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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.
@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.
@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.
@burnout426 said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker That's just a feature. Redesigning the UI (the user-facing look and feel, and the under-the-hood implementations) is the cause.
So they managed to redesign some UI or other which I haven't even noticed is different, and break a fundamental thing for any windows application?
@burnout426 said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker said in Show system color on top bar?:
What reborn UI?
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2019/04/opera-60-reborn-3-web-3-0-vpn-ad-blocker/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAMMhwBGf8
I fail to see how adding features like VPN involves tweaking unimportant little things like colours.
@burnout426 said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker said in Show system color on top bar?:
This is a bug. Please fix it.
Unfortunately, Opera removed the option on purpose as they felt it didn't fit well with the Reborn UI + Windows 10 design Opera uses. All bugs filed on this are set to wontfix. So, you're out of luck unfortunately. It's not going to change.
What reborn UI? It looks pretty much the same as every other program I use. Except I can't tell if Opera is in focus or not! Which program is going to take my keystrokes? I have no idea! This is a basic design flaw, not following a Windows standard. A programmer needs to be shot.
@leocg said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker The design takes the color used in the title bar (or whatever it's called) into consideration when it's being created. How it interacts with the rest of the UI, etc.
The colour of the title bar is nothing to do with the rest of Opera. The colour of the title bar simply tells the user which application is in focus. And how come every other program works fine with it except Opera? Why do they have to be different to everyone else? That would be like insisting on driving on the other side of the road.
@leocg said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker Nope, I'm not. However I think that a software author has the right to decide what colors the program will have/use and avoid the use of those that may break all the UI design that someone spent a lot of time creating.
How can changing a colour break the design? It's not rearranging anything, just changing a colour. I chose to change that colour, and I was denied it. Again, Opera is the only program of 50 I have installed that refuses to abide by the OS request. Opera is broken plain and simple.
@leocg said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker There is a rule for that? All programs have to act the same way? I don't think so.
It's not a choice of one way or another, it's accepting an instruction given by the OS. If I say "make all programs do this" and everything except Opera does so, then Opera is wrong. I can't believe you're this dim. Are you one of the Opera programmers?
@rodrigowbs said in Show system color on top bar?:
I was doing some testing .. try opening Opera Browser in windows 7 compatibility mode
Right click on the opera icon select compatibility mode and enter "windows 7" and then click apply
he looks like this
It's not 100%, but I think it might fit for you.
Unfortunately changing it to be Windows 7 compatible breaks some Youtube videos. Oh well, looks like I might have to change to a properly programmed browser.
@leocg It's not a matter of being able to change things to my preference, it's a matter of Opera obeying the instruction by the OS. Again, Opera is the only program, the only program, I'll repeat that as you don't seem to understand, which does not obey the global command to change the title bar colour. It is therefore programmed incorrectly, it is not conforming to Windows standards - a standard required if the user wishes to know which program is in focus - a basic requirement for a multitasking OS! What's worse is it used to do it, and some incompetant "programmer" decided they wanted to be different to everything else available and ignore the user's wishes. It's just aswell Opera isn't a paid for program, or you'd be out of business as everyone flocked to something else that behaved.
@leocg said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker OK, so it's just a matter of personal preference. Thanks.
No, it's a matter of Opera behaving itself like other applications and taking the colour I set globally in the OS. An analogy would be if I bought a self driving car and by default it ignored traffic lights and went straight through the reds. Ahhh but there's an option to change this function. Which they removed in the later models.
