Yes - this little bug is surprisingly annoying if you are used to the address bar having focus - you type something in, but when you check there's nothing there.

I'd find it useful if it were possible to automatically turn off vpn when connecting to user-selected sites. For some it can be a real pain if you accidentally connect using VPN and then have to go through 2 factor authentication or reset your password because it looks like you are in another country. E.g. Google, Amazon.

Cheers! Merry Christmas!

I was playing around with the Vivaldi browser and one feature I like very much that used to be a part of the Opera browser is page loading information in the address bar - where it shows how much of the page is loaded, how many elements, and the page size.

It would be good if there was something similar in Opera. I don't suppose anyone knows of an extension that does this?

Hi - I have a couple of laptops and a opera mobile Android that I am trying to sync. So far the bookmarks from the two laptops are available from each other. Where would I expect to see the history from other devices - when I look under history on one of the devices, I just see the browsing history of the that device.

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The Disable HTML Autoplay extension doesn't seem to work with adblock enabled. It would be good if this feature was a part of Opera.

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I have Opera 35 - a couple of times over the last month I have opened Opera to find a new bookmark on my speed dial page linking to pricespy.co.uk. Any idea what might be causing this?

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Yes, a reader like Safari would be dandy. The ones on extensions lack class.

@vegelund said in tab click switching:

@jamesconstance

This is not a problem as only active tab clicked navigates to the top.

Right - my mistake. I'm having a problem with my mouse which is double-clicking rather than single-clicking unless I press very quickly. Thanks for your reply.

One of my pet hates while browsing is the pop up box that appears just as you are about to leave the page - perhaps because the cursor has left the window - usually asking you if you would like to subscribe to some newsletter. I'd love to disable these permanently. Likewise, the are you sure you want to exit dialog boxes when you try to close a page. And the overlay ads you have to close before you can read website content. I'd love to see a feature where it is possible to disable some of these new-style pop-ups.

No - it's not malware. As an example on Morrisons supermarket site this morning https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/startWebshop.do , after looking at a product and moving the cursor out of the web page window there was a pop up that offers to save me money if I spend 80 pounds. It grabs your attention, which is good for them, but irritating for someone that doesn't want to be distracted.

I take your point on the onexit scripts for saving docs, which makes it tricky to do away with altogether.

@newworldman I do have the i dont care about cookies extension installed, but still find I'm getting pop ups for most sites. I delete cookies on browser exit so it is particularly noticeable.

I find the main annoyance when browsing the internet nowadays are just about any form of pop up or float over window - especially accept cookie pop ups, sign up for newsletter type things, or those floating videos that follow you down the page on some news sites.

If Opera could come up with a means of dealing with these, that would be a killer feature IMO - putting users back in control of what they see.

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Jeez - I wish this was fixed (having once again closed a tab that I thought was the one I had just finished reading, but turned out to be another one).

@newworldman said in Make selected tab more visible in dark mode:

@jamesconstance I get a popup saying "opera doesn't support chromium theme format." How did you get round this?

I used Brave browser

Agree.

I quite like this high contast theme from the chrome web store - it uses a different colour for the selected tab :https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast-colorful/cdfdkmklcjlnnnlnplffpdiekfhkpbme

In the news https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-technical-deep-dive/

It seems to me there should be a permission we can set that can prevent an extension from sending data to any website: without this many extensions can harvest our data and compromise our privacy.

Why is this permission not a standard obvious thing to include do you think?

I also notice that under Clear Browsing Data - there's the option to clear cookies and other site data - and it says 'signs you out of MOST sites'. I don't understand why this option wouldn't sign you out of ALL sites??

@leocg said in Clear cookies on exit:

Maybe those sites aren't using (only) cookies?

I'm not sure - I'll have to keep an eye on it. Thanks.

@operafanuk said in Clear cookies on exit:

@jamesconstance
Should you wish to auto remove cookies when closing the browser, one thing worth considering is Private mode.

Go to the Opera folder and find the Launcher application.
Right click and send a shortcut to desktop.
Right click the desktop shortcut, then left click Properties.
In the target field, add "-private" (without quotes) at the end of the address.
Leave ONE space between the target address and -private
Click "Apply", then "OK" and restart.

Your Opera desktop browser will now always start in Private mode, and when closing the browser it auto removes cookies etc, except for anything which you've saved.
Hope this is of some assistance.

Thanks for the suggestion. Private mode does extra things however, such as remove history - and extensions aren't available.

''Keep local data only until you quit your browser – Deletes cookies that have been added after this preference was enabled when closing the browser.'' -doesn't appear to be working - in that I I find that I am still logged into at least some websites even after I have restarted windows. Thanks