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Lakitu7: Jul 10, 2001; Watch for spinys

Tesseraction posted:

Everything has bugs; we just talk about issues in case someone can help us out with them.

On that note, Opvard (a Q&A) told me that Windows 7 Jump Lists have been available since Opera 10.50, however I've never seen a single one (and personally lamented their lack even though I never use them). Anyone know why they aren't appearing? A glance through opera:config shows nothing.

It was added before 10.5 in one of the weeklies and then disabled by default before release because everyone hated it.
opera:config
Check:
Use Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnails

# ? Sep 2, 2010 00:13

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 10:16

Hexaemeron: Oct 19, 2003; Florence Henderson's hand-jobs have Wesonality!

Mr. Clark2 posted:

Several years and opera versions ago I installed an addon that placed a button on one of the toolbars in opera. It is listed here as Killbutton: http://operawiki.info/PowerButtons
Unfortunately, this stopped working with the last several versions of opera. Does anyone know of something similar or how to update the one I linked to so that it works with the current version of opera?

The button works for me in 10.61. I think I added it in late 8.x or early 9.x and it has persisted and functioned through upgrades. I also just tested it in my 10.7 beta client and it works.

Are you dragging it to the toolbar?

# ? Sep 2, 2010 04:42

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Lakitu7 posted:

It was added before 10.5 in one of the weeklies and then disabled by default before release because everyone hated it.
opera:config
Check:
Use Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnails

You're the second person to mention this, but it's Jump Lists not Thumbnails. The Thumbnails pissed me off and I disabled them, and I tested to see if reactivating them solved the Jump List issue, but it didn't.

# ? Sep 2, 2010 11:52

Mustach: Mar 2, 2003; In this long line, there's been some real strange genes. You've got 'em all, with some extras thrown in.

drat, I was wondering what happened to the thumbnails. I love those things.

# ? Sep 2, 2010 14:14

Papercut: Aug 24, 2005; The quickest substitution in the history of the NBA

Is there a way to make the right-click -> search function open a new tab, rather than just loading google in the current tab?

# ? Sep 2, 2010 19:42

Lakitu7: Jul 10, 2001; Watch for spinys

Papercut posted:

Is there a way to make the right-click -> search function open a new tab, rather than just loading google in the current tab?

Hold shift when you click the menu item.

# ? Sep 3, 2010 01:07

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Papercut posted:

Is there a way to make the right-click -> search function open a new tab, rather than just loading google in the current tab?

You can also set it to not reuse the tab in the preferences, then right-click will open in a new window (as will external links etc.

# ? Sep 3, 2010 01:46

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Hexaemeron posted:

The button works for me in 10.61. I think I added it in late 8.x or early 9.x and it has persisted and functioned through upgrades. I also just tested it in my 10.7 beta client and it works.

Are you dragging it to the toolbar?

For some odd reason...its working now. :iiam:

Opera 10.60 by the way. One other thing...spoilered text hasnt worked for me in opera for some time now, anyone else getting this behavior?

# ? Sep 3, 2010 05:34

Papercut: Aug 24, 2005; The quickest substitution in the history of the NBA

kapalama posted:

You can also set it to not reuse the tab in the preferences, then right-click will open in a new window (as will external links etc.

That works well enough, thanks!

# ? Sep 3, 2010 06:06

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

Mr. Clark2 posted:

For some odd reason...its working now.
Opera 10.60 by the way. One other thing...spoilered text hasnt worked for me in opera for some time now, anyone else getting this behavior?

Are you using fit-to-width? Because for me at least, that causes spoiler text to be white on black all the time, not just when hovering over it.

# ? Sep 3, 2010 06:16

Resident Idiot: May 11, 2007; Maxine13; Grimey Drawer

kapalama posted:

You can also set it to not reuse the tab in the preferences, then right-click will open in a new window (as will external links etc.

To really stretch things, is there a config option to make it open in a background tab? Sometimes I want to check on something, but as a later action.

# ? Sep 3, 2010 08:29

RichardA: Sep 1, 2006; .; Dinosaur Gum

Gorbash posted:

To really stretch things, is there a config option to make it open in a background tab? Sometimes I want to check on something, but as a later action.

In the opera settings go to content/ javascript options and make sure the allow raising option is selected.
Go to settings tool-bars and duplicate the menu setup.
Open %AppData%\Roaming\Opera\Opera\menustandard_menu (1).ini
Find [Hotclick Popup Menu] and replace the line "Item, MI_IDM_SELSEARCH="Hotclick search, 200,,, "Search Web""" with "Item, MI_IDM_SELSEARCH=Go to page, "java script:void(window.open( 'http://www.google.com/search?q=%t'));window.focus()"".

# ? Sep 3, 2010 10:31

Underflow: Apr 4, 2008; EGOMET MIHI IGNOSCO

I know this is a long shot (and the culmination of a long, desperate story), but is there any way at all to make Opera 8.5 work with the current Flash plugin short of doing a general system overhaul? My mind is telling me no... but my body is telling me yes...

# ? Sep 4, 2010 21:33

kapalama: Aug 15, 2007; EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL ABOUT IT.

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I bit the bullet and updated one of my computers to the latest Opera, but now the open tab in background behavior has flipped around.

On 9.64 CMD+Shift+ click makes a new tab open in the background (I think I had to set it up to do that).

What do I need to change in the 10.61 setting to make it work that way again? (I did a straight upgrade over my install but something flipped from the way it used to be for some reason.)

TOggling the middle click options does not seem to change the behavior for some reason. It does if I do not use shift, but it does not seem to change behavior if I do use shift.

# ? Sep 8, 2010 11:28

Eugenic: Apr 14, 2005; DRINK! FECK! ARSE! GIRLS!

Does anyone know how to get Opera to successfully use more memory? For almost a year it has been crashing due to insufficient memory when I have it using around 1.2 GBs of RAM. It usually builds up when I have a bunch of open YouTube tabs, but the problem is that about a year ago it used to allow a ton of memory to be used. This is consistent over the many systems I have used Opera on, even my Windows 7 64-Bit PC with 4GB of RAM will crash with just over a gigabyte of used opera memory. I set the memory options to maximum with 400MB cache and Automatic RAM handling.

Sometimes it will "flush" the active flash video content open, but will crash if you try to add more video content. This does not happen on Firefox or IE. Please tell me if there is a solution or if this is merely a new "feature" of Opera.

# ? Sep 9, 2010 23:35

Lakitu7: Jul 10, 2001; Watch for spinys

I think I remember reading that "automatic" ram handling is a fixed proportion of your physical system memory, not "dynamically use as needed."

# ? Sep 9, 2010 23:48

Eugenic: Apr 14, 2005; DRINK! FECK! ARSE! GIRLS!

Lakitu7 posted:

I think I remember reading that "automatic" ram handling is a fixed proportion of your physical system memory, not "dynamically use as needed."

So am I better of just setting it to 400MB instead of Auto?

# ? Sep 9, 2010 23:54

Lakitu7: Jul 10, 2001; Watch for spinys

Might be, depending on what the percent is. If you really want to be clever you could probably edit an ini file to set it to something higher than that. It'd probably work. Experiment and report back.

# ? Sep 10, 2010 00:01

Medina: Jul 26, 2008

Any of you guys interested in taking over the [unofficial] OperaGroup on Steam?

# ? Sep 10, 2010 09:51

thrawn86: May 26, 2006; Sure, I got a secret. More than one...

10.62 is up, as of the 9th. my autoupdate hasn't picked it up yet though.

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

changelog: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1062/

Opera posted:

Changes since Opera 10.61
User interface
Fixed
Selection jumps while backspacing in a rich text editor
Opera closing when searching on hotels.com
Not being able to click or select links or text
Opera freezing when leaving a canvas, audio, or JavaScript game
A missing plug-in dialog might cause Opera to close
Bodyless documents causing Opera to close in accessibility mode
Opera closing when downloading files in the link panel
Loading of streaming plug-ins in Opera Turbo
Display and scripting
Added
More MIME file types and suffixes for compressed tar files
Fixed
Fallback not displaying for Java types when plug-ins are disabled
Items disappearing from the cache
Mail, news, chat
Added
FastMail domains and hotmail.co.uk to the email auto-configuration
Fixed
Missing images in feed preview (media rss)
Security
Fixed
Fixed an issue where malicious DLL files could be unintentionally loaded and allowed to run arbitrary code; see our advisory.

# ? Sep 11, 2010 22:49

gibbed: Apr 10, 2006

Showing up for me in auto update now.

# ? Sep 11, 2010 23:51

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Hmmm, was already installed when I woke up this morning... which is strange because Opera isn't set to auto-update and I didn't get any update notices.

# ? Sep 12, 2010 16:18

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

Wheany posted:

Has Opera stopped remembering visited links across sessions?

Because mine has

Now all links in Netvibes and Let's play archives show up as unvisited after restart.

Oh hey, it's actually a lovely implementation of a privacy feature! A malicious web site can use CSS to set a:link and a:visited so that they can check, using javascript, what sites you have been visiting and build a profile of your surfing habits.

http://dbaron.org/mozilla/visited-privacy

You know what has two thumbs and also is interested in what sites I have been visiting?

# ? Sep 13, 2010 19:20

bartkusa: Sep 25, 2005; Air, Fire, Earth, Hope

I just got a new tablet PC with multitouch. Is there any way to configure Opera to treat touch inputs as "pan," and pen gestures as "select text"? I haven't had to muck with Opera inputs much before....

# ? Sep 14, 2010 06:08

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

bartkusa posted:

I just got a new tablet PC with multitouch. Is there any way to configure Opera to treat touch inputs as "pan," and pen gestures as "select text"? I haven't had to muck with Opera inputs much before....

I think you probably have to configure those in the OS. So if there is a way to make touch inputs as scrolling, I imagine those would work with Opera as well. Or ir you can configure the driver to handle touch inputs as "ctrl + alt + mouse" when using Opera, that could work as well.

# ? Sep 14, 2010 11:09

NFX: Jun 2, 2008; Fun Shoe

bartkusa posted:

I just got a new tablet PC with multitouch. Is there any way to configure Opera to treat touch inputs as "pan," and pen gestures as "select text"? I haven't had to muck with Opera inputs much before....

It would probably be best to use Wheany's suggestion above, but there's a way to make Opera treat all "mouse drags" as panning. If you add a new toolbar button (right click -> Customize -> Appearance -> Buttons tab) it's under "Browser View", called Text Selection On/Off. You'd still have to press it in order to manually switch between the modes, though.

You could also set a keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture to:

code:

Disable Text Selection Mode | Enable Text Selection Mode

This will make it toggle between on and off.

# ? Sep 14, 2010 11:44

bartkusa: Sep 25, 2005; Air, Fire, Earth, Hope

Wheany posted:

"ctrl + alt + mouse" when using Opera, that could work as well.

NFX posted:

It would probably be best to use Wheany's suggestion above, but there's a way to make Opera treat all "mouse drags" as panning. If you add a new toolbar button (right click -> Customize -> Appearance -> Buttons tab) it's under "Browser View", called Text Selection On/Off. You'd still have to press it in order to manually switch between the modes, though.

You could also set a keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture to:
code:
Disable Text Selection Mode | Enable Text Selection Mode
This will make it toggle between on and off.

These are good ideas. I didn't even know there was a Text Select button now.

It's a shame there's no "inertia" when dragging, but this is still awesome. Thanks!

EDIT: Gesture-toggle works like a charm.

bartkusa fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Sep 14, 2010

# ? Sep 14, 2010 18:08

kapalama: Aug 15, 2007; EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL ABOUT IT.

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Wheany posted:

Every time you post, I am filled with anticipation of when he will turn to look at me.

# ? Sep 15, 2010 08:10

Rabid Koala: Aug 18, 2003

I followed the directions in the OP, and I still can't get Opera to stop automatically scrolling to the next page in OS X. Is there another fix for this? I really love the side tabs and want to keep Opera as my main browser.

# ? Sep 22, 2010 09:39

Startacus: May 25, 2007; I am Startacus.

So I use a variety of different adblocking solutions with Opera. I use Fanboy's List, a HOST file, and also I've tried using the adsweep userJS, however, when I browse the forums I have a giant whitespace between the links at the top (like User Control Panel and Private Message) and the actual forum stuff. Does anyone know a way where I can get rid of that annoying whitespace?

Thanks

# ? Sep 22, 2010 19:34

Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

Startacus posted:

Does anyone know a way where I can get rid of that annoying whitespace?

Write a UserJS script that only triggers on these forums and rewrites the CSS for those parts.

# ? Sep 22, 2010 20:00

EvilMoFo: Jan 1, 2006

Startacus posted:

Does anyone know a way where I can get rid of that annoying whitespace?

buy no ads

# ? Sep 22, 2010 20:08

Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

Weird, didn't they add a different display for the mail panel a few snapshots back? The current snapshot (first one i installed in a while) doesn't have that. Also, anyone know a fix for the broken middle-mouse-panning?

# ? Sep 22, 2010 21:23

Lakitu7: Jul 10, 2001; Watch for spinys

It's really annoying that they don't always list known issues from previous builds if they aren't fixed yet.

The broken middle click scroll is annoying the hell out of me too and you can't do an in-place downgrade as far as I know.

Anyone know if I'm wrong? I hope I'm wrong.

Everything worked fine in 3486.

# ? Sep 22, 2010 21:35

Startacus: May 25, 2007; I am Startacus.

EvilMoFo posted:

buy no ads

Does the no ads purchase get rid of all of the extra white space, or does it just remove the image?

# ? Sep 22, 2010 23:28

EvilMoFo: Jan 1, 2006

Startacus posted:

Does the no ads purchase get rid of all of the extra white space, or does it just remove the image?

There is no more than one new line of white space that separates everything above the thread content. I do not remember where the ads are normally so I can not accurately tell you where there is no extra white space.

# ? Sep 23, 2010 01:01

Mustach: Mar 2, 2003; In this long line, there's been some real strange genes. You've got 'em all, with some extras thrown in.

Yeah, I've had no ads for years now and it's great!

# ? Sep 23, 2010 16:52

GIMMEL: Jan 24, 2005; by Lowtax

Does anyone know if there is a way to "middle click" in menus, like the rightclick (when selecting text) and from the bookmarks button menu, to open a new tab? Having to shift click is pretty annoying.

# ? Sep 25, 2010 12:29

ColdPie: Jun 9, 2006

GIMMEL posted:

Does anyone know if there is a way to "middle click" in menus, like the rightclick (when selecting text) and from the bookmarks button menu, to open a new tab? Having to shift click is pretty annoying.

There used to be, but it was broken in 10.60. I submitted a bug report back when 10.60 came out, and I suggest you do as well if you want to see the feature return.

# ? Sep 26, 2010 01:10

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 10:16

GIMMEL: Jan 24, 2005; by Lowtax

ColdPie posted:

There used to be, but it was broken in 10.60. I submitted a bug report back when 10.60 came out, and I suggest you do as well if you want to see the feature return.

Submitted

# ? Sep 26, 2010 12:08

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