Posts made by mr-matt-eastwood

Moving to Chrome for now.

If any of you have any ideas, I would truly appreciate them. Hope I can come back to Opera, I really like this browser.

Is anybody else experiencing this, either on Mint or on other Linux distros (as I mentioned, Manjaro had the same problem)?

Scrolling is often janky, Google spreadsheets lag behind mouse clicks... It really affects my day-to-day work in this browser, which I have really come to love and would hate to move away from

Hey guys! After installing Linux Mint 20 on my laptop, which has an Nvidia RTX 2070 card running on the Nvidia chip (performance mode), I noticed the UI on Opera has become sluggish.

It mostly manifests in two scenarios:

• When typing something in the address bar, the suggestions dropdown only opens after a short delay (0.5 sec)
• Same delay when clicking on the "Easy setup" button in the top right (below the X/close button in Opera's title bar)

Of course, these are just minor annoyances, but they make my everyday work feel more sluggish and less responsive overall. I had this happen as well when I tested Manjaro on this laptop a few months ago, and it was part of the reason I moved back to Linux Mint (then 19.3).

Running Nvidia drivers 440, Prime set to Nvidia chip in high performance mode. I tried disabling hardware acceleration in Opera's system settings, and disabling "Override software rendering list" in opera:flags (I normally have that enabled).

Any ideas what might be happening?

Ohhh, I've been meaning to respond here, but then got sidetracked. I did find a solution; it's outlined in this thread:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/438345/how-to-remove-install-a-package-that-is-not-fully-installed

The accepted answer suggested to comment out all the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info/[package_name].postinst, but I just went sledgehammer and nuked the file (well, I moved it out of the directory).

Afterwards, the problem was gone.

Edit : re-reading your post more closely, it looks like we're both implementing the same solution. I'll keep my eyes open for this issue cropping back up! If it does, perhaps making a script will at least alleviate the hassle of fixing it.

Hey l33t4opera, you pointed me in the right direction: cookies! I am using the "I don't care about cookies" extension, and that's what caused the issue. I had to whitelist RPS in it.

So obvious when you think about it. Thanks!

Hey community! On rockpapershotgun.com (e.g. in this article), embedded videos don't show up. Instead, there's a grey rectangle.

I disabled ad blocking on that site, but the issue persists. This has been happening for a few months now, on Linux Mint 19.3 and now on 20, across several Opera versions. I'm only now getting around to making a thread about it.

Anybody else experiencing this? Did you find a workaround/fix?

Hey bradcolbert, which of your workflows does this mess with? For me, the only problem was that the menu would pop up when I was holding down the ALT key to move or resize the Opera window. I fixed this by changing the hotkey to move windows to super in Linux Mint's Windows settings app ("Behaviour" tab).

UPDATE: my bad. The problem is fixed! Tried on various other sites, and videos play fine now. The issue on rockpapershotgun.com seems to be something else.

Got it! I needed to install the chromium-ffmpeg snap. It comes with a bunch of libffmpeg.so's in a number of folders, all of which you can find in ~/snap/chromium-ffmpeg. I linked this one:

sudo ln -s /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/15/chromium-ffmpeg-95241/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

Did the trick!

Hey guys! I am running the latest Opera on Linux Mint 20, but many (actually, I'd say all) videos outside YouTube don't play. For instance, on this page, there's just a grey rectangle where the video should be:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/07/01/worms-rumble-will-ditch-turns-for-32-player-action/

I installed the cromium-ffmpeg snap and symlinked the libffmpeg.so from there to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/, but the problem persits.

How would I go about enabling video support in this latest version of Opera? any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hey guys, I tried this workaround but even though chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is installed on my computer (Linux Mint 20), there is no /usr/lib/chromium-browser directory.

Any idea where to get the correct libffmpeg.so?

Hey guys! The latest Opera came from the PPA today and while the update seems to have worked (the browser runs and says it's up to date, version number is 69.0.3686.49), Synaptic and the command line provide this error message:

E: opera-stable: installed opera-stable package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Subsequent attempts to install updates on my system always throw up this same error message.

I even uninstalled Opera and then reinstalled it from a freshly downloaded .deb file, but the error persists.

What's happening? Any way to fix it?

Hey folks, just to confirm, the YouTube issue happens to me as well. Since about last Thursday (I think), static ads have been appearing before roughly every other YT video I watch. They have a countdown timer in the bottom left corner.

About 50% of the time, when I click "Skip Ad", the browser tab will completely lock up. The tab's content freezes and stops responding to input. This is on Linux Mint 19.3.

I need to then copy the video's URL from the address bar, open it in a new tab and retry skipping the ad, which usually works.

I am always logged into YouTube and I don't have a Premium account.

I checked Opera's "Privacy protection" settings and there are 3 "recommended lists" to choose from, all of which I have enabled. There are two more under "Other lists", but they don't seem to relate to YouTube.

Has anybody been able to block these ads, and if so, how did you do it?

Just a quick follow-up, I found out that the WordPress plugin, "Shield Security: Protection with Smarter Automation" is causing this behaviour.

So far, I've only seen it on WordPress. Firefox does it too, but only in one of the two fields (the one that drops down from the admin bar, cf. my 2nd screenshot in my OP). Not sure about Edge, since I'm on Linux Mint.

What could it be about those fields that makes browsers think those are login prompts?

Hey leocg! Chrome does the same thing.

Hey guys! Recently, Opera started automatically putting my login name into filter/search fields in WordPress, like in the Media Library:

This is really aggravating, I can't navigate my dashboard unhindered because whenever there's a filter field, it fills it. If I click on the field and delete my login name from it, it often comes back as soon as I click on something else.

I need to open the Inspector and set the fields to display:none using CSS in order to be productive.

Please, anybody, how can I stop this behaviour??!

Aw man. I was really fond of that and using it all the time.

Yikes! I just tried this on my Windows 10 VM, where I don't run Opera that often, but which I always keep up to date. I enabled the Quick Access panel feature and again, it didn't work at all. Did you guys introduce some bug or something that breaks it unless one already has it enabled?

In the end, it's just a convenience thing anyway. I still hope there's some sort of fix to make it work again, I've grown really accustomed to having this panel around. If not, I guess I'll work around it