In a normal window I can right click a link to open in a new private window. However the option to turn on VPN is only available after the plain link is opened.

The workaround is to open a new, empty private window, turn on VPN and copy & paste the URL.

Opera seems to have only one setting for VPN which applies to all tabs, private or not.

@leocg said in VPN preference for new Private Window:

A private window shouldn't remember anything, including settings.

It can use some settings from the normal window.

A private window has access to my history, etc. I would be quite happy if nothing was inherited.

I would argue that the VPN setting is an attribute of the window rather than any of the sites accessed through it.

My proposal was driven by the observation that I have never used a private window with VPN turned off. For me it is an inconvenience to have to follow extra steps every time.

Is Chromium still at 111?

@pete_forman gmail went offline with Opera Developer on Linux again. To restore it this time I just used ctrl+F5 to reload without cache rather than deleting the cookies for gmail.google.com. I can live with that.

I spoke too soon. After nearly a day of use gmail has now judged me offline in Opera Stable on Windows. Developer on Linux is still okay.

@steventillson02 Thanks, that has fixed it. My first attempt must have missed some cookies being set again. For my second I closed all tabs except Settings and that worked. I needed to wait for stable releases and there was no weekly update in late July.

Whenever Opera is updated my gmail account shows as offline. Settings and support buttons are greyed out and search in emails shows "you're offline results may be limited".

This has been happening for several months using Opera Stable on Windows. In the last two or three weeks my Opera Developer on Linux has started doing it too.

I have a work around. Show cookies in use from the pulldown off the padlock. Select mail.google.com and click the Delete button. Reload the web page.

@wbtmagnum said in Opera 69 developer:

Rocker gestures to go back and forward don't work anymore (Ubuntu 18.04)

Also observed on Arch Linux.

@leocg said in VPN preference for new Private Window:

A private window shouldn't remember anything, including settings.

It can use some settings from the normal window.

A private window has access to my history, etc. I would be quite happy if nothing was inherited.

I would argue that the VPN setting is an attribute of the window rather than any of the sites accessed through it.

My proposal was driven by the observation that I have never used a private window with VPN turned off. For me it is an inconvenience to have to follow extra steps every time.

In a normal window I can right click a link to open in a new private window. However the option to turn on VPN is only available after the plain link is opened.

The workaround is to open a new, empty private window, turn on VPN and copy & paste the URL.

Opera seems to have only one setting for VPN which applies to all tabs, private or not.

I use Opera on all those platforms. On the Mac the left side of a tab does double duty. Normally it displays the favicon, as usual, When the mouse is hovering over it, it changes to a cross and a click closes the tab. Windows and Linux have a dedicated close button on the right of the tab.

The Mac arrangement shines with many tabs. Firstly you are not wasting screen space on all those close buttons. More importantly, when the tabs are crowded closing unwanted ones is slow. You first need to activate each tab, only then do you see its close button.

I have seen some of those symptoms on Win 7 64-bit, with Opera stable updates usually applied on the day released. This has happened three or four times in the last couple of weeks.

The page navigation gets into a confused state. Backwards, forwards and clicking on speed dial links takes me to the wrong URL though it will be somewhere in the recent history. Opening a fresh tab does not help but restarting Opera clears it. I use rocker gestures quite a lot, that may be of relevance. I have not spotted what exact action can trigger my problem.