Posts made by donq

@gnezmo said in Opera slow to load:

@donq This has happened before after an Opera auto update. As I said previously, the last time it took even longer for the speed dial icons to finally appear. It was corrected with another update, then it worked as it did previously.
This time I started Opera and got the screen that it was updated, then when I went to speed dial, no icons again, then about 8 seconds later, they appeared. This is now the new normal. It seems that other users are experiencing the same issue.

Well, looks like most problems are related to speeddial updates.
This is unfortunately a thing I can't comment on - I have my speed dial cleared totally, nothing to update.

Have you turned the promotion settings off? They may be on by default.

What about updates adding unnecessary junk - I totally agree. Maybe this junk attracts some new users, unfortunately it may alienate some old users.

@hucker said in Opera slow to load:

Only got AVG. Never caused a problem before.

Agreed, AVG usually doesn't interfere.

Never heard of fast drive.

Fast drive = SSD (drive without seek time), be it SATA or NVME variety.

Extensions didn't change, Opera version did.

Extensions sometimes update themselves.

Not sure what you mean about updating speed dial icons. Surely this is a one off thing.

At startup, Opera may update speed dial and bookmark icons - like I said, this should be unnoticeable to user.

No more ideas then, sorry.

@hucker said in Opera slow to load:

@donq It's not just my computer, everyone is saying the same thing, Opera slowed down after a certain update (about 2 ago).

Not here. Or at least I have not noticed - I'm on developer channel and maybe they have already fixed some problems.
You didn't tell about third-party security software?
Fast drive doesn't help, if some software decides to check every disk access against malware.

Then (just few ideas to check) - some extensions may slow down Opera startup either, have you tried disabling them and compare performance?
VPN and Opera sync may affect startup somewhat too - just theoretically, I don't use them and have not got any practical experience.
There are some settings for promotional content - have you enabled them by accident?
Updating speed dial icons and bookmark icons are rumoured to somehow slow down Opera startup too, although this should be done in background and you cannot configure this.

Offtopic continued:

@donq In 1982, I had a very good chess program in 16KB. In 2022, a mouse driver takes 120MB. This indicates a tremendous inability by programmers.

Or greatly relaxed hardware requirements and bloated frameworks.
In 1988 I wrote spectrum analyzer program (including controlling spectrometer and other equipment), taking about same amount of memory (16KB). Because computer had 48KB of RAM, I had no choice - spectra needed room for acquisition and processing too. Today - such software would take maybe about 100MB, but many times less time and effort to create.

Do you have JASC or Corel Paintshop Pro?

Both. JASC one is old-school gem, but Corel has more options.

@hucker said in Opera slow to load:

Update, it's got slow again in one day, clearly a programmer screwup.

Sure, programmers are the root of all evil.

About your computer - have you installed any third party security suite or antivirus? If not configured properly, those may seriously affect Opera cache access speed. MS internal one likely isn't that bad.

Then I presume your PC uses SSD drives? (NVME likely indicates that.) If not, then I could recommend plenty of old-school tricks to make them faster.
If yes, then check drives with manufacturer utility - sometimes SSDs go bad (happened to me already twice, on different computers).

Re "Paintshop Pro takes 30 Seconds to load" - strange, I have quite old computer (8 years or so), PSP loads within 5-10 seconds. Well, not the latest version of it.

@albatrossity
Have you enabled VPN in Opera?
You may also clear cookies (and other site data) for particular website.

@albatrossity said in Potential malicious request detected (CD):

@donq Which extensions would you suggest?

Sorry, I have no idea - have never used any. I hope some fellow Opera users will help; search forums too.

@albatrossity
Screenshot adds information - at least what you meant by 'subject line'

This message is very likely originating from bank website.
Or from some third-party tracker there - my Opera blocked quite a lot trackers and analytics services from that address.

Can you try some user agent switchers (extensions)? It is possible that some part of their code detects Opera as unsupported browser, have seen that occasionally.

@albatrossity
This sounds more like message from your bank, not some Opera notification. Like leocg said, please provide more information.

@barbartleus said in Why does Opera VPN advertise itself as Proxy?:

The key difference between VPN and Proxy is end-to-end encryption.

What do you mean with 'end-to-end'?
If you mean traffic between your browser and the destination server, then https protocol provides end-to-end encryption there, not VPN. VPN adds encryption layer for traffic between client (your browser) and VPN server, otherwise VPN server is just ordinary proxy.

@ralf-brinkmann said:

A lot of bugs fixed, for examle the wrong background color for the extension badges. Great!

Not all extension icons troubles are resolved, some got even worse - some extensions, configured to click for page access, have nasty red background around icons.

@steaua10
You likely cannot disable them entirely (I complained about that some time ago), but you can minimize their negative effect by disabling opera internal flag chrome://flags/#address-bar-dropdown-categories

@ttlgs said in Affirm pop-up showing up on some shopping related pages:

@mewquest maybe time to ditch Opera, if that is the case.

Looks like they screwed up (again). If this nuisance will happen here, I may consider using another browser too. Even Edge is pretty usable nowadays...

@rd-frable
Most likely mixed content - page is secure (https), images not (http). You can enable insecure content in specific site settings.

@mewquest
Looks like some extension to me.

@burnout426 said in Download of large files won't complete (stuck at 100%):

@donq If you copy the link, open a new tab and paste-n-go the link in the new tab's address field, does the download complete properly?

Can't say, it opens player then - from forums page, I download it by right-click, Save linked content as.... Not so important to reconfigure someting

What about if you click the badge at the left of the address field while on this page, goto site settings and enable insecure content for the forums and then click on the link?

Then everything works beautifully (file completes), thank you

Yes, Opera should have some option (dialog) to allow download such files easily. Protecting users from themselves is often good idea, but overdoing or oversimplifying it usually not.

@leocg said in Download of large files won't complete (stuck at 100%):

@mechkalito I've just tried here with Opera Developer 88 and the download didn't complete. When it reached 100%, the estimated remaining time turned in a ? (interrogation mark) and the download didn't finished.

Same behavior here.
Interesting is that dev console tells me:

Mixed Content: The site at 'https://forums.opera.com/' was loaded over a secure connection, 
but the file at 'http://s141218.gridserver.com/mixes/todosTenYears/todosTenYears.wav' was loaded over an insecure connection. 
This file should be served over HTTPS. This download has been blocked. 
See https://blog.chromium.org/2020/02/protecting-users-from-insecure.html for more details.

This is strange, it seems like blocking happens at the end of file download, not before.

@jorovats said in Malicious code hidden in the <head> label:

I wonder if this has a name

Like sgunhouse said, it is code injected by Opera Adblocker to hide ads.

and if it has a solution,

You can disable Opera Adblocker, likely you will get rid of this stylesheet then also.

@rd-frable
Monitor is not related to such problems.

Graphic card may be related however - if you disable graphic hardware acceleration in Opera, does something improve? There are more precise recommendations somewhere in these forums, but this should be your first test.

@banzer
I have (quite rarely) noted such behavior too. For me the fix is to cancel download and then re-download - usually files then complete immediately.

What does cause such behavior - unfortunately I have no idea.

@leocg
In some (russian) forums I noticed recommendation to clear last month data (cache etc) and update Rich Hints Agent to latest version.
I would think (not sure of course, just an idea) that this extension downloads some third-party scripts and sometimes those scripts are a bit evil.

It would be very helpful if Opera could tell us, what exactly those hidden non-removable extensions do, otherwise at least I qualify them as mild malware. Sure we have to live with these extensions - there are likely no chromium based browsers, not spying after their users