Posts made by hucker

@leocg But what about this chrome enabler? Should we be removing it? Why are there two if they're both built in?

@mixchild I installed a Chrome extension enabler (an extension itself I think) a long time ago, is the problem we now have two of them? Should I uninstall mine? Will I make a bigger mess?

@leocg Latest, on autoupdate. From help, about:

Opera One(version: 111.0.5168.61)
Opera is up to date
Update stream:Stable
System:Windows 11 64-bit
Chromium version:125.0.6422.143

I get the message "Your extension was disabled because it is corrupted." every time I start Opera. I've tried everything but it won't go away, it's the Ruffle extension and I'm fine not using it anymore. I tried:

Repair. Restart Opera. Problem still exists.
Remove. Restart Opera. Problem still exists.
Reinstall. Restart Opera. Problem still exists.
Remove after the reinstall. Restart Opera. Problem still exists.

How do I stop this? Can I delete something manually? The extension will not go away. It's a Chrome extension running under the Chrome extension emulator.

@leocg Whoosh!

@leocg https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/overview/

@leocg It's not just the Opera account, it's any account with anyone. There's a bug in the browser making webpages think it's a new machine just because the browser got upgraded.

@leocg And here's another bug. After posting this, I'm warned I've had a new machine signing into Opera. No I haven't. It's the same machine with a newer version of Opera. Must I go through this with everything I log into every time Opera upgrades? And giving me the location down to the town is stupid, that's where my ISP is!!

It's amazing the lengths everyone is going to to make everything round, like we'd prick our fingers on the corners or something. I believe it was originally one of Apple's stupid inventions. In Windows, if you try to grab the round corner of any program which isn't maximised, you have to grab it where the square corner would be! A round corner on a car perhaps, for aero dynamics and fuel efficiency, but on a screen? For goodness sake! Even worse when the corners of a phone are rounded so you don't actually get to see the full photo....

20 minutes ago, it was working, now I click a link in an email (to go to a Reddit discussion) and Opera won't load it. It just sits waiting. I tried several other places I use and none worked. But Edge is fine. What could have happened? I closed and reopened Opera to no avail.

Please please please stop changing Opera in such a way everything thinks I have a new machine just because Opera got a new version. I've got Google alerting me to a new machine signing into my account, I've got banks not trusting my machine, please fix this basic flaw.

@leocg said in The recent survey could have better questions and possible answers:

@hucker Right, didn't get it here. I usually don't get such surveys.

Probably random, or you turned off something to stop spam. I've only ever had this one I think, and I've been using Opera for about 24 years. Judging by the first question in it, it was intended to go to people who had just installed Opera. But as every single upgrade to Opera makes everything think it's a new browser (as in re-confirming everything on internet banking, Google login, etc.) that's probably why I got it. Opera needs to stop announcing itself as a different browser with each version, or are the detection routines on the aforementioned websites actually stupidly looking at the version number?

@leocg It popped up top right when I opened Opera. It was run through Survey Sparrow, this is the address I see in my history: https://surveysparrow.com/thankyou/?company=Opera Norway AS&utm_source=survey&utm_medium=signup&utm_campaign=survey_signup which is the final address saying thankyou, Opera fails to record the history before that - another bug.

Firstly, it seemed to think I was new to Opera, the very first question seemed to think I'd just installed it. Yet it's been on this machine since I built it 3 years ago. None of the possible answers were therefore correct.

Secondly, one of the questions asked me what my default browser was, and the list didn't include Opera!! Opera GX was the closest option.

Thirdly, there were weird questions like "can you tell xxxx" where xxxx was something like "what is your default browser" or "why you chose opera". My answer to all these was yes. Perhaps a better grasp of English would be useful when writing questions. Perhaps "can you tell what is your default browser" was actually asking what my default browser was, instead of asking if I was able to know. For example "can you go to the toilet" does not mean you are asking someone to go, it's asking if they have a medical problem doing so.

I take it you still haven't worked out how to make cashback stay on all the time? Sometimes I forget to turn it on. Sometimes the flashing icon is annoying if I'm not planning to buy and don't need it. Sometimes I try to type something into the search box in Ebay, only to find the cashback alert has stolen focus and my typing was wasted.

Please make this work properly without user intervention every single time I use a website!!!!

An idea - perhaps you can link cashback to the Opera account? I'm always logged into that, and it's showing at the right end of the URL field.

@maniaqc Just noticed another annoyance about this "feature" - if you try to select a tab, but click it on the right of it, an X appears while you're clicking and you've closed the tab by mistake! Why hide things?!? Imagine your car with buttons which appeared in the middle of the dashboard. The passenger touches a piece of dashboard and suddenly the engine is switched off!

Do we have to hide the Xs to close tabs? They don't always appear when hovering. I detest having to tell my computer to do something twice. At least I can punish the kids.

Even when they do work, I have to perform four operations: hover, wait, find, click. It's as bad as that stupid hide the scrollbars thing in Microsoft Office.

@katarzynamos said in Opera Cashback:

@icebluelugia When visiting any partner shop, you can use the Settings icon in the top right-hand corner of the pop-up window to change the frequency or pause the cashback pop-ups. The cashback reward is part of the commission we receive from affiliates for activities promoting the shop. In order to receive it, the affiliate link provided by us must be activated prior to purchase by clicking the Activate cashback button in the pop-up window or by selecting Start shopping in the merchant's offer on our website.

When shopping on a partner site, other extensions may interfere with the correct operation of our affiliate links and lead to a lack of reward. To minimise the risk of such a situation, other extensions are automatically deactivated.

I see no reason it can't automatically activate. Why do I have to click it every single time?!

@katarzynamos said in Opera Cashback:

@icebluelugia Currently, to receive cashback you must remember to activate our service before each purchase - it's not much, and cashback rewards can make your shopping experience significantly more enjoyable! Please contact customer service if you have any problems with the operation of our extension.

That should not be necessary, just leave it on all the time. People forget!

I've noticed with the new tab design, when I close tabs, the next one along is larger, which means the X to close it is not where my mouse cursor is. For example, search for something on Ebay, click a result, this opens another tab (I believe it's called on the same island?) Now close the tab on the left, followed by the one on the right, the Xs don't line up.