Posts made by athlonite

@zauberfritz Yeah I don't seem to think it's just an Opera problem I think it is an Chromium issue as it also has the same white page flash in Vivaldi aswell and I've had it happen in Edge chromium aswell

@leocg then if you don't know why did you write a faq about it

leocg MODERATOR Dec 1, 2018, 2:48 PM
How to change the search engine in start page

You can't change it but you can hide it in settings.

shouldn't you as a moderator on Opera's forums know this sort of thing for a fact

@sgunhouse but I don't wish to use either Yandex or Google I'd like to use a search provider who doesn't feel the need to keep a record of everywhere I go and everything I search for like DuckDuckGo

@burnout426 yeah that's why I'm now going to get rid of Opera and install Vivaldi as they'll let me do it I don't like google never have and I prefer a search engine that does keep a record of everything I look up

Pretty much if you like how Opera does things but want to be able to change you default search engine in the speed dial page then perhaps you might like to use Vivaldi as apparently they'll let you do it without a problem

@leocg Now we both know that that is a crock of pig fat if Vivaldi can do it so can Opera what you really should be telling people on here is that the Opera dev team are just to lazy to implement it and more people who want this should be complaining to the Devs and asking for it to happen as it's really nothing to do with using Chromium it's just lazy devs

@STRONK all good maybe it's something the Devs need to look at there is a suggestion thread in these forums you could always ask for dark page on wait while a site opens

@STRONK Ah yes I get what you're wanting to do there is an extension that changes everything to dark mode

Dark Mode

I'd give that ago see if that helps any

@STRONK which pages do this all of them or only some of them

1: If it's all of them then you either have a slow internet connection or a low end PC
the fix upgrade your PC

2: If it's only some of them then its a slow server the page is served from.
So nothing Opera can do about it

@leocg It can be changed it's just that Opera devs can't be arsed doing it or making an option to allow us to do it

Pretty much what you're wanting to do is download K-Lite codec pack and install it

@leocg 13 processes at 660MB in a clean browser is a little over the top mine only does 8 an ~350MB

@leocg well duh no kidding I already knew that but then to make that speed dial the default you have to jump through a whole lot of hoops and even then it doesn't always work the last time I accidentally removed my speed dial while pruning my bookmarks of sites no longer working it took me forever to get my speed dial back to working order there should be an easier way to do it like right click set as default

@leocg What do you mean by it's not a bug to be fixed

If sync doesn't synchronise Opera on multiple machines logged into the same sync account then how else are you meant to recreate speed dial, book marks etc etc etc

And when I right click on an older speed dial the add to speed dial is greyed out I can't drag and drop as it just creates a bookmarks.html bookmark ahhhh very frustrating

If neither mine nor Leogc's fixes work then you need to look at your Windows DPI settings

if it says it's installed C:\Program Files then it X64 or 64 bit
if it says it's installed in C:\Program Files (x86) then it's x86 or 32 bit

Why is it that some Extensions are not listed on the extension page but show up in the task manager as for instants

Extension: Opera Touch Background (Also could someone please explain what this actually does as ending the process doesn't seem to effect anything)
Extension: Video Handler
Extension: Background Worker

These are apparently Extensions but none of them show in the extension page

or you could go here opera://flags/#default-tile-width and here opera://flags/#default-tile-height

and change those without touching the page zoom

This always seemed to happen with the Deviant Art speed dial but I think it had something to do with the server they used for graphics on their page now that I made a new dial it shows up consistently now. So if I were you I'd try making a new dial and see if that helps