[OU] New update/upgrade of Opera ???

[Julian]

Hi,

What the #?!* is going on?

During this past week I had a normal request from
Opera for it to update. I am running Win XP Pro. The
process went well, as always. Then, the fireworks!

I do not have a clue as to what is going on with
Opera. I do not have the menues nor the regular
choices. I have a big "O" at the top left of the
browser, which is partly covered. I cannot even find
some of the things I used to find in previous versions,
like, its showing me the version I am using, or ability
to go to the forums, or look for an update.

When I click the right mouse button, I get a
pop-up menu which includes "appearance." This gives me
a choice to go with "Standard MS Win ..." or with the
Opera stuff. There does not appear to be anything
which easily explains what is going on, except for me
to activate the "Speed Dial" windows to "RTM."

And, that is not all. One of the Web sites to
which I go, suddenly is not appearing correctly. It
apparently uses columns to list choices. The leftmost
column now is not only thinner than how it used to be,
but has the printing broken up. This part of the site
looks fine when using Firefox or IE.

Any ideas? Anyone experience any of this?

Thanks, in advance.

Julian.

[Katrina Knight]

I do not have a clue as to what is going on with Opera. I
do not have the menues nor the regular choices. I have a big
"O" at the top left of the browser, which is partly covered.

To turn the menu bar back on, click on the big red "O" and
select "show menu bar".

And, that is not all. One of the Web sites to which I
go, suddenly is not appearing correctly. It apparently uses
columns to list choices. The leftmost column now is not only
thinner than how it used to be, but has the printing broken
up. This part of the site looks fine when using Firefox or IE.

If you tell us which site is involved, someone might be able to
tell you what's going on there.

[Julian]

Hi Katrina,

I do not have a clue as to what is going on with Opera. I do not
have the menues nor the regular choices. I have a big "O" at the top
left of the browser, which is partly covered.

To turn the menu bar back on, click on the big red "O" and select "show
menu bar".

And, that is not all. One of the Web sites to which I go,
suddenly is not appearing correctly. It apparently uses columns to
list choices. The leftmost column now is not only thinner than how it
used to be, but has the printing broken up. This part of the site
looks fine when using Firefox or IE.

If you tell us which site is involved, someone might be able to tell you
what's going on there.

Thanks, it worked great. Glad I did not have to
wade through a manual. Also, the "O" disappears once I
select to have the "Menu Bar." That is somewhat odd, IMHO.

One site in which that narrowing of a column
occurred is pictureview.com. As said, prior versions
of Opera and current versions of Firefox and IE have no
such problems.

While I am at it, when I was on YouTube.com, I
got a request to download the current Flash and
Shockwave. After downloading them, and running them,
Opera still did not seem to have them available.
Again, no problems with Firefox.

Much thanks.

Julian.

[Harry Lake]

Post by Julian
Hi Katrina,

I do not have a clue as to what is going on with Opera. I do
not have the menues nor the regular choices. I have a big "O" at
the top left of the browser, which is partly covered.

To turn the menu bar back on, click on the big red "O" and select
"show menu bar".

And, that is not all. One of the Web sites to which I go,
suddenly is not appearing correctly. It apparently uses columns
to list choices. The leftmost column now is not only thinner
than how it used to be, but has the printing broken up. This
part of the site looks fine when using Firefox or IE.

If you tell us which site is involved, someone might be able to
tell you what's going on there.

Thanks, it worked great. Glad I did not have to wade through
a manual. Also, the "O" disappears once I select to have the "Menu
Bar." That is somewhat odd, IMHO.

It's not that odd, I have come to believe. The big O contains most if
not all of the stuff that's in the Main Menu, I believe.

What I find odd is that on this Asus laptop under Vista HP the big O
is not red but grey...



Cheers,

Harru

[Bessenyei Balázs]

The Flash problem is a bug, delete the cookies from the site preference it
should fix it.

Post by Julian
Hi Katrina,

I do not have a clue as to what is going on with Opera. I do not
have the menues nor the regular choices. I have a big "O" at the top
left of the browser, which is partly covered.

To turn the menu bar back on, click on the big red "O" and select
"show menu bar".

And, that is not all. One of the Web sites to which I go,
suddenly is not appearing correctly. It apparently uses columns to
list choices. The leftmost column now is not only thinner than how it
used to be, but has the printing broken up. This part of the site
looks fine when using Firefox or IE.

If you tell us which site is involved, someone might be able to tell
you what's going on there.

Thanks, it worked great. Glad I did not have to wade through a
manual. Also, the "O" disappears once I select to have the "Menu Bar."
That is somewhat odd, IMHO.
One site in which that narrowing of a column occurred is
pictureview.com. As said, prior versions of Opera and current versions
of Firefox and IE have no such problems.
While I am at it, when I was on YouTube.com, I got a request to
download the current Flash and Shockwave. After downloading them, and
running them, Opera still did not seem to have them available. Again, no
problems with Firefox.
Much thanks.
Julian.
--

[Harry Lake]

Post by Julian
Hi,
What the #?!* is going on?
During this past week I had a normal request from Opera for it
to update. I am running Win XP Pro. The process went well, as
always. Then, the fireworks!
I do not have a clue as to what is going on with Opera. I do
not have the menues nor the regular choices. I have a big "O" at
the top left of the browser, which is partly covered. I cannot
even find some of the things I used to find in previous versions,
like, its showing me the version I am using, or ability to go to
the forums, or look for an update.
When I click the right mouse button, I get a pop-up menu which
includes "appearance." This gives me a choice to go with "Standard
MS Win ..." or with the Opera stuff. There does not appear to be
anything which easily explains what is going on, except for me to
activate the "Speed Dial" windows to "RTM."
And, that is not all. One of the Web sites to which I go,
suddenly is not appearing correctly. It apparently uses columns to
list choices. The leftmost column now is not only thinner than how
it used to be, but has the printing broken up. This part of the
site looks fine when using Firefox or IE.
Any ideas? Anyone experience any of this?

Thank goodness Katrina has beaten me to it. That means I can just say
my Opera is now better than ever with loads of great features like
Unite and a brilliant search facility that turns the whole page
darker as long as your search string is in it. I too found the
default removal of what is still termed the Main Menu very peculiar,
but at least you now know how to get it back.

Another great innovation is user Javascript files (I say 'innovation'
but maybe they're just new to me!).

And if you type into the url field 'opera:config' you get easy access
to many options.


Cheers,

Harry

[Bart Hansen]

Harry, I've heard about user JS files for years but have no
understanding of their use or benefits. Where did you go to learn
about them?

Thanks,
Bart
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Another great innovation is user Javascript files (I say 'innovation' but
maybe they're just new to me!).
Cheers,
Harry

[Harry Lake]

Post by Bart Hansen
Harry, I've heard about user JS files for years but have no
understanding of their use or benefits. Where did you go to learn
about them?

http://unite.opera.com/ leading to
http://unite.opera.com/applications/ , and http://extendopera.org/
(not affiliated to Opera)

I particularly like my UJS Manager (script installer which makes it a
breeze to install new user JS scripts), Google pager (which
automatically adds the next page of Google hits - not recommended if
you are having to pay per MB downloaded! as with an emergency online
dongle thingie), Dynamic image sizer (which automatically sizes a
large image to fit the screen, but also allows you with one click to
see the full-size image, or, with a panorama, first the image to
screen height so that you can scroll horizontally) and Download from
YouTube (whose function I forget... :-)

H