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Steady as she goes! Looks like I may have found a fix.
Under Settings:Browser:Advanced:System: 'Use hardware acceleration when available'
This was ON, changing to OFF and tapping 'Relaunch' button seems to have cleared the issue.
Anyone have a likely explanation? First signs of growing hardware incompatibilities with Opera?
@tartack
Have you tried the trick of turning off graphics hardware acceleration in Opera settings? Or updating the video drivers via the Nvidia support site?
@operalinknx1 said in Is there any way to go back to Opera 58?:
Hi, Using Opera for a long time and always updated to the latest for security / benefits and improvements. However its sad to say that version 60 is not to my liking. The way version 58 looked was easier on the eyes. This new version hurts the eyes. The color is too bright or too dark. Speed Dial became very small and if I make it bigger, then bookmarks get big too. If I click Speed Dial folders, the font text inside is blurry. The side bar which I was using used to be black even with the light theme and the light theme looked a lot better.
The top book marks bar, address bar, everything has no borders its just 1 big white space.Sorry but this new look is not for me. This is not a matter of getting used to and "adapting" - this is bad UI. If this is on purpose, can anyone show me where I can download version 58? Or how to fully Uninstall and remove all traces of Opera?
Thank you in advance!
Edit : Also the Speed Dial is not just tiny, but it takes longer to load. For example if I close all the tabs, the last page is blank then 10 seconds later the Speed Dial icons come, and the folders have blurry fonts.
I agree with the small "blurry fonts". They appear to be 'shadowed'. It's all very irritating, why does it have to be like this?
What ever happened to: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"?
It may well be that v58 is the right time to get off the escalator.
Just to reiterate. This works for me:
Go to Opera Menu/Settings:
'Flash exceptions'
file:///* Allow
http://* Allow
https://* Allow
Note this will enable Flash on all sites and files. If you want to be more selective you would only specify particular sites addresses in Flash exceptions.
Since upgrade last night to v56.0.3051.36 on my Win 8, 64 Bit PC I immediately spotted a problem on one of my regular sites, not yet seen on other sites. Been using the site ADVFN, uk.advfn.com for many years with many different browsers and versions.
Their BB site (password access) has plain black text on a white background, the text entry/edit box is normally a simple black frame on the white background, entered text is normal black on white same as rest of BB. Opera v56 now shows body of this edit box in a light blue colour, with a band of darker blue at bottom (or top). Entered text now comes up as black on a darker blue background, like selected text. Moving cursor away changes text to black on the light blue background, like deselected. Resuming entry brings back 'Text Selected' dark blue background to text. Text selection applied inside box results in inverted text, white text on blue background, outside edit box selection is normal black text with dark blue background. After posting, the message appears normally. This blue shading to text also now appears in other text entry boxes on the site.
Also inconsistent across site. Sometimes the edit box has darker blue band at top, sometimes at bottom. Sometimes even seen 'normal' plain white background, though entered text still appears 'Selected'.
@l33t4opera said in Text problems with Opera 56:
Hi @xpvb48, you can try the following: re-enable hardware acceleration, go to
opera:flags#force-color-profile, and select "sRGB" from the drop-down, then press "Relaunch now" button, and see if this helps.
Thanks l33t4opera,
Tried that didn't work, same as before. I don't know if any of the other force-color-profile settings would help.
My Win 8, 64 Bit laptop uses Intel HD Graphics hardware with driver ver 9.17.10.3040 which I tried to update via the MS Update Driver button and it didn't find any newer. Perhaps I can get something direct from Intel Support. In the meanwhile the solution for my machine still seems to be to turn off hardware acceleration.
Just got the v60 Opera yesterday (whatever happened to v59?) - Running on Win 8, 64Bit, but nevertheless Opera 32Bit for some reason.
I can't say I like the fashion trend in UI software design in general. Opera seems to get more and more into the flat, sparse 'Utilitarian Look' with every new version.