Posts made by hirwaunman

@leocg You could be right! This install of Opera is a first install on a new build machine.
Thank you for your help, it's always a help to consult about a problem with someone!

@hirwaunman Just checked for updates and there was one, so updated the Browser and the Ad Blocker was back! So all is now well again, but why was there no Ad Blocker available in version 74.-? Now on version 75.-

@leocg No! Wallpapers is the first thing, and there is no sign of the Ad Blocker anywhere in any of the menu tabs?

@leocg No! I already tried that, there is nothing in settings that I can find that relates to the Ad Blocker, and the entry in Extensions to enable the Ad Blocker does not work?

Cannot activate the Ad Blocker in Opera latest version, The menu is available in Extensions Settings but will not activate and I am having to use Ublock Origin to stop Ad's. Why is the built in Ad Blocker disabled?

OK! I have found the setting and disabled the news feature! Who among the Opera Guru's thought that filling the speed dial page with this junk was a good idea?

I have no idea how this load of junk got onto my browser, but when I started the browser (latest version) today, my home page is speed dial, at the bottom of the page was a long list of picture boxes with various news items which I have not placed there, and a re-start does not remove them?
I am a very careful browser and only visit a few sites that are clean, to my knowledge I have not accidentally download this rubbish?

The problem is there does not seem to be a way to remove this? Can anyone please help?

No problem here either? W10 64 bit.

No! Just speed dial tabs all along the bar?

Correct! And I cannot figure out why this happens?

Well , Opera 53 does add speed dial tabs to the top bar seemingly at random for me? There is no action on my part that would explain why this happens, I use a speed dial icon to switch to a saved site (any site that is saved as a speed dial) and once today and several times yesterday and once or twice last week, multiple speed dial tabs appear on the top bar?

Sometimes Opera 53 adds up to 30 speed dial tabs to the bookmark bar without any action from me, I then have to delete all of them individually before I can continue working?
Anyone got a solution to this problem please?

I run the home version of Windows 10, and there has been no major update to my system for some time, but it could be related to the Creators update (about a month ago) as this problem has only been present since then? It's a minor irritation that I can live with, but it would be nice if it were fixed!

When you load Opera 47.0 the speed dial colours are wrong, some are changed to different colours and others look washed out. It takes a screen refresh to correct the colours, but after browsing a few sites, the wrong colours are back and you have to refresh the screen again to correct them?
I think I read some time ago that this was a known issue, but I cannot find the post? So does anyone know when this niggling problem will be fixed please?

Sorry I meant to write 36!

Just to update those who helped me with this problem:
Installed Opera 32 and my (wife's) bookmarks and speed dials were copied over successfully. tested the new version and ALL sites can be accessed without problems from speed dial!
So my wife is happy again, and I get to have supper!
Thank you all for your help!

PS: Removed Opera 12.18 with no problems, everything is back to normal!

I'll give it a try!

If I install the new version Opera 36 for Vista over the top of the older version 12, will it keep my speed dial present setup, or will it delete them? My wife does not want to lose her speed dials?

I'm trying to wean her off her old laptop, I have a spare Windows 10 HP 4 core notebook laptop with 8 gig of ram and full HD graphics support. It would be relatively easy to make a new version of Opera look the same as her present laptop, I can even make the desktop look the same.....But my wife is a stubborn fixed in her ways type person!

I use the latest version Chromium version of Opera on Windows 10 on my own machines with no problem.
No new security software used on the Vista machine?