Posts made by wealstarr

@johnd78 No worries John, appreciate your help. I tried the same Adguard and uBO filters in Vivaldi and it's adblocker also based on ABP tells you how many rules are valid and parsed and how many are invalid and discarded.

Wish there was this same functionality in Opera too.

@johnd78 Allow me to thank you for the detailed and informative reply John, very helpful indeed.

The guides you linked went mostly above my head. Is there a simple way to convert uBO and Adguard scriptlets into ABP snippets so that I can use them into Opera???

Hello,

So I have removed all the Easylist and other built in filters by Opera and integrated Adguard filters through URL's. Now these filters I added needs constant updating so how does Opera adblocker updates the custom filters? Three scenarios come to mind.

If I add the custom filters through URL and click the update button, does the filters get updated ?

If I add the filters through txt files and update those txt files, does Opera re-reads them every time it's launched thus parsing the new entries?

Or does the txt files need to be removed and re-added into Opera for the new entries to get parsed?

Please help me solve this.

@Moderators: I apoligies for creating a seperate thread as the topic is complicated as it is to avoid the confusion. Please bear with me. Thanks.

@leocg Thank you for the response. I did some research and found that Opera's adblocker is based on Adblock Plus so it will accept the wrting convictions of the Adblock Plus filters.

The goal here however is to use uBlock and Adguard filters into Opera without needing another 3rd party add-on. I guess I'm gonna have to figure out how to convert the adguard filters into the adblockplus and then use them inti Opera.

Hello,

I tried using uBlock Origins's filters as my custom filters with Opera adblocker but they don't seem to make any difference.

What blocker does Opera adblocker is based on?

There are various formats available here https://filterlists.com/

I need to know the correct format Opera's adblocker will accept so that I can use the right filters.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

@leocg I remember there use to be an option in Firefox to limit the size of the cache but I'm not gonna leave Opera for this.

Thank you for the help. This could be closed now.

@mardiyah Thank you for the further explanation. I don't want to clean the cache but shrink the size of the profile folder in Roaming and prevent it from growing so large. Is there any way to do that?

@mardiyah I apolgise but it all went right over my head. Could you please elaborate in a manner a newbie can understand?

Thanks.

@leocg

Thank you for the response. How can I prevent the folders growing so large in size?

Hello,

There's no Yandex or Qwant search engines build into Opera so I manually added them but there's no option to make them default.

Can this setting be introduced?

Hello,

Instead of a tab or a flyout, Vivaldi has a download panel that could be opened and closed from the side bar much like the messenger apps in Opera.

It shows extended information like URL, referrer, download speed, percent completed, ETA etc.

Can we have that in Opera?

Plus having the ability to refresh/or change the download link ? Sometimes some servers don't give good download speeds so users can change the link from a mirror site. It's also helpful if the download address gets expired, users can refresh the link and resume their broken downloads.

Is this possible to add these enhanced download features in Opera?

Hello,

Opera doesn't have a status bar, which I miss a lot. In my previous browser, there were tons of features assembled on status bar which could be switched on and off like the country of my IP (so I knnew If I had a VPN/proxy or a direct connection) Zoom levels, Internet speed of my adapter, both upload and download, my IP address, Zoom settings, tile settings etc

Also, status bar showed the percentages of uploads/downloads and address of the links opera is resolvimng or when hovered upon a link.

All of these settings could be switched on/off so User can decide what they want to see on their status bar but if they completely want to remove status bar, there was an option for that too.

When we have a sidebar to manage the modules, why can't we have a status bar to extended information and frequently used features like Zoom and tiling etc?

Can we have something like this in opera please?

Hi,

So I have one cache folder in C:\Users\Even\AppData\Local

And another cache folder in C:\Users\Even\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Service Worker\CacheStorage

The first folder in Local takes about 400 MB of space while the other in Roaming takes about 800 MB of space. Combined with Opera program files this adds unto 1.5GB

I have a tiny disk of about 25GB and I can't allow Opera to take this much of space especially when 90% of the time, I visit the same sites over and over again.

I wish to keep the cached images and files intact to be able to load the sites faster.

So my question is, out of the two folders, which folder should I delete and how do I set the maximum number of Data Opera caches?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

@leocg As I suspected, it's either in the Windows Metrics HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
or the custom msstyle file.
Any idea whare can I find it and thanks for the reaction.

Hello,

First time Opera user, switching from Chrome. The font on the tabs is huge, bold and distracting. I changed the fonts but couldn't find where to change this one. Does anyone knows about where can I tweak this?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Edit: The same thing with the context menu.

@burnout426 Found it, thank you for everything. I wish you all the happiness in the world.

This thread can be closed now. Opera doesn't care.

@burnout426 No burnout, Extension doesn't detect the main program. When a file comes in, I get notification that I need to Install IDA although it's installed.

Don't worry about it, I appreciate you being with me all the time.

As noted above, this issue has been reported to Chromium devs before and judging by the comments on Monorail, they ignored it. We'll see if they do something about it now though I don't have much hope.

I'm gonna go back to my old browser, MX5. It has a build in module which detects all download managers and doesn't require any extensions to do so.

Although MX5 has been discontinued and new MX6 is chromium based, which is entirely a clone of Google Chrome. Why would I want to use that ?

Now either Chromium fix this bug so I can switch to Opera or I'm gonna stay on old MX5 and see for how long it works before things start breaking up. New technology is moving at fast speed.

I'd like to thank you from the core of my heart for all the support. If the devs of these programs were as committed as you're, we would have been in a different pool altogether.

One thing I would like to keep from Opera, it's speed dial background wallpapers. Do you know where Opera keeps them ?

@burnout426 When I click connect I'm still getting ""Failed to connect: Failed to start native messaging host""

@burnout426 I type hi in the little window and click send, I get response in the command prompt but nothing in Opera unless I'm missing something.

BTW, this issue with Native Messaging Hosts has been previously noted to Google and it appears to be still open.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1106717

@burnout426 As per the previous instructions I has python installed but this time I modified some options in the installer and it appears to be working.

When I run native-messaging-example-host.bat a small window opens in which I input hi and the message was received in command prompt.