[dw2108]

CharlesF, on 17 December 2011 - 07:01 PM, said:

Prozactive, on 15 December 2011 - 01:05 PM, said:

Opera 11.60 was recently released. Anyone try it yet?

Opera 11.60 is fine.
The most annoying bug with those last versions for me, is the loss of the drag&drop to desktop to create an Internet Shortcut.
I didn't found any way except manually to create one now .

I was able to fix most of these problems by going to opera:config and placing the name of my problem into the quick find field. Hope this works for you too. Worked well on the latest Opera 12 and 11.60.

Dave

[ScrewUpgrading]

- is it possible to change the "Search With Google" menu to "Search With Dogpile" instead?

Oh crap I accidentally deleted it, and now I can't figure out how to get it back.

[CharlesF]

ScrewUpgrading, on 19 December 2011 - 01:26 AM, said:

- is it possible to change the "Search With Google" menu to "Search With Dogpile" instead?

What are you talking about?

For the search bar: Ctrl + F12 -> tab 'Search' -> Add... Dogpile (If it is already here, highlight it and click: Edit...)
-> Details -> check the box: 'Use as default Search engine'.

For the right-click menu, you have to restore the 'standard_menu.ini' file.

HTH
Charles.

[CharlesF]

dw2108, on 18 December 2011 - 09:19 PM, said:

I was able to fix most of these problems by going to opera:config

Sorry, but nothing about 'Internet Shortcut' in Opera 11.60's Preferences .

[ScrewUpgrading]

Quote

What are you talking about?

For the search bar: Ctrl + F12 -> tab 'Search' -> Add... Dogpile (If it is already here, highlight it and click: Edit...)
-> Details -> check the box: 'Use as default Search engine'.

For the right-click menu, you have to restore the 'standard_menu.ini' file.

HTH
Charles.

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

I use Dogpile now instead of Google, I just didn't know out how to change the "Search With Google" thing, even though my homepage was set to Dogpile. But now it works.

[Prozactive]

Thanks for the info. I updated to Opera 11.60 and so far everything seems to work well, except I have the bug again where my past "Find in Page" searches no longer show up in the address field (in the format "f xxxxxx" where xxxxxx is the search term). This also occurred after I updated from Opera 10.63 to 11.51. After a lot of effort, I finally was able to restore the "Find in Page" searches by fiddling around with search.ini. It had somehow gotten extensively modified and I replaced it with the former full version which somehow fixed the problem. Unfortunately, that no longer works for 11.60 and I'm not sure why or what to do now.

Also, the PgDn/PgUp scroll bug I previously mentioned is still there. I thought at first it was fixed but alas, that's not the case. They did finally fix the Wand password missing cursor bug though.

This post has been edited by Prozactive: 19 December 2011 - 04:52 PM

[CharlesF]

Prozactive, on 19 December 2011 - 04:15 PM, said:

I have the bug again where my past "Find in Page" searches no longer show up in the address field

Ctrl + F12 -> tab 'Search' -> in the Search engine list, you must see a line " Find (or Search) in Page ... f ".

But there is many ways to "Find in Page" :
CTRL+F (and then F3 to go to the next instance, Shift+F3 for the previous)
. (dot) or , (coma) or / (slash) on keyboard will open the search bar
There is also several buttons to call a search in Page

HTH
Charles .

This post has been edited by CharlesF: 19 December 2011 - 08:53 PM

[Prozactive]

Thanks CharlesF. Yes I'm familiar with the many alternative ways of searching in Opera. It's somewhat difficult to explain this bug but Opera 11.60 no longer shows my previous (saved) Find in Page searches in the address field as I type the string 'f <space>'. Opera 10.63 would automatically display a list of previous (saved) Find in Page searches (in the format "f xxxxxx" where xxxxxx is the search term) in the pulldown list whereupon I could select the one I wanted. I finally was able to restore this functionality to Opera 11.5x by fiddling around with the search.ini file but I am unable to do so with Opera 11.60. I'm starting to suspect it's a deliberate redesign feature of their new address field. I've searched the Opera forums without much luck although there are tons of complaints about similar search issues.

This post has been edited by Prozactive: 20 December 2011 - 04:07 PM

[dw2108]

CharlesF, on 19 December 2011 - 02:44 PM, said:

dw2108, on 18 December 2011 - 09:19 PM, said:

I was able to fix most of these problems by going to opera:config

Sorry, but nothing about 'Internet Shortcut' in Opera 11.60's Preferences .

Yeah, address field, search field, saved search data etc., also pose other probs to be addressed -- more than likely the final will work better. I'm waiting for that. Many ini's shall need to be rewritten completely (again) for the 98 recognized formats, otherwise the menus shall remain real messes and saved data won't show.

Dave

This post has been edited by dw2108: 20 December 2011 - 05:28 PM

[Prozactive]

@dw2108: I'm using Opera 11.60 FINAL. I presume CharlesF is also. I still have not resolved this Find in Page search issue after more troubleshooting.

[dw2108]

Prozactive, on 21 December 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

@dw2108: I'm using Opera 11.60 FINAL. I presume CharlesF is also. I still have not resolved this Find in Page search issue after more troubleshooting.

Sorry I forgot to tell you, I'm messing with Opera 12 Alpha & now there's another 12 Beta & I've rewritten so many css, ini and dat files which will be overwritten by the devs at Opera because they noticed a problem & I should have waited for the 12 final.

Dave

[Prozactive]

Opera 11.61 was just released.

[TmEE]

There's still a problem with tabs on bottom, where you just cannot make out which tab is open, tab does not connect with view. It is one of the reasons I did not upgrade to 11.60. I filed in a bug report last time about it, but seems it did not get fixed.
I sent in another bug report.

This post has been edited by TmEE: 25 January 2012 - 02:55 AM

[Prozactive]

Yeah Opera still has a fair number of annoying bugs. I never did figure out a solution to the missing "Find in Page" bug I reported earlier and finally submitted a bug report. Unfortunately it's still not fixed in 11.61.

I just installed 11.61 and so far it seems to be working well. I tried running the setup .exe for the first time and that was a disaster. I finally went back to my tried and true method of manually extracting and replacing all files with 7-Zip.

This post has been edited by Prozactive: 26 January 2012 - 09:17 PM

[schwups]

What had happened during running the setup.exe (disaster)? You only can run the setup with comp. mode Win2000SP4. I don't have any kind of problem with the setup if KernelEX 4.5.1 or 4.5.2 is installed.

[Prozactive]

Well, the setup installer overwrote and replaced several files I didn't want to be overwritten, eliminated my Windows Native skin preference, and also somehow changed my default system font. After a lot of work, I subsequently figured out how to restore the Windows Native skin but it was extremely aggravating and frustrating. I will always use the manual extract and replace method of upgrading Opera in the future as it gives me full control over which files I want updated. And yes I did select Win2000 SP4 compatibility mode in KernelEx.

[Giant2011]

I did not have a problem to install opera 11.61 as an upgrade over 11.60 with windows 2000 compatibility of kernelex 4.5.2.
on windows 98SE. Opera 11.61 operates faster for me then 11.60. It really works much better the Firefox 3.6.26. I have not tried
to print to a pdf though. I will try later.

[dw2108]

Installers beware of Opera 12.00 Alpha version 1289. This baby hooks Intel graphics card drivers and will hastily crash a PC. Best to unpack it and run it until the bugs are worked out.

Dave

EDIT: Workaround

Install in 2000 sp4 mode & configure this version: mail, bookmarks, etc. Then close. Now EXTRACT a new copy and run the EXTRACTED copy. Enough hooks have been set by the install that the extracted version's opera.exe (set to 2000 sp4 mode) will work well.

QUESTION: Are alphas and betas worth discussing? They are called such because they often DO have MAJOR problems.

EDIT #2 Try setting the opera.dll to KernelEX mode 2000 SP4 if you are still having Opera menu GUI problems.

EDIT #3 11.61 FINAL -- Setting this dll to the 2000 SP4 mode cures also the crash problem when Opera tries to open itself, when opening external links, etc.

MAJOR ISSUE: Just found out from an Opera dev that Flash 9 CAN cause the GUI problems with Opera 11.X and 12.X . Opera needs Flash version 10.x or higher. OPERA NOW USES THIS FLASH 10+ DLL FOR ITS GUI! SECURITY RISK?

This post has been edited by dw2108: 04 March 2012 - 10:12 PM

[Mathwiz]

I don't know if this will help anyone now that xeno86 has ceased development of KernelEx, but I have figured out the problems with opening Internet shortcuts, .html files, etc. when Opera is running are related to DDE.

If you have DDE enabled in your Windows shell and you launch a shortcut, Opera opens a new window, but it ends up just trying to Google a long string of garbage. (This problem has also been reported in another thread. At least I'm not the only one!)

So just disable DDE in the Windows shell, right? Apparently not. This will force the shell to start another copy of Opera, but apparently, if Opera is already running the new copy just sends the requested URL to the old copy via DDE, then crashes. Dismissing the crash dialog gives the same result as before: a Google search of a string of garbage. (DW2108's suggestion to set opera.dll to Win2KSP4 mode didn't work for me. I'm using Opera 11.61 build 1250.)

I also tried disabling DDE via opera:config. That didn't work either. The second copy just complains that "another user is already running a copy of Opera" and refuses to start.

This bug is particularly annoying when clicking links in emails. Drag-and-drop isn't an available option in that case. I have to end Opera, then click the link and wait for it to reload.

[loblo]

Mathwiz, on 18 March 2012 - 02:47 AM, said:

This bug is particularly annoying when clicking links in emails. Drag-and-drop isn't an available option in that case. I have to end Opera, then click the link and wait for it to reload.

Can't you copy the link and then paste it in Opera's address bar? That's what I am doing.

I sure would love if there was a fix for that bug though.