@joshl Perhaps 'relief'.

@brinke said in Is there a "HOME" icon for the browser?:

ah, i found an extension that does the trick.

Or... you could visit whatever URL you wish for your homepage, bookmark it and title it something like *H*, then put it at the far left end of your bookmarks bar. The advantage of that is that it saves using another extension process.

@esebm said in This video is restricted from playing in your location:

@blackbird71
Let me try to understand it ...: Using the Opera VPN one would assume that the exit server with the final IP is an Opera-owned one here in the Americas. I would understand if I'd see the occasional ad in one of the, I believe, 4 languages of our hemisphere. But it makes no sense to me that I have seen only Russian and Norwegian language ads.

If the 'Americas' exit server's IP look-up listing being used by the website/ad-clients is not accurate, complete, or specific, a website or its ad clients might then have to guess at where the IP's server is located - and one of the ways of guessing is to attribute the location to the IP-listed address of the server's owner/operator. If, for example, that operator information referred to Opera in Norway, then languages common to the Scandinavian/Northwestern Russian region might be inferred as common regional languages for the IP being used by the exit server.

Another possibility might be that, for some reason, the 'Americas' exit server is not actually being employed for your proxy/VPN connection, but instead an Opera regional Scandinavian exit server is being employed for some reason, then a similar site/ad-client regional response could occur.

At this distance, there remains genuine conjecture regarding the exact cause for what you're seeing. Manually pulling up server IP listing information can in many cases illustrate incomplete listed information, confusing information (sometimes the IPs are listed simply as entire IP blocks or under the name of contracted organizations headquartered in unrelated locales), or information that varies for a given IP between different IP look-up listing organizations. For example, the IP typically assigned to my system by my ISP usually shows up as located at 4 or 5 different locations within a 200-mile radius of my actual location, depending on which IP listing I manually pull down or as my geo-location as determined by a particular website I'm visiting (which has to be via IP lookup, since I forcibly suppress all on-board computer/internal geo-location software and data transfer from my systems).

@esebm said in This video is restricted from playing in your location:

I don't believe that all the sites that display this issue (NYT, Wash. Post, Huffpost, Politico, etc) have so many Russian or Norwegian language visitors that they need to display ads in those languages. ...

When you use a proxy/VPN, the final IP number sent to the sought website will be that of the selected exit server associated with the proxy/VPN service being used. Ordinarily, the website can location-check that IP before responding with geo-specific webpages and/or ads.

If the website responds with an inappropriate geo-specific page or ads, it will be because either the geo-listing for the final IP that was consulted by the site has incorrect/inexact location data or because the proxy/VPN service is using a server that is not actually at the user-selected exit location. In some cases, if the exit proxy/VPN server IP location is not fully or properly documented in the IP listings, the website may guess at the location based on IP ownership records or such, and that can result in a webpage or ad response targeted for the geographic region thought to be served by the IP operator's recorded corporate location/address.

@gmagana said in Auto close the browser when last tab is closed:

My biggest annoyance (and it's pretty danged annoying) on Opera is when I close the last tab, opera does not close. ...this is driving me insane...

I'm sorry Opera's tab behavior is "driving you insane." For me, I occasionally accidentally close the last tab (particularly when I'm in a hurry and 'overshoot' while closing multiple tabs)... so having the browser auto-close immediately when that last tab is closed and then having to restart it is not something I want to have happen. Moreover, Opera is not the only browser to behave in this way.

@browzer1 said in Is there any backup system at all??:

I don't know if this will help you, but I use Hekasoft Backup.

http://www.hekasoft.com/hekasoft-backup-restore/

Agreed... it's highly reliable, easy to run, and only takes up 2.5 Mb of disk space as a portable install. I've use it for some time as one of my layered data/settings backup tools for each of my browsers and eMail client. The only drawbacks I've found are that it's a manual (rather than automatic) backup mechanism and that the application program being backed up must be turned off during backup/restore.

@rey0n said in Is there any backup system at all??:

i used Opera for at least half a year, had a number of 20+ tabs opened, and never had any problems. today i start as usual, and no tabs plus no way to get them back 'cause unlike Firefox or Chrome there is no any button to get tabs back after as i understand some crash happened(first time ever! that's why i didn't even save those tabs in any way, considering browser is stone-stable).

No computer and no software is ever 'stone stable' in terms of data preservation, especially as the time-frame involved increases. There will always be some possible failure mechanism that can defeat any application program's built-in backup scheme if it has one, some failure modes being more likely than others. As a result, reliably backing up important information (data, settings, etc) from outside an application program is ultimately a user's responsibility, regardless of the app program involved. Truly critical information should be backed up in multiple ways in multiple locations; less-important information (eg: the kind that can be manually recreated) should be backed up in at least one place apart from the data/settings folder where it ordinarily resides. It's one of the harsh lessons of using a computer that a user ignores at his peril.

@charliebooks There are a variety of ways a national Internet censorship mechanism or methodology can do its work, so there will be a variety of ways their interference/blocking can show up if they're focusing on a particular VPN. In Qatar, I believe the blocking of websites is performed by the ISP, in accordance with their interpretation of national laws/guidelines on unacceptable kinds of websites. In such an atmosphere, it's always possible that use of a VPN (or of a particular VPN) may be viewed by the ISP as an attempt to end-run the site prohibitions, so they may elect to block that VPN's access portals.

@joshl OK. I had assumed the d: drive was a physically different piece of hardware - I hadn't considered it as being a separate partition on the same physical drive as c:. The possibility of surface problems on a second physical drive was why I raised the earlier question. With both partitions instead living on the same drive, the odds are that if there aren't sector/drive issues on one partition, the same would be true for the other partition.

I certainly hope you can get yourself on the road to some meaningful healing finally... I assume it's still the arm issue?

@larrysstone said in Huge number of opera ".dll" files in windows/temp folder:

@blackbird71 Opening/closing has nothing to do with the creation of these files. I booted up about three hours ago and then launched my Opera browser, I did not open and close the browser multiple times, I opened it then started surfing the Internet. in three hours Opera created three of these files:
03/29/2018 04:44 AM 1,857,024 Opera_installer_180329084401885.dll
03/29/2018 05:06 AM 1,857,024 Opera_installer_180329090644175.dll
03/29/2018 06:12 AM 1,857,024 Opera_installer_180329101254337.dll

I must respectfully disagree with the characterization of Opera startup 'having nothing to do with the creation of these files'. While there may indeed be other mechanisms for creating new such files by a constantly-open Opera, on my system they are auto-magically created each and every time I start Opera - even if I start Opera, immediately close it, and then restart it again all within a minute or less. Each startup operation causes a file to be immediately written, differing only in the timestamp. Combining what you've observed with what I've seen, it's always possible that there's something in Opera that is writing a file at each startup, then periodically writing another file at some interval or operating event if Opera remains open.