboard don't work either, you have to use the ones on the right hand keypad.
All can be worked around, but it is annoying!

A Former User

What weird problems you have, Dave.
When did it start?

winterling

winterling

@rasz, @davehawley-

Many thanks for your excellent suggestions about my problem - sorry I didn't reply sooner; I've not been back to the forum for a while. Got frustrated and ended up using IE9 (never used it before!) with Task Manager manually setting the program priority to High and running nothing else to force the thing to perform without stuttering.

Firefox mis-rendered, and Vivaldi had too many modules to up the priority to stop it stuttering. Never heard of Pale Moon before - must take a squint!

Again, many thanks and I will now see if I can get Opera (which I've used since version 3 & which never stutters when running video streams) to work again - IE9 takes forever to load ....

robkaw

robkaw

I suppose you haven't also got a fix for the typing of comments on YouTube not working properly?

Sorry, no.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Palemoon is the old version of Firefox. I forget what changes it was people didn't like, but with any open source project if enough people don't like something they can just take a copy of the old code and develop it themselves. Hence there's Seamonkey (Mozilla back when it still included the mail client) and now Palemoon.

A Former User

@joshl
Not really sure when it started, I don't make comments on YouTube very often.
I came to do it one day a few months ago, and there was the problem!
If others aren't seeing it I need to investigate whether it's something to do with just my setup.

@robkaw
No problem, just thought I would ask!

A Former User

Not really sure when it started, I don't make comments on YouTube very often.
I came to do it one day a few months ago, and there was the problem!
If others aren't seeing it I need to investigate whether it's something to do with just my setup.

I presume it was 12.17 then?
Well, knocking on wood :doh: no such problem with my 11 so far. Others might, not such "rejecting characters" of sorts...

A Former User

I first saw the problem in 12.17, yes.
It's the same in 12.18 of course.
I was using 12.17 for a long time of course, so it must have appeared while I was using it.
As usual, YouTube/Google changed something at their end that wasn't compatible.
If it's OK for you in Opera 11, I guess it's something in my setup.

rseiler

rseiler

Pasting when composing a tweet -- that worked until pretty recently. Any workaround?

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Pasting using menu (which one?), shortcut or some other means?

rseiler

rseiler

Either Ctrl-V or right-click Paste. Neither does anything at all now when inside the tweet form.