Opera 74.0.3911.203 Stable update

[sgrandin]

sgrandin last edited by

Not sure if it's the same thing others are reporting, but Tuesday all of a sudden the Speed Dial disappeared on opening it, only showing the background. After closing Opera, the program then wouldn't start. With a reboot (Win 10), it was back to normal. But then at the next cold start, it happened again and multiple restarts didn't fix it. I had to kill MBAM and do a system restore to early Tuesday to get things back to normal. It's holding so far. The only thing that had changed during the day was a Windows Defender security update.

[rastanz]

rastanz last edited by

Speed dial has turned to shit again, slow to load or never loads at all, what did you guys break now?

[shintoplasm01]

shintoplasm01 @rastanz last edited by

@rastanz According to the various Reddit discussions it's a broken internal extension, which should be receiving a silent update to fix this. I don't really have any further details.

[sgrandin]

sgrandin @shintoplasm01 last edited by

@shintoplasm01: Since doing a system restore last night, I've been occasionally getting extension error notices, at first from Opera and then other programs, but I can't find what they refer to, or what they refer to appears to be set up correctly.

[rastanz]

rastanz last edited by

Okay, I found out why my Speed Dial wasn't loading, the Speed Dial folder reset itself and deleted the contents when installing or updating my extensions and even when installing live wallpaper themes the Speed Dial would default back to empty and all my tiles would be moved to the 'Other Bookmarks' folder section under 'DESKTOP-46P963L'.

If your Speed Dial folder is empty then Opera is most likely searching for your tiles in the folder tree in the case of where mine were moved too in the 'Imported / Other Bookmarks ' section which is probably why it took ages to load or didn't load at all.

I had to copy all my tiles back into the Default Speed Dial folder so that they would load as normal and upon doing so my Opera Speed Dial page was back to it's fast loading speed.

Anyone having slow loading or experiencing an empty Speed Dial page should look into it as it may solve your issue as it did mine... for now.

[rastanz]

rastanz @sgrandin last edited by

@sgrandin Perhaps a Windows update and reinstalling the extensions might correct the issues? as you did a system restore it might have removed some of the Windows updates relative to your extensions working properly.

[sgrandin]

sgrandin @rastanz last edited by

@rastanz: Windows was/is up to date when this all broke out. During the day there was a Defender update and a NET update, but apparently they weren't taken out by the restore, since the NET update hasn't reappeared (I check twice a day because of security updates). The underlying question is did the NET update cause the SD problem, or did Opera send an unannounced update, or do something else that triggered it in some other way. I see your work around, but other than checking an extension when there's an error, I haven't had any SD problems since.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by

New version - 74.0.3911.218 ;-)

[adam1709]

adam1709 last edited by

why do you manipulate comment sections so much ...

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @adam1709 last edited by

@adam1709 What do you mean?

[adam1709]

adam1709 @leocg last edited by

@leocg: For example, it is here that the update is released, instead of new comments, they are loaded from the .203 version.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Since release v74.0.3911.218 Opera shows a "5 seconds" image every time you fast-forward/rewind in a video. I find this very disturbing. Is there an option to toggle this off?

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/0LnMZlN.jpg

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @adam1709 last edited by

@adam1709 Because the post/topic is the same, it was just edited.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@deus-exx As far as I know, it's from YouTube.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg:
No, it isn't. For example, try with the Firefox browser, you don't get to see these images there.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@deus-exx What about other Chromium based browsers?

Sometimes I see that X seconds image even in YouTube app.

[kened]

kened Banned last edited by

I think the borders of the active address bar should be a little brighter, as in Edge and Firefox Proton.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg:
Yeah, probably it is from Youtube after all. I just checked some Youtube videos embedded on external sites. There the "5 seconds" images do not appear, but they do show up when viewed directly on Youtube. Yet there was one externally embedded video where the images also did appear.

It is strange though that in Firefox you don't get to see these images at all.

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@leocg:
Just did a test run with the current release of the Vivaldi browser (Chromium). No "5 seconds" images appearing on Youtube.

That makes 2 votes against 1 that Opera is to blame for these images.

[palx]

palx last edited by

You might want to take a look at the sidebar player apps "Apple Music" and "YouTube Music" they don't keep the settings if you resize their windows and they revert to a preset smaller size every time you reopen them. Spotify does not have that problem....Also for a few updates now, the pop-out video for YouTube, does not keep the new size and position if you change them(at least I remember it used to, I don't know anymore, if I mix it up with another browser, its being a while that Opera's doesn't).