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

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    • 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

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      • 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.

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        • 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

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          • visajack
            visajack @Guest last edited by

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

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            • 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.

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              • 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.

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                • 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 !!

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                  • 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?

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                    • Reidrigo
                      Reidrigo last edited by

                      Im having the same problem, even txt files are getting bugged.
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                      • operawm
                        operawm Opera last edited by

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

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                        • jkels
                          jkels @operawm last edited by

                          @operawm Yes, issue is persistent.

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                          • visajack
                            visajack @operawm last edited by

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

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                            • denislavd
                              denislavd last edited by

                              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

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                              • 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.

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                                • 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

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                                  • nhdezoito
                                    nhdezoito @leocg last edited by

                                    @leocg This worked to me.

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                                    • severalpeople
                                      severalpeople last edited by

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

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                                      • 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):

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                                        • MeIsMuzim
                                          MeIsMuzim last edited by

                                          Same here

                                          You can disable forced dark mode like here (it's solves problem like on your screenshot)
                                          But I can't find anywhere option to disable it completly, because dark mode is still remains even after step above, it's just not broken
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                                          • adrian2k7
                                            adrian2k7 @MeIsMuzim last edited by

                                            @MeIsMuzim Thank you, tried searching for this as well. Although got the answer you provided, but for whatever reason I haven't tried it ....

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