Comments on: Opera 9.5 Release Candidate (RC) Released

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:31:41 +0000

6. Visited pages history are not deleteing for sure. This must be a bug!

I agree with Netsrak. I’m going back to Opera 9.26.

By: Tom Usher

Tom Usher — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:57:32 +0000

I wanted my Opera 9.2 favicons in 9.5, so I figured out how to do it. I’ve posted what I did to help others.
http://www.realliberalchristianchurch.org/wordpress/?p=2384

By: Netsrak

Netsrak — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:16:25 +0000

Opera 9.5 is a mess.

The new look is both inexplicable and horrible. Taking away a major visual cue (full-color icons) is a baffling decision. I found the new default skin to be unusable. They permanently broke the “Windows Native” settings as well– tabs are drawn differently and it’s difficult to tell which is the active tab– leaving one with no way to fully revert to 9.2’s Windows Native look.

Browser instability is the major reason I’m dumping 9.5, though. I understand that others have been having instability issues as well, with the browser suddenly monopolizing available memory. Opera 9.5 has crashed my entire computer on multiple occasions.

Thank god I still had the Opera 9.26 installation file on my hard drive. I just dumped 9.5 and reinstalled 9.26 (and thankfully was able to return all my bookmarks, cookies, browser settings, etc.).

I’ve been using Opera since Opera 3, and to me, Opera 9.5 is a disaster. What in the heck were they thinking, foisting this on an unsuspecting public?!?

By: effzee

effzee — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:44:09 +0000

@Alex K. the favicon/bookmark thing is skin-specific. I’m sure someone will post a modded version of the current skin but in the meantime just use another skin.

By: effzee

effzee — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:41:00 +0000

Yea, populating of fields here might be a cookie that the site’s filling the boxes in from.

2. Try running a clean install/profile
3. I’m subscribed to quite a few feeds including this one, everything works fine here. Again, try running a clean profile, even just to test
4. Try changing the setting I gave you to “always”?
6. Again, whenever I’ve used DPD everything gets correctly deleted.

Sounds to me that your profile may have been scrambled at some point, which could account for a few of the above problems. Give a clean install/profile a try. If you’re running Win, temporarily rename your Appdata/Opera folder and restart Opera. In linux, it’s .opera in your home folder. Not sure about mac, sorry ;)

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:21:20 +0000

Actually I think that may be a different feature as it doesn’t clear after a refresh:)

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:55:06 +0000

Erik,

Yes. Same here, all info is filled after posting anyway.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:47:27 +0000

An example is this page. After posting I find my name, email address and notify check box all filled in.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:45:36 +0000

Getting the same issue on 4. Any page that redirects to itself doesn’t refresh properly. Same check boxes are already filled in etc… Would be interested to know if there is an option to turn this off. Refreshing does clear it but this seems to defeat its purpose.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:23:58 +0000

2. Updated
3. Are you subscribed to news feeds? Whenever I open Opera I see somethign like:

from: feed url
to: C:\Documents and Settings\,\Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\cache4\opr00J30
3-4 kb files
4. This so far noticed in a couple of sites only
6. It haven’t deleted everything, but most was deleted

Thanks effzee