Posts made by staiger

Same problem here. I've uploaded a .png showing a screengrab of text from Opera and Vivaldi. The Opera characters look terrible.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34762256/Opera and Vivaldi screenshot.png

Same problem here. I've uploaded a .png showing a screengrab of text from Opera and Vivaldi. The Opera characters look terrible.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34762256/Opera and Vivaldi screenshot.png

Same problem here. I've uploaded a .png showing a screengrab of text from Opera and Vivaldi. The Opera characters look terrible.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34762256/Opera and Vivaldi screenshot.png

Thank you. Anyway, it's off now. If I continue to get problems I'll restart this thread.

Once again, thanks to all who helped.

Steve

Ah, OK. Thanks!

Just done it. Is this a known problem with Turbo mode, then?

I didn't know I was, but I see it is ticked. Should I untick it?

I've had this problem for the past several builds. I'm reporting it now because I've just done a brand new build of Windows on a formatted disk and it's still happening. It was happening on Windows 8, 8.1 and now on Windows 10 Technical Preview. Currently running Opera Beta 26.0.1656.20.

Basically, after a few hours of running, Opera simply refuses to load (or refresh) any web pages. Eventually it pops up the error message "Unable to connect to the proxy server". However, I'm not using a proxy server. It is instantly cured by closing and restarting Opera.

Yes, I know W10 isn't supported yet, but don't be distracted - it was exactly the same with W8 and W8.1 (I can't remember about W7).

It's as if something changes inside Opera and it starts thinking a proxy server is in use. However, it isn't: IE continues to work just fine, and checking Windows' "Local Area Network Settings" dialog shows that no proxy server is configured.

What could make Opera think a proxy server is in use, when it isn't? Does anyone else have this problem?

I've put a screenshot here showing Opera's error message alongside the LAN dialog, which proves what I'm saying:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34762256/Opera Proxy.PNG

Steve

I really like the new Speed dial (now called the Start page, apparently).

However, it has one problem that stops me from using it: I really, really need the text heading under each tile - especially when a tile is a folder.

For instance, I've got four folders which contain links to my favourite programming reference sources. They are called: "Programming - Microsoft", "Programming - Delphi", "Programming - RemObjects" and "Programming - Others".

On the new Start page it is impossible to discern which is which without rolling the mouse over each in turn. On the old page, the name was visible beneath each folder tile, which made it really fast to choose the relevant one.

My change request is: please give us an OPTION to display the title all the time, rather than just on mouse rollover. I'd be happy with the title displayed in the "new" style (rather than underneath the tile).

On the new Speed dial page, and the Discover page, there is a useful bar on the left with three icons for Speed Dial, Discover, and Bookmarks.

It is very convenient to be able to switch between the three just by clicking on the relevant icon. Or rather, it would be, except that the bar disappears when the Bookmarks page is selected and is replaced by a different one without icons for Speed Dial and Discover. Thus you can't click back to the Speed Dial or Discover page, you have to press the Back button instead. It's a strange inconsistency in use, and feels a bit like driving over a speed bump.

My request is, at the top of the vertical bar on the left of the bookmarks page, please provide icons to go back to Speed Dial and Discover.

Just to say that it seems to be working fine for me. Opera 25.0.1614.11

On the new Bookmarks page, there is a folder for Imported Bookmarks. However, there is no indication how to import bookmarks. The new Bookmarks page would be a very easy and logical place to put the "import bookmarks" feature. Perhaps you could put a button on the Imported Bookmarks page that lets you do this?

Well, judging by the silence it looks like we may be alone in this problem.

Do you reckon it's worth raising a bug report?

Running Opera 23.0.1522.43 on Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit.

Getting an infuriating fault: after a few hours of use, Opera suddenly won't talk to the internet any more. The symptoms are: when clicking on any link in any page, or clicking any speed dial link, or refreshing any page, nothing happens apart from the "spinner" appearing on the tab.

No matter how long I wait it just sits there like that.

The only way to cure it is to shut down Opera and then open it again after a minute or so. At that point, everything works just fine again.

Any thoughts on what might be going on?

Steve

Simplicity and essential functionality. As for extensive customization, under the model in Opera 20/Blink, you are to get that through extensions. Opera has shifted to a new model, one where the basic browser is lean, fast, and attractive, and the customization is to generally come via extensions.

@lem729: Do you work for Opera? I ask because you sound like you have some inside knowledge on their product strategy. Or are you speaking authoritatively but actually just expressing your own take on the situation?

This seems to have been fixed. Can anyone else who suffered the bug confirm?

Sorry, stupid question. Please ignore - we shouldn't waste each others' time confirming bug fixes. I'm happy to trust Opera.

This seems to have been fixed. Can anyone else who suffered the bug confirm?

cozza wrote: "Innovations, as in what's to come in the future, clearly there are some UI developments in the pipelines."

Are you sure? In a new thread I'm asking if that is, in fact, true. There seems to have been little or no development effort on the desktop browser recently. How long is it since we got a significant new feature? Ages.

Steve

Lem729 wrote: "Opera is in a state of development."

Are you sure that's true for the desktop version? (See my thread "Is that it, then?")

It seems to me as if development of the desktop version has come almost completely to a halt. There have been hardly any new features for quite some time now.

Steve

Opera have clearly been working hard on the mobile versions of Opera. However, my desktop Opera Developer 22 hasn't had an update for quite some time.

Indeed, the past few versions have had very little new functionality, and hardly any of the functionality we users have been requesting has been delivered.

I'm getting the distinct impression that Opera consider the new desktop browser to be more-or-less done, as there seems to be very little development effort going into it.

Does anyone know better? Can anyone tell us whether we should continue asking for new features and looking forward to getting them? Or is this it for the new desktop browser?

If this really is it, I think I'll ditch the new Opera 22 and go back to V12 until I can find a good alternative. If I'm wrong, I'm happy to stick around with V22 in the hope of seeing further enhancements.

I just wish someone in Opera would tell us. If they are officially ignoring feature requests, they really ought to tell us so we don't waste our time posting them.

Any thoughts?

Steve

Ah, thanks, christoph142. I don't know how to access or search the bug database.