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Web page looks different in Opera?

Sunday, November 29, 2009 3:27:26 PM

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If web page looks different from normal then you might have enabled User Mode or style sheet. To bring back normal look disable all except Author Mode in View > Style or O Menu > Page > Style.

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Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, November 29, 2009 3:47:14 PM

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dirkthetomster Sunday, November 29, 2009 3:52:29 PM

smile very helpful, as always up

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Tamil Sunday, November 29, 2009 3:56:59 PM

L2D2 Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:36:59 PM

I checked. Have Author Mode checked. Been having trouble with the look of my text recently. Don't know how it got messed up, but I finally fixed it by setting both my monitor to Auto adjust, and my Nvidia graphics card to default settings. Everything is now back to normal, thank goodness. Nearly ruined my eyes before I discovered the fix.

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Anonymous Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:04:10 PM

Anonymous writes: Thank You, Your Awesome, Now only have to fix com surrogate error, and random windows buggs like (windows explorer has stopped working and WMP not being able to view photos). LOL, Thanks a bunch!!

KimberlySqueakeyCat Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:46:44 AM

hey Tamil, how can i make a post from way back, be shown now, other than to just copy/paste it into a brand new post? any ideas?

Mad Scientistqlue Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:57:11 PM

@Kimberly, Try 'flashing' it by making it private and then making it public again. It should show up as a new blog post to everyone who's subscribed to your blog up.

osolomio Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:15:04 PM

After getting an alert for new mail, sound and sys tray, I need a quick way to view it. At present all I can think of is Alt+m, then R. Anybody have a neater fix.
thanks

Anonymous Sunday, December 27, 2009 5:06:15 PM

Anonymous writes: Hi, can you take a look at http://www.tvguide.com/listings/default.aspx ? If you click a program link, you are supposed to see the program description ( just test using FF ). But somehow, you only see a blank space with no description at all. But if you switch to User Mode, you do see the description, though very ugly. So how to fix in Opera? Happy New Year to everyone!

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, December 27, 2009 5:24:37 PM

Originally posted by anonymous:

Hi, can you take a look at
http://www.tvguide.com/listings/default.aspx ?

If you click a program link, you are supposed to see the program description



I think it might be browser sniffing, if I ID as Firefox it works just fine

Anonymous Sunday, December 27, 2009 8:17:02 PM

Anonymous writes: Thanks, yes, it worked as IDed as FF. Didn't think in that direction.

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, December 27, 2009 8:22:21 PM

You can contact the site to see if they will stop the browser sniffing

Anonymous Sunday, December 27, 2009 9:01:20 PM

Mattan writes: I have no idea if this is the right place to ask for help, but will try. Have opened a mail account to operamail.com, but ithe program will not let me access it due to 'ínsufficient permission' preventying authorisation, or some such nonsense. What to do except forget about Opera? Please send or copy reply to blue_baron@bigfoot.com.

osolomio Tuesday, December 29, 2009 11:23:10 AM

Originally posted by osolomio:

After getting an alert for new mail, sound and sys tray, I need a quick way to view it. At present all I can think of is Alt+m, then R. Anybody have a neater fix.
thanks


Shouldn't have posted here but couldn't think of way of phrasing the question for a post on the regular forum. Anyway found a button, that sort of does what I want, but would prefer single key shortcut.

Anonymous Friday, January 29, 2010 10:09:03 AM

Anonymous writes: hi tamil how to put costom layout in opera blog can u tell me how...?

Tamil Friday, January 29, 2010 10:53:15 AM

My page > Design > customize your design > Advanced

Anonymous Wednesday, February 3, 2010 2:08:39 PM

Anonymous writes: Hi, Tamil, do you know how to force a certain site to use a specific font instead of the general settings under fonts? Thanks.

Tamil Wednesday, February 3, 2010 3:16:00 PM

It can be done by using CSS. See Use user style sheet to modify the look of a website in Opera

Anonymous Friday, February 5, 2010 1:53:08 PM

Anonymous writes: Thanks, Tamil. But are there any simple css example files? What I need to do essentially is: if a site's charset == A then use font A else use font B that is. I have to admit I am impatient to learn all these big css tutorial without foucs :-)

Tamil Friday, February 5, 2010 5:14:58 PM

AFAIK, it is not possible to apply user CSS based on site charset.

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