Posts made by thartneid

Hi all,
after "upgrading" to Opera 64 f. Windows I'v run into a severe problem.

I've been using an Anonymous-Proxy program (Tor-based) to communicate with Social Media sites to mask my actual IP-address. This establishes connection to a proxy in a chosen country and produces a so called "pac-file" (automatic configuration script) which sets the proxy-address for "system" in the "Internet-options / LAN-settings"-tab.

A "Show-IP"-service on the Internet would then report back the "fake-address" I was supposedly connecting from and the Social-Media-sites would be fooled accordingly.

To make a long story short: since "upgrading" to Opera_64 the "Show-IP"-service would all of a sudden give away my true IP-address in spite of the Anonymous-Proxy-application running and successfully connected.

In the settings-dialogue of Opera I could not find any (new) setting so far that would restore things to the old proxy settings that worked successfully until Opera_63.

Any suggestions or Opera-settings / flags that might remedy this mess??

greetings
TomTom

@incomingbrowserchange
Ever heard of the rule: "If it aint broke - don't fix it"? But then - what does it mean
" I don't think it's very probable they'll revert those unwanted changes"?
This is absolutely and without a doubt a severe bug! I am not complaining about a new layout here. I a complaining about the loss of a basic feature every browser offers, that is to access history back as long and far as the user chooses.
It cannot possibly be a desired new "feature" to limit such access to about yesterday! (seemingly also dependent on the number of records).
And if they really should ignore that, then opera itself is history - at least for me.
To make things even more annoying a new "bad habit" seems to spread on the version-history-download-page. Instead of fixing things there now appear download-folders with phantasy-version-numbers that come up empty upon inspection so that the interval of "new", so called "stable releases" with the same old bugs has now been increased to about 2 weeks.

@anonan I concur! Same mess here. Amazingly enough there seems to have been no official bug report until now! But meanwhile a colleague of mine has reported the bug under the number
ID: DNAWIZ-66617
So, lets hope this will be fixed ASAP!

Please be informed that ODev, since version 2802, crashes when used in a "sandbox"(www.sandboxie.com). On installation the browser opens normally but when invoked within that sandbox only pictures/graphics appear but no written text. Also the "settings"- and "about"- sections come up without any text and therefore cannot be inspected any longer. After branching to other locations the program CRASHES altogether with a pop-up that some memory address has been addressed illegally. Until build 51/2796 everything was fine and still is with the main-desktop-version.

greetings
Tom

Thanks "leocg", I wasn't aware of that bug reporting procedure. I went under the assumption that bugs are reported by discussing them in this forum. Meanwhile there is such a report: DNAWIZ-18404. Does that mean that the so far unfixed "Google-maps" / v.46-general-loadig-bug may not have been officially reported either while having been amply discussed in this forum?

Btw, did you Opera-forum guys notice that this very site has practically been down for a day and a half from thursday 7/27 to friday 7/28? In particular when logged in you couldn't get past the "overview"-page which again kept loading and loading with the busy-cursur blinking frantically (sounds familiar with Opera v.46 from "Google maps"?)?

As soon as one would proceed to the Windows- (or any) problems page the browser kept jumping back to the "overview"-page within seconds again. That one seems now fixed. I'm wondering though if that phenomenon might also have been related to the v.46-loading problem and so far couldn't figure out how to determine if that one, too, has been "officially" reported via the "wizard"? Because over there it is only mentioned that a bug already discussed in the forum will probably have been "officially" reported via the "wizard" in the first place - but how to be sure?

greetings

Tom

Sorry "leocg", I somehow do not get the meaning of your last question. Reported, yes. Fixed? Still waiting, all I'm saying. How could it be "not the case" to be a problem if it can be clearly reproduced, depending on the "HWA"-setting = "on" and not occurring on "HWA" = "off"? And why was "HWA" = "off" not a problem until v.45 and has become a massive problem with many other sites (not only "Google maps") only since v.46?

greetings

Tom

Using a board-integrated Intel 530 HD graphic with latest drivers from board manufacturer HP and 4K display resolution via display-port on a 4K-EIZO-monitor.

3 of the other systems tested that show this unfortunate behavior also have on-board Intel HD graphics. But in how far could it be Intel's / the driver's fault when "Chrome" / "Firefox" do not show the problem?

greetings

Tom

Unfortunately now with v.46.0.2597.61 out, the problems discussed here still persist unaltered.

greetings

Tom

Meanwhile v.46.0.2597.61 is out ...

and the calamities described in this thread go on unchanged.

Tom

v.46.0.2597.61 ...

and the calamities described in this thread go on unchanged.

Tom

Thing is, "athlonite", these CNN-videos do not buffer and then play on after a while. Once they get stuck - that is it, you might wait 10 minutes in vain and there is no usual busy-animation while (not) "buffering".

I also have a broadband connection here and (apart from a "news-rush") also CNN-bandwidth seems sufficient as on HWA-setting = "off" the videos DO play uninterrupted - as they do with "Chrome"/"Firefox", regardless of settings.

Alas, on HWA = "off" things go awry in Opera since v.46 (until v.45 loading of pages worked, even "Google maps").

greetings

Tom

Well, to demonstrate the difference of course - that is, if there is any, as I have seen on half a dozen of different systems which all happen to hang with CNN-videos, but only on HWA="on".

greetings

Tom

Please specify if they played fine with HWA set to "on", too - or did they only in the "off"-position of that "switch"?

There has been some discussion about the HWA-setting (Hardware acceleration) in this forum recently, mainly meant as a remedy for the v.46 problem of getting very sluggish upon loading data-rich sites, worst example of all being "Google maps" which will never load entirely and render the site unusable without the final navigational layers ever to come up - UNLESS "HWA" is set to "on".

Unfortunately it seems that this is no solution either because I have verified on several systems by now, that it is exactly this setting that will bring up a long-standing bug in Opera: CNN-videos (http://us.cnn.com) will hang / get stuck after a few seconds and never resume to be played in entirety as soon as HWA is set to "on".

Could you please verify this strange behavior as a general phenomenon also occurring on your systems - or not. And if so, please also verify if it goes away on "HWA" set to "off" - which unfortunately brings back all the endless-loading-troubles since v.46. (Until v.45 loading pages with "HWA"=off resulted in only minimal delay and therefore was an acceptable compromise, apart from the fact that up until v.45 videos on 4K-displays were not upscaled properly in "full-screen-mode" and played in native resolution in the upper left corner instead).

greetings

Tom

Hello "tjblues",

this may only be cold comfort to you but you should at least know that you are not alone in that "realm of troubles" with this most unfortunate v.46-"stable update".

A preliminary remedy might be to make sure that your "Hardware acceleration"-setting (Browser settings) is set to "on". The downside of this setting - at least on my system - however is, that CNN-videos then will not play properly anymore. They will hang / get stuck after a few seconds and never resume to play in entirety. This is a long standing severe bug but up until v.45 could be avoided by switching off HWA. That is no more an option with v.46 as the loading of other pages almost breaks down completely. (see the threads about "Google maps" not working properly).

greetings

Tom

The just released version of Opera developer 48.0.2664.0 unfortunately shows the same bugs I've already described in the main Windows thread of allegedly "stable" releases.

On hardware-acceleration-setting (HWA) = "on" all CNN-videos will get stuck within seconds wheras with HWA = "off" they will play fine - BUT then loading of pages gets sluggish in general, worst of all "Google maps" will NEVER load completely, the busy-cursor blinking "nervously" all the time, finally rendering the site entirely unusable as the final navigational layers will never show up. Also even standard text-sites like online-mail-browsers take considerably longer to load then, sometimes 20sec. until a particular mail can be selected then.

The last time Opera would work well on HWA = "off" was with final v.45 of the stable-release-stream.

Please fix urgently!

p.s. PC-Tower w/ Skylake-proc.+onboard Intel 530 HD graphisc running Win7-Ultimate+latest fixes connected to a 4K-display

greetings

Tom

Hello folks,

could someone please give the CNN-videos a try with the HWA setting to "on"? Do they hang or will they play normal? Anybody?

greetings

Tom

Thanks a lot "rejzor" for the effort - and good to know about that parameter.

I have given it a try but unfortunately in vain. Actually that flag has already been disabled - and enabling it on the other hand didn't make a difference.

With HWA "on" all CNN-Videos still hang/get stuck within seconds and with HWA "off" they will play ok - but opera becomes sluggish in general when loading sites, worst of all "Google Maps" which will NEVER finish "loading" and is totally unusable without the navigational layer ever coming up.

This is the very same situation since the beginning of v.46 and occurs regardless of the setting of the "Override software rendering list"-flag.

But thank you anyway, it sure was worth a try.

greetings

Tom

Hello folks,

I'm a bit late to the party - but I fully concur.

For me also HWA "on" solves this problem. But then (I've just posted a new thread) all CNN-videos get stuck within seconds and only manually going back ~2 seconds will play them for another ~5 seconds. So this site turns unusable with this setting.

Could you please check if that same consequence occurs on your systems?

Until Opera 45 you could then turn HWA "off" - and CNN-videos would play normally BUT "Google maps" (and some other sites) would work well with only minimal delay.

Unfortunately (as I've explained in the new thread) until Opera 45 videos would not play "full-screen" on a 4K-display - but would rather play in native resolution in the upper left corner instead. This issue seems now resolved in Opera 46 - but at what cost! Without HWA even pretty basic sites seem to load (blinking busy cursor) for 15 seconds and more and sites like "Google maps" will never proceed to the final navigational layers.

So please could you all check out if with HWA set "on" your CNN-videos get stuck within seconds, too?

greetings

Tom

Hi there,

I've installed version 46.0.2597.57 only recently and was hoping to find severe issues finally resolved - but that hope turned out to be premature. I operate Opera on a Win7-64-pro-system on a board with integrated Intel 530 HD-graphics and a monitor with 4K display resolution. That having said, all the way to version 46 and since many, many versions ago videos in so called "full-screen-mode" have not been upscaled properly to full screen but played in native resolution in the upper left corner instead. Also, when playing CNN-Videos (and others, CNN only showing the most drastic effect), they got stuck every 10 seconds or so and were unplayable on the setting "use hardware acceleration". Without "hardware acc." on the other hand the performance on other data-rich sites was rather poor at times but overall still acceptable.

Now on version 46 things have changed and videos are finally scaled properly to full screen at long last. - But, at what cost?! CNN-Videos get stuck even quicker and more often (if that is at all possible) and other (mostly flash) videos tend to lose/suppress frames abundantly and play asynchronous to sound over time on "hardware acc.". So, let's turn "hardware acc." off again. - Bad idea! In fact, very bad idea.

Data-rich sites become sluggish to load to a degree that my broad-band-connection reminds me of the 9k6-modem-days of yore, even my (mostly text-based) mail-account gets unresponsive for 15 seconds before I can select any particular mail. But that all pales in comparison to e.g. "Google Maps". The latter site keeps on loading, ..and loading, ..and loading ..forever! To the effect that the final navigational layers (to zoom in & out and moving around) will never appear and thereby will render the site entirely unusable. And that is only the most dramatic example I've stumbled across.

So, what the hell is going on? Who does release such crap in the "stable update stream"? And before someone here bothers to declare my PC-hardware as broken/outdated/virus-infected I should perhaps mention that "Chrome"/"Firefox" both work like a charm (only "Chrome" also showing stuck CNN-videos with "hardware acc." setting "on", but only in ~5% of cases, and in "Chrome" I can still turn that setting to "off" - and everything works fine then with only minimal delay when loading).

Any comments / suggestions?

greetings
Tom