Posts made by modemjunkie

@burnout426 Thanks. In the meantime I have switched to Opera One(version: 108.0.5067.29) Stable) which I had also installed on my machine.

Same here. All of my social sharing (extensions are disabled because they are deemed corrupted by Opera. (I share most frequently to Twitter pr facebook, The same is true with a couple of "Reader" apps, like clearly. Downloading alternative extensions from either the Opera or Chrome store, doesn't help. New extensions a reported immediately as corrupted when I install them. Very frustrating. Using Opera One(version: 109.0.5097.24)

@leocg Well, at least that explains why I couldn't do it.

But shouldn't the passwords sync from my desktop to the Android?

@canadagoose4everreturns Thanks., but I have the opposite problem. I can change the page fonts, as you described, but I need to reduce the size of the font in the tabs, the bookmark bar, and bar with the search on it.

I am running Opera on Windows 11. For certain reasons, I had to increase the font size in Windows, the result is that the tool bars in Opera take up about 20% of the screen. Also the drop down menu has a font that is so large I can't get to the bottom part. So I can't even tell you what version I am using.

(Oddly, the font in "Settings" is tiny.).

Suggestions, please.

Thank you.

Len

@fatimaansari except those options are not presented in the mobile version (or the latest PC version, either).
Oddly, I was able to sync all of my bookmarks, which I don't care about, but still can't sync the passwords.

@gersoctruda But I don't see the 3 dots to the right ???

I got a new Pixel8 Pro a couple of weeks ago. They let me keep my old Pixel for a couple of weeks to see if there is anything that didn't transfer.

Opera was installed but the syncing process is different from the old days. So, I have about 400 passwords (yes, many are iterations of passwords in the same accounts) in Opera on the old phone but only a handful on the new one. And those are ones I manually entered on the new phone.

I have followed the sync instructions on the new phone several times and it indicates sync is on.

Steps
Go to sync on the new phone.
then open the old phone and navigate to opera.com/connect
Scan the QR code from the old phone into the new phone
Eventually following instructions on the old phone I match numbers that appear on both phones and press "done"

Both phones tell me "Awesome." Now your phones are synced. Both phones now indicate "sync and backup" are enabled.

I also have Opera on my PC desktop,

But nothing has changed on the new phone.

Suggestions? I have to return the old phone to the store or lose an $800 credit in a couple of days.

Thanks,
Len
And Opera user since 1996.

@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

@modemjunkie Here's the link. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/home-button-at-top-right/bfejcgpdahgpmgadhgdadfiekmhgnifm

@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.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/james-lewis-prime-suspect-unsolved-1982-tylenol-murders-case-dies-76-rcna93459

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/10/new-york-times-closes-sports-athletic/

https://www.jta.org/2023/07/09/israel/biden-slams-israel-and-the-palestinian-authority-in-cnn-interview

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.

Lenbolded text

@leocg But can I remove the VPN button from the space to the left of the search bar?

@leocg Thanks. I have had several opera installations on my PC over the years and there are lots of extensions but I can't identify the ones I need.

I did find a couple in the Chrome store that have the functions I want but they crash Opera when I try to use them...what's worse, every couple of times, Opera disables all of my extensions and I have to go through and try to remember which ones I need etc.

So, I am still hunting. Again, what I am looking for us an extension that will include both the URL and page title in the body of an email..

Thanks again

Len