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If you do a google search in the address bar, then click one of the links, then press back, Opera goes all the way back to the speed dial instead of the search results.
This seems to happen randomly, although one which always works is: do a search for Peter Hucker. Click the IMDB entry. Now click back.
So now I can no longer open a previously closed tab, only the latest one, so I have to open 5 before I find the one I want.
Also I can't click the tab to jump to the top of the page like I used to.
Why keep removing the good stuff?
And they still haven't fixed Ebay! Most listings show the main description in a tiny inset frame that scrolls seperately, very difficult to use. No other browser does that.
@burnout426 Reducing the NUMBER of files in store to a third had little effect on the new size of a rebuilt lexicon. Deleting the few large files in store caused the lexicon to change size dramatically, from several times larger than store, to half the size of store. I think it must have been making a bad attempt at finding words in yenc encoding, which would essentially be a 3 million character word, or thousands of very long ones. I used to have binary groups in Opera and it usually coped. I think yenc just confuses it.
I don't really care if there's an 8GB store, but the problem is with a huge amount of random disk access when it's messing about trying to do whatever it's doing. Which puts disk usage to 100% continuously, and slows everything else down. This machine has a rotary drive, but my last one I had Opera on had an SSD, and suffered a similar problem. I don't really like the possibility of wearing out either type of drive, which I'm sure would happen if Opera continued at 100% usage 24/7.
Of course it's a bug, it's a missing obvious feature every other browser has.
@burnout426 said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker When it comes down to it, pretty much, in my opinion. And, it's not going to be fixed as it clashes with the design in their opinions.
I'd say to try Vivaldi instead, but it also doesn't honor the OS for the tab bar. It has its own colors you can set. In options though, you turn set Vivaldi to use a native Windows and you'll at least get a colored title bar.
You might want to try plain Chromium instead. https://chromium.woolyss.com/. There's even an ungoogled version.
It's not just a coloured title bar I want, it's one that changes colour when it's in focus, so I know it's in focus. But I doubt I'll change browser just for one thing. I hate learning new stuff.
@leocg A decision to remove something useful? To deliberately ignore an OS setting which all other programs follow? A very stupid decision. There is absolutely nothing to gain from ignoring the wishes of the user, and also behaving differently to every other installed program. Hire new staff please.
Suddenly this evening, Opera now crashes on every other start. In the task manager I find Opera using one whole CPU core, with no disk access, and no change in the amount of memory in use. I also see "opera crash reporter" running, but nothing is displayed on the screen. If I kill Opera and start it again it works. Then crashes the following time. Is it trying to do an update or something?
EDIT: I've discovered it's actually crashing on EXIT. Hence:
EDIT: Version number is 74.0.3911.203
I closed Opera, downloaded it, thinking I might get a newer one that was stuck upgrading, and installed it. No help.
Strangely, when I run Opera, I see "Opera Internet Browser (24)" in the task manager, expanding this, I see the crash reporter running (before it's crashed!) and 23 instances of Opera. Is that normal?
It annoys me too. Why are "submit feedback", "snapshot", "privacy protection" and "add to bookmarks" mandatory? I never ever use them.
@leocg said in How to override web page fonts?:
@hucker You need to use an extension for that.
Can you recommend one? I want all fonts on web pages to become Verdana.
I hate fonts where you can't tell the difference between LlIi1 (ell, eye and one). In most fonts, capital eye and lower case ell are just a straight line. I finally found a non-serif proportional font that does it properly, Verdana, only to find when I set Opera to use this, it doesn't, as every web page has chosen its own bad font. Can I make Opera override it? Googling it only tells me how to do it in other browsers.
So, restarting the computer didn't help, yet leaving it overnight did? Another oddity, while it was doing the crashing, my browsing history was empty, yet menu, history, recently closed was ok. And now all the history is back.
I must admit it's the first crashing problem I've had with Opera since it was invented decades ago.
Suddenly this evening, Opera now crashes on every other start. In the task manager I find Opera using one whole CPU core, with no disk access, and no change in the amount of memory in use. I also see "opera crash reporter" running, but nothing is displayed on the screen. If I kill Opera and start it again it works. Then crashes the following time. Is it trying to do an update or something?
EDIT: I've discovered it's actually crashing on EXIT. Hence:
EDIT: Version number is 74.0.3911.203
I closed Opera, downloaded it, thinking I might get a newer one that was stuck upgrading, and installed it. No help.
Strangely, when I run Opera, I see "Opera Internet Browser (24)" in the task manager, expanding this, I see the crash reporter running (before it's crashed!) and 23 instances of Opera. Is that normal?
@leocg said in Ebay is still broken, very poor scrolling, unnecessary frame:
That's how it looks in Opera:
And that's how it looks in Chrome:
I'm using Opera Developer 75 and Chrome Canary 90. I also checked with Opera Stable 73 and couldn't notice any difference.
Thanks, it appears that if either adblock or ublock origin are running, the frame magically appears, I guess it's blocking a bit of code and mixing the page up so a frame is where it shouldn't be.
How do I cancel or add a note to bug report DNAWIZ-125482 to say it's the extension's fault?
Update - even if I undo all blocks I have created on Ebay, Adblock still screws up the page, there must be default blocking in it. Telling it not block anything on that domain seems to have fixed it.
@leocg said in Ebay is still broken, very poor scrolling, unnecessary frame:
@hucker Except for a few buttons colors, the page looks the same here on Opera, Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
Before I blame my adblockers (which I notice have removed a lot of banners of "similar items") and spend hours fiddling about, can you please confirm you aren't getting what I get? Here are the two screenshots, first Opera, then Chrome. Note I scrolled down past the "description" and "postage and payments" tabs. Under that there is a frame in Opera where the main description is, in this case with the blue Switch electronics logo at the top. But Chrome and others do not have this frame.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261960089592 is an example of about 50% of ebay pages where the description is inside its own frame. Edge, Chrome, and Firefox don't do this. It makes it very hard to read the description, because the frame is only a third of the height of my browser. I've submitted yet another bug report as they haven't bothered fixing it in a year! Bug report is DNAWIZ-125482.
So now I can no longer open a previously closed tab, only the latest one, so I have to open 5 before I find the one I want.
Also I can't click the tab to jump to the top of the page like I used to.
Why keep removing the good stuff?
And they still haven't fixed Ebay! Most listings show the main description in a tiny inset frame that scrolls seperately, very difficult to use. No other browser does that.
I keep getting the error "too many redirects", then the page loads a second later. Why is this error occurring, why is it telling me it's broken when it isn't, and how do I stop it?
It happens on many webpages, but only if Opera is opened from a link, say in an email or within a program. And it only happens about 1 in 5 times randomly.
