Posts made by bbatten

Here's the full URL:
http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/63.0.3368.94/linux/opera-stable_63.0.3368.94_amd64.deb

FWIW, I find that if I drop back to 63.0.3368.94, the ads no longer appear on the speed dial page. Also, clicking on the "heart" sidebar icon once again pops up the full bookmark page.
This in not ultimately an acceptable solution for me, but its a real PITA to switch browsers. Having to click on an 'X' every time I start the browser is not good enough.

@CarlyRaeJepsenStan The point is there shouldn't be any "promotion". Even after I pressed the "x" and specified "ignore" the stupid thing still reappeared later.

WTF is coming off, here? I've set everything I could fine to "ignore" and I still get this nonsense about black friday and amazon! Pay attention to trashcan!

Why are you shoving adds down my throat on the speed dial page?

@ygbourhis No. So I deinstalled it, then downloaded from its website and activated it. Same results. Opera crashes if I click the gear icon in anything other than the Settings tab. Here's syslog:

[1] bryan: grep opera /var/log/syslog
Apr 10 12:50:30 Pentium90 kernel: [613766.044865] opera[16412]: segfault at a8 ip 0000000004f4fe65 sp 00007ffc00147540 error 4 in opera[1a1e000+5afe000]

Looks like there's a good probability that I have cruft in my environment (it's used for development after all). Be nice if someone could test in exactly Ubuntu 14.04.

@slytheringirl Amen

@ygbourhis For me, Noscript Lite shows up under "about:extensions". Clicking Enable will make it show up as a little shield at the very right end of the address bar. Clicking on the little shield causes a small window to appear with a box labeled '+' and a box containing a gear symbol. I've found that clicking on the gear symbol results in a crash when I'm on a web page. The only place I've found that there is no crash is when I'm on the settings tab.

The crash does not happen when I'm running the same version of Opera on Ubuntu 16.04.

I think it would greatly simplify synchronization between opera instances on different machines if the "Advanced synchronization settings" box were supplied with a "Speed Dial" tick box. Any chance of this happening?

Thanks,

@leocg Ah, right I stumbled upon this: Speed Dials batch restore.

(Never mind.)

@leocg One at a time? Is there any way to select and copy all entries at once?

Thanks,

@ygbourhis Duh. It just now dawned on my that you are using Ubuntu 14.04. Can you click on the No-Script Lite gear icon from any web page (not just the settings tab) without getting a crash?

If so, I think that would remove the qualm I have about the down-revved libdbus-1-3 requirement. I use my Devuan system as a development box, so its configuration may not be entirely cruft free. After all, as you say, the change is very trivial.

Thanks again for the package patch.

@leocg Well, through shenanigans I don't really understand, "Other Speed Dials" has magically reappeared under the Bookmarks tab on my Devuan machine. An "Other Speed Dials" folder has now also appeared under the Bookmarks tab on my Ubuntu machine and it has a copy of all the speed dial entries that are on the Devuan box - which is what I want.

Now, how do I get the entries in "Other Speed Dials" on the Ubuntu box into the "Speed Dials" folder on that machine?

Thanks,

@leocg : Quick Response! Thanks.
Yes. Bookmarks are synced. Passwords are synced. Settings are synced. As far as I can tell, History and Open tabs are synced. Just Other Speed Dials is missing on the Ubuntu machine.

I notice that the "Other Speed Dials" folder on the Devuan machine Bookmarks tab has now disappeared after screwing around some more with synchronization on the Ubuntu machine.

I recently did a fresh install of Opera 52.0.2871.40 on Ubuntu 16.04. I enabled synchronization on this and on another machine running the same version of Opera in order to update the Ubuntu box with the the other machine's settings, including the Speed Dial entries. It mostly seems to work OK, except that when I click on the Ubuntu box bookmark icon, the Bookmarks tab does not have the "Other Speed Dials" line entry & I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to appear.

The other machine (Devuan Jessie) does show "Other Speed Dials" in its Bookmarks tab. On the Ubuntu machine, "Bookmarks", "Settings", "History", "Open Tabs", and "Passwords" are all set under "Advanced Configuration", and have been updated successfully from the other machine.

Opera documentation clearly states in several places that synchronizing Speed Dial entries can be done. Does anyone have the magic combo?

Thanks,

@ygbourhis
I downloaded the deb file for 52.0.2871.40 from Opera's download site and applied your package patch Fri 3/30/18. I've been using it regularly since then and everything seems to be working right except for the No-Script Suite Lite extension.

Opera crashes every time I click on the script's gear icon unless I'm in Opera's settings tab. Opera 52.0.2871.40 installed on Ubuntu 16.04 does not have that problem.

I'm digging a little deeper to see if I can get some idea of what's going on, but in my view it may be a little early to claim absolutely everything works. I'll post what - if anything - I find out here.

@bbatten
Color me embarrassed. I neglected to follow "dpkg -i ..." at the end of the package modification attempt described above with "ldconfig".
Now working fine.
Nevermind.

@ygbourhis
Well, things don't appear to be looking too good.

First, I downloaded Opera's deb package for 52.0.2871.37, then applied your procedure to patch the package using these commands as root:

dpkg-deb -R opera-stable_52.0.2871.37_amd64.deb opera-stable_52
sed -i s/'libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14)'/'libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.6.18)'/ opera-stable_52/DEBIAN/control
dpkg-deb -b opera-stable_52 opera-stable_52_trusty.0.2871.37_amd64.deb
dpkg -i opera-stable_52_trusty.0.2871.37_amd64.deb

The package installed without any error indications, but when I tried to run the executable, Opera's start screen flashed for about a second, then reappeared with a message saying opera was recovering from a crash. This sequence repeated three more times before it ended. Here's the first two of six lines of what's in syslog:

Mar 29 14:43:43 Pentium90 kernel: [344076.864647] opera[13671]: segfault at 148 ip 000000000380ffa9 sp 00007fff9304b570 error 4 in opera[1a1e000+5afc000]
Mar 29 14:43:51 Pentium90 kernel: [344085.252247] opera[13910]: segfault at 148 ip 000000000380ffa9 sp 00007fff06c26fa0 error 4 in opera[1a1e000+5afc000]
...

Perhaps there's a pilot error here in trying to apply a patch for one version of the package against a later version?

Next, I tried downloading your patched package 52_trusty.0.2871.30 using wget with "-c --tries=0" options per your suggestion. This completed - apparently successfully - after about six hours and 26 tries at an average speed of 4-6 KB/s. However, when I tried to install, theinstallation failed. Here's the console interaction.

-su(root)# dpkg -i opera-stable_52_trusty.0.2871.30_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 214731 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack opera-stable_52_trusty.0.2871.30_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking opera-stable (52.0.2871.30) over (50.0.2762.67) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed data is corrupt
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing archive opera-stable_52_trusty.0.2871.30_amd64.deb (--install):
cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/icudtl.dat' to '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera> /icudtl.dat.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
opera-stable_52_trusty.0.2871.30_amd64.deb

I suspect that here there may really be an undetected or unnoticed wget error based on the long wall clock time and slow communication rate.

Looks like it may be a little early to conclude that opera works OK with the down-revved libdbus-1-3 dependency. Interested in hearing your comments.

Thanks,

@ygbourhis
Thanks for your help. My timezone is PDT (California). I'm in the process of trying to download the package again right now (averaging @ 8-9 KB/s).

California is a long way from France. Maybe the weight of ship traffic passing overhead is squeezing the cable enough to constrict data flow?

Thanks again,

@ygbourhis
If it's a network issue, it's a weird one; I have all the network functionality I need to login and reply to your post. Maybe path speed is too slow (see end of post)? Anyway, I tried the download twice yesterday using Firefox, then once more using wget, failing with each.

Earlier this morning I pasted your wget command line into a terminal window, and that failed:
...
2018-03-28 12:07:09 (10.1 KB/s) - Read error at byte 44443264/55094366 (The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.). Giving up.

Then I pasted your curl command line into a terminal window and that failed too:

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
3 52.5M 3 1859k 0 0 10726 0 1:25:36 0:02:57 1:22:39 13177curl: (18) transfer closed with 53186694 bytes remaining to read

Maybe the line speed is too slow (@10-14 KB/sec)?

So anyway, right now, I'm trying an experiment using wget in which I simply repeat the command after each failure termination on the assumption that it will just pick up where it left off the last time --- aka "Hail Mary"!

I'll post results.