Posts made by redbird14

@redbird14 How odd. I just got a notification that I needed to restart Opera due to an update (107.0.5045.21). With that update the option to check for updates re-appeared i.e. its no longer grayed out. We have a 3 day weekend coming up in my country and I was planning on going through the laborious reinstall process then. Now I don't have to.

Not related>> One thing I discovered about synchronization while preparing for the reinstall. If you want to cull old bookmarks or passwords, you have to logout of your Opera account on all devices. Otherwise if you delete bookmarks/passwords, they come back via the synchronization process. Somehow, just turning off synchronization for those 2 items while still logged in doesn't stop that from happening. Makes me wonder where my passwords are actually stored in addition to being stored on my electronic devices.

I've never touched autoupdate, I've always just let it run. opera.autoupdate.exe exists in my local profile.

In v106.0.4998.52, its not only disabled, but 'Update Checker' is as well so I have no way of updating Opera. This is only on my Windows 10 Pro desktop. On my Windows 11 Pro desktop, 'Update Checker' is enabled.

Is there any way I can enable Update Checker on my Win 10 Pro desktop?

I did review this post: https://forums.opera.com/topic/65661/update-checker-disabled-why/2 and the 2 threads referenced therein. I could find nothing in any of those 3 threads addressing this issue. It only started after the upgrade to v106.0.4998.52.

@dragonking97 Thank-you for the response but while this is similar in the sense of being 'logged out' its only my Opera account I am logged out of. I stay logged into websites I choose to stay logged into. The result is I can't keep my 2 computers' Opera instances synchronized. History, bookmarks and passwords are effected.

There used to be a way on the opera://sync-internails page to force a synchronization i.e. 'Sync Now' but the developers decided to remove this functionality. I can only hope they reinstate it which they have done with other functionality in the past.

I have a similar problem. The difference is that every time I shut down or restart Opera, it logs me out of my Opera account (Windows 11 Pro desktop). Not just on Thursday. Thus, I can't keep this version synced to my primary use Opera version on another desktop (Windows 10 Pro) as there's no way to have Opera 'sync now'. Opera://sync-internails has apparently been disabled.

Is there any way to have Opera keep me logged in when I restart it under Windows 11? I do not have this problem - keeping me logged in - on my Windows 10 desktop.

@terminatedprocess As stated in my original message:

My workaround is to simply use another browser or if I'm in a hurry, I save the file to my desktop and copy it to my desired destination.

Both ^c/^v and dragging work from the desktop.

Note also, I don't have the issue with Firefox or Edge AND, sometimes not even with Opera. Its only every other update that it fails. Update1: works. Update2: fails. Update3: works. Update4: fails. Its as if some switch is flipped each update.

I have easy to implement workarounds. I don't need a solution although I appreciate your taking the time to respond. I'm just noting this in case some developer happens to see my post and knows right away what might be flipping between updates.

LOL...Based on what I'm reading here, I may be the only person who uses Opera who actually likes the new look. Especially the various Opera icons having been moved to the lower left (bookmarks, history, settings, downloads, extensions etc.). I use the dark theme and I like the royal blue icon contrast as well as the vertical bars that let you easily collapse/restore icons or tabs. Not wild about the splash screen though. Wish they'd give you a way to mute the noise it makes.

I have a weird issue that's been going on for over a year now. Every other version of Opera I download has the same behavior. When I try to save a file to my 'S:' drive, I get the message shown in the screen cap below. This happened with the 'old' Opera and continues with Opera One. It only occurs every other version. My workaround is to simply use another browser or if I'm in a hurry, I save the file to my desktop and copy it to my desired destination. This only happens with my 'S:' drive ('S' stands for stuff like financial statements, .pdf documents I want to read/save, images, videos, etc.). I have 4 separate drives. Opera can consistently save to the other 3. Only with the S: drive and only with every other version of Opera will it not save files I want to download.
I am reporting this in case you want to look into it or some developer knows off hand of some switch that keeps flipping with each new version of Opera. The effort to debug this is far greater than simply using a workaround so I'm not going to go through all of that primarily because I can't easily do so given the Opera limitation on # of profiles.
Anyway, screen cap attached:

Edit: since it may not be clear, in this example, I'm trying to save a file called 'Statement_072023_2325.pdf'. Again, there's no problem with the source file or my S drive because I can use Firefox or Edge to download the file. Its clear to me its an Opera quirk.

@akramipro it seem that problem is solved by its own!

I didn't update my browser and the watermarks are gone today.

Just noticed the 'Opera has...' post started yesterday. Prior to starting this, I searched for 'watermark' and found nothing. I didn't see that other thread until now. Sorry for the duplication.

Update: Just applied today's update, 90.0.4480.54, and still seeing the watermarks.

I upgraded to v90.0.4480.48 yesterday (Opera 64 bit for Windows). All of a sudden this watermark is appearing on some websites. Any idea why?

It works fine for me. I particularly like the sound feature that alerts me that content has changed. I've had issues with add-ons conflicting in all my browsers including Opera. Possibly that's what DogMad is experiencing.

Another vote for having some way to remove this annoying feature.

Thank-you for all of these responses and for the promptness as well!! I found the messages I was looking for and now know how to to do both the export and import of passwords. I screen capped those posts for the next time I need to port Opera over and this one for the next time I need to search the forum. Should've done that last time.

Suggestion: put a search icon or box at the top of the page <g>.

Is there any way to search the forums for older posts?

A few years back I tried porting Opera to a new desktop by transferring over the profile. That brought everything but my saved passwords over.

I'm trying to get Opera up and running on a new desktop again and once more the passwords don't come over. I'd like to find the posts from my last attempt because it was resolved I just don't recall how. But if I can find those posts, I can re-learn. How do I search for them?

Not as urgent but a curiosity. Used to be there was 1 profile. Now there are 2, 1 under 'roaming', 1 under 'local'. I can see the contents are completely different but it makes me wonder, why 2 profiles?

@rif
I'm loaded with RAM (64 GB) and Opera has never consumed 5% of that so I don't really concern myself with it beyond that. But I did notice a 10% or so reduction in overall memory usage moving to workspaces from multiple instances. I'm curious to hear how you fare with that.

Where it saved me time and caused me to find religion over workspaces was starting up after rebooting. I generally have 30 or so tabs open spread somewhat evenly across the 2 workspaces. When I had to open up a 2nd instance prior to workspaces, for whatever reason, loading the 2nd instance took a lot of time. Like 2-3 minutes if I recall correctly. Now its all virtually instantaneous.

FML, I just looked at my original message and I guess there's nothing new in this one

I used to run 2 instances of Opera. I discovered early on rather than opening around 30 tabs in 1 instance, Opera behaved better if I opened up 2 instances with around 15 each. Not sure why, but now that I run 2 workspaces in 1 instance rather than 2 instances, there's a notable response time improvement/rendering time improvement for me (Win 10 Pro 64, 64GB of memory). There's also a 10-15% reduction in total memory that Opera consumes. Rebooting Opera just got a whole lot easier for me because both Workspaces load at once and I don't have to open a second instance and then open a folders worth of tabs into that. I still have some issues with whitelisting sites that I don't with Brave but if you're keeping track, here's a vote for keeping Workspaces in Opera. Well done, Opera developers!

@zalex108 DOH! That did indeed work. I actually came up with the a Rube Goldberg-ish solution when I discovered Firefox does carry over passwords in its profile. I was going to export my passwords to Firefox on my old machine, install both Opera & Firefox on the new one, bring the old Firefox profile over to the new one and then import settings, including passwords, into Opera. Your quick discovery that I misunderstood burnout426's instructions saved me from having to do that. So thank-you for setting me straight!!

@burnout426 P.S. Even if it didn't work for me, thank-you for providing this to me!!

@burnout426 A screen cap of the cmd window is below. The option still doesn't appear on the Experiments page.

Leocg>>If you're reading this, do you know where Opera stores saved passwords? Apparently not in the profile anywhere ("Opera Stable") because I tried cloning that from my old computer to my new one but the passwords didn't come over.

So is the bottom line it is no longer possible to import a .csv file containing passwords into a fresh install of Opera on a new computer?