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18. April 2010, 03:02:08

J1Hundred

Posts: 24

Panels open on startup

whenever i startup the browser one of the panels opens up. i don't know why this is, but when i leave the panel bar showing, this happens. when i hide the panel bar on close, then restart, it doesn't. it may be a bug?

18. April 2010, 03:29:13

Vectronic

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Posts: 2538

"It's not a bug, it's a feature"

Some people like to have the panel always open, since it's a part of the over-all layout, it's like a large toolbar in a way. If you had to re-show the addressbar on each launch, it would be annoying wouldn't it?

18. April 2010, 20:54:59

J1Hundred

Posts: 24

if it's a feature, how do i disable the panel opening up even though i closed it, before i closed the browser. i want it to stay closed when i restart the browser. it gets annoying to see it pop open all of a sudden on startup.

18. April 2010, 21:03:57

Vectronic

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What OS? It doesn't do that in mine (XP and Vista)

If I leave the full thing open (buttons + panels) they both return on application launch.
If I leave only the buttons, only the buttons show on application launch.
If I hide both, neither returns on application launch.

However, I do have "Show panel toggle at edge of window" enabled, which might affect what they do on launch.

19. April 2010, 02:41:20

J1Hundred

Posts: 24

i'm on XP SP3.

i'm gonna keep playing around with this and see if i can figure it out.

19. April 2010, 02:50:29

J1Hundred

Posts: 24

panel bar showing, but no panel open = last panel opened, opens on startup.

no panel open, hide the panel bar = on startup, panel bar stays hidden, showing the panel bar also open the last opened panel.

i don't recall this happening in 3338.

19. April 2010, 02:57:22

Vectronic

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Posts: 2538

Out of curiosity, do you happen to have "Continue saved sessions" as your start-up option? I'm fairly sure that toolbar positions and layout's are saved with sessions... so it might be related to a very commonly re-occurring problem with Opera not saving the last action (for instance last tab closed, gets re-opened on launch, might be the same for last panel, etc)

Seems that every other build or so, that "last tab" thing happens to me...

Might also extend to "Continue from last time" (the option I use, and likely you as well) though, but I'm using XP SP3, and 3363 and it's not doing that for me.

Edit: you could try deleting the <i>autosave.win</i> file (and the *.bak too) in your ../Profile/Sessions/* directory (that's where it saves the "Continue..." information)...just make sure to do it while Opera is closed... maybe there is an option in there that gets intermittently set to "on" (or "off") somehow...

29. April 2010, 18:00:57 (edited)

powergod

Posts: 11

happens the same thing to me, with xp sp3... i'll try to delete those files

EDIT:

nope... after deleting, at startup there was no tabs, but the first panel was open...

29. April 2010, 18:18:17

Hades32

What I use:

Posts: 1917

same here on Win7 x64. I close the panel, and after a restart it's open again... confused
Using Windows 7 64Bit SP1 and of course Opera
(If nothing else stated the most current weekly) on a nice Dell Studio XPS 16!

1. June 2010, 04:09:53

bartgzn

wysiwyg

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Think I found a clue, remove all non-standard panels and leave bookmarks, links, etc. That did the trick for me -the panel now reappears the way I left it.

3. June 2010, 21:48:24

powergod

Posts: 11

Originally posted by bartgzn:

Think I found a clue, remove all non-standard panels and leave bookmarks, links, etc. That did the trick for me -the panel now reappears the way I left it.



GREAT !!! That's work !!! smile

+1

6. June 2010, 07:23:57

tushar2075

Posts: 206

If you hide the Panel bar before closing Opera, the next time there will be no open panel.
To use the panel you have to again make the panel bar visible. This way you don't have to remove the non-standard panels

Thanks
smile smile

15. July 2010, 19:59:22

svivian

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Posts: 1308

I have this too in 10.60 on Linux. The only way to stop it is to turn off the Panel bar (F4).
Has anyone submitted a bug report?

8. August 2010, 03:10:00

alba13142003

Posts: 11

The solution to this problem is to remove any and ALL custom panels you have from your side panel tab. This worked for me when I had this problem. Why this glitch has hit the newest (and supposedly best) Opera is a mystery to me...
Hope this helps you all.
Thanks,

alba.



Alba gu Braith!

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