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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Please enlighten me if a comprehensive solution already exists. Browsing this and other forums makes me believe that several other people are confronted with this issue and no satisfactory answer is around.

      I've installed Opera on a Windows 10 notebook this week. But very soon I noticed that hovering over links didn't display the URL at the very bottom of the browser window. To make things really weird, it suddenly worked during another session. And then it stopped again.

      I've read and considered many postings in this matter. I know that there's no option in the settings to enable/disable this feature. And I did reset the browser to default settings - no luck. So please don't repeat this kind of stuff.

      I'll be really grateful for any reply providing a new explanation or even better a remedy to this mysterious issue. Clicking at links without knowing where they point to seems like a basic IT security nightmare to me...

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      • rodrigowbs
        rodrigowbs @Guest last edited by

        @heiribuenzli

        Hey, well ..

        1° - you can try see if your opera version is updated.

        2° - see if opera://flags/#enable-aura-tooltips-on-windows is enabled.

        3° - you can try a fresh start opera. opera://update/
        (this will delete some configs, history, bookmarks....)

        OR you can download latest version on site https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/
        and install.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @Guest last edited by

          @heiribuenzli i dunno if this will help, try this

          go to your opera settings - hardware acceleration

          toggle - Disable/Enable to see if problem goes away..

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            You can simply right click on target link and select Copy link address. Paste the address in new tab so you can read the URL easily.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User @rodrigowbs last edited by

              @rodrigowbs said in URL sometimes not displayed when hovering over links:

              opera://flags/#enable-aura-tooltips-on-windows

              Thanks, but...

              • I've installed Opera from its official source a few days ago, so this can't possibly be a version issue

              • aura tooltips were already enabled

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                leocg A Former User 2 Replies Last reply
              • A Former User
                A Former User @Guest last edited by

                @nvmjustagirl
                Interesting... How did your idea come about that this could be related to hardware acceleration? Doesn't sound like the most obvious connection.

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                  @heiribuenzli Any difference if you disable them?

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                  • rodrigowbs
                    rodrigowbs @Guest last edited by

                    @heiribuenzli said in URL sometimes not displayed when hovering over links:

                    @nvmjustagirl
                    Interesting... How did your idea come about that this could be related to hardware acceleration? Doesn't sound like the most obvious connection.

                    hmmm it's works?

                    it would be nice to know if it worked because so we would be prepared to answer that kind of question in the future.
                    When this happened to me, the fix came out in the Opera next build, but it's been a long time.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User @Guest last edited by

                      @heiribuenzli did ya get problem solved *just check 'n..

                      if not -

                      @nvmjustagirl said in URL sometimes not displayed when hovering over links:

                      @heiribuenzli i dunno if this will help, try this

                      go to your opera settings - hardware acceleration

                      toggle - Disable/Enable to see if problem goes away..

                      Did ya try this.. if it helps or not no harm done to laptop..

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                      • donq
                        donq last edited by

                        Sometimes feels that link/url popup is not displayed, when some of tabs is loading or stuck into some missing javascript fetch or similar. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce such behavor at will, thereby no bugs reported and no recommendations here to avoid this.

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                        • mikios400
                          mikios400 @Guest last edited by

                          @nvmjustagirl I cannot understand why, but this actually worked for me. I reset, with a relaunch after selection to off and again after setting to on, and it just worked.
                          I am actually amazed that it worked...

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