I've stayed with Opera 10.10 for some time now, simply because every version after that has had some form of irritating glitch.
I've been trying Opera 10.6* versions, and each of them has the same irritation, and I'm wondering if any of you guys get the same thing, and if so, do you know a way to fix it, to save me searching elsewhere for an answer. Am I missing something here?
The irritation is the appearance of a horizontal scroll bar which has absolutely no use.
Opera's "fit page" feature only screws up parts of the forum.
EDIT: The scroll bar only appears after logging in.
I don't have a horizontal scroll bar and never have. I'm running 10.62 on Win7 Ultimate. Perhaps the difference is my screen resolution appears to be higher. Mine is set to 1400x1050.
Thanks for your comments, although the "Fit to width" idea is what I meant by "fit page" in my post.
If I do the "Fit to width" on the opening forum page, it's fine, but as soon as I link to another page, it gets really screwed up.
I can't show you as I'm now back on Opera 10.10. I just can't be arsed (quaint English term) with messing around with workarounds, which is why I keep reverting to good old 10.10 which works perfectly.
there was a rendering glitch or 2 in opera 10.60 which came along with a rushed release upgrade from 10.10 --- all fixed a while back
suspect a fresh install will fix everything .... BUT
Another option would be to try the USB version of opera FROM HERE
extract to external drive, usb stick ....
and there is a portableapps version in development which when ready would remove the need to extract the newest opera files when a new version comes as portableapps has the updater function built in (to 2.0 beta5 of their platform)
Thanks for the suggestion barky, but I'm sticking with what works for now.
A good suggestion about the skins, which I've already tried with the default skin, and it's still the same.
I think it significant that File Hippo's screenshots of Opera 10.62 have that horizontal scroll bar in them. I didn't take that much interest before. It must be par for the course depending upon your monitor, as mentioned by Teejay.
An update with the solution to the glitches I've been experiencing, particularly for Opera users who customize INI files.
For a long time I've had Opera customised using the "dialogue.ini" and the "standard_menu.ini" from the UI folder to achieve what I want, and I've consequently kept back-up copies of these two files to save re-doing my mods after every update, and after replacing those two files over many version updates, I've never experienced any problems.
Beginning with 10.50, there must have been changes made to the make up of these two files which meant my two file substitutions were either missing something or conflicting with something. The problem was the glitches didn't really point to, or relate directly to, the customizations I'd made so the cause wasn't that evident.
I've redone my modifications using files from the latest version of Opera, and all glitches are now gone, including the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the forum in the 10.6 versions of Opera, and I'm now running with a perfectly operating Opera 10.62.
I just installed the latest opera(haven't tried it in a few versions) and surprisingly I really like it. Its fast and the minimalistic interface is awesome(much more functional than chrome and IE 9). I really like the bookmark drop down button that you can drag to your toolbar. Still access my bookmarks without enabling the menu bar or that annoying sidebar. Thats how customizing should be.
It seems to do everything I like in a browser(block ads, fast, spell check). the adblock and element hider options from fanboy seem to work great:
Been playing with opera for a little while today. I think I got it to look exactly how I want it.
I think this is how Firefox and IE9/Chrome should have done their "minimalistic" interfaces. Everything is still functional without having to digg through menus or having extra toolbars:
The above mentioned reasons are why I like Opera too. It has the minimalist interface without sacrificing on features (Chrome/Iron is very very stripped down by comparison) and is also very fast. Chrome/Iron is faster at rendering some websites, but overall Opera is faster for me. In fact, certain sites load MUCH slower in Iron than in Opera.