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    New YouTube Problems with Opera 12.17

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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Thanks all of you!
      :cheers:
      I had actually already applied that last fix ages ago, but when I now checked it I found that somehow it had become "undone".
      I've reapplied it and now YouTube pages are loading fast again with no freezes!

      Thanks for the pointer to the override.ini editing tip as well, that's fixed the comments display.
      I always thought one of the things they should have added to the site preferences was to allow site-by-site user agent strings to be added (that and fit to width) and I did try once before doing it by editing override.ini, but it didn't work. This time it did!

      Long live Opera 12!
      :party:

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      • fefrie
        fefrie last edited by

        @stng

        Thanks for the link on the slow YT main page.

        I have a css running on the page running already to eliminate ads, so I just added the recommended code.

        Eliminated the subscription mess on the right, but the page still loads slow. I have a core duo computer so that might be the problem. I'll respond in the other forum.

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        • fefrie
          fefrie last edited by

          try this.
          http://ud.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/2ivkg4/opera_12_versus_youtube_how_to_fix_broken/
          And revert back to 12.16 Everything works fine for me.

          I have to retract this. Using the override.ini does NOT work for me.

          I'll have to delve into what is going wrong wth the ini code.

          Lukarria is the only fix for me, although I've removed it to see if I can get ini working again.

          EDIT: Disregard. I run opera on a ramdrive that starts brand new except for certain files like Override.ini of which I store on the regular drive.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Yeah I just noticed some of these issues myself, slow start page and comments formatting. Funny thing is I had enabled auto previews somehow and I can't recall how I did that if it was an extension or youtube settings I used. So now it is slow trying to load all those videos

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            • Deleted User
              Deleted User last edited by admin

              Try to use this solution: https://forums.opera.com/post/29123

              That does make the comments display correctly, but seems to make it impossible to post (i.e., can't type into the new comment box).

              17 is not a recommended build for whatever reason, so I stick with 16.

              Not recommended? IIRC, it was a security update.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Confirmed, I can't type in the new comment box either now!
                ;_;
                Fortunately I rarely comment on YouTube videos!

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  You can share the thing on Facebook and place your comment in the text body, then discuss stuff on there. And to Hell that that's not working.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    YouTube works nice with 11. 😛

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Are people not aware Opera 12.x is not being worked on any more? Any problems you have will not be fixed.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        Thanks for that, I think you'll find that we are all well aware of this!
                        :rolleyes:

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                        • linuxmint7
                          linuxmint7 last edited by

                          And have been well aware of this for over a year.

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                          • fefrie
                            fefrie last edited by

                            Are people not aware Opera 12.x is not being worked on any more? Any problems you have will not be fixed.

                            Wait, what? Opera 12.16 is not being worked on anymore? I know that they went with webkit for awhile, but they said that they were going to introduce Opera 12 features back into a later version of the newer Opera, sometime in the near future.

                            /sarcasm

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                            • teeps
                              teeps last edited by

                              I know this isn't the right thread, but looks like there are knowledgeable people here. If there's another place or thread, could you point me there?

                              I was using 12.17 fine for months. 2 days ago it installed the latest 24.0 and has totally messed up the browser AND the PC is grinding to a halt. Can someone point me to the right location to uninstall 24.0 without destroying 12.17 profile & all my wands, cookies, hotkeys, bookmarks, start pages, etc.? 24.0 doesn't respect any of the old and won't load most web pages, PLEASE help & Thanks!!!

                              http://imgur.com/3g9rDy8

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                              • leocg
                                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                Can someone point me to the right location to uninstall 24.0 without destroying 12.17 profile & all my wands, cookies, hotkeys, bookmarks, start pages, etc.?

                                They are stored on different places so you can remove one withoput losing any settings of the other.

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  I know this isn't the right thread, but looks like there are knowledgeable people here. If there's another place or thread, could you point me there?
                                  I was using 12.17 fine for months. 2 days ago it installed the latest 24.0 and has totally messed up the browser AND the PC is grinding to a halt. Can someone point me to the right location to uninstall 24.0 without destroying 12.17 profile & all my wands, cookies, hotkeys, bookmarks, start pages, etc.? 24.0 doesn't respect any of the old and won't load most web pages, PLEASE help & Thanks!!!
                                  http://imgur.com/3g9rDy8

                                  You can install something like lastpass extension and import your logins before trying fixes

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                                  • templarart
                                    templarart last edited by

                                    I also had the youtube comments problem, and this indeed fixed it

                                    Go to "opera:config --> User Prefs" and copy this line: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 to the "Custom User-Agent" field. Don't forget to click "Save".

                                    But the problem is, now addblock doesnt work anymore.... it's like you fix one thing and another brokes down, Opera 24 looks totally incomplete, I love opera 12 but it gets harder and harder to keep everything going.

                                    Any idea how i can fix adblock WHILE still be able to see comments on youtube?

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by admin

                                      @teeps:

                                      I was using 12.17 fine for months. 2 days ago it installed the latest 24.0 and...

                                      Teeps, you seem to have problems similar to those discussed in this thread.

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        I also had the youtube comments problem, and this indeed fixed it
                                        Go to "opera:config --> User Prefs" and copy this line: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 to the "Custom User-Agent" field. Don't forget to click "Save".
                                        But the problem is, now addblock doesnt work anymore.... it's like you fix one thing and another brokes down, Opera 24 looks totally incomplete, I love opera 12 but it gets harder and harder to keep everything going.
                                        Any idea how i can fix adblock WHILE still be able to see comments on youtube?

                                        Just use the override.ini edit fix here - http://ud.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/2ivkg4/opera
                                        Worked for me, I found that putting things in the custom user prefs broke other sites.
                                        I have AdBlock too, and it's still working fine, and the YouTube comments display is fine too.
                                        The only outstanding problem is that I can't now make YouTube comments myself as I can't type in the new comment box, but that's not really an issue for me!
                                        🙂

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                                        • stng
                                          stng last edited by

                                          Just use the override.ini edit fix here - http://ud.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/2ivkg4/opera
                                          Worked for me, I found that putting things in the custom user prefs broke other sites.
                                          I have AdBlock too, and it's still working fine, and the YouTube comments display is fine too.
                                          The only outstanding problem is that I can't now make YouTube comments myself as I can't type in the new comment box, but that's not really an issue for me!
                                          🙂

                                          This is a not typical behavior.

                                          1. Try to delete Google's and YT's cookies

                                          2. Try to set another User-Agent string (within the override.ini file):
                                            Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 Opera 12.16

                                          3. Apply the above mentioned UA string for google.com. It should fix proper display of Google's search engine (bring back their "modern" design with additional functions perfectly working such as "find similar image").

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            Tried all that.
                                            Added www.google.com to override.ini with that user-agent string.
                                            Deleted all the cookies.
                                            No difference, I still can't get a text cursor to appear in the YouTube new comment box.
                                            Google's search pages don't look any different either, but I thought they were the latest version anyway.
                                            🙂

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