Best posts made by astara

I agree -- it is hard to find where to click to close the current tab -- I often end up using the keyboard accelerator (Ctrl-Q or Ctrl-W -- I forget offhand). It's not very user-friendly in that regard.

Better, would be an option to move the 'close-X' icon to a fixed location, like at the far right of the tab-bar like firefox or palemoon have. You can the close-X icon to the far right so it always allows you to close the current tab by clicking it. Often which tab is active is hard to see -- especially if you have multiple tabs open.

This should really be considered an "accessibility" option.

I'm trying to add opera.exe to my firewall to allow it to go through, but there is no fixed name, "path/opera.exe" to add. My Quick launch menu has a shortcut to launcher.exe, but that launches another binary in a non-fixed-name directory. I need to know what path I can enter to allow it through my firewall. It doesn't work to have a version number in the path name as that changes, and the new version ends up being blocked.

It is not what it is launched as, but what it is running as at runtime.

@leocg
IMO, you overuse the topic-lock and dup feature.
Someone had problems updating Opera. Two people gave suggestions (including me). One suggested using sudo on the cmd line -- which you said wasn't windows, yet I mentioned 2 ways to do do that. But one can do that via alternates. 1) sudo via the GUI someone pointed at a "wsudo", and I mentioned the equivalent "run as Administrator". and 2) a simple "runas" in cmd that does the same thing, but now can't find my post as base was labeled duplicate.

It is the case that there might be more than one solution, and barring off-topic or Spam, you might consider leaving posts rather than using what some might consider, heavy-handed moderating options.

Similarly, deleting user postings can be off-putting or "aggressive" to the user(ex. @Lamsoonia )on the recieving end.

Cheers -- and thanks for your time in doing what is often a thankless job.

This used to always bug me on Firefox until someone wrote an extension that allows you to recover any text you enter on a website before it threw everything you entered away -- for many reasons -- you hit refresh, you had to go back to previous page to check something, but going forward re-initialized page, Connection dropped, browser froze...etc.

"Text-Area Cache Window -- still available for FF/PM, @
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cache/, will it be ready for Opera any time soon?

TBH, I don't see how I'd convert a FF extension to one that worked on opera.

But this extension has consistently saved me hours of work. There seem to be so many ways for you to lose your input -- and this allows you to recover it. I'd recommend it only on personal computers.

I'm not sure what changed, this used to work -- downloading a file and opening it rather than saving it. What is happening now is that I have a dialog to save the file -- and then I have to open the directory (usually c:\tmp) and click on the file to get it to "open" under windows. Used to be I could just click on the download link, and the file would be auto -opened in windows. Is there some place where I have to change to have the file's "open" action called automatically upon downloading it? I.e. it used to be auto-downloaded into tmp and the windows "open" action would be called on the file. Since about 1-2 months ago opera isn't calling the windows open action.

How to fix?

Thanks!

@leocg --
If I click on a ".jpg" or a ".wav" file, opera doesn't ask me where to save it -- it just displays the picture or puts up a tiny - player. Opera clearly opens some files, I would gather this is configurable "somewhere". It's this config section I'm looking for (does that make it more clear?).

Doesn't Opera have the ability to let users install handlers for various file types? Like google phone service allows one to click on a "phone" link -- it talks about registering google voice as a handler for phone type links. For me, I want to have Opera download files of type ".torrent", then turn them over to the local program to handle such file types. Similarly apps such as Aria, can process a download link that tries multiple protocols for download -- if your distro supports it, it will try both http and torrent protocols to download a multi-gig download. Normally browsers have had the ability to launch special handlers for different file types -- looking not just at extensions, but usually the files mime type. Opera used to have the ability to adapt to new media and allow adding actions. Firefox, IE, Edge all have this -- pretty sure chrome does as well -- which should mean opera does unless it has been crippled.

There should be some way to set actions for various file types. I don't see why devs would cripple opera where the feature is in other browsers. Was there a discussion viewable in the forum about why this feature was removed?