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Aria 2.1 (Opera One version: 104.0.4944.33) is still unstable.

I cannot give instructions on how to reproduce that because it seems to happen randomly. But when it happens, it seems to happen when Aria is sending an answer. Halfway the answer, Aria closes and cannot be restarted without restarting the browser. When I restart the browser en continue to work with Aria, it says the answer was interrupted. When I click the Retry button, the answer is displayed without problem and Aria is working OK until it crashes again.

I successfully uninstalled Opera Browser Assistant and it remained uninstalled after my last Opera update from within Opera itself.

Here I will share information about it, so others may benefit from it.

Uninstalling Opera while keeping your personal data and installing Opera again using the Offline Opera Installer no longer works te remove Opera Browser Assistant.
Apparently the installer now detects you had Opera Browser Assistant installed and installs it again.

Here is how I removed Opera Browser Assistant:

• Uninstall Opera without deleting your personal user data.
• Download and run the Offline Opera Installer.
• Do not start the installation yet, but open Explorer and go to the folder:

%localappdata%\Temp\.opera\Opera Installer Temp

• In this folder go to the folder containing the setup files. The folder is named like this:

opera_package_<timestamp>

• Delete the file named "extra_apps".
  In my case Opera Browser Assistant was the only component listed in this file. You may want to edit this file if you have more components listed in this file.
  Alternatively you can remove the folder "assistant" and leave the "extra_apps" file intact.
• You can now close Explorer and continue with Opera Installer.
• Set your preferred options in the Opera Installer and install Opera.

After this, new Opera versions downloaded by the Opera Update feature, no longer seem to include the Opera Browser Assistant package.

I filed a bug report for this issue, but an irrelevant automatic response was sent and the bug report was closed automatically. Despite what the confirmation email suggests, I am not able to re-open the bug report by adding additional information to the bug report. And I'm not filing the same bug report again.

Preconditions:

• Already have Aria working in Opera

Issue:

• With Opera pinned to the Windows taskbar, directly open Opera in private mode by right-clicking the icon in the taskbar and choose New private window.
• Open the sidebar and click on the Aria icon.
• Click Get Started
• Click Continue to sign into the Opera account
• Sign into the Opera account.
• → Aria is not working and reloading doesn’t solve it.
• Now, press Ctrl+N to open a normal window (not in private mode)
• Click Get Started
• Click Continue to sign into the Opera account
• Sign into the Opera account.
• Now Aria says:
  ”Thanks for signing up!
  There are many others joining right now, so I’ve added you to the waiting list. I'll notify you in the coming days as soon as access is available.”
• The statement by Aria is false and you can use the Reload button at the top of Aria to start using Aria.

@donnerwetter said in General Aria Feedback Topic:

Til friday Aria worked fine on each device, now "she's" dead.

Confirmed.

Still a white address bar in private mode in dark mode.

Still not fixed in version 103.0.4928.34.

BTW, when I right-click a bookmark on the bookmarks bar and choose Edit, I get an even worse result:

As with the address bar, this has been the case for a long time.

Plenty of updates further and still no sign of Opera Browser Assistant

@opera-comments-bot said in Opera 104.0.4944.36 Stable update:

Read full blog post: Opera 104.0.4944.36 Stable update

This links to an existing page with typo in the url ("stale" instead of "stable"): https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2023/10/opera-104-0-4944-36-stale-update/

Which is why the link to the blog post on https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-104/ doesn't work. (because there the url doesn't have the typo)

Still a white address bar in Opera One version 105.0.4970.13.

Other theme issues are fixed, like the "This tab is playing audio" text, the world map of the VPN setting, editing bookmarks by right-clicking bookmarks in the bookmarks bar.

When in private browsing mode and clicking for example on a link to an atom feed, Opera crashes. In normal mode it works OK.

The RRS feed link on the homepage op Notepad++ also makes Opera crash in private browsing mode. Also when I paste the link in a new tab. The link is:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/index.xml

Is this a known issue?

(Opera version 88.0.4412.27)

@whisperer said in General Aria Feedback Topic:

BTW, now that I mention AI prompts, Aria works here, AI-prompts in pop-up when text is selected is enabled, but I don't get them.

It turns out it's because I had turned off AI tools in Opera not long after Aria was introduced. Later this option was removed, so now my settings showed it enabled but the AI prompt didn't work because the option ai_tools was disabled in the preferences file. Once I changed the preferences file by hand, the AI prompts appeared.

Problem still not solved in version 100.0.4815.47

Tested Opera 89.0.4447.48 64-bit. The issue is solved.

I have noticed that for some time now, Aria's answers are not automatically scrolled into view. I have to scroll down manually. It would be great if this issue could be addressed.

Still not fixed in Opera One version: 104.0.4944.54

Still not fixed in version 101.0.4843.43.

Sadly, Aria has become unstable. It regularly crashes and then the whole Aria section and the Aria button is gone. I have to restart the browser to get it back.

Current version: Aria 2.0.1

And I am not very fond of the new goodies of Aria. Instead of bug fixes and basic improvements, more functions are added that introduce more bugs and basic improvements are still lacking. Is someone just adding these functions because he likes that more than providing a robust service?

@andrearobinson said in Aria's answer in a blockquote not visible:

It looks like the blockquote height is set too low, causing visibility issues. You can resolve this by using the following steps:

• Right-click on the blockquote, select Inspect Element.
• In the CSS panel, find the blockquote element and change the height to auto or remove the height property altogether.
• Refresh to see if the issue is resolved.

It looks like your post is an AI generated spam post. Your text suggests that you haven't tried it yourself and it makes no sense.

It is already determined in this thread that it is not due to the height that nothing is displayed, but that there is no text in the generated HTML. Furthermore, your suggestion makes no sense because doing a refresh negates the changes you made in the Element Inspector.

@nnq2603 I agree. It doesn't make any sense to think that using a white color in dark mode is a good idea.

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They are not taking it seriously. Bug still present in Aria version 5.2.1