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Would be nice if the survey would be hosted in a place that doesn't get blocked - for example on Operas own servers.
But hey - no survey will bring back the power of O12 where I could and often did open 100+ tabs at a time and worked my way though them when doing deep queries on a topic. No, stash is no alternative for that, especially because I can't set it to update in regular intervals or notify me when the site reloaded with new content.
Other uses: See the comment of sgunhouse above.
PS: I forgot to mention that the notice is on the webpage, only meant as a hint and you can safely ignore it, Avast will not complain because it knows the signature of the file.
The ActiveX Plugin is for IE, you need the other one.
I just downloaded it (again) from here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ (choose your OS and the version "for other browsers") and Avast didn't complain, despite having all checks on.
As you are running O12x64 you should check opera:plugins ( ← type that into the address bar and hit enter) afterwards and disable the non-native 32bit version of the Flash plugin (it is the one with the WOW in its path) so that only the x64 version of Flash works.
What's worse: Even if the default program would be started it wouldn't always be the thing I want. Sometimes I prefer more secure programs to open content from the web.
... or simply tell Avast not to scan incoming mails as Opera does not execute anything in mails. Checking the folder where opera stores the mails should suffice.
I personally consider the behavior of those scanners to intercept the connection without showing me the real certificate or allowing me to check from inside of the mail program harmful. I want to be able to check the certs and I want to see immediate warnings and hints because I want to be able to react.
Funny side note:
Some time ago I've got a mail from a person who sent the source code of a web page as text inside of the plain text body, with the warning that it contains some hijacker/trojan code and if I could have a look at it. Indeed it contained some heavy obfuscated evil code. At that time Avast didn't know the hijacker/trojan, but later, when they caught up, it always complained about the stored but in its form harmless mail because it sees the hijacker/trojan code in the text but does not recognize that it is harmless, while it is stored as mbs - at least as long as nobody gets the idea to deliberately make it executable, which I for sure wont 
Yes, IE is better when it comes to printing than almost any other browser.
Sadly my.opera is gone so I link to an archived article I wrote in 2012 how to set up a "print this page in IE" button in Opera, may be it helps:
Originally posted by rafaelluik:
Three. Use a bookmarks manager extension.
Four: Use O 12 until the Blink/NewUI problems are sorted out.
Five: Use a browser that works like you want. The bookmarks manager for Firefox works in a side panel, like the one in Internet Explorer (which became a really good browser in its 11th incarnation - having said that, I now go washing my mouth with soap), I really wonder if we will see a real side panel again in Opera.
Originally posted by winterwolf:
(...) Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail all offer free POP3/SMTP (...)
Not in all countries.
Originally posted by Krake:
On the other hand, as it stands, even good ratings can't be a guaranty for the software you are downloading.
Very true.
Originally posted by blackbird71:
A lot of "official" site data on old Opera versions has already gone to that bit-bucket in the sky, as can be attested by anyone who's looked lately following the website "redesign". (EG: try checking out the Opera Settings File Explained database at http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/ ).
There is always a good chance that archive.org (waybackmachine) has spidered it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130302151555/http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/
I have heard that the plan to build up at least some kind of new forum - but if that will work out? Don't know.
In the meantime several of the Opera employees and many users (me included) moved to https://vivaldi.net which was founded by the co-founder of Opera and several of the old Opera employees and offers forums, blogs, albums and mail for the my.opera users. May be you can give it a spin too and it solves your problem....
yeah - I can import bookmarks ... :rolleyes:
I started the launcher with the additional parameters, but no UI came up. After waiting for about 10 minutes, I killed the 3 idling processes. Then I launched Opera-Chromium again (normal, without command line switch) just to see that most of my previous settings are gone and my speedial is riddled with the default advertisement stuff, facebook etc that I don't use. OK, that was easy to kill.
Then I typed in the bookmark-importer URL and got the option to import to QAB, I clicked it and after tedious confirmation orgy for each of my folders they really were there.
After some sorting QAB became somewhat useful, (I should have sorted them into one folder in O12 before, it would have been easier because there is a decent bookmarks manager) but then I saw the drawbacks:
I can't keep 2 folders open at the same time, I can't stick to a certain "scroll" position in a folder, I can't select multiple bookmarks to open at the same time, I can't associate keyboard shortcuts, I don't see when I have last accessed the bookmark (which was very handy for checking if several sites are still working) etc. pp.
In the end it is still a long way to go until the new system becomes really usable. I wonder what takes so long to implement it - it is more than half a year now - and according to the claims of several employees the Desktop team is now bigger than ever ...
PS: Interesting read: http://asktog.com/atc/the-third-user/
Replace the names and the products and you see basically the situation we have here with Chromium-Opera ...
Originally posted by Frenzie:
In Blink, it's all just bugs that've been there since Apple forked KHTML, with corresponding unfixed Webkit bug reports to boot.
That hits the point. If Google or Apple as main contributors did not use it on their websites, it was of no bigger interest and you could wait until the sun explodes, e.g. I still wait for a fix about font—or, better—character replacement. Opera 12 did a great job with it.
Explanation for all who want to know what that means:
If some character was not in the CSS defined or replaced fonts, it used the character from the most similar font you had installed. In doubt it used even a fonts that did not look similar if the character was in there—on my system it even used the Unicode BMP Fallback Font if nothing else worked out for really esoteric characters, which was still better than displaying ???? instead of foreign characters like the whole Chromium bunch does.
I am really waiting for that bug to get fixed. At the moment Opera is worse than Chromium when it comes to charsets and font replacement as I noticed in 
DNA-13074 where Chromium had no problem with it and Opera 17 -19 displayed ??? instead of the Big5 Chinese character set.
Originally posted by Pesala:
Since the trolls hate Opera Blink so much, I wonder why they don't just use older version or other browsers?
You mean like the troll with the skull and crossed bones as avatar does if he isn't testing but doing serious work? :p
But that troll doesn't hate blink or any other rendering engine - he just doesn't like what was made from it by Opera and still hopes that something decent will come out of this mess. As it is, it simply does not work in his work environment while the other major browsers do. No day with at least 4 or 5 crashes of the new "Opera", heck until todays 18 next update he couldn't even open up Photoshop without crashing the browser. Not even the daily 1 to 4 snapshots of Chromium (the original) are *that* instable.
At the moment he is a happy camper with 9.27 (real MDI, sometimes he needs that) 11.64 (rock solid and he still can and does use Widgets and Unite) and 12.16 x64 (rock solid too and M2 is still integrated). He never saw a reason to use Mail 1.0. Yes, he downloaded it, installed it and then deleted it - it is basically a crippled 12.16 and has no advantages over the integrated solution, not even in size. For special cases he uses the latest Firefox, Chromium and Internet Explorer, but not Opera 17++, because Opera 17++ causes more problems than it solves. Yes, until recently he wrote bug reports, but somehow he got discouraged ...
... oh, and don't feed him, he is perfectly capable of hunting for himself.
Originally posted by leushino:
Just give it some time... please. Don't be too critical at such an earlier juncture. Give it time.
I can't. I have to do my work, and on pages that don't want to work with Opera I use another browser that works. After some time I find my way around the minor quirks (minor in comparison to 15++) of the other browsers and then I don't need Opera any more because it just doesn't offer enough. I am not interested in some promised paradise, I live here and now. I need my tools now and that's it.
Originally posted by scratchspace:
Is there some reason that you cannot either open the page in a new tab or simply complete the process and then start the editing over again if necessary?
Multi page forms.
You can't simply open the next part in a second tab, that would mess with the consistency of the data. Especially annoying if you do your tax and can not review what you have written because as soon as you switch back, everything you entered is gone - and believe me, nobody willingly wants to enter all that crap again just because of a shitty behavior of the browser. In the end you use a browser that can do it right and then stick to it. Sadly that is not the recent Opera any more ...
Originally posted by leushino:
Opera will undoubtedly have a bad year, possibly two BUT if it is going to win over the long haul (and no doubt it has taken all of this into consideration), it must stay the course.
The company? I totally agree as a shareholder.
Originally posted by leushino:
So... they're willing to gamble and I believe they've chosen the right course of action. And if by some chance, the gamble does not pay off, then they simply jettison the desktop division... period.
Exactly what I say. As soon as the desktop browser costs more as it earns it is dead and they will not shed any tear about it. Probably they will even kill it up a bit before it actually starts loosing money.
btw: The comparison with MS is not quite fitting - they had and still have money they could burn to brute force a wedge in a market with strong competitors. Opera is not (yet) in a position that comfortable, but mediaworks shapes up quite nicely ...
Originally posted by leushino:
Statistics can be made to prove anything you want.
You really don't get it, right?
That is not a mere statistic, that is from Opera ASAs own 2013 Quarter 3 report.
Those are the numbers the board and the CEO use to make their decisions.
As soon as desktop costs more than it earns it will be cut off, probably as soon as the tendency is clear, if they use the standard prediction models.
Originally posted by Pesala:
Opera will prioritise feature requests and implement what makes economic sense, while postponing or not implementing those that don't.
We'll see it in next years annual report if they made the right assumptions about their users because this years report will be quite catastrophic for the desktop part.
I don't think they'll gain the about 4 million users of Opera desktop they lost until Q3 2013 in comparison to Q3 2012 until the end of the year with the new version. Interestingly, despite just alienating "a mere 7%" of their user base, they lost 25% of the income from desktop - which doesn't look like a good management decision. It seems that the users who switched to another browser were power surfers who generated a lot referral link income with their searches etc.:
Originally posted by Opera ASA Q3 financial report:
Revenue from Desktop decreased by 25% in 3Q13 versus 3Q12, due to a decrease in ARPU (Average Revenue Per User), primarily due to less search and license revenue and a user decline of 7% in 3Q13 versus 3Q12.
Source: http://www.operasoftware.com/content/download/4580/153912/version/2/file/3Q13.pdf
BTW - the all time high in user numbers was reached with 11.64 which was the most feature complete version with the most options they ever build.
Originally posted by leushino:
You are not in a position to dictate to Opera and furthermore, threats to abandon it will certainly not garner any attention.
Your opinion in that matter is irrelevant - only the numbers count - and according to the numbers they should really start fighting for every user and not disregard those "threats" as empty.
Fact:
Opera ASA has lost about 10k desktop users per day since they decided to switch to chromium.
Originally posted by Frenzie:
And on the Desktop Team blog.
... and in other places - yes :p :lol:
Originally posted by Pesala:
Originally posted by rs79:
Forms have been destroyed.
The best thing to do about that is to submit a bug report.
Wrong place - that is a general Chromium problem and so the bug report should be filed for Chromium if you want that fixed.
Here is how to do that
Yes, yes, I know:
We are Opera users and want to file bugs to Opera and not to Chromium. Been there, had that discussion with a dev in the #snapshot IRC channel too ...