Posts made by davidgould

@IbrahimKhalil786 Aria is very limited. It's acts like Qwen 3 4b. You'd be best off using Hermes, and connecting through Browser Connector. I don't even know if Browser connector can get Aria to do stuff or vice versa.

@nosanninwa-0 Bumping because this would be super useful. I only just thought about this possibility today.

@Mlipka said in How can i change the way Speed Dial looks?:

speeddials have become core.

True only for a small group of users. Majority of AIR users doesn't request it. 

It's a principle but of course there was this thread: https://forums.opera.com/topic/83664/speed-dial-folders-opera-air/

At least build in a way to go back to the normal speed dials.

Is this why I got pseudorandom speeddials?

We would need more deatils to see if it's not a bug. There is no randomization,
however lack of folders might create such impression.

That would be obvious. No, it looks more like Opera picked the commonalities out of my multiple synced profiles but I'm far from sure it was that.

Also, it is disappointing that you still don't have a good way to transfer a profile from one Opera Browser to another.

Feel free to share more details as maybe there is a room for improvement.

Tabs are always the main issue. but ideally, an option in setup would start a programme that would:

• Comb /user and /Windows/Program Files for opera.exe
• Detect which version it was and
• Do a seamless transfer, from Opera Sync if necessary.

The initial version could ignore the differences and just give a warning. Later versions could remove old profiles.

Latest version of Opera has declared FB Purity malicious. Having used the extension with a friendly developer, I doubt there's anything malicious about it and it's 99% likely a pattern-matching false positive.
Note you still host the extension.
The developer has supported Opera for over a decade. Please give this your attention.

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/fb-purity/

@Mlipka Please never ever put aesthetics ahead of core functionality -- and speeddials have become core.
Even if it wasn't bugged, this and Air's poor UI handling of ~75 tabs or more made me drop it.

@Mlipka said in How can i change the way Speed Dial looks?:

Therefor, there is a limit of max. 11 SDs and no folders, and icons are much smaller.

So what happens when a user has more than 11? Is this why I got pseudorandom speeddials?

Also, it is disappointing that you still don't have a good way to transfer a profile from one Opera Browser to another. I get how Opera changes its file structures occasionally, but when you support several browsers, it's a must.

As said in another thread, "it's improperly scaled (at 1080p it takes up a quarter of the page though remembers how you left it) and the circular icons are too small even if people liked them."

Scaling the page doesn't reveal anything obscured by the icon circle. Instead it just scales up the badly-cropped bitmap so it looks blobby and pixelated.

Make the circles 1.25x bigger (50% by area). This will probably look better and be 2-3x more functional. The circle rims can be proportionally thinner. Consider making them rectangles with rounded corners instead. Make the icons higher res so they don't look bad scaled up. Most importantly, allow us to disable this look via an intuitive control.

My speed dials are bugged. If any dev are still reading this:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/87624/how-can-i-change-the-way-speed-dial-looks/

No, I can't. That's the problem. I've used Opera since v3.60.

What I have now is completely non-standard and completely uneditable. This Speeddials are not saved in Bookmarks.
I've never seen icons like this before.

It's either super-bugged (and ugly). Or it's a special mode that was introduced some time that is completely separate from the normal Speeddials code that we've had for 18 years.

@leocg Sorry it wasn't clear.

This seems to be a special Speeddials that overrides normal Speeddials and not a good one It's an incomplete implementation in addition to looking a bit stupid.

It needs to have an obvious way to turn it off. I've not even been able to find an obscure way to turn it off.

I want the normal Speeddials, which are already set up in my Bookmarks.

To reiterate, the current state of my Speedials is mostly non-functional. I cannot add bookmarks, I cannot see my desired bookmarks, it's improperly scaled (at 1080p it takes up a quarter of the page though remembers how you left it) and the circular icons are too small even if people liked them.

(most blacked out for privacy).

I switched to the latest Opera Air and the problem probably came from trying to import my old profile. The 'bookmarks' are suggested, can't be edited through the Bookmarks page and can't be updated.

R2 hangs hard on my current tab set. Will try trimming it and re-upgrading.

@kened: @kened said:

I don't know how the Opera team keeps this idiot as a moderator. Opera team, you should choose your moderators better. I'm almost giving up on cooperating with browser development, because of this idiot. He looks like a grumpy kid. @kmielczarczyk

Sore?

I've always found Leo great.

My bookmarks bar keeps disappearing. It can be restored from Settings.

How do I turn off Aria? The icon covers my comments in FB.

Been using 4864 for about 18 months. Had to update because Chrome is blocking extensions for older browsers.

5067 was a pig on my 4GB laptop but 5076 is a dream. It's the first build I've tried since 4864 which matches its memory management in low memory situations ie good at releasing memory and good at using unused memory when needed. It might even be better at it than 4864.
I have lost my search engines but can perhaps manually migrate them. [Yes I'm trying to upgrade my memory]

@leocg: So in spite of the script being uninstalled from Tampermonkey and Tampermonkey itself being uninstalled, it still leaves the script here:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Developer\Default\Extensions\ppldhdmhmdcedddamaddkbbakkfhgeeo\36.9.8.0_0\script.js

The extension directory shouldn't even be there as far as I know. Deleting it fixes the problem.

This looks like longstanding bugs in both Tampermonkey and Opera, possibly only with scripts as complex as that. The script is here: https://www.fbpurity.com/test/fbpurity36.9.8.user.js?fbclid=IwAR1-9l-8wUsgnlWE8d5FrcXZHZ28DqkHP3ainGWOHZWSR7ywfcqCKxFLTy8

I am using 102.0.4864.0 though, in spite of of the recent bloat improvements on the 104 releases.

@leocg: @leocg: Opera complains that Tampermonkey Chrome has malicious code and won't install it.
The Opera version has again installed an FB Purity script, but only after I told it not to. It is now installed when it's being told not to, when Tampermonkey is disabled and when Tampermonkey is uninstalled. I have looked everywhere for where this script is installed and am now going to have to search my hard drive for a line in a script.

Amazing. Only just seen this. Promote it on social media. It's weird enough that people will talk about it.

Has anyone got Bing AI to work on Opera yet? They apparently opened it to Chrome. Bing AI is the best of the publicly available LLMs, largely because it can read the internet.

@el-puzo: The current one is OK but I thought the previous one was really good. Maybe Opera can make it a community project.

Regression, presumably in Chromium. Opera processes aren't releaseing their memory in low memory situations again.

https://prnt.sc/fNwmdXPqOfwt