Posts made by mikerobinson

All of a sudden the scroll speed has like tripled. Any way to put it back to how it used to be?

Weird things are going on with the Elements inspector and CSS editor. This frequently happens when editing CSS values: https://i.imgur.com/WWizzev.png, you can't copy CSS anymore and hovering your mouse over the elements in the element inspector no longer highlights the element on the page.

@mikerobinson: Ok, I reinstalled Opera and now it's working again. Who knows what happened last time...

@mikerobinson: Ok, I reinstalled Opera and now it's working again. Who knows what happened last time...

A lot of pages just flat-out crash for me now, such as Gmail and Facebook.

Is there any way in the tab cycler to make it necessary to actually click on the thumbnail with the mouse to select it instead of just hovering over it? Or at least to have the mouse move from off the thumbnail to on it before it gets highlighted?

I find that the current behavior is very aggravating since you need to consciously make sure your mouse is not in the center of the screen when using the keyboard to cycle through the tabs.

I often have my mouse in the middle of the screen and when I do Ctrl-Tab, the mouse is over one of the other tab icons, so it ends up selecting the wrong tab.

Firefox does this much more sensibly by requiring the mouse to actually move from off the icon to over the icon for it to be highlighted. So if you push Ctrl-Tab and your mouse is already over another tab icon, even if you move it around over top of the icon, it won't highlight that tab; you need to move your mouse away from the icon and back on it. Would something like this be possible in Opera?

Unfortunately, this feature does not seem to be important to Opera devs, not even enough to warrant a reply to your thread. The tab cycler used to be very good with a vertical list of tabs and full-screen previews, but now it's just terrible - tiny thumbnail previews, horizontal that only displays a handful of tabs, the mouse constantly messing things up. Because of this, I have migrated from Opera to Vivaldi.

Doesn't work to mark posts as read.

I sure would love if we could get the old tab cycler back.

@treego: Maybe it's just a Linux thing then. I've tried it on 2 different Linux computers and it has the same effect.

Tab cycling with the horizontal tab cycler disabled is still totally broken. Come on guys.

The vertical tab cycler no longer works for me. Unfortunately this is going to decrease my workflow significantly.

Ok, I found it. Go to opera://flags/ and find "Use horizontal tab cycler" and disable it. You're welcome.

Opera devs: This has to be the worst change you guys have made in a very long time.

I used to get a full screen view of the web page instead of a tiny little thumbnail that I have to try to squint to figure out what it is. Switching tabs shouldn't require much brain power.

I used to have a nice vertical list of all of the tabs with their icons and name, whereas with the new switcher, since they're all spread horizontally across the screen, it is not as quick to look at just the icons as when they're tightly stacked on top of each other. For example, if I want to switch to Youtube, I'll look for the red icon first, and then the text second if I have several Youtube tabs open. As it is now, I have to look across the whole screen just to look for the icons from only a few websites, and the tab that I'm after might not even be displayed.

With the old switcher, I could have 20+ tabs displayed in a nice vertical stack, and quickly mouse over them if the tab is far down, whereas with the new switcher you get, what, five?

And with the new tab switcher, if I want to cycle forwards a few tabs and then back to the original one, it's also a lot harder to do because it's almost impossible to tell what the first tab is, whereas before, the top tab is the current tab. End of story.

I'm sorry to complain. I know you guys have put a lot of work into this, but it just has terrible functionality.

How do I get back to the old tab switching behavior? This mini thumbnail thing is utter garbage compared to how it was before.

@temkem Thanks for the help. I was able to unsubscribe from this thread (I hope).

However Opera devs, this is still unacceptable. You need to provide an easy unsubscribe link directly in the email that will unsubscribe your users from the current thread being watched. The link to alter your subscription settings does not allow you to unsubscribe from the thread, only future threads you reply to. I shouldn't have to go to an obscure part of your forum to be able to unsubscribe.

I realize they aren't commercial emails, however a guideline to follow would be the CAN-SPAM Act:

Your message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the recipient can opt out of getting email from you in the future. Craft the notice in a way that’s easy for an ordinary person to recognize, read, and understand. Creative use of type size, color, and location can improve clarity. Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to allow people to communicate their choice to you. You may create a menu to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to stop all commercial messages from you.

So maybe you could try something like this:

This post notification was sent to you due to your subscription settings. Click here to alter those settings.
Or click here to stop receiving further reply notifications for the topic "Opera 65 comes with an improved tracker blocker and redesigned address bar"

I posted one single comment on this post and now I get an instant notification of every irrelevant reply. Can someone hold my hand through the process of unsubscribing, because I can't figure it out. The emails say "This post notification was sent to you due to your subscription settings. Click here to alter those settings", and on the link that leads to I unchecked the option to "watch topics that you reply to", but I'm still receiving 5-10 emails a day. Come on, Opera. Something simple like unsubscribing from receiving 150 emails shouldn't be more than 3-4 simple clicks, and even that's pushing it. Because of this, I now have very little desire to post a reply to any other topic on this forum.

@zalex108 The length of the company name is sometimes a problem, however there are real issues with EV SSL certificates:

1. In order to be effective, users would need to modify their behavior when NOT presented with an EV certificate. However they do not.
2. It is possible to mimic someone else with the corporation name by registering the same corporation in a different jurisdiction.
3. The world's 10 largest sites don't use EV certificates
4. EV certificates use the same encryption algorithms as DV certificates. When connecting to a website using domain validation, the connection is no less secure than EV. The important thing is not whether the company who owns the website has been registered in their local jurisdiction; the important thing is whether or not the connection between the browser and the server is actually secure.
5. EV certificate installation and renewal cannot be automated.
6. Many studies that apparently show that EV certificates are beneficial are commissioned by certificate authorities themselves.
7. When the company that owns the website doesn't match the domain name, this leads to confusion.
8. EV certificates do not support wildcards

I think it's about time Opera considers removing Extended Validation SSL indicators from the address bar, just like Chrome, Firefox and Safari have. The EV UI does not protect users as intended.