[Opera-Linux] Buttons at qrz.com not working

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

"Dick Kittrell" <w0rfx at netins.net> writes:

> Yes, Neil stated my problem exactly right!  I tried the suggestions to  
> launch from a terminal window with various parameters following "opera" to  
> no avail -- it would not launch and complained about "the opera binary not  
> in the expected place". The only way I can launch opera is with the  
> desktop icon, whose properties show "opera %u" as the launch command. In  
> desperation I finally just downgraded to ver 9.63 with interesting  
> results: the search button now works, but I did not mention before that  
> the remaining (10) buttons on a bar just below "search" button were  
> totally missing. One of those was the Q/A you tried.  (Maybe  
> out-of-sight=out-of-mind?). That entire button bar is still missing!  I  
> hope that doesn't get too far afield for this thread. Something is  
> definitely wrpng with my settings, but I don't know how to find out.  
> Thanks for any suggestions!!

Yes, it sounds like these problems are local to your setup.  Probably
something is broken with your settings.  I'm rather surprised that
running opera from the command line fails to find the opera binary.
If you have the necessary skills to understand shell scripts, you
could try to look at the opera program (probably /usr/bin/opera), but
I won't recommend that otherwise.

A more brutal, direct approach to testing with a clean slate would be
to rename your ".opera" directory (in your home directory) to
something else.  All opera's settings (including bookmarks, cookies,
cache and usually mail (if you use that)) should be inside that
directory.

Make sure to rename rather than delete, so you can restore your old
stuff again later.

Oh, and make sure no operas are running whenever you do anything with
your .opera directory.

eirik

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> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:44:39 -0500, Neil R. Ormos <ormos-lists at ormos.org>  
> wrote:
[...]
>> I believe Dick is referring to the search box in
>> the blue horizontal band near the top of the page
>> on qrz.com, and is complaining that the adjacent
>> search button doesn't work.  Try W0RFX (zero) or
>> N9NL in the search box.  The usual result is a new
>> page with information about the corresponding
>> person.  (I can't test this myself right now in
>> Linux but it seems to work fine with Opera 9.64 in
>> Windows).
>>
>> --Neil Ormos