@leocg
Oooooh! Doh! The little blue shield Thought it was anti-malware or something.
Thanks!

Are you using the word emoticon to refer to the company logo icons beside each entry? Maybe there's a confusion in terms here...

(I did a forum search, but results don't seem to apply to current version)

Using version 64.0.3417.92
I decided to try Opera's built-in ad blocker. How can I unblock a website from within a page instead of going to settings and pasting the URL into the ad blocker exceptions list? Is there a button or context menu entry I'm not seeing? Feeling dumb...

About the 2-Mar-19 update (v. 58.0.3135.79):
There's an Emoji item at the top of the context menu. It appears when the cursor is in a text entry field. Let me start by saying that I'm not anti-emoji-- I use them. I just don't like having them at the top of the context menu. Is there an option to disable the Emoji feature? It would be OK if we could just move it down to a lower position in the menu list. Is there a disable option in Settings? Maybe I'm just not seeing it (wouldn't be the first time).

@yanta
Purely MHO, but I think the colors are picked up from an accent color on the favicon or maybe the website. For ex, BBC-black, XDA-orange, Project Gutenburg-red, androidforums-blue. (ignoring the ones that don't) Anyway, maybe the cache gets dumped or overwritten sometimes. Maybe it decides to try complimentary colors (kidding). Why, oh why does my brain dwell on these things?

@ceedee said in Scam "survey" posing as Opera offer:

msvp hosts file

Thanks. I didn't think it was from Opera. I don't know anything about msvp hosts file (among many other things). It looks interesting in quick google check. Is it something you use in addition to ad blockers or is it incorporated into ad blockers. It would be nice to have something extra because sites use a lot of work-arounds for ad blockers these days.

@yanta
Thanks... I never changed the agent from the default, but never stopped to learn what it actually means, either. I think it's Mozilla, based on the page you linked. There's a list of several, but Mozilla is first. It's explained lower on the page so I'll find out a little later when there's time to read it in detail.

Your User Agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 OPR/57.0.3098.116

Same here. I doesn't happen to all of them, just the generic type that have the site name and a small 2nd line that says .com or .net. The background color is picked up from the site somehow. Example: on mine, the Amazon related stuff like Amazon, Audible, Goodreads, etc have orange backgrounds. Whenever there's an Opera update, they all turn purple. After a while, they turn orange again, maybe after a reboot or 2

Let me know if I'm wrong, but I can't imagine Opera doing such a thing...
I went to a site I've never visited before. It wasn't an iffy site-- just a bio page about an author. As soon as the page opened, there was a weird beep & I got page overlay titled: 2019 Annual Visitor Survey. It said that I'm one of the few chosen lucky Opera users who could win a gift card if I complete an Opera Survey... Now, if I just click this link and enter my information...
(I put the link info at bottom.)

I'm wondering if it's a script that detects the user's browser & fills in Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc. It reminded me of the old days when a user would open a website & a big "danger" pop-up would announce "Your computer has a virus" (or 10,000 viruses or whatever). When I saw the one today, I felt contaminated & slammed it shut. Should have done a screenie at least.

The "survey" hijacked me. My browsing history only shows the "survey" page, with no trace of the page I was going to. I copied the "survey" link from my browsing history if you're feeling adventurous: 2019 Annual Visitor Survey

Here's the google search link I clicked originally: Bio – OLIVIER BERNIER.

Is there a link on Opera to report such things?

@bbildman said in Where are the bookmarks.:

... I have MANY arcane bookmarks that took me a long time to discover that involved MUCH searching. To abandon those bookmarks would be a kind of browser suicide for me. Who wants to try to retrace the steps I took to have found those sites in the first place, much work went into finding them

You said it so well! Also sometimes I accidentally stumble across something I didn't know existed & would never find again without a bookmark.

"Browser suicide" says it all. Losing bookmarks is not the only form of browser suicide, but it would do the trick.

I don't see why we can't just have Flow as a option in Opera Mobile & Mini.