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What about trying uninstalling Opera, rebooting, then turning everything that might conceivably act as a firewall off (antivirus, 3rd party system monitoring utilities, etc) before re-installing Opera? Shouldn't need to have them turned off for very long in order to install and test Opera.

When you click the advanced settings option, it adds the available advanced settings right on the same page (for example, in privacy and security settings, it adds WebRTC to the settings shown on that page).

There's a 'find in page' option located in the main menu, under 'page', or you can bring it up with ctrl-F. Print is in there as well, or via ctrl-P.

Is that what you mean?

Not sure if this will work on your system or not, but ...

I am finding that if VPN is turned on when I close the browser, then on startup most of the time VPN will not work (orange icon; location unavailable message) -- I have to turn it off for a few seconds, set it to Optimal location when I turn it back on, and when the icon stays blue I can set it back to my original preferred location. Once I've turned it off, back on, and reset the location it then works reliably.

Sorry - quick question: when you say 'firewall off does nothing', are you referring to having completely turned off / disabled the Windows 7 Firewall (or are you referring to a router or other firewall)?

If the Win 7 Firewall and turning it off completely doesn't help, then this suggestion may be a waste of time (depending on your firewall settings) ... but just for completeness' sake maybe try deleting the firewall rule - perhaps there's a weird glitch in there somewhere.

It appears this problem is primarily occurring on secure (https) websites - afaik I can view pdfs on non-secure sites with no problem, but on the secure sites I can only save/dl the file.

Have gone through and changes all settings to just about every option available without success. My settings in Opera are substantially the same as those in Chrome, but I can view the files in Chrome but not in Opera.

Anyone having the same problem? Any ideas?

Thanks - apparently not, although I had thought so. I'd assumed it was happening with everything, because the 10 or so I had tried all failed, and yet I could view all of them in Chrome with no problem.

I've just tested a whole bunch more, though, and have found some that do in fact open for viewing. I've no idea how to determine what the difference is between ones that work and ones that don't. Of the ones that don't, though, all of them are fine in Chrome.

If they all can be viewed in another browser, does that then point to something with the Opera viewer as the problem? Or ...?

(I really don't want to have to go back to Chrome!)

Thanks for the help.

Addendum: Just noticed the 'details' tab on the upper right of the plugins page, and set it to show details ...

The 2 Chrome PDF Viewer types listed there are 'Browser Plugin' (MIME type application/pdf), and 'PPAPI (out-of-process)'MIME type application/x-google-chrome-pdf. Both are enabled. The Browser Plugin file lists a location, at chrome-extension://longstringof letters; the PPAPI lists its location as 'internal-pdf-viewer'.

There. That's all the info I can muster up. I hope someone can help me get this working.

Thanks!

Hello. Opera 40 on Windows 7 - I cannot view PDF files; upon clicking on a file link, the 'save as' box comes up right away (I can only save the file, not view it). When I hover over the file link, the hints dialogue says 'opens pdf in a new window', but it doesn't.

The PDF Viewer plugin is listed on the opera:plugins page and is enabled. It says "Chrome PDF Viewer", and indicates there are 2 files. There is only an enable/disable button (no options, no other information). I have tried disabling then re-enabling it with no change.

Have also tried disabling all extensions, also disabling both the ad blocker and VPN, but none of that makes any difference. In Settings, have tried all of the plugins options and hat doesn't make any difference either. Not running in Turbo.

What am I missing here? Why can I only download (save to my HD) PDF files, instead of viewing them? I work a lot with pdf files and really need this to work - any help will be appreciated.

Jb

Thank you! That's brilliant - I now have Vanilla installed, which (so far) appears to work well enough for my purposes.

Thanks again. I really appreciate the help.