Hard to believe that Opera still does not have a built-in send page/link by email button and the extension that adds that functionally is unreliable

You don't need those to send a link by mail in Opera for Mac --- what I have found is that after updating to 53 my MacBookPro behaves just as before (i.e. a Mail link on the share menu) but on my iMac it has gone ...

In addition, on my iMac when I go to System Preferences | Extensions | Share menu I see the Opera icon next to the Mail option (which is ticked and greyed out) ....

Still working on it ...

The available Reader View extensions are very limited. The best (by rneomy) has a limited maximum font size and does not show images at all - Opera needs a reader view function as good as Safari

For reasons unknown the Opera 53 update had changed the default email reader (set in the Mail app Preferences) menu from Mail.app to Opera.app!

Correcting that solved the problem.

BTW Running OSX 10.13.4 on iMac late 2012; my 2015 MBPro was not affected by this Opera update.

For reasons unknown the Opera 53 update had changed the default email reader (set in the Mail app Preferences) menu from Mail.app to Opera.app!

Correcting that solved the problem.

BTW Running OSX 10.13.4 on iMac late 2012; my 2015 MBPro was not affected by this Opera update.

You don't need those to send a link by mail in Opera for Mac --- what I have found is that after updating to 53 my MacBookPro behaves just as before (i.e. a Mail link on the share menu) but on my iMac it has gone ...

In addition, on my iMac when I go to System Preferences | Extensions | Share menu I see the Opera icon next to the Mail option (which is ticked and greyed out) ....

Still working on it ...

At least Opera for Mac used to let you send a link to the current page by email - just tried to do this in version 53 and the option is now gone ... only messages | reminders | notes and for me pocket ... clicking more shows that Opera Mail is permanently ticked ... but where has Mac Mail gone???

After all these years and Opera still cannot offer a decent Reader View and now with the email page as link function I use all the time gone it's getting close to goodbye from me!

I have long wanted to change the "sepia" colour in Reader View (Version 2) by bernarpa - the reader that is a porting of Firefox Reader View.

The provided colour for "sepia" is far too bright. Details of how I did this on a PC running Windows 10 Pro are below.

But it should not have worked! Any change to an extension (other than by updating it) should result in the change being detected and the extension being disabled. This does not happen with this extension, possibly because it is now pretty old.

Note: the extension folder name is possibly random (in my case gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfg) but you can identify the correct one by the sub folder name which is the version (in this case 2_0) and by the contents therein.

Replace the HTM color code #FFFAFD with #e7d9c3 or with any color code you like in the following two files.

For color examples, see https://www.hexcolortool.com/704214#714214 or https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker/

content.js located in:

C:\Users{your user name}\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Extensions/gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfgl/2_0/js

search for the phrase color === 'sepia’

html += " } else if (color === 'sepia') {"
html += " document.body.style.backgroundColor = '#e7d9c3';";

aboutReaderControls.css located in:

C:\Users{your user name}\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Extensions/gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfgl/2_0/css

search for the text “sepia-button”

.sepia-button {
color: black;
background-color: #e7d9c3;

I was also able to make these changes on a Mac running OSX 10.13.4 but on another also running 10.13.4 the changes were detected and the addon was automatically disabled.

I have long wanted to change the far too light "sepia" colour in Reader View (Version 2) by bernarpa - the reader that is a porting of Firefox Reader View.

Details of how I did this on a PC running Windows 10 Pro are below.

But it should not have worked! Any change to an extension (other than by updating it) should result in the change being detected and the extension being disabled. This does not happen with this extension, possibly because it is now pretty old.

Note: the extension folder name is possibly random (in my case gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfg) but you can identify the correct one by the sub folder name which is the version (in this case 2_0) and by the contents therein.

Replace the HTML color code #FFFAFD with #e7d9c3 or with any color code you like in the following two files.

(For color examples, see https://www.hexcolortool.com/704214#714214 or https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker/)

To change reader view page background colour: content.js located in:

C:\Users{your user name}\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Extensions/gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfgl/2_0/js

search for the phrase color === 'sepia’

html += " } else if (color === 'sepia') {"
html += " document.body.style.backgroundColor = '#e7d9c3';";

To change the Sepia button colour: aboutReaderControls.css located in:

C:\Users{your user name}\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Extensions/gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfgl/2_0/css

search for the text “sepia-button”

.sepia-button {
color: black;
background-color: #e7d9c3;

I have long wanted to change the "sepia" colour in Reader View (Version 2) - the reader that is a porting of Firefox Reader View. The provided colour is far too bright. Details of how I did this are below.

But it should not of worked! Any change to an extension (other than by updating it) should result in the change being detected and the extension being disabled.

On my iMac, I could edit the extension, and my changes worked perfectly. But on my MacBookPro the proper behaviour occurred: the extension was disabled and I was given the option to "repair" it which resulted in my changes bing overwritten.

I cannot see any difference in the setting settings for Opera on my devices (both running latest OSX and Opera).

So my iMac has some "security hole" for Opera Extensions ... where is it???

Note: the extension folder name is random (in my case gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfg) but you can identify the correct one by the sub folder name which is the version (in this case 2_0) and by the contents therein.

Replace the HTM color code #FFFAFD with #e7d9c3 or with any color code you like in the following two files.

For color examples, see https://www.hexcolortool.com/704214#714214 or https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker/

content.js located in:

/Users/{your user name}/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Extensions/gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfgl/2_0/js

search for the phrase color === 'sepia’

html += " } else if (color === 'sepia') {"
html += " document.body.style.backgroundColor = '#e7d9c3';";

aboutReaderControls.css located in:

/Users/{your user name}/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Extensions/gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfgl/2_0/css

search for the text “sepia-button”

.sepia-button {
color: black;
background-color: #e7d9c3;

The available Reader View extensions are very limited. The best (by rneomy) has a limited maximum font size and does not show images at all - Opera needs a reader view function as good as Safari

Hard to believe that Opera still does not have a built-in send page/link by email button and the extension that adds that functionally is unreliable

This has to be one of the most frustrating omissions in Opera.

Yes, there are extensions two available but both are seriously flawed. I find myself going back to Firefox when I need to read long articles online (FF reader view is perfect!).

Reader View
https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.html

This adds an icon in the address bar and works reliably EXCEPT (1) for some reason the developer limited the maximum font size to quite a small font and (2) for some reason article titles and subtitles are missing.

Reader View (offered by www.bernardi.cloud)

(from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reader-view/gfaafookaidboehhnhojbebjpjbnnfgl)

"This is a porting of Firefox Reader View"

If only this were true! This provides a far better view BUT (1) it is not reliable - you usually have to reload the tab once or twice to get the icon to activate, and (2) the "Sepia" background is anything but and is annoyingly far too bright. With these issues fixed it would be perfect.

One really annoying feature of Opera is that you cannot, like in Firefox and other browsers, reload a tab by right-clicking on the tab itself (and choosing reload tab).

Yes you can press F5 or the toolbar reload button (but the first requires moving your hand off your mouse while the second is usually a "long" cursor move).

And yes there is a reload tab option on the page context menu (but depending on page content and where you click that may not be available).

Please add a reload on the tab right click menu like other browsers do!