Posts made by gonefishin

@leocg Well you've locked two of my posts today. The latter was a general post in the general section and of a general nature. Yet you feel it pertinent to parrot out your 'One issue at a time' and lock the thread.

It's not my loss however, I tried to provide some constructive criticism but either yourself, Opera or both in tandem are not interested. I can see via posts here and elsewhere that the above lack of interest is the norm so won't waste any more of your or my day.

Toodle pip

Opera's spell check function hasn't worked with Outlook email for months. I think Microsoft broke it by making the mouse right click function bring up email writing options instead of the spell check words.

Although Opera browser still highlights spelling mistakes there's no way to correct them. This has been a known fault for at least two updates yet remains unfixed. Edge browser has made the mouse left click button work for spelling corrections, why hasn't Opera?

Now this new Opera One brings yet more issues which no one asked for or wanted like the start page button removal. It's crammed with bloatware AI stuff which I suspect most don't use, especially as it requires a log in. The sidebar which again most likely don't use, tab islands - you guessed it, no wants or uses etc etc.

Visually it looks bad. The settings are way too many and most totally superfluous. Pages take too long to load, some sites don't work at all with Opera when they do with other browsers. All in all Opera has become a glitchy, poor performing, pita.

After a decade plus it's sadly time to move to Chrome, Firefox or perish the thought Edge. Yes they all have their own issues and are overblown but the point is Opera was meant to be a cleaner cut alternative.

Sorry Opera, you've gone in the wrong direction and need a complete rethink/overhaul. Sadly you're leaving folk no choice but to go elsewhere in the meantime.

This forum is needlessly convoluted and appears designed to brush issues under the carpet rather than try to resolve them. Ultimately that's bad for Opera - glossing over the cracks is not a good business plan. Listening to your customer base would be a better one and someone needs to tell the mods that.

@gonefishin If it helps anyone, I fixed my issue(s) as follows:

To get spell check switched on again, in Opera settings, I had to choose a language in the setting just above spell check. Am sure that was set already but it was blank and when I chose English it re-enabled the spell check button.

For Outlook, there's obviously a clash between it and Opera. Opera does it's red lines to highlight spelling errors but when you right click them you get an Outlook pop up with editing options rather than the normal context menu Opera displays it's spell corrections in.

Through trial and error I found if you switch your email from HTML format (Outlook's default) to Plain Text you can then interact correctly with Opera's spell check function - a right click of the red underlined spelling errors now brings up the normal context menu where you can select the correct spelling.

This is only a workaround of course as you'll have to keep switching between HTML and Plain Text formats but it's better than nothing for the time being.

@mahlerosa-0 Are you still stuck with this problem?

I had/have exactly the same issue so went into Opera settings and turned off spell check hoping perhaps the old, turn it off and back on again trick, might work but once I'd turned it off the blooming button became greyed out/inactive and now I have no spell check function at all.

I've had two browser updates since and neither has fixed the issue. I've tried turning all extensions off but no joy there. Additionally Opera isn't playing nicely with Outlook in general, is unusable to log in at Paypal site and the same at Nectar site. I have to keep switching to other browsers. Hopefully there will soon be a major update to Opera which fixes the growing list of bugs.