Posts made by darthagnon

Apologies, leocg; my bad. Will post screenshots asap; currently trying to reinstall windows 7. Pretty sure it was with a clean profile; no previous installations of Opera on that PC.

Anyone there?

Title says it all, basically. I tried installing Opera 52 and Opera 57 - both had the same problem: the (unpinned) sidebar is completely blank/empty. I can still hover over it, and tooltips appear, showing where the buttons are, and the invisible buttons work, but it's annoying. Pinned, the sidebar works as expected, but uses a lot of screen real-estate.

I've previously used both those versions of Opera on Win7 without this problem, and have no idea what could be causing it. Any suggestions/help? (other than "update Opera" - the UI in newer versions of Opera is cr*p)

Since updating to O58, all dropdown/suggestion menus (e.g. for search boxes, password boxes, etc.) are twice as large as they used to be, with extensive blank padding. I don't know if this is a "feature" introduced by the Chromium base, but it is definitely a functional regression. I can now see less information at a glance than before, and have to move my mouse further to click the correct suggestion.

A bug that has been present since ~O56:
Expected behaviour: When I download a file, if it is successful, I should have no browser notification. If it fails/has a problem, the taskbar icon for Opera should turn red (Windows standard).
What actually happens: When I download a file, whether successful or not, Opera's taskbar icon turns red and stays red until it is restarted.

This issue has been fixed in Opera 57 - there is no longer a 1px line along the top of maximised windows. Wondering if it was related to window drawing methods and interaction between Win10 v1709 and/or glass8.eu?
Anyways, it's fixed now, though O52 might still be a better bet, as O57 has the janky Start Page news, with more ads/telemetry and more annoying extension "recommendations". O52 had none of these, and worked...

This issue seems to have been fixed in Opera 57. There is no longer a 1px line along the top of the window when maximised. However, O57 introduces Netflix ads in the Start Page news feed, and the extension recommendations (eg. Amazon, Aliexpress, ebay, etc.) are more annoying than ever. O52 is probably still the "golden version" of the new Opera.
Pick your poison: update to O57 or downgrade; recommended O52 or thereabouts - this will eliminated the 1px line.

No luck - it didn't occur with a real mouse. Anyone have any ideas?

I'm wondering if it might occur when I right-click and middle-click simultaneously (by mistake and over-sensitivity, of course) with the touchpad... I'll test with a real mouse.

The program TwoFingerScroll only sends a middle-click signal to the computer when I tap three fingers on the touchpad, as far as I can tell. This shouldn't crash Opera, should it?

I have been able to reproduce the following bug fairly reliably: Opera crashes when I middle click on a tab to close it. I am using a Win7 Home x64 laptop, 4GB RAM, Synaptics touchpad.

IMPORTANT: I am also using TwoFingerScroll v1.0.9 (http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/twofingerscroll-v1-0-7-update-two-finger-scrolling-done-right-more.38405/), to enable middle-clicking with a three-finger tap, as the touchpad doesn't support this by default. Please note that I have not noticed any problems while using the three-finger-middle-click (3FMC henceforth) to "Open in New Tab" links, nor have I experienced problems in other software.

What I expect to happen: I 3FMC on (a) a link and (b) a tab. The link should open in a new tab. The tab should close.

What happens: I 3FMC on (a) a link and (b) a tab. The link does indeed open in a new tab. When I 3FMC on the tab, however, Opera crashes. I repeat that I am using a 3rd party program to enable middle clicks on my touchpad, but it works everywhere else, even within Opera. It's just when using 3FMC to close a tab that Opera crashes.

This occured on both the latest version (O_56.0.3051.52) and on a previous version (it was somewhere between O_53 and O_55, I think - Opera crashed, then updated, so I didn't get a chance to check.

I wish I had the option of 1 speed dial for both of my computers. I recently migrated PCs, and was startled to find that my speed dials had not appeared; it was only after poking around that I found them under a speed dial thingy from my other machine.; I then copypasted them into my new PC's speed dial. Not a biggie, but a little annoying. Ideally, it would be the same for both, since I use both machines the same, and it makes bookmark sync look messy, with speed dial folders from old computers I don't use anymore appearing. I keep my Work Only and Home Only and School Only sites in separate folders, anyway, so I don't need multiple speed dials. This feature request gets an upvote from me.

I'm wondering if it might have something to do with that hunkajunk Chromium? I just opened your page in Google Chrome, @panosv, and scrolling didn't feel too great there, either. sigh I miss the good old days, when Chrome was fast and lite. If it had stayed that way, maybe now that almost all browsers are based off Chromium, they would be faster and not such RAM hogs.

This is the same problem discussed in the earlier thread: https://forums.opera.com/topic/28528/no-smooth-scrolling-in-opera

I think they might have fixed the scrolling problems for most pages, as most pages where I would zoom in and scroll around with a touchpad now feel smoother. Unfortunately, the problem still exists on other pages, so this bug is still open.

This is the same problem outlined in my earlier post at: https://forums.opera.com/topic/29028/bug-1px-line-visible-when-opera-56-is-maximised/

The window border of 1px is visible along the top of the tab row when Opera is maximised. It's an irritating bug. It might not appear on the latest versions of Windows 10 (e.g. v1809 or v1803), with a clean install of the latest version of Opera (v56.0.3051.43), but will definitely appear if you're on an older version like v1709.

Solution: I think this bug was introduced in O_v56.0.3051.36 (see PS). If you find it irritating, go back to O_v56.0.3051.31 and rename the autoupdater exe (see https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/56.0.3051.31/win/). Possibly reinstalling Opera may fix it, too (?)

PS. I think this, based off the dates of Opera releases, and the date of my first post about it here, when I noticed it. I will test out my solutions once I get some free time at home. Possibly it was introduced with the first version of O56, in which case, the last version of O55 is available at https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/55.0.2994.61/win/

@blackcoffez I'm still on (staying) on Win10 v1709. I'm guessing that this 1px windows border visibility bug was introduced in Opera v56.0.3051.35, since the previous version for Windows, v56.0.3051.31, doesn't have it, and by looking at the dates of releases and my original post, I'm guessing that's the version that installed when I noticed the bug.

There's an unexpected 1px border line visible along the top of the tab bar. It wasn't there in O55, and looks very ugly and annoying. Normally, this 1px border is seen around non-maximised windows (see screenshot 1), and should never appear around maximised windows, which is what is happening in Opera 56 (see screenshot 2). It makes it look like the window look like it's not maximised, when it actually is. Can anyone confirm if this a new misguided "improvement" to Opera, or should I be looking at reinstalling/waiting for a fix in O57?
Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

The maximisation problem/1px line still persists after a restart. I'll open a new topic, as it seems to be a different issue, since tab bar spacing was working for me...

I recently updated from O55 to O56. I have my bookmarks bar full of bookmarks. Before, everything fit on the bar and was visible. Now, one bookmark drops off into the dropdowm menu. I have added no new bookmarks or characters to bookmark names. It seems the spacing between bookmark objects may have been increased, which is unfortunate. Anyone else noticed this, too?

@leocg said in "Disable tab bar's top spacing" isn't working.:

Allow you to click on the tab when the cursor is on the very top of the screen.

Thanks, leocg! I just tested it, and it seems to work for me - I'm on Win10 v1709, with a 1920x1080 HiDPI monitor, and 125% scaling. I have, however, gained a 1px border at the top of my tab bar since updating to O56 (was also connected to a 1440p external monitor at the time) - don't know might be it's related, since in Win10, this 1px border should only appear when a program is not maximised - maybe there's some problem with the latest Opera related to how it detects if it's maximised, which is possibly also related to high resolution monitors (e.g. louay-madanat has a hi-res monitor; I was connected to a hi-res monitor at the time of the update). See my attached screenshot for the 1px yellow line at the top that shouldn't be there while maximised... I'll come back and update if it remains after a restart.