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    General Opera for Windows Question and Answer Thread

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    • odourpreventer
      odourpreventer last edited by

      Is it or will it be possible to use standard window management? (Standard title bar, window borders, etc?)

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Is it or will it be possible to use standard window management? (Standard title bar, window borders, etc?)

        What do you mean by this?

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        • odourpreventer
          odourpreventer last edited by

          What do you mean by this?

          From what I can tell, Opera uses a custom title bar and window borders, meaning that it doesn't play so well with window managers like autohotkey, at least in Windows 7. Is there some way to restore the system title bar and borders?

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

            Is there some way to restore the system title bar and borders?

            Nope, you can't restore what wasn't there.

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            • leotness
              leotness last edited by

              Why dont appear the magic actions for youtube controls in the new opera.
              I desinstal and instal opera and magic actions for you tube and te controls dont appear.<
              I left opera soon

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                Why dont appear the magic actions for youtube controls in the new opera.

                Maybe because that extension hasn't been updated in the last 1 year? Maybe because Youtube has changed its layout?

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                • leeflo
                  leeflo last edited by

                  Some how I got something that keeps popping up tabs for dating, sex and brides constantly. What can I do to stop this?

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                    Some how I got something that keeps popping up tabs for dating, sex and brides constantly. What can I do to stop this?

                    Not exactly an Opera issue, you probably got a malware in your computer. Try running some anti-malware and anti-virus software.

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                    • leotness
                      leotness last edited by

                      how can I make magic actions for youtube correctly display its controls?

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                        how can I make magic actions for youtube correctly display its controls?

                        Asking its author(s) to update the extension?

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          Can't happen to find the official Opera blue-white wallpaper with the mountain and the cloud above it, with the polygon look. Does anyone know where to find it? Or maybe some good pal has saved it to his drive? 😛 Thanks in advance.

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            Can't happen to find the official Opera blue-white wallpaper with the mountain and the cloud above it, with the polygon look. Does anyone know where to find it? Or maybe some good pal has saved it to his drive? Thanks in advance.

                            Nvm, found it 🙂

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                            • tedsmith
                              tedsmith last edited by

                              is this normal for opera ? https://imgur.com/isijXyx

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                              • leocg
                                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                is this normal for opera ? https://imgur.com/isijXyx

                                I don't think so.

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                                • sgunhouse
                                  sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                  Seen cases before - some time ago - where it would grab a section of the window and then tile it across the page like that. But never reproducible.

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                                  • tedsmith
                                    tedsmith last edited by

                                    Interesting I have also had this happen. https://imgur.com/a/ASDm1 Any idea why this happens ? I have been recommending this the my users and now I'm having to rethink that. especially after the sell out.

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                                    • princessincognito
                                      princessincognito last edited by

                                      Hi. I am unfortunately rather uneducated about computers these days. I used to know enough to get into trouble, but I’m afraid I haven’t kept up with things, and have been left behind. That said, I have problems with my computer deleting my browser. I searched and found one other issue regarding this and only found one, from 2015, and it was closed, but I did not benefit from reading it.

                                      I downloaded and installed the Opera browser and pinned it to my bar, and it worked well for weeks. Then one morning it was gone. I looked in the Windows program list in their little window icon in the corner and it was gone. I searched for it and Windows found nothing. I opened the downloads folder and even the .exe I had initially used had vanished. I downloaded it again and pinned the shortcut to the bar, and the next time I looked for it it was missing. This happened several times. Eventually something one of my children had been doing on my browser remained in the recent folder so I tried opening that before reinstalling and it opened the browser. Pinned the shortcut, but the next time I used the computer the shortcut was gone again. I followed this routine a few times to get my browser back and noticed that if the window didn’t get closed the pinned shortcut remained in the bar, but was not the O but looked like a document. If the browser got closed attempting to reopen gave me an error, which I did not think to write down and have no recollection as to what it said. But the browser was gone again.

                                      This morning I was greeted with files in the download folders all claiming to be Opera web documents, all open in my son’s Chrome, but when opened from there did open my Opera.

                                      I am irritated that I must look for my browser every time I use the computer. I am concerned that by opening it this way I am creating future problems with broken code or something. I am also under the impression that reinstalling it regularly is just filling up my hard drive with useless garbage and random lost files, and I have an old computer with barely enough space for Windows 10 and don’t want to be making more trouble than I can deal with.

                                      Is there a thread that addresses this issue? Please let me know where and I will look at that and see if I can fix this inconvenience without further ado. If not, please form your answers in a manner an ID10T can understand.
                                      Thanks
                                      PrincessIncognito

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                                      • leocg
                                        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                        Is there a thread that addresses this issue?

                                        Not that I remember. There are/were some about disappearing shortcuts but not in the way you are describing it.

                                        And your issue would fit better in its own topic.

                                        This morning I was greeted with files in the download folders all claiming to be Opera web documents, all open in my son’s Chrome, but when opened from there did open my Opera.

                                        Probably because Opera is set as default application for that file type or protocol.

                                        I downloaded and installed the Opera browser and pinned it to my bar, and it worked well for weeks. Then one morning it was gone. I looked in the Windows program list in their little window icon in the corner and it was gone. I searched for it and Windows found nothing. I opened the downloads folder and even the .exe I had initially used had vanished

                                        There seem to be something wrong with your Windows. A downloaded file should not be erased from your hard disk unless you have done it nor shortcuts should vanish with no reason.

                                        Did you check if you have logged in using the same user? Do you use any clean up software?

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                                        • tjrjn
                                          tjrjn last edited by

                                          I have recently installed Opera and I love it except every couple of days or so it gets really slow or hangs and when I go into the control panel I see multiple versions of opera.exe running - sometimes with quite high CPU and memory usage.
                                          I only have two add-ons and disabling them made no difference.
                                          Any suggestions please?
                                          TjRjn

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                                          • sgunhouse
                                            sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                            Opera is a multi-threaded program, it can use multiple processes to speed up execution. So even with only one tab open you will see multiple "versions" running.

                                            Opera is based on Chromium. There are some "memory leaks" that they are still trying to track down. That means, you really shouldn't leave it running 24/7. If you are not using it, shut Opera down so the system can recover the "leaked" memory.

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