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Viewing Boards with Opera

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  • 05-10-2005 1:52pm
    #1
    joker77
    Registered Users Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I use the Opera browser (fastest on Earth allegedly...) and have noticed a bit of a funny with the Boards site.

    If I right-click and open another tab for a Forum, when I select the Sports menu up the top, the dropdown appears but the "Boards Paintball" Ad banner floats over it.....

    Little bit of an annoyance, not too up on the auld web-programming so not sure what would be causing it, it's weird in that if I open a new page in Opera and type in Boards.ie it's fine - it's only when I right-click and "Open in new page".....
    Cheers,
    Neal

    Edit:
    Just noticed, when I hover over a thread title in Opera, just the Address comes up instead of the first couple of lines of the message...... Dagnamit, probably have to use IE for Boards now completely......
    Post edited by Shield on


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    #2
    secret_squirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭secret_squirrel


    Opera has always (well seems like for ever) done that on boards its been posted on feedback serveral times before.

    Its just one of many quirky site behaviors you get from Opera. I used to be a big opera fan but its lack of compatability and things like ad-blocking are pushing me more and more towards firefox.

    If you dont want to use IE try firefox.


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    As an Opera fan I find the ads interference an annoyance but I've stopped waiting for any new coding from the admins to beat this problem.

    Mike.


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    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    browser_compliancy.gif

    The purple part is Opera.


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    #5
    Baz_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    I take it the 98.2 percent is all gecko, and that IE doesn't even get a slice of the pie?


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    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Baz_ wrote:
    I take it the 98.2 percent is all gecko, and that IE doesn't even get a slice of the pie?
    Actually the 98.2% is Googlebot <_<


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    secret_squirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭secret_squirrel


    mike65 wrote:
    As an Opera fan I find the ads interference an annoyance but I've stopped waiting for any new coding from the admins to beat this problem.

    Mike.
    To be fair to the admins why should they have to code around a problem that is limited to Opera? IE, Firefox - and I presume Safari dont have this problem.

    What really annoyed me about Opera was over the 2-3 years I had it as my main browser they were quite happy to add loads of new features without fixing any of the existing problems. Its a brilliant browser but they let themselves down a bit on the details like compatability, lousy bookmark management and a few others. If they added ad blocking to it I would probably go back.

    [/rant]


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    #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Although a little sorcerous in their implementations, there are several functioning adblockers for Opera.
    The particular niggle from your first post seems to be some sort of clash between vbulletin and Opera, and signalling the problem to either party is a waste of time, as neither reckons it's their fault.
    I just got used to it eventually, but I don't like it! ;)


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    #9
    secret_squirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭secret_squirrel


    I've tried one or 2 of the Opera adblockers and to say they are arcane is an understatement. I never got any of them to work, best results I had were with my Hosts file.


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