Thanks, I will try the developer version then.

Hi all,

I am currently using a somewhat obsolete 32 bits laptop with Debian wheezy and would like to install the last opera browser alongside with Opera 12.16 which I need to manage my emails.

When I try to install opera-stable using dpkg, I get:
Selecting previously unselected package opera-stable.
dpkg: considering removing opera in favour of opera-stable ...
dpkg: yes, will remove opera in favour of opera-stable
Hopefully I hit CTRL+C quickly enough because dpkg would remove opera 12.16 altogether without prompting.

How can I have opera 12.16 and opera 45 on the same 32 bits computer?

Alexandre

Well, a global upgrade did the trick
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Same problem with Chromium 55 BTW.

Hi all,
I just upgraded to 43.0.2442.806 on Debian 8 Jessie. I am lacking video support according to https://html5test.com : see http://migo.info/share/video_opera.png
Flash and youtube work in Firefox. Firefox however is not decently usable, that’t why I’m trying Opera again.
I tried "apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree" but it ended up with public keys missing or whatever mess, so I removed it. I also noticed that the flash plugin has disappeared in opera:plugins.
Any clue? Still such a bore after all those years.
Cheers,
Alexandre

Hi all,

I just upgraded to 43.0.2442.806 on Debian 8 Jessie. I am lacking video support according to https://html5test.com : see http://migo.info/share/video_opera.png

Flash and youtube work in Firefox. Firefox however is not decently usable, that’t why I’m trying Opera again (https://html5test.comhttps://html5test.comhttps://html5test.com.

I tried "apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree" but it ended up with public keys missing or whatever mess, so I removed it. I also noticed that the flash plugin has disappeared in opera:plugins.

Any clue? Still such a bore after all those years.

Cheers,
Alexandre

I can’t imagine that there is any need to discuss such an INDISPENSABLE feature (as an option of course).

Opera has discontinued a wonderful browser and mail client for something brand new, but after more than 2 years we still don’t have a decent replacement (besides bells and whistles for the kids I mean, this of course being on top of the list of requirements in today’s world). Firefox is a crashing machine and I don’t like Chrome, but in Opera 31 I did not even manage to make TabHamster automatically save my open session.

Typing ALT+F4 with the wrong window selected is something many people may well do when in a rush or tired. When you rely on a wireless broadband connection, you can’t accept wasting your data allowance due to the huge lack of essential functionality in your browser.

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

In Opera for Linux there is an extra section in opera:config which only has an effect in X11 mode.

Thanks a lot sgunhouse for your very pertinent answer. I did not find how to drop to X11 mode (with the exception of the file chooser in X11 mode) so my Opera is still in GTK mode. However your suggestion allowed me to find an "Interface colors" section in opera:config and I was then pretty confident it would solve my problem. I changed all the gray colors into bright colors and restarted to test... Then it was Carnival but... the status bar was still gray on gray!

Despite this, my problem is now SOLVED. Since I always had the status bar active, I hadn’t noticed that, when it is disabled, there is a nice tooltip with the address popping up in black on white. Actually I barely needed the status bar for anything else, since Opera allows us to zoom in and out through the keyboard, which is way more efficient than the slider in the status bar.

Thanks again to all who replied! Your help was very much appreciated and I learned things.

Cheers,

Alexandre

Thanks Frenzie for the reply. I changed the colors to no avail. However running in X11 mode could maybe solve the problem, if I judge by the drastic effect it had on the File Open/Save dialog. I will ask how to do it on the Linux forum which I finally found. For such a simple annoyance however, it would be a complete change of look and feel, probably not for the better,

Cheers,

@rilef: Well I tried the 2 provided themes in Tools>Appearance>Themes. I don’t even know the difference between a theme and a skin. I had not found a specific forum for the Linux version and will look for it now.

@Frenzie: changing the opera:config#FileSelector|DialogToolkit to 4 was of course unrelated to the problem at hand, but it allowed me to get rid of GTK file chooser’s irritating behaviour, which is not particular to Opera: my long list of unmounted fstab entries appears in "Places", hiding away the favourites. Now I still have to find out how to run the whole Opera in X11 mode.

Cheers,