General Opera for Windows Question and Answer Thread

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Wallpaper is displayed as a background in speed dial and some other internal pages.

[joshl]

joshl 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?

Get married?

[davehawley]

davehawley last edited by

Hi DaveHawley - Yes, this is the kind of solution I would like, but I looked top-right and can not find my avatar?

It should be immediately to the right of the "bell" notifications icon.
If you haven't set an avatar, it's presumably a generic icon.

Still in mourning for Opera 12.........

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

sgunhouse--

Wallpaper is displayed as a background in speed dial and some other internal pages.

I don't do Speed Dial. What I'd like is for the caption boxes at the top right NOT be gray on gray.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@joshl, I don't know who you're quoting, but here's my advice to the OP:

It's malware. Run MalwareBytes AntiMalware, and adwcleaner, v.7.0.2.1, and then use them regularly.

[joshl]

joshl last edited by

OP is Leo! :lol:

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

What I'd like is for the caption boxes at the top right NOT be gray on gray.

You can't change its color.

[spotty-dog]

spotty-dog last edited by

I had changed the wallpaper to that of a picture on my pc. I went to change the picture today and can no longer find the step to do so. I went to the Help page and found a section on Themes which seem to be the answer - except, there is no Themes option on the main menu as stated. Has this feature been discontinued?

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Easiest way - go to the start page (Open a new tab if necessary) and click the settings icon (at one time it looked like a sprocket/gear, currently it looks like a series of sliding controls). Should be obvious from there.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Wallpaper is displayed as a background in speed dial and some other internal pages.

For posterity:
I just discovered the Dark Theme makes the caption buttons more readable.

[jweg79]

jweg79 last edited by

Since downloading Opera on Windows 10 I've noticed a persistently weird behaviour - when it crashes the MOZILLA FIREFOX crash reporter opens up, instead, though both Opera and the Opera crash reporter show up in the Task Manager as still open (just not on screen).

Firefox was not running at the time, not even as a program listed in the Task Manager but not on-screen, either.

Any idea what's causing this?

It's not affecting my use of either browser. It's just really strange.

[daviddenny]

daviddenny last edited by

It is presumably a generic icon.

[kristal1961]

kristal1961 last edited by

When I close Opera all my extensions are removed.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

I have developed a problem over the past 2 or 3 weeks regarding Opera Mail (sorry, I cannot find a forum specific to mail). When I attempt to open Opera Mail, I get the following error and the program then asks about sending an error log to technical people (I have), then the program asks if I want to restart or close. I pick restart, and the error repeats itself. I cannot access the program at all anymore. Any ideas?:

OPERA-CRASHLOG V1 desktop 1.0 1044 windows
OperaMail.exe 1044 caused exception C0000094 at address 59D59225 (Base: 230000)

Registers:
EAX=00000000 EBX=FFFFFFFA ECX=FFFFFFFC EDX=00000000 ESI=05008400
EDI=04A96DCC EBP=00AFDA08 ESP=00AFD9E0 EIP=59D59225 FLAGS=00210206
CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B
FPU stack:
0000000000000000401D 401D8000000000000000 8000000000000000C01D
C01D8000000000000000 88888888888888000000 00000000000000000000
F0F0F0F0F0F0F0003FFE 3FFED7D7D7D7D7D7D800 SW=0022 CW=027F

Stack dump: ......snip...........

[leeflo]

leeflo last edited by

Running Opera 47 with Windows 7. While browsing, I have tabs popping up for dating, sex and brides and other offers. I immediately ran a full virus scan with ZoneAlarm (with the latest updates) and it keeps happening. I don't know if this is an Opera or Windows thing. Anyone have advice on what I can do to stop this short of reinstalling windows and Opera?

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

It is not something built-in to Opera, as I haven't seen it. Whether there might be some bad extensions available I couldn't say. I only have two extensions installed - Bookmarks by the side (no longer very useful though) and Gismeteo weather for speed dial.

Opera's pop-up blocker should mean they are not coming from web pages - if you haven't disabled the pop-up blocker. Which leaves adware on your system as the most likely cause. An antivirus program may not identify adware, you should download some anti-adware program like Ad-Aware and see what it finds.

[joshl]

joshl last edited by

When I close Opera all my extensions are removed.

I remember seeing a thread about such a problem not too long ago.
If you can't find it with the search or otherwise, it'd be better if you start a specific thread about your problem: it seems we might need to know your system configuration etc. It's not common to lose such data that way, so...

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I am using the latest version ofOpera Mail. E-mails that I delete permanently keep on "coming babk to life" again and reappear

What is the remedy?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

What is the remedy?

Well, this topic is not exactly for questions about Opera Mail. It would be better to open a topic to ask your question.

[makesownweather]

makesownweather last edited by

I have been using You tube for years downloading from opera. For the last several weeks (maybe since last update - now on 47) there are NO BUTTONS in You Tube for downloading. I restarted Opera and ire-installed Opera with no luck. I have extensions loaded and enabled. What do do about this?