Posts made by newoperanut

I'm thinking maybe it's not an Opera bug, but a way some companies have invented to get around the adblocker. There's anti-adblocker software out there now, and I've seen it elsewhere.

While we're on that topic, how do I access settings in the built-in adblocker? I'm on
v.37

Thanks for this. I have the same issue, and thought I was missing a codec.

leocg--

I have older eyes, and every theme still has the narrow gray toolbars on top with too-small navigation keys, although my monitor is 25".

Do you know if there's anything in the works for future versions to customize the toolbars/menu bars? Am I correct that this feature was present in some previous versions?

Nothing moves, but I just D/L this, and it lets you produce that rt-click menu. I have about 1500 bookmarks, so orderly sorting is important.
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/bookmarks-by-the-side/?display=en

I'm getting the feel of Opera. Some of the functions that are native to Firefox have to be added to Op with extensions.

Thanks to everyone who helped

I uninstalled and reinstalled, but nothing has changed. I can interact with the Opera bookmarks in the toolbar, but not the Firefox ones in the sidebar. They're in a folder called "Other bookmarks," and I can't drag that into the toolbar on top.

V. 36.0.2130.75

I'm going to uninstall and reinstall.

I have no "edit" icon that looks like a pen, a bus or a sweet potato.

I'll do the editing in Speed Dial.

I also downloaded this extension yesterday:
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/v7-bookmarks/?display=en
The "please wait" icon spins, but nothing comes up.

I was just thinking: maybe the newest Opera can't run properly on Win XP.

I'm not a newbie; I've been computing 20 years. I wouldn't bring it up if I already succeeded.

The rt-click menu has this for both Opera and FF bookmarks:
"Open in new tab
in new window
in private window
background tab"

No"edit."

The bookmarks will not drag; I get the "do not enter" symbol.

Speed-dial is not my homepage; changed it long ago to NYTimes.com. OK, so now SD shows my bookmarks interactively, but I want to do that on the sidebar of a webpage. Speed-Dial takes up an entire window. Is that possible?

I have something whose icon looks like a 2-legged table that I got from the menu. The bookmarks appear in the sidebar, but I can't do anything like renaming, moving or removing. I downloaded an other extension called "V7 bookmarks," but it blanks out the sidebar completely.

I don't know what Speed Dial does. It just produces a blank page when I click it.

This browser has become a disappointment. The manual is missing so many things. It had been so easy to use a few years ago, more intuitive and with fewer "improvements." It's going the way of Firefox.

I just reopened Opera after several hours, and the sidebar and LastPass icon mysteriously reappeared.
Now the sidebar's gone again. CTL+SHF+S gives me a little plus sign on the left, and when I click it, the extension page appears in a new tab. No sidebar, no bookmark managers. Is it somewhere in the main Menu?

3--re: sidebar. All my imported bookmarks were in the sidebar and disappeared with it. That sort of solves the problem of the bookmarks being buried ,-)

Opera 37 for computers
Win XP Pro

1--I can't find anything on bookmarks in the Opera Help file. Firefox is my default browser, but I use Opera for a particular set of sites because it's faster.

I've imported my bookmarks from FF, but the particular folder I use heavily is now 6 sub-folders deep. In FF, I can move such a folder or individual bookmarks up in the hierarchy or remove bookmarks. I can't find any way in Opera to manipulate FF bookmarks, although I have no trouble manipulating Opera bookmarks. Is the FF bookmark folder locked into its status when imported?
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2--LastPass has disappeared from my extension menu, although the extension page tells me it's installed.

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3--How do I keep the bookmark sidebar permanently? It's gone now and I can't find anything in Help about getting it back

(Have you noticed you can't edit your posts here. Some software doesn't do enough.)

typo above--, 2nd sentence
There will always be open-source programs for those who don't want the bloat of commercial programs. Some software companies don't understand "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

2nd Paragraph--there are far more power users than when I started computing, but there are also far more choices of programs performing the same functions. Users tend to level off at whatever works for them.

Leushino--

I don't need my computers for work, so I can choose any programs that work for me. There will always be open-source programs for those Opera is my secondary browser. My first choice has been Firefox, since v.1, to which I've added many years of tweaks to the code and 30 add-ons. It's not just a tool but something I've honed to my own requirements. Opera will never compare to that browser for flexibility.

I belong to maybe an elite group, a computer club where I've attended workshops for 18 years. The majority of people I know outside the club use their programs right out-of-the-box, but the 400,000 registered users at mozillazine.org certainly don't.

I want to address your comment about science, art and technology's need to grow. Using a slightly older browser is not the equivalent of thinking the earth is flat. I appreciate the need for technology to keep moving, but the purpose of computing is (mostly) productivity. When programs change drastically, your productivity is cut into while you learn an what is an essentially new program. I chose not to learn Word's new ribbon and switched to the open-source Open Office, which rarely changes and is not subject to malware problems. I've been using the same version for 5 years and don't feel I'm missing anything. My version of PaintShopPro dates back to 2001, but it does what I need efficiently. I use maybe 10% of the functions anyway, and new bloated versions would be wasted on me.

I belong to a large PC users' group in a major city. Most people, even in this group, use only a small percentage of the functions of large program. It's not necessary for developers to keep puffing up programs with thousands more lines of code, but they feel everything must be "new and improved," like soup, cookies and detergent. And of course pricier, which is the purpose of the whole thing. Hard drives and RAM have to get larger to accommodate all this, too, so what you have is constantly becoming obsolete. Win XP is an excellent OS, beloved by literally millions around the world, but MS has replaced it 3 times, 2 of which were disastrous. That's OK, they'll just make a Win 9 soon.

Now let's take the example of free browsers. Bloating doesn't raise the price or the salaries of developers. I think they change the code because they can, not necessarily for the users' benefit. My primary browser, Firefox, just went through a drastic new GUI, along with some security fixes. I spend a great deal of time at Mozillazine.org, and scores of users found they couldn't work efficiently with the new GUI, couldn't find familiar things. But we had to update to get the new security features. Add-on developers soon wrote 2 extensions that restores the old features. Then we spent some time learning the new extensions. And now our profiles are a little bigger. And so it goes...

This is intriguiong. Do they share the same profile or set up separate ones?

Zooming in any browser is done easily by holding the CTRL down while rolling the scroll wheel on your mouse.

and Youtube.

I meant it's been going on for years in Firefox, but just recently in Opera.