Opera always in foreground
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alobpreis last edited byThis happens to me too since a few weeks ago (I didn't pay attention to the exact version that started this). I'm on 38.0.2220.31 now. On my desktop and my laptop I have the same issue, both with Windows 7 x64.
To access the taskbar or start menu, I have to either minimize Opera, press the Windows key or press Alt-Tab to go to any other application that doesn't have this issue (going to another Opera window doesn't help, of course).Edit: I just found out that this starts happening after watching a video fullscreen, like Youtube!
You can temporarily fix this by either:
- Option 1: restore (de-maximize) Opera and maximize it again TWICE.
- Option 2: restore (de-maximize) Opera, move your mouse so the taskbar displays, and then maximize Opera again.
Now the issue is gone until I watch the next fullscreen video.
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alobpreis last edited by
I just discovered that this doesn't happen in a private window. For this I thought it might be an extension getting in the way but not, without any extension the issue still occurs in the non-private window.
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idrin last edited by
Thanks for the info and actually bumping this issue. I'm reporting this further internally.
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A Former User last edited by
No change in 39.0.2256.71. Three months since the update broke it and still not fixed.
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alobpreis last edited by
I tried the developer version (41) a few days ago and it also had the same issue. ;_;
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frustrated1 last edited by
Had this problem for months. Still happening on 40.0.2308.62
Don't know why I stick with this browser, been all down hill since 12.17. Still be using that version now if it didn't crash all the time.[Mod edit: off-topic part removed. Such kind of discussion has ended and you lost the timming.]
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A Former User last edited by
Still broken in stable version 41.0.2353.46. Hard to understand why a bug thats so annoying isn't being addressed.
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alobpreis last edited by
I just realized this also happens in Chrome and Vivaldi! So it seems it may be a Blink engine thing.
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A Former User last edited by
Then its the HTML5 video rendering component of the engine. HTML5 videos in fullscreen are what trigger it here.
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A Former User last edited by
Still broken on 43.0.2442.991 (PGO). Doesn't look good for getting fixed. Eight months since it bugged, I'll post on its anniversary.
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shelluser last edited byQuite frankly I don't think this is a bug at all. People only refer to it as such because it's a functionality which got changed over time which some people didn't like, as such it's dubbed a bug. But that doesn't mean it actually is one.
What do Minecraft, Blender 3D modeler/renderer, the NetBeans Java IDE, VLC media player and Opera 43 have in common?
The fact that if you use their full screen modus then it will cover the Windows taskbar no matter what. Also noteworthy: if you press the windows key (or control-escape) this will open the Windows start menu which also shows the Windows taskbar again. It's not as if the taskbar is hidden forever until you exit fullscreen mode or the program itself.
So quite frankly I don't see the problem here. I can understand that some people consider it problematic when they have to deal with a change in the programs behavior, I myself am also not always very happy about certain changes, but that doesn't make it a bug
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alobpreis last edited by
shelluser, that's not the issue. When in full screen, you don't want that thin line of pixels from the taskbar to be visible. That's what happens and that's ok. The problem is when you return from full screen. At that point you should have that thin line back, but it's not and you are forced to restore Opera's window, press the Windows key and then maximize again. So basically, exiting from full screen doesn't leave everything as it was before.
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A Former User last edited by
As alobpeis points out shelluser, opera is interfering with windows functionality after exiting full screen, and is therefore a bug. Enable taskbar auto-hide, watch a youtube vid, experience this wonderful 'feature' for yourself.
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acecool last edited by acecool
Seems this bug is still here....
I downgraded monitors from 4k after upgrading due to the samsung u28e590d sounding like a bug zapper to 1080p... Just got a replacement monitor - Acer 4k with 3 year warranty which is nice - and now Opera stays on top... even after exiting and re-opening... Very annoying because I switch between many programs on my 6 monitors and some are overlayed on my primary...
Windows 10 Pro x64 - Opera Version information
Version: 49.0.2725.39 (PGO) - Restart Opera to update to version 49.0.2725.47 Relaunch Now
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 10 64-bit
Browser identificationMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.89 Safari/537.36 OPR/49.0.2725.39
Edit: After relaunching for the update ( I relaunched 3 times before I saw the version information screen - the update should've been ready to install after I exited last time.... and it didn't fix the issue ) on the about screen - it appears as though everything is back to normal...
