Posts made by curious273

at http://help.opera.com/opera/Mac/2393/en/advanced.html

if you browse down the list of help topics on the left and click "Proxy Settings," it doesn't take you anywhere.

When you save a bookmark (command-D), Opera is nicely designed to save it in the last bookmark folder you used, BUT it doesn't work if you dismiss the dialog too quickly (i.e. hit command-D then immediately hit command-W to close the window). If you don't give it enough time before closing, it will wrongly save the bookmark in "All Bookmarks" instead of the appropriate sub-folder.

With some frequency, when going to Facebook, it will take a very long time to load, while only displaying a message in the lower left corner, "waiting for 2-edge-chat.facebook.com" (or the 2 may be some other number). When it does finally load, it may be very slow and take over 100% CPU according to task manager, at which point the best thing to do is force that page to close, and load again, and that next time, it is likely to be fine.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Does anyone know the cause or a fix? (Turning chat off in facebook doesn't fix it.)

When you Print, there is an button on the right where you can Change the Destination from your printer to a PDF. Further down in the same panel, there is an option to Print using the System Dialog.

Zalex, your answer seems like a non-sequitur, I think maybe you missed the distinction I was making between this forum and the "suggestion box forum", whatever/wherever that is... i.e. I was being told I should post somewhere else rather than here if I expect someone from Opera to see it.

Tufazay, thanks for that link, I was unfamiliar with that as well.

re: "Post about it in the Suggestion box forum to get someone's attention (though they may not reply, they will read it)."

They don't read the stuff in this forum? That would kind of defeat the purpose of reporting bugs here!

I discovered that this is partially solved by going to

Settings-->Privacy & Security-->Handlers

and selecting

"Do not allow any site to handle protocols"

This took me a while to discover, because I did not know what a "handler" was.

There does not appear to be a way to turn it off for one thing without turning it off for everything, though. (Nor does it explain the "information" icon that doesn't appear to do anything.)

In a new window, go to some page that has links on it.

Control-click on a link, and select "Open Link in Private Window"

After that window opens, bring the first window back to the front.

Close that window (command-W)

Boom!

I suspect this may be related to a bug I reported at forums.opera.com/discussion/1882430

This has already been fixed, see https://forums.opera.com/topic/19702/bookmark-history-selection-opens-in-wrong-window/2

When I updated from 42 to 44, the problem was indeed gone. Considering that no one in this thread has reported the issue since January, I think it's a done issue. Triandroid, maybe you are still running an old version?

Ah, I thought my own crash reports might also be stored in some local log on my own computer somewhere (or, like Apple's available for me to preview before sending). Guess not. Thanks for the info.

I have turned on the option "Automatically send crash reports to Opera" so I assume that I am sending crash reports, but there is any way I can see what is being sent? thanks

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-nails-donald-trump-on-severity-of-paul-manaforts-russian-ties_us_58d39483e4b02d33b748a717?
(hopefully this fixes the link)

Also worth noting: AdBlock Plus (in Firefox) does not block these videos.

Here's another example from today, and in this case, the video doesn't even start with an ad, it's just a video. Again, when loaded into Opera, there is no indication that there even IS a video on the page.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-nails-donald-trump-on-severity-of-paul-manaforts-russian-ties_us_58d39483e4b02d33b748a717?

Yes, I understand that ad blocking is not perfect. What I'd suggest though, is that if a video is blocked, instead of replacing it with nothing, it could be better to replace it with a black box of some sort, where one could click if you want to load the blocked content, as opposed to there being no indication that there was anything there at all.

I understand the suggestion that you turn off blocking for the page where you want to see the content, but In the example I was using, I wouldn't have even known there WAS additional content there (to be seen via unblocking), except the text referred to there being a video to watch. A black box would at least have the advantage of communicating that there is indeed something there that you could conceivably want to unblock.

I found the source of the problem... It happens when "Block Ads" is enabled in the preferences. I guess it is seeing the video as an ad (and indeed, the video begins with a video ad). If you turn off the ad block and re-load, the video box appears.

So that may explain why it's happening, but for a video, even if you want it blocked because of the ad, I think there should be a black box presented, with some indication that there is a video there that can indeed be played, if you're willing to see the ad.

Workaound... open a Private Window, and you'll be able to get here from there.

EDIT: saw in other forum, maybe it's been fixed. Tried to delete this, but coudn't see how, sorry.

Let's say you're on a page of posts in a discussion board, where there are more posts on the subject than fit on one page, and you're looking for a specific word. You use the Find function, you see there are no items found, so you go to the next page in the thread to see the next bunch of posts to see if that's the page that has the word you're looking for. It will say it's not there, even if it is! That is, you can't simply command-G or command-F to continue to search for the word, even though the word still properly appears in the search field. You have to erase and re-type the entry that you're looking for for the Find function to continue to work on the subsequent page.

Copy anything to the clipboard with command-C -- OR bookmark your page with command-D -- and then immediately press command-W to close the window... Opera will Quit and then relaunch all windows.

This only happens if there are no tabs in the window... that is, if command-W fully closes a window, and does not merely close the active tab bringing you to another tab in the same window.

Can anyone else duplicate this, so I can be sure it has nothing to do with an extension, etc.?

re: "also, the Quit+Relaunch seems to often happen immediately after copying something to the clipboard

Can you be more specific about 'something'? Text from Facebook, a picture, a video clip?"

I have since realized that this particular behavior (related to the copying to the clipboard) is not facebook related. I will start a new topic on this.

also, the Quit+Relaunch seems to often happen immediately after copying something to the clipboard