Posts made by astara

@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.

@jin8864y
Try downloading the update and saving it locally, Then try installing it to verify that it does install (or doesn't) If it still seems to ignore the update,
maybe try rt-clicking on the update and try "Run as administrator", and see if that helps?
This is a GUI version similar to dmitriev81's suggestion to use Window's to use a Windows cmd window and run a version of 'sudo' (via some BASH-for or LINUX-for for Windows App, or a standalone version you've installed).

Good luck!

@lnekko -- I saw something similar to that a few years ago. Don't know the exact feature, but it had to do with a developer feature - option that highlighted some specific type of rendering.

Maybe try disabling any new extensions (or all new ones) as a test and see if it goes away?

@leocg Here, it always goes back to (home)/documents/downloads.
Doesn't start the download until I hit enter.
Have it configured to ask everytime, where to save.

even having it remember last location would be a vast improvement.

Most apps, (msoffice apps, adobe) seem to be able to remember the last 'N' locations they saved things (N being configurable). But not opera, that I can tell.

If I am downloading files into a directory, when I goto download the next file, it forgets where I downloaded the last file, and always puts me at the default download directory. Even though I tell it to always ask me -- it always resets the default to the directory where things would go if I don't have it ask me. Very un-useful to download 100 files, and have to find the location where I want them downloaded each time. No, I don't want to have to reconfigure Opera for each website, I want Opera to remember what local directory I was using -- At least the last time I saved a file.

Ideally, it would remember where I was saving files the last time I saved files from "websiteX") and prompt me by starting at that local directory.

Storage is cheap -- it could keep track of the last 100 websites and the local directory that corresponded to them, and show me that last local directory as the default when I go to save a download from the same website.

How is completely disabling it different than removing it? I.e. how would it be functionally different?

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.

@sandman192 Whether or not something starts "on boot" (or "on login") is a property of the OS, not the program. The program may try to "auto-insert" entries into OS areas to "auto-start" itself, but ultimately, the OS starts before the programs do, so the OS is the point where programs can be controlled (allowed to started or not) when the OS starts.

Have you gone into your OS settings, like running "msconfig" and looked to see where something might be allowing Opera to start or stop?

If your Win version hides how to run "msconfig", maybe googling for "how to run msconfig" will show you, but you should be able to disable 3rd party programs (like opera) using msconfig.

Good luck!

@leocg But why not? It's a useful feature that other browsers have, so why would Opera remove it?

So opera doesn't have "handlers" for different protocols or actions, like "phone"? Is it a feature to advertise "Opera -- the non-configurable and inextensible browser"? Doesn't sound like a benefit, is it supposed to be? Somehow?

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?

This feature used to be in Opera
(https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/26795/change-the-actions-for-file-types-in-opera/), but I don't see where those actions are set in the current version.

@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?).

@astara

I think the difference is clicking on the link in PaleMoon -- it has a way to choose what to do with a file-type -- save or open. Where is that dialog in Opera?

Thanks!

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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!

When I type in text, sometimes, something causes an interruption - I hit back accidently or click on a link that takes me off page -- even a crash or reboot.

On FF & PM there is a lifesaver called 'TextAreaCache Window'.:

It shows the past few windows and you can select the text and restore it.

Yeah, it is relying on my text still being in /tmp unencrypted, in the several years I've used it on my personal computer, that's never been an issue.

Is there such an extension for Opera...It's been such a lifesaver so many times I went back to PM for a few years until recently retrying Opera...but again ran into that problem.

Ideas?
Thanks!

This may have been an issue for some time but I'm noticing it now because I'm using Opera as my main browser, But the problem is that Opera is poppying to the top even though it isn't selected (but is briefly getting focus).

In Windows, just because a an app gets focus doesn't mean it pop's to the top. In fact I have used that fact since Windows95.
If I have one window and move to another one and cross over a background window, briefly, I don't want it popping to the foregnd where it may be obscuring both of the windows I'm working with..

Even if I am typing into an Opera text window it shouldn't pop to the front unless I click on the opera window. I often use this when copying something from a foregnd window that only covers the left side of the screen, where my opera window(s) cover the entire background. I can have a window in foreground and a non-opera (editor, firefox, palemoon, explorer, whatever), in the background
and type into a text window in the background and the background window doesn't pop forward to cover the other window unless I click in it. How can I get Opera to stay in background until I click in it? Opera I think the only other util/app that might do this (I'd have to check to make sure) is photoshop. I'd submit a video of it, but I don't see an option to attach a video.

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.

Uhm....Why did part of my response get bolded/increased in size?

@leocg What is the purpose of the dark round circle with the up-down arrow inside on the left hand side?

Do you have any idea if there was a design purpose in making the user's center of attention (the writing workspace) smaller than the section displaying unrelated titles? I mean, if it was text that you were replying to, that'd be one thing, but in composing a new note, I'm not sure why any space would be given over to unrelated headers of other topics.

It really seems like that up-down circle thinging should have done something (?), (does it?). Would it be that difficult, do you think to fix something like that? It doesn't seem like rocket science compared to all the other auto-adjusting wizzy features in CSS these days. Even a slider bar that directly sets that % number would seem to be a way of implementing the feature even if not the most elegant.

Or... was there some other design reason to put more emphasis on old subject/topic headers vs. space for comments that I'm, completely missing -- i.e. like in the old cartoon, with suggestion forums, filled with legalese, with a tiny box where it says please write your suggestion here-> ☐. Please print legibly.

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