Posts made by bvm42

You don't say enough to know whether this is the same thing, but I just got this error message in Opera 31. The context was that Opera got into a bad state where it didn't seem to be able to load any pages. So I exited, but there were still Opera processes leftover. I tried to kill them from the Task Manager, but 3 of them refused to die. When I tried to start Opera at this point, I got this message. I suspect the Opera code is misinterpreting some error condition.

Anyway, after I rebooted, all was well again.

Hate to say it, but me, too, for some while (not that I can correlate it with Opera 27 vs. 26). I have a fair number of tabs open (33 over two windows at the moment), but I used to have more than that with Opera 12. Opening new tabs, closing tabs, switching among them are all a bit slow, though not every single time. Opera is even sluggish taking my keystrokes right now as I type this, yet no Opera process is consuming any significant amount of CPU. (Windows 8.1)

Note that it works site-by-site, rather than in the current tab the way Opera 12 does it. So it could be useful if you want to browse a single site without incurring the cost of downloading all its images, not so much if you want to suppress images more globally, as you might when exploring the links returned from a Google search.

Seems to me in Opera 12, typing into the address bar would show matching items from my bookmarks, history, and whatever Google suggests. In Opera 26, I only see items from history and Google. Am I missing something?

@blackbird71, thanks for the thoughtful reply. I do realize I'm eventually going to need a new regular browser. As it is, Opera 12 has features I love, but it's not super reliable any more (leaks memory, gets into states where it won't open connections to web sites, etc.).

I did go ahead and let it install the new version to have a look. It read my Opera 12 bookmarks and even restored my Opera 12 tabs, which is nice.

My first impression is that it's Chrome with some minor tweaks but without such essential features as bookmark sync. Here are some of the things I like about Opera 12 that I didn't find:

• Is there any way to have multiple rows of tabs? Without this, it's impractical to have more than a dozen tabs open at once.

• Is there any way to cycle tabs in MRU order? This is perhaps the single feature I hate most about Chrome -- Ctrl-Tab only cycles left-to-right, and closing a tab just opens the adjacent one. I want Ctrl-Tab to go back to the most recently visited tab, and I want closing a tab to do the same. I frequently find myself alternating my attention between two tabs, and this is just horrendous to do without MRU tab order. I have found extensions that restore some of the Opera 12 tab behavior (e.g., closing tab goes to last visited), but none that fixed Ctrl-Tab behavior. There aren't any Chrome extensions for this, either, so I'm guessing it's a Chrome engine restriction. (I find it ironic that Opera, which pioneered tabbed browsing, seems to have fallen down so badly in this area.)

• Is there any quick way to toggle loading of images on/off? Opera 12 has a button in the button bar.

• Fit to width? Again, Opera 12 has a button.

• Fast forward?

• Save a web page in mht format? (I see there's an extension called SingleFile that might actually be better in some cases.)

So far, I've only discovered one Opera feature that I like, is in the new Opera, and which Chrome doesn't have: the z (back) shortcut. But in Opera 12, I customized this to be Back | Close, which makes it even more useful. I don't see any capability for keyboard customization in Opera 26.

Has anyone written anything extolling Opera over Chrome? You'd think Opera marketing might have, but I couldn't find anything.

Incidentally, OperaMail was a huge failure for me. I installed it and pointed it at my old accounts.ini (on a machine where I had no mail, just news feeds). It spent a long time reading the .mbs files, and when it finally came up, there were zero feeds. Thousands of messages when I tell it to "Read Feeds", but they're all mixed together. When I go to "Manage Feeds" there are no feeds. Big disappointment.

Today, Opera 12.17 offered me the chance to "Discover the New Opera", saying it would download and install a new version. I'm guessing this is the oft-reviled Opera Chromium. The dialog also said, "Find out more at www.opera.com". Well, www.opera.com doesn't tell me much about what an Opera 12 user (as opposed to a new user) needs to know. What happens to my mail? My newsfeeds? My keyboard shortcuts? I did find in the Help & support section a page called "Migrate your data from Opera 12", which says that Opera 15 (!) would read my old bookmarks, and that if I download Opera Mail, it will find my mail. Unfortunately, the help section for Opera Mail talks about the integrated version inside Opera 12, so I can't find out anything there.

So would anyone care to tell me what to expect? What will I lose? Should I resist this update kicking and screaming, or will it be not to bad?