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Maybe I am using the wrong name for it.
To the right of the url near the top of the screen there is often a small hamburger-like icon with a tiny A in the top left corner. The function simplifies most pages for easier reading.
Actually the problem exists in regular mode as well as well.
There is no select all function and when I try to manually select the text in an article (and images, too) I can only get a couple of paragraphs. There is no way to extend the area selected.
Thanks,
Len
I have been a dedicated Opera user for nearly 30 years. Opera has gone through many changes since the days it fit on one floppy but this Opera One has changed so much and broken so much I am at a loss to understand why it was put in the regular update channel.
Here are some issues.
The GUI is radically changed, for example,
list itemSo much has been stuffed into the address bar that it pushes everything to the left, hiding the current URL
list itemThe "Quick Setup icon is in the bar, instead of to the far right where it was easy to reach without close attention when something needed to be quickly changed, for example, Light to Dark mode.
list itemThe built in reader view no longer indicates whether it is in use or not.
list itemIn the past, even though I was in dark mode, when I copied the contents of the page reader and pasted it into an email, it pasted in black on white. Now it pastes white on black. Which means I have to change modes when I want to send an email.
Old extensions no longer work, for example,
list itemSend via Mail crashes opera. (This is an extension from the Chrome store that sends both the page URL and Title to my default email).
list itemOther send mail apps from Opera's extension site, close the page being sent. That is very confusing. I look up and it is missing.
I do have an old Beta Developer version but that is not fully functional. For example, there is no force dark page mode. And I worry that it will auto update one of these days.
You might be amused by an essay I wrote in 1996 when I was using Opera v. 2.12..
[https://www.lgrossman.com/mjnk/mjnk1296.htm](link url)
Suggestions appreciated.
Thank you
Len
@modemjunkie
@modemjunkie Success. I tried so many things to set Thunderbird as my default email in Opera, I am not sure what worked. But I went into one of the old installations and clicked on the launcher. And voila, when I tried the mailto apps they did what I wanted, Thank you all for your patience. I have been using Opera since 1995 
@gateau Great. But when I paste opera://startpageshared into the address field it opens the start page but I don't see any way to pin it. Or make a bookmark. How do we create that on our machines? Thanks.
len
For years, if I searched a particular account in passwords in Opera>Settings>Passwords I would retrieve a list of all similar entries for that account. That experience is still the same. However, if I want to see the password of one of the entries I have to select that item. Before Opera One, I could select an item and then view, and even edit or delete it. Through that process all relevant entries remained visible. Now, if I select on entry all of the rest disappear and I have to re-enter the search term and start again.
Why is this a problem? Because, for example, I had 8 entries for Bank of America but the passwords remain hidden. I changed passwords again today. (Blame my short term memory). Now I want to delete the old, bad passwords. But I can't tell which ones they are, and lose track of where they are when I get popped out. Very frustrating.
I hope that makes sense.
Len
@gateau That did it. Thanks.
@burnout426 Thanks. Remember the days when Opera was all in-house?
@burnout426 Thanks. Remember the days when Opera was all in-house?
For years, if I searched a particular account in passwords in Opera>Settings>Passwords I would retrieve a list of all similar entries for that account. That experience is still the same. However, if I want to see the password of one of the entries I have to select that item. Before Opera One, I could select an item and then view, and even edit or delete it. Through that process all relevant entries remained visible. Now, if I select on entry all of the rest disappear and I have to re-enter the search term and start again.
Why is this a problem? Because, for example, I had 8 entries for Bank of America but the passwords remain hidden. I changed passwords again today. (Blame my short term memory). Now I want to delete the old, bad passwords. But I can't tell which ones they are, and lose track of where they are when I get popped out. Very frustrating.
I hope that makes sense.
Len
@gateau That did it. Thanks.
@gateau Great. But when I paste opera://startpageshared into the address field it opens the start page but I don't see any way to pin it. Or make a bookmark. How do we create that on our machines? Thanks.
len
There is an old rule. Suffer in silence trying to fix something and nothing works. Complain, and discover it is fixed.
Well, not quite, but I have installed Beta version: 101.0.4843.19 and some of the issues I complained about seem to have been fixed or improved.. Even Send via Mail works. .
It's taking a bit of tinkering but. So far, so good.
So, 
Thanks,
len
I have been a dedicated Opera user for nearly 30 years. Opera has gone through many changes since the days it fit on one floppy but this Opera One has changed so much and broken so much I am at a loss to understand why it was put in the regular update channel.
Here are some issues.
The GUI is radically changed, for example,
list itemSo much has been stuffed into the address bar that it pushes everything to the left, hiding the current URL
list itemThe "Quick Setup icon is in the bar, instead of to the far right where it was easy to reach without close attention when something needed to be quickly changed, for example, Light to Dark mode.
list itemThe built in reader view no longer indicates whether it is in use or not.
list itemIn the past, even though I was in dark mode, when I copied the contents of the page reader and pasted it into an email, it pasted in black on white. Now it pastes white on black. Which means I have to change modes when I want to send an email.
Old extensions no longer work, for example,
list itemSend via Mail crashes opera. (This is an extension from the Chrome store that sends both the page URL and Title to my default email).
list itemOther send mail apps from Opera's extension site, close the page being sent. That is very confusing. I look up and it is missing.
I do have an old Beta Developer version but that is not fully functional. For example, there is no force dark page mode. And I worry that it will auto update one of these days.
You might be amused by an essay I wrote in 1996 when I was using Opera v. 2.12..
[https://www.lgrossman.com/mjnk/mjnk1296.htm](link url)
Suggestions appreciated.
Thank you
Len
@modemjunkie
@cmspencer See the post by @kevdotkrizzle a couple of hours ago with a link to a chrome extension that works.
@leocg That worked. Thanks.
Many sites have sharing buttons that include icons to send the page to various social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) as well as to the default email provider on the desktop. Some work, but others crash when I try to share emails from there. Even worse, when opera re-opens after the crash, sometimes I get a message that because of the crash, Opera had to disable all of my extensions. And my open tabs close, make it difficult to get back to work.
Here are some pages where I have found the problem.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-illinois-tourism-recovery-hotel-revenue-record-20230710-r44mho43yre2jmsvhwcweaxh6e-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/maga-america-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/10/new-york-times-closes-sports-athletic/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/maga-america-trump.html
This is a separate issue from my attempts to find a sendmail extension that will insert both the URL and title of a page in a new email in my default email app.
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