Best posts made by eliotcougar

After the last update the extension is unusable primarily because the detailed settings are no longer available... There are many sites that don't work if one of the trackers is blocked, and you have to be able to allow only that specific tracker to run on that specific site... Now you cannot allow/block specific trackers on specific sites anymore... I also would like to allow Google's trackers and ads everywhere, but again that is no longer configurable...

@leocg said in Opera browser becomes available in Microsoft Store on Windows:

@eliotcougar It was not a political reason, it was removed because it turned into something useless.

Not Political Secure Preferences:
"vpn":{"blacklisted_locations":["cn","ru"],"last_established_location":"RU"}

Previously, I've been able to edit this file to reenable VPN, but Opera started to resist that as soon as that method became well-known...

The feature itself is great, and it allows us to keep a lot of tabs open for later use without closing them. However, there is an annoying side effect that is severe enough to make me disable that feature for now:
I usually have GMail, and several messengers open, such as Hangouts and Duo... When you don't activate their tabs for a while, they snooze, and you won't receive any message notifications, or incoming calls, from them... It breaks any web app that has to be active in the background during normal operation...
There has to be a configurable exception list for such pages... It can be preloaded with known messenger and email services... Ideally, there should be an option when you right-click a tab - "Never snooze tab", to quickly add it to the list...

@skarimdeus It's an issue with the new version of Opera... It will probably be fixed eventually... In the meantime you can use this workaround:
Enable Developer mode in Extensions
Look for the extension ID in the extension info... Looks like bbkekonodcdmedgffkkbgmnnekbainbg or something similar...
Click on "Load unpacked"
Navigate to where the extension is stored in the profile: C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Next\Default\Extensions[Extension ID]\

That will install the current version of the extension in Developer mode, without security checks... The security checks is what is probably broken in the recent version of Opera since it fails to generate hashes in the extension's metadata folder... The extension won't autoupdate, but at least it will work while we wait for the fix...

@eliotcougar: Looks like the problem is related to the extensions being Manifest v2 type... I've managed to force the extensions into a working state by switching to the Developer Mode, then Load Unpacked, and pointing it to the folder where Opera stores the extension in question: C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Next\Default\Extensions
You need to navigate inside the folder of the extension where its manifest.json is located...