Posts made by burnout426

Note that Opera currently has a "Failed to prepare update" bug logged. So, it might have just been an autoupdate bug that you encountered. But, still try to sort out everything and make sure you have a nice and clean install/setup.

@apsinc The option will be at the URL opera://settings/search eventually. As said, it's already in Developer.

Just to be clear, here is what I see in Opera Developer:

That example.com entry is actually for today Thursday, the 9th.

When I click "Pick the date", it just shows this:

This is EDT time zone in my case.

All is good if I disable the history redesign flag of course.

@faunofthedead You can open up regedit and look for those Opera keys under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" and delete them.

You can then do all the stuff I previously mentioned like deleting the "Opera" programs folder etc.

You should just be able to use --no-proxy-server without anything else.

For example:

"C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" --no-proxy-server

Delete everything in "C:\Windows\temp" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\temp" again.

Uninstall Opera again, but don't choose to delete your data when asked. Then, delete the "Opera" folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs".

Then, open up the Windows Task Scheduler, select "Task Scheduler Library' and look in the list for any Opera autoupdate tasks and delete them. There shouldn't be any since you uninstalled Opera, but make sure because it can cause problems in some cases if after you reinstall Opera there's more than one autoupdate task for Opera.

Then, in both "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local", right-click on the "Opera Software" folder, goto "Properties" and click the "read only" box on the General tab so that it's clear (all white) and click apply. Then, switch to the Security tab. Make sure your username is in the user list and make sure it has full control (all permissions set to allow except for "Special Permissions"). Then, click Apply. Then, do the same thing for the "Programs" folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local".

Then, download "Opera_122.0.5643.92_Setup_x64.exe" from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/122.0.5643.92/win/ in whatever browser you want, launch it, click "options", make sure "install path" is set to "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera", make sure "Install for" is set to "Current User", adjust all the other options as you like and install.

That should take care of program file issues and permission issues for your profile files.

Updating should work fine from now on unless something is interfering with Opera's updater.

Then, to avoid some quirks with updating next time, if you have "Retain tabs from previous session" set at the URL opera://settings/onStartup, whenever you're on the opera://about or opera://update page and Opera shows the "relaunch" button when the update is ready, don't click it. Instead, close that tab and close Opera yourself, wait a tad bit and then start Opera back up yourself. The reason for doing things that way is to avoid Opera relaunching with the opera://about or opera://update page loading right away. If the timing is just right, the page can mess with Opera loading the new version.

As for the sync issue, if that doesn't go away after doing all the above, you should probably start over with a fresh profile for good measure. To do that, you can rename the "Opera Stable" folder in both "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Opera Software" to "Opera Stable old" to start over. Then, before you enabled Sync, goto https://www.sync.opera.com/ in another browser, log in and click "Reset passphrase" to wipe out all your Sync data so you don't reintroduce any issues when using Sync again.

Now, if you need to save your passwords first, you can goto the URL opera://password-manager/settings and export your passwords to a CSV file and open it in a text editor to make sure they're there. Then, in the new Opera profile, you can go back to the same URL and import the CSV file.

For bookmarks, you can use the drop-down at the bottom left of the opera://bookmarks page to export them to an HTML file. Then, in the new profile, you can goto the URL opera://settings/importData, select "Bookmarks HTML file" in the drop-down and point it to the HTML file. Then, you can goto the URL opera://bookmarks, go into the "Bookmarks Bar" folder and move the imported bookmarks to where you want them.

That's all I would back up and restore so that you don't reintroduce any problems.

You might want to check your system files and check your file system. And, check the health of your drive with CrystalDiskInfo to make sure you don't have any corruption that causes Opera to get corrupted.

You need to disable the autoupdate tasks in the Task Scheduler too if present.

Then, for extra good measure, you need to block Opera's autoupdate servers.

Also, some programs like Kaspersky can update Opera for you automatically. If you have a program like that, make sure its program updating is disabled.

If you get Opera via some package manager like Chocolatey etc., you'll want to make sure it doesn't update Opera on you.

@andrew84 If I click "pick the date" under "Filter by date" and set it to October 8th and click "Done", history that happened today on the 8th shows, but it's still shown under the "Yesterday" section and "Today" is still grayed out. So, the date picker works fine and returns the history entries it should, but those entries are just under the wrong section.

@andrew84 In 124.0.5678.0, on the opera://history page, "Today" is still grayed out and history for today is still listed under "yesterday".

@bbildman Under the "Sync Data" section on the opera://settings/syncSetup page, there's just the option for "Bookmarks", which includes speed dials (as they're bookmarks too). There's no option to sync only speed dials.

For bookmarks, these days, reusing the "Bookmarks" file on a different Opera might cause some or all of the bookmarks in it to be treated as imported or from a different device. So, look for the other Opera's speed dials at the URL opera://bookmarks. They might be in an imported folder in the "Bookmarks Bar" folder or might be in some "other speed dials" folder where you can move them to the main "Speed Dials" folder.

If you use Opera Sync to sync bookmarks, the speed dials might end up in an "other speed dials" folder too.

You can also use the drop-down at the bottom of the opera://bookmarks page to export your bookmarks to an HTML file. Then, in the new Opera, you can goto the URL opera://settings/importData, select "Bookmarks HTML file" in the drop-down and point it to the HTML file. Then, you can try finding things at the opera://bookmarks page where you can move them where you want.

The installation of extensions are tied to the user account they were installed with. Opera will remove them if the profile with the extensions is loaded by Opera with a difference user. Even if you have the same exact username on the new laptop, it's still considered a different user.

So, you have to just have to reinstall them from https://chromewebstore.google.com/ and https://addons.opera.com/.

If you enable Opera Sync on the old Opera and choose to sync extensions, extensions from addons.opera.com will sync where enabling Syncing and syncing extensions in the new Opera will cause those extensions to get automatically reinstalled. An extensions data and settings won't be synced though.

For macOS, you might have to goto the URL opera://settings/early_bird, enable Early Bird, enable "Revived GX Profiles" and restart Opera.

Then, you can create new profiles at the URL opera://settings/profiles or "Menu -> Profiles -> Add".

Link to page and screenshot showing the thumbnail compared to the others?

While on the site, you can click the heart icon and use the left and right arrows to pic a different thumbnail.

Or, you can right-click a speed dial and choose to change its image to a different pic that you download.

You can request the features at https://issues.chromium.org/issues.

See https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=componentid:1586257%2B is:open though for existing issues.

You could also ask in https://groups.google.com/g/pdfium for advice on where to request the feature if you want.

On Windows at least, you can hit ctrl + shift + t to reopen the last closed tab. You can then hit it again to reopened the next one and so forth.

You can also goto the URL opera://settings/keyboardShortcuts and set the shortcut you want for the "Reopen last closed tab or window" command.

Right now, you can right-click on a tab, goto "Save" and choose "All tabs to speed dial folder". Then, if you don't want the folder on the start page, you can goto the URL opera://bookmarks and move it out of of the "Speed Dial" folder to "other bookmarks" or "Bookmarks bar" if you want.

It would be nice to be able to do that directly though.

Note that the function only saves the tabs for the current workspace in the current window. You have to repeat it for all your other workspaces and in all other windows if you really want all tabs saved.

Also note that you can ctrl + left-click the tabs you want to select them and then right-click a selected tab and save. and it will only save the selected tabs.

You can also right-click on a blank spot on the tab bar to get the save option directly.

If you use tab islands, you can right-click on an island's handle and goto "save" to save just its tabs.

For the folders you create, you can later right-click them and choose "open all in tabs". This doesn't restore them back into their tab islands though.

@eeeemc Strange. Any difference if you click the "View" button on the message list toolbar, goto "Show" and check every box?

@eltoddo Opera One having side profile support like Opera GX would indeed be nice. Even just multiple profiles in the UI the way Chrome does it would be welcome..

Being able designate a specific profile for a workspace would be pretty neat too. I suspect that’s a lot more work, but would indeed be cool.