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    • oliveira56
      oliveira56 @severalpeople last edited by

      @severalpeople Go to opera://flags and enable Weather on Startpage.
      After that go to Settings>Privacy and Security and uncheck Location (see picture). I had the same issue and with this i fixed it.Sem Título2.png

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      • severalpeople
        severalpeople @oliveira56 last edited by

        @oliveira56 no bro im not risking my security for that, any site I go to will have my location

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        • sgunhouse
          sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

          The opposite to Ask is Never, if you turn it off then no one will be able to use geolocation. (Many sites will still guess your location based on your IP address, but they do either way.)

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          • severalpeople
            severalpeople @sgunhouse last edited by

            @sgunhouse checked and it is already on https://i.gyazo.com/22cf653fad8143902efc155e21d97aad.png still wont work

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @severalpeople last edited by

              @severalpeople You can't even set a location? Or you already set up one but the weather tool isn't working?

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              • severalpeople
                severalpeople @leocg last edited by

                @leocg cant set location up i get this alt text

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                • rabid7
                  rabid7 last edited by

                  same here.
                  location enabled, widget enabled.
                  but still "Weather forecast not available".

                  This has been happening since the last 2 updates i got. Prior these 2updates, it was working.

                  On "normal" Opera browser it is still working, only in GX is now not working anymore.

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                  • Amiyo
                    Amiyo @rabid7 last edited by

                    @rabid7 It is not working even on my normal browser

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                    • imawizard
                      imawizard last edited by

                      Apparently, it becomes like this when you select decline the first time the weather's dialog is shown (where you would otherwise set the location manually or select accept and let your location being handled automatically). After doing so there was somehow no way to reconfigure it.

                      To resolve this limbo-like status, close down Opera via ⌘Q, open ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Preferences in a text editor and search for weather, which leads you to:

                      "weather":{"custom_location":"","enabled":true,"onboarding":false}
                      

                      There, change onboarding's value to true and reopen Opera, which should make the weather's dialog appear again upon clicking the widget, so you can then either choose accept or enter a location manually.

                      On Windows, it should be analogous and the path is probably something like %APPDATA%\Opera Software\Opera\Preferences.

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                      • perfectday
                        perfectday last edited by

                        Not working on normal Opera after the last update

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                        • naheed
                          naheed @perfectday last edited by

                          @perfectday please follow the above mentioned steps.
                          I hope it will start working. Moreover, you can also roll
                          back to the previous version.

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                          • perfectday
                            perfectday @naheed last edited by

                            @naheed Thank you for the advise, but before posting I tried to do everything mentioned here. Perhaps some preferences in MacOS preventing widget work. So yes, probably the only chance to fix is rolling back to the previous version. Thank you.

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                            • bsod
                              bsod last edited by

                              How to fix "Weather forecast not available" (Windows guide, i don't know if will work on MacOS, you can try)

                              (Before doing, close your opera)
                              Go to desktop, press Alt + R and write %appdata%
                              Opera Forums 1.PNG Hit Ok
                              and go to Opera Software -> Opera Stable. Scroll down, inside there should be file called Preferences.
                              Opera Forums 4.PNG
                              Move it to desktop, then open it using notepad.
                              Opera Forums 5.PNG

                              Next up open Opera. All your settings will be gone but everything will be back to normal later. Choose where you live and close Opera. Then go to folder where from we moved preferences, and there will be new file called preferences. Open it using notepad and put it aside.
                              Like that:Opera Forums 6.PNG
                              Then on Preferences on left side press Ctrl + F and search "onboarding"
                              it should find this line (look at photo).
                              Opera Forums 7.PNG
                              Copy this line that i highlighted. Now on the Preferences that was put aside Ctrl + F and find "onboarding", it will lead you to same line. Now before that line i highlighted press Enter, so you can have something like that (look at picture)
                              Opera Forums 8.PNG
                              Now delete that line i highlighted and paste the line that we copied on the place of deleted one.
                              So it will look like that: Opera Forums 9.PNG
                              Now close and save changes to right and left Preferences, then move the Preferences from desktop to Opera Stable folder and choose replace files. Then open Opera and Boom Opera Forums 10.PNG
                              😃

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                              • bsod
                                bsod @bsod last edited by

                                @bsod Edit: press Windows button + R instead of alt

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                                • perfectday
                                  perfectday @bsod last edited by leocg

                                  @bsod It's working, thanks a lot! But I did it directly in preferences file on Mac. In my file the only difference was like empty location value and "enabled" key presence. After adding your location 349727 and removing the "enabled" key and value - it started to work. Even no reason to create preferences once again.
                                  so instead of
                                  "weather": {"custom_location":"","enabled":true,"onboarding":true}
                                  it became
                                  "weather": {"custom_location":"349727","onboarding":false}
                                  of course after launching Opera New York location should be changed to yours

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                                  • bsod
                                    bsod @kuriboi1 last edited by

                                    @kuriboi1 check last post in this topic.

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                                    • haruseok
                                      haruseok @bsod last edited by

                                      @bsod Thanks for your amazing input but sadly it didn't work for me. The weather forecast has worked for me for at least a year but now it doesn't. I don't know what to do. I tried doing everything on this page but doesn't work at all. I downloaded Momentum just to get the weather but it doesn't start on startup so my problem is still not solved. Do you have any other idea?

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                                      • bsod
                                        bsod @haruseok last edited by

                                        @haruseok hmm, maybe delete preferences

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                                        • haruseok
                                          haruseok @bsod last edited by haruseok

                                          @bsod I did and it worked! It didn't delete any of my setting either, it only reset my speed dial page, but the wallpapers are already there for you to quickly choose. It also didn't touch the sites under the search bar. It was that easy, I can't believe why I didn't think about this. Thank you so much!!

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