I was talking to my Uncle who's going to China in 4 weeks and he mentioned that he won't be able to use Facebook over there as its blocked.

He had heard that some VPN's will get around the block so you can Facebook.

Will Opera's VPN work in China so you can get Facebook?

I don't see a keyboard shortcut that you can configure for that.

Ctrl-W will only close the currently highlighted tab.

@blackbird71 said in How to change your browser ID within Opera:

@browzer1 said in How to change your browser ID within Opera:

@rif ... Does this not change the Opera "statistics" on web browsing? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Yes, it does affect the usage stats. If a user can access a site by changing the browser ID, it's a good thing for him in gaining access to the site... but it's not a good thing for Opera's market share stats. The ideal would be for websites to respect and operate properly with Opera's genuine user-agent string or respond to user complaints if they don't. But all too often, that's not how the online world seems to operate...

Exactly. Ever try to email a big company such as Hulu and tell them the site works in Opera but you have us blocked for some reason.

I'm sure we've all run across sites that "Don't work" in Opera. Usually (But not always) because of the browser ID string.

Well I just signed up for Hulu and it wouldn't work in Opera so no big deal, it worked in Chrome and I was happy.

I mentioned this to my daughter and she said she got it to work in Opera! I was pleasantly shocked. I guess
she's more tech savvy then I realized!

Here's how

1. Right click on page and choose "Inspect element."
2. Click 3 vertical dots in upper right corner, "More tools, Network conditions."
3. Uncheck "Select automatically.
4. Click on the box right below that and choose your Browser ID string.
5. Refresh the page you had trouble with! I use Shift-F5

She said she found this on a Reddit page.

@blackbird71 said in Creating Polls:

I use Hekasoft (any time I make a signficant change to any of my browsers' settings or data) to manually back up the relevant personal data/settings to an external hard drive.

Had to look this one up. Looks like a good program. I don't use Freefilesync as a "Syncing" backup for Opera, rather I just make a mirror backup of the 4 copies of Opera (Three of 56.xxx and one of 12.18). But with Opera's syncing capability I've never had to restore a version of 56.xxx or its predecessors. I have 12.18 (Used for email only) installed on my e: drive including the profile and when I need to "Restore" it I can just copy it or the backup to a new computer. Works great for me. I usually backup at least every other day.

The program does look interesting in that you can use it to backup all your browsers (I have IE, Edge, FF also).

Where Freefilesync shines for me is I keep everything important to me in d:\My Documents and I sync between my laptop and desktop. Works great.

On another note, I'm sending you a PM here with a weird Opera 12.18 problem.

@blackbird71 said in Creating Polls:

Damn, and I'm a numbers guy and you threw them into my face! LOL
Yeah, to be truthful I've run some polls elsewhere and then questioned
the results for some of the same reasons you mentioned.

@blackbird71 said in Creating Polls:
But then, I'd also like the browser to have built-in browser data file backup/restore features as well. Etc, etc.

I do hope I could search here and find where you made that suggestion! haha

BTW, I use https://freefilesync.org for all my backups!

@blackbird71 said in Creating Polls:

One problem with polls in forums is that they only provide a cross-section of those motivated to respond on the topic as worded, a cross-section which is further skewed by representing only those people who participate in the forum in the first place. Unfortunately, as a measure of what "most" users really want or how they use their systems, such polls are usually well off target.

I agree. And most all of the users of this forum I would consider some form of advanced user of Opera so they
wouldn't probably be the "Typical" user so it would be skewed that way. But still.................

Truthfully, I really only want a poll here to ask the one question, "Do you want to by able to sync your speeddial?"

I've never seen any post where someone was against this and have seen multiple times where someone has voiced
that they wanted the feature.

I think polls are a great way to determine the overall consensus of users.

Wish we could do them here.

@intlv said in Search bar does not select all on click:

I am on version 55.0.2994.61. Previously when you click into the URL/search bar, the current URL gets "select all'd" and you can just start typing a new address. Now, a text input cursor just appears at the end of the URL string. I am not sure if this was intentional or not.

I can confirm this happening to me also on 55.xxx and earlier versions. I never figured out why it happened.

I don't think it has happened on 56.xxx yet.

Woohoo. Opera 56.xxx gave us the keyboard option for duplicating tabs.

This is going to make my browsing that much easier.

Thanks Opera.