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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.
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.
@leocg said in Spellchecker doesn't work everywhere (eg. Ebay forums).:
@hucker If the site blocks the spell checker, there is nothing a browser can do.
What utter nonsense. The site cannot stop a browser from checking the spelling. What I'm typing is on MY computer, and not somehow owned by Ebay.
@leocg said in Spellchecker doesn't work everywhere (eg. Ebay forums).:
@hucker Unless, as you suggested, the site can somehow block it. Or maybe a site bug as some posts in Ebay community say.
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Community-Platform/No-Spell-Check/td-p/27430655
I don't understand how a site can "force" a browser not to spellcheck. The browser should just run it anyway. What are Ebay going to do, sue Opera for having people send better quality posts?
@leocg said in Spellchecker doesn't work everywhere (eg. Ebay forums).:
@hucker Id it doesn't work on any browser, it seems more of a site issue. Did you report to Ebay so they can fix it?
I mentioned it on the Ebay forums, but I don't think there's a way to contact their tech support. I've tried for other reasons before, but just ended up with the front line people who can't even understand the question.
And I deny it's just a site issue. A browser's spellchecker should check ALL places you can type, unless perhaps it's a password box.
@leocg said in Spellchecker doesn't work everywhere (eg. Ebay forums).:
@hucker I don't know.
I've submitted a bug report, DNAWIZ-110886
@leocg said in Spellchecker doesn't work everywhere (eg. Ebay forums).:
@hucker No, you can't install a different one as far as I know. Unless, maybe, by using an extension.
I'm asking if you have checked the site with other browsers, specially Chromium based ones.
I just tried this forum (as in this very reply) on Opera, Chrome, and Edge. I also tried the Ebay forum on Opera, Chrome, and Edge. The Ebay forum didn't allow spellchecking on any browser, and this forum did on all three. Is there something in a forum which would prohibit spellchecking? I shall ask the same question in Ebay.
@leocg said in Spellchecker doesn't work everywhere (eg. Ebay forums).:
@hucker Spellcheckers of other browsers work? Opera uses Chromium's spell checker.
I've only ever used the built in one. So can I install one from elsewhere? Which one is recommended? Do I need to turn off Opera's one first?