Posts made by james438

Works great, thank you

What is it called where when you move the mouse pointer over a hyperlink the link location shows up in the lower left corner of the window for a few seconds?

@tina: The videos stopped working in Opera Developer and Opera Stable at the same time and then started working in both versions at the same time even with all add-ons disabled or uninstalled using Opera Recovery.

It is because the error and fix happened with both browsers at the same time that it led me to suspect that there is a core program or engine that both browsers are using simultaneously. Is this correct?

@james438: small addendum. It looks like my adblocker is more than a little modified. Apparently, I am only using custom filters ;).

Regardless, my main curiosity is if the different Opera browsers are all linked so as to cause videos to all stop working and then all start working after either browser is updated. If they are linked, then how are they linked? Is it the Chromium engine itself? I thought that the Chromium engine for each version of Opera was independent.

@tina: Actually, it works fine with adblocker on; just needs to be tweaked a bit. I have Windows 7. The issue that I was experiencing as well as the recent fix which occurred across Opera Developer and Stable at the same time was with all of the add-ons disabled. In the case of Opera Developer the add-ons were not installed. I try to keep Opera Developer in the original freshly installed state. Regarding the videos on foxnews.com I even disabled the built in ad blocker.

Not sure if that helps, but thanks for the response!

@james438: After an update to Opera a few updates ago videos on Foxnews all stopped working. This update also affected Opera Developer. After this most recent update to Opera, the videos now work on Developer and Beta. I believe that this is due to the update to Chromium, but I thought that the different versions of Opera used a different Chromium engine. Am I incorrect? If so, how are the different versions linked so as to cause videos to be broken across all versions and then to be fixed across all versions?

Whoa! Videos are working again! They were not down on all sites, but on some, like foxnews.com, they were dead.

I love the changes/improvements to video pop-out. The timer is nice, but I especially like the ability to resize the video to full size (DNA-83944).

I am still getting the occasional issue where clicking on the pop-out button opens an unmovable black box in the lower right corner and the video is black as well. Refreshing, closing and reopening the browser does not fix the issue and it is not consistent either. I have no extensions or ad blockers running. The website I experienced this on at present is youtube on all videos. I assume this is a known issue.

@leocg: I do apologize if my last post came across a bit harsh.

@leocg: You have answered/addressed almost nothing that I said.

1. Please try to be positive/enthusiastic about Opera.
2. If it is only your opinion that something can't be done please say so and try to present a work around/alternative solution.
3. Try to show some understanding/empathy with those that are having trouble with some aspect of the browser.

Can you please point out the link you were referring to regarding the changes to pop out?

For reference, here is the link again: https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2020/01/opera-66-initial-release-makes-it-easier-to-reopen-closed-tabs-and-to-access-extensions/#comment-194622

When I say you berate Opera I am specifically referring to this can't do attitude with Opera. Your dismissive answers are becoming a little frustrating for me.

@leocg: https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2020/01/opera-66-initial-release-makes-it-easier-to-reopen-closed-tabs-and-to-access-extensions/#comment-194622

leocg, I would like to respectfully request you work on promoting Opera and its good points and try to present solutions rather than shutting people down and constantly berate Opera.

I happen to like Opera. Please let us know what you like about Opera. It does take a bit of extra work to fully answer people's questions and present possible solutions rather than your frequent can't be done/dismissive attitude, but it is more rewarding and it makes Opera as a corporation look better.

The Service website does not work, support page does not work, i tested it on jpost.com and it does not work. The example link posted werries.ru does not load, so I can't test it there either.

It could be I am doing something wrong.

Any thoughts?

Is it possible to see a link to a thread that explains the changes to pop out?

For me, I notice that it has suddenly become buggy. It occasionally will pop out and play sound, but now is completely black, unmovable, and pops up in a separate monitor. The original tab where the video came from is also pure black, but, again, I do get sound.

When it does work the volume controls are missing and it can't be resized to the degree it was previously.

I suspect that a lot of these changes to the video popout are by design in the same way that Opera moved away from the Presto engine to the Chromium engine. I'm just hoping to learn more about it.

@km4: To unblock a site make sure the "Don't show blocked pages" is off. Go to the blocked page and click "unblock".

The extension works pretty well, but I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 because it seems to not work on blocking certain sites. There is also no way at present to list and manage the blocked sites.

I'm not sure that I am fully understanding everything you are saying, but it appears that my isp is redirecting me to a specific website and I get redirected to it every time I try to go to an invalid website. The domain name in the address bar does change.

Regardless, editing the hosts file to disable my isp's redirect to a helpful website is working as it should for me. After I learn more about how it works, I hope to add my own block list

On Windows if I go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and enter the following it will block the website:

127.0.0.1 website.com

I am currently having trouble getting this to work with https websites. I my situation the above works just fine.

Is there a way I can use Opera to block a link?

My ISP is the lowest rated in the U.S. Every time I search for a list of the worst rated ISPs mine is at the bottom. Anyway, if a link is broken my ISP reroutes the link to their website as a way to be "helpful". They even have the option to turn this feature off, which does not work.

Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks.

I have been using this almost since it came out. It is an excellent service and should be used along with Smart RSS by BS-Harou.

xirit32: Very handy tool. Thank you. It appears that Opera is using 1.79 GB of RAM with four tabs open. After restarting Opera dropped it to about 1.5 GB.