[Solved]Dark theme in pages is forced even when not selected.

[visajack]

visajack last edited by

Opera support told me on FB that they are already working on a solution to the problem.

Translation: "Good afternoon, we are already dealing with this problem!"

[jkels]

jkels @visajack last edited by

@visajack
Once you copy opera_elf.dll from Opera GX into Opera folder, its considered to be Opera GX and will have this dark website problem.
If this is all it takes, it can never be a setting problem but definitly is something the devs have to have a look at.

[JFrigo]

JFrigo last edited by

Hey @visajack I don´t have the normal Opera installed here to test, that opera_elf.dll file that you said, is there a normal Opera version? If yes, if you copy it over the GX version does it solve the issue? Because people reported that the normal Opera is ok so I was wondering if it is something that was implemented here but not there yet

[jkels]

jkels @JFrigo last edited by jkels

@JFrigo If you copy opera_elf.dll from Opera to Opera GX, you turn GX into the normal version.
So as far as the website is concerned, it will be light theme, but you dont use GX anymore, thats no solution.
Besides that I would not recommend copying files without knowing exactly what they do - in my case I was just looking for the difference between both browsers and it turned out to be this specific file in this case. It could break a whole lot of functions doing this. So please dont do it.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Solution in this topic helped perfectly: https://forums.opera.com/topic/40018/solved-disable-forced-dark-theme

[visajack]

visajack @Guest last edited by

@remfoxx This is not a solution. The problem is not solved.

[pescador]

pescador last edited by

If I was betting all my money, I put on Hardware GPU Acceleration (or Software CPU), because clearly is a error on page drawing.

But could be a bug on memory management too because when I see that error is when I stay with many tabs opened for a long time. But could be related to GPU acceleration too...

Anyway its a priority bug for Opera Team to fix, no doubt.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Sometimes, Opera GX just forces dark pages, even though I don't have the option for that enabled. Is this a bug with the new update? I've had this issue for like a week now.

[1nd1go]

1nd1go last edited by

market.yandex.ru always dark them!! The problem appeared after the last browser update!! Whether the dark theme is enabled or disabled doesn't matter! This is a problem for all the people I've talked to who use Opera GX . Pleas Help !!

[alemyl]

alemyl last edited by

So, basically my Opera got "dark mode"(not really dark mode, its a bug actually) on some random pages. I tried everything, even reintalling, nothing seems to work. Some ideas?

[Reidrigo]

Reidrigo last edited by

Im having the same problem, even txt files are getting bugged.

[operawm]

operawm Opera last edited by

Does the issue persist if hardware acceleration is disabled? (You can disable it in advanced preferences > System section

[jkels]

jkels @operawm last edited by

@operawm Yes, issue is persistent.

[visajack]

visajack @operawm last edited by

@operawm Disabling hardware acceleration did not solve the problem
https://youtu.be/G7cyv-dutDY

[denislavd]

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I randomly found out that if you open Inspect Element (Ctrl+Shift+C or Right Click -> Inspect Element) and close it right after it will fix the issue for quite some time.Works 100% of the time for me.Hope i helped

[visajack]

visajack @denislavd last edited by

@denislavd said in Dark theme in pages is forced even when not selected.:

I randomly found out that if you open Inspect Element (Ctrl+Shift+C or Right Click -> Inspect Element) and close it right after it will fix the issue for quite some time.Works 100% of the time for me.Hope i helped

In this thread, we wrote about this "solution" a week ago. Only this is not a solution. It's a crutch.
We are still waiting for a patch from the developers.

[Zappy-Owl]

Zappy-Owl last edited by

It is doing the same thing for me. Very annoying. Even after I uninstalled and reinstalled it it did not work. Maybe I should get the normal opera

[nhdezoito]

nhdezoito @leocg last edited by

@leocg This worked to me.

[severalpeople]

severalpeople last edited by

@leocg I am having the same issue, lately, opera gx been quite unstable

[adrian2k7]

adrian2k7 last edited by

Hello,

since the last update I have problems with the dark mode, if this is related to dark mode, which is really annoying. So I would like to disable this at all...

A lot of pages look like this (dark font on dark background):