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.

Please add a warning if Opera is closed when multiple tabs are open.

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.

@leocg said in Ebay is still broken, very poor scrolling, unnecessary frame:

@hucker

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.

@leocg said in Speed dial icon:

@hucker You can't set your own thumbnail but you can choose one of the available images when bookmarking the page.

If it's already bookmarked, open the page, click on the heart icon in address bar and choose an image there.

That sometimes works. But if the link isn't to the homepage of that site, the proper logo isn't there. For example if I have a link to ebay.co.uk it offers me the logo, but since I link to my list of purchases, all I get is the choice of: words, a screenshot of the whole page, or some random images that happen to be on that page, but for some reason not the ebay logo, which is actually on that page!

I even thought of making a speed dial link to ebay home page, so it gets the logo, then changing the address it goes to, but that removes the logo!

I'd class this as a bug.

What creates the icon for a speed dial icon? Only one of my pages (Tesco, a supermarket in the UK) has their logo in there. Opera just writes the address in text in the others, making them hard to find. Can I add my own icon? And how did Tesco manage?

Anyone else receiving "the website redirected you too many times" error message in their browser very frequently? It most often happens if I click a link in an email to go to a reply in Ebay forums, but I've seen it elsewhere. Perhaps something to do with redirecting me to a login server? The error is erroneous though, since the page usually then works 2 seconds later. But sometimes I get taken to the forums main page instead of the conversation. It seems to happen more often in Opera than Firefox, but I've seen it in both.

@leocg I disagree. I don't want sites dictating anything to me. Opera already blocks annoying things like popups, ads, push notifications, etc. Telling me I cannot use my own spellchecker on my own machine is beyond a joke.

@leocg said in Spellchecker doesn't work everywhere (eg. Ebay forums).:

@hucker According to those posts, Ebay seems to force the use of their own spell checker.

Which is inferior. I can't add new words (it doesn't even know "Ebay"!), and even if I could they'd only be remembered for that particular forum.

The browser should ignore the request and just run the spellchecker!

I think I'll put a moaning signature on my Ebay account, except their forum server has crashed. Brilliant.