I don't know what makes for favorable/unfavorable conditions when drag-saving (available RAM, busy CPU, whatnot). You made your 20 attempts under favorable conditions obviously. For me, it fails way too often for it to be site-specific drag prevention. It fails almost always. Every day. For my few examples I provide you with the entire internet. I feel safe assuming that, for me, one day a specific image will drag-save, the next it will not. I'm just saying this is a pervasive issue for me on a 24-inch Mid 2007 iMac (OS 10.9.5) with a 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo and 4GB of RAM, using the newest version of Opera. For all I know, drag-saving works every time on a brand new Mac. Maybe that's it. I don't know, but I thought the Opera team should be aware of what I am experiencing with my gear as I doubt the browser is developed on seven year-old computers (which a lot of users still own).
Posts made by joecunningham
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RE: Drag-saving images. Fail.Opera for Mac
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Drag-saving images. Fail.Opera for Mac
I've been using Opera 25.0.1614.68 on Mac OS 10.9.5 and have noticed that dragging an image (to save it) out of the browser to the desktop does not usually work. When I release the mouse button, the image (more often than not) flies back into the browser window. So then I have to right-click the image and choose "Save Image As..." and then go through a open/save dialog to do something that should've taken less than a second. Drag-saving fails so frequently that I now routinely use the right-click method to (ironically) save time. Still, every now and then I'll wonder if it will work and do the drag and it will work - I'll say one in five tries (seems about right).
Drag-saving images has been one of the most basic features of a web browser for time immemorial. It worked flawlessly in Netscape in 1996. It should work flawlessly in Opera in 2014. - Joe in Minneapolis
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RE: Double ampersand bugOpera for Mac
Gah!! It did it again! I'll insert spaces this time:
The bit where I said there was nothing strange about it's title tag was followed by example code showing "ART & a m p ; ARTISTS" set between standard html denoting a title. Just a simple standard title tag with no funny business.
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RE: Double ampersand bugOpera for Mac
Oops. I didn't realize html would actually be rendered in my comment. So, to correct: the bit where I said there was nothing strange about it's title tag was followed by example code showing "ART & ARTISTS" set between standard html denoting a title.
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RE: Double ampersand bugOpera for Mac
I'm using Opera 25.0.1614.68 on Mac OS 10.9.5. The error is not a site issue. I tested it in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Sleipnir and all of them correctly titled the bookmark with a single "&." I also had a peek at the site's source and found nothing strange about it's title tag:
<title>ART & ARTISTS</title>
Lastly, I followed your suggestion and removed the bookmark from Opera and added it again. The result was the same: ART && ARTISTS. Your screenshot DOES match what I see when I initially bookmark the page. It's when the bookmark appears on the bookmarks bar that the problem becomes visible. To be clear: the bookmark title renders correctly with one "&" in the oversize thumbnail format, but not when it is simply a link on the bookmarks bar (or in a drop-down folder on the bar). Attempts to edit out the extra "&" fail.
I hope this clarifies the problem so it can be fixed. Opera became my default browser last month, and I'm rooting for it to become perfect and succeed.
Best, Joe in Minneapolis
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Double ampersand bugOpera for Mac
I noticed that when I bookmark a site with an ampersand logogram "&" in its title, the bookmark title displays two of them. For example, I bookmarked the arts blog at http://poulwebb.blogspot.in/ and Opera insists on titling the bookmark ART && ARTISTS. Attempts to manually edit this failed. Please squash this little bug. The devil is in the details, isn't it?