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It just happened again, even though the anti-keylogger is disabled. I tried Chrome and Edge, and both are working fine - as are all other apps; it seems to be unique to Opera. I had to type this in Notepad.
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But, after restarting Opera it's working fine again. This is weird!
@blackbird71 said in Random characters when typing:
blackbird71
Thanks @blackbird71 you've confirmed my suspicions
I recently found that Opera sporadically generates random characters when typing. This can happen when typing in the address line, or in any other field.
This started happening at about the same time as an upgrade of ZoneAlarm to the latest version. It seems to have stopped after I disabled ZoneAlarm's anti-keylogging feature. However, as the problem does not always happen, I cannot be certain that it is fixed.
I am running Opera 112.0.5197.53 and ZoneAlarm Extreme Security NextGen 4.3.260.19915 on a PC with Windows 10 Home 19045.4651.
Another week, and still no pop-up from CEA. VDP is enabled, and I've had no problems.
I'll file it in the mystery box. If it occurs again, I'll try to note what I did just before it happens. Thanks to those people who gave suggestions.
Well, it's been a week since I disabled Video Downloader Pro and China Eastern hasn't popped up again. I'll re-enable it to see if it's a coincidence. I hope it is as VDP is my favourite video downloader.
Both ZoneAlarm and Malwarebytes are installed and run regular scans. No malware has been found for the last several months.
Apart from Opera's ad blocker I only use one extension (a video downloader). I' disable it and see.
I always start with a number of tabs open, but it happens regardless of which sites I visit. But, as I said, it's not regular. It happens most but not all sessions, and when it does happen, it's usually in the middle of a session, when I'm looking at something entirely unrelated.
From time to time (about once per session), a new foreground tab pops up for China Eastern Airlines' website (https://oa.ceair.com/au/en/). While I have flown with CEA, I have certainly never given them permission for this, and I do not have any account with them.
This started happening recently, some time after I upgraded to Version 64.0.3417.92. I looked through settings but cannot find any way to block this.
Can anyone tell me what the problem is, and how I can fix it?
Thanks
@sgunhouse
You were correct. Opera now lives in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable. Once I copied the dictionaries in there Opera saw them immediately.
Thanks for your help!
@sgunhouse
As you can see from my directory listing I can access it with PowerShell.
I'm at home now and will check the Profile path on the PCs when I'm next on site, next Monday. I'll let you know.
But this PC is weird: even if I type the path to appdata into File Explorer, it refuses to go there. Yet both PowerShell and %appdata% get me there. Something just clicked: %appdata% actually takes me to appdata\roaming. That may imply that, on the weird PC, Opera is not in the usual location. I'll check Monday.
The IT department (1 guy, off site) obviously did something very strange here. I won't worry about that though, as long as I can get the dictionary right.
@k1llua
It's only File Explorer that doesn't give access. Powershell does (and so would CMD if I had admin privileges). I hadn't thought of using %appdata%, but that does indeed bring up the correct directory in File Explorer. Thanks for that suggestion.
I can now clearly see that the Opera directory structure on the PCs is the same. Under C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera\profile\data\dictionaries I can see exactly the same 4 files (same names, dates and sizes) on my current PC and the weird one. The following is from PowerShell:
Directory: C:\Users\client_mac\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera\profile\data\dictionaries
Mode LastWrite Time Length Name
-a---- 29/01/2019 12:51 AM 11716 dictionaries.xml
-a---- 2/10/2018 7:23 AM 172293 en-GB.pak
-a---- 13/02/2017 10:47 AM 259340 en-GB.zip
-a---- 13/02/2017 10:46 AM 260423 en-US.zip
Yet, on the funny PC, Opera still says that the English (United Kingdom) spell dictionary is not available (download failed). On the other 9 PCs, including the one I'm using now, UK English is set as the default, and US English is also available.
I just noticed that Opera on the funny PC pretends that US English is available - until you try to activate it; then it also says that download failed. It does use English (United Kingdom) as its display language.
So my question remains: with the same profile directory structure on all PCs, why does the funny one refuse to give me any spell check languages. Below is a screenshot of the funny PC.
I have installed Opera on a number of Windows 10 computers to which I do not have admin privileges. As it's only installed for one user, the Opera installer works fine. There is an additional problem: the company's proxy server does not provide access to the Opera website as it's a download site, so I cannot install the UK dictionary. So I grabbed the dictionary from my home PC and copied it to C:\Users\user_name\appdata\local\Programs\Opera\profile\data\dictionaries. That worked fine on 9 PCs.
Now IT have just installed a new PC. Again I installed Opera. Then I noticed that appdata and folders below are no longer visible in File Explorer. CMD is not available on any of these PCs. But, PowerShell is still accessible, so I copied the dictionary that way. And that's when I discovered that, on this one PC, Opera refuses to see its dictionaries (even US English is not available, although en-US.zip is installed). As all PCs use the same user login, I copied the entire Profile directory between the PCs, with the same result: no languages available.
So here's my question: what did I overlook, or what else do I need to copy, so that Opera will see the UK directory?
@mgreffo When will this next update be released?
I have the same problem. It started happening after the V56 update, and I now have to use Chrome to make payments. Would the problem disappear if I remove the credit card details from Autofill?
@zalex108 It looks as if a reset fixed it. I did back up my profile, just in case, but it turned out a simple reset, plus setting up Settings again (I recorded them with Snapshots beforehand) did the job. The problem has not surfaced again since then.
I found the culprit: an extension called Download from Youtube 1.0. I installed that fairly recently because my favourite downloader (Video Downloader Pro) did not work with some Youtube videos - a friend had asked me for help on those. When I installed the extension on his PC, the same problem started.
As it turned out, Download from Youtube did not download those videos either. I have now removed it from both PCs and the problem has gone away.
@leocg I've been thinking of resetting Opera to defaults, but I have quite a lot of tabs and special settings. I always start Opera with the same set of tabs, plus a couple of temporary ones - like the one that loads this page.
I've also noticed it's not consistent. Sometimes I get no instance of the window, at other times I get two.
I'll think about it for a day or so before I decide.
@leocg Opera is set to "Continue where I left off". The "specific pages" button is not ticked, and no pages show when I click on "Set pages".
I am running Malwarebytes (free version) and Zonealarm Extreme Security. Scans with both of them have not shown anything suspicious.
I'm pretty sure this is not an Opera problem, but I don't know how to fix it.
Lately, when I start Opera, all my tabs come up as expected, but a small extra window opens on https://justarticlesaboutcomputers.blogspot.com/ . As far as I know I have never visited that website, but I assume I must have clicked on something that causes it. It does not seem to do anything harmful, nor do there seem to be any suspicious links on the page, it just displays some information about laptop batteries. I do not have a laptop, so I'm unlikely to have clicked on anything to start this.
The question is simply: how do I stop this window from opening every time I start Opera?
I am running Version 54.0.2952.60.
@donq I have Malwarebytes and Zonealarm installed, and neither has not found anything. It's intermittent, but starting Chrome always fixes it. I may have half a dozen tabs in Opera, all trying to connect and, as soon as I start Chrome, they all come good. I have Chrome set to start with one particular website that used to refuse Opera access - they have since changed their policy, but Chrome still starts with that site.