Opera 79 Stable
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davidr last edited by davidr
I have the same problem as reported by @johnd78 and others. It happens like this: after Opera has been running for a few minutes (not immediately after a program or system restart, but some time later), whether in a new or existing tab, if I click in the address/search bar, type, and press Enter, nothing happens. It doesn't matter whether I type a search string or a Web address known to be valid: nothing happens. The typing appears dimmed as I type, and there is a globe icon at the left of the bar. Switching to a different tab and then back to the non-functioning tab sometimes heals the problem and sometimes does not. The problem does not happen in a newly opened window. This bug has been around at least since last November; besides the forum thread @johnd78 links to, see https://forums.opera.com/topic/44882/solved-address-search-bar-doesn-t-work-won-t-let-me-enter-grays-out-text-etc/175.
I am using Opera v. 79.0.4143.22; as far as I know this is the stable version, since I don't use Opera betas. I am on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit SP1.
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chas4 last edited by@leocg I see it in all 3 channels for a few years now.
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chas4 last edited by
@burnout426 On a SSD here (pre NVMe drive), the relaunch button should not show until after it is ready to restart to finish the update
Why Open the Web?
Despite the connecting purpose of the Web, it is not entirely open to all of its users.
When used correctly, HTML documents can be displayed across platforms and devices.
However, many devices are excluded access to Web content. -
styen last edited by styen
There are some scripts to fix ffmpeg and widevine on linux (Debian-based) based on https://github.com/nicolas-meilan/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg.
Main branch. Currently works fine:
https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine
Testing branch allowing to create auto-fix hook for apt (hope to get feedback if it works or not):
https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/tree/lazy -
mikerobinson last edited by
A lot of pages just flat-out crash for me now, such as Gmail and Facebook.
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mikerobinson last edited by
@mikerobinson: Ok, I reinstalled Opera and now it's working again. Who knows what happened last time...
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mikerobinson last edited by
@mikerobinson: Ok, I reinstalled Opera and now it's working again. Who knows what happened last time...
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GKaczmarek Opera last edited by
The address bar bug was reported as DNA-95481. Thanks a lot to all of you that provided us with information that helped us track it down
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davidr last edited by
@gkaczmarek said in Opera 79 Stable:
The address bar bug was reported as DNA-95481. Thanks a lot to all of you that provided us with information that helped us track it down
Thanks, that's great to hear! Looking forward to the fix.
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andrew84 last edited by
I have performance issues since 79 version when watching youtube using avc1 codecs (even without the animated tab indicator). It's fine in 78.
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A Former User last edited by
@treego: I got tired of using Opera on linux, even today they don't support libffmpeg.so (ie they don't support H.264 format natively). I think this is absurd. After this update that prevented me from watching videos from youtube, twitter and other sites, I decided to switch to Brave browser.
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A Former User last edited by
@vprofirov: The disregard of Opera developers with the Linux community is absurd. I got tired of waiting for their goodwill. I migrated my entire Opera account (I used it on Kubuntu and Android smartphone) to the Brave browser. I tried Vivaldi too, but it doesn't seem as fast as Brave (both on Kubuntu and on android). It's a shame that Opera's development is like this, I really believed that with the new Chinese owners, development would be faster, but I was very wrong.
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A Former User last edited by
@vprofirov: Two years ago (August 2019) I asked them to support the h.264 format in the browser for linux. Until today they have not done that. I got tired of their goodwill. Opera never again.
https://forums.opera.com/topic/34659/opera-linux-browser-h-264-support-through-x264-open-source-codec -
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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Opera 79 Stable:
@pinportal It was already explained that they can't support proprietary codecs natively for legal reasons.
How is that Brave and Vivaldi apparently support these proprietary codecs natively without violating laws?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@treego Not sure, but it seems to run a script that gets the correct libffmpeg.so and copy into a place where Vivaldi can see it.
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treego last edited by
@leocg said in Opera 79 Stable:
@treego Not sure, but it seems to run a script that gets the correct libffmpeg.so and copy into a place where Vivaldi can see it.
May I suggest Opera do the same?
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styen last edited by
@treego use this one https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine
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cvm last edited by
Why is size of Opera 78 or 79 32bit launcher.exe about 3MB and 64bit about 40MB?
Size of Opera 77 - 32bit launcher.exe was about 1.3MB and 64bit only 2.2MB. -
A Former User last edited by
@styen: we are very tired of using hacks, because Opera developers don't implement H.264 support natively in Linux (like Brave, Vivaldi and many others).
