I just upgraded and I can’t enjoy the new browser yet because my mail window is stuck open! You know, the window on the left side of the browser that has the check/send and compose buttons. The X to close it is where it’s always been, but it’s grayed out. I already converted my mailbox to make it compatible, and I’ve restarted the browser several times. Any ideas?
Thanks.
How bizarre. I don’t use the mail feature myself, but just enabled it to see and got a functional “x” button as expected. What happens if you toggle the whole panel on and off with F4?
That works, thanks! I wasn’t aware of that hotkey. I’d still like a functional X, though.
I just tried removing it, and then dragging a new one over there and it was grayed out too. So I removed it and reset the bar to its defaults. Still grayed out.
Still can’t figure this out.
Also, if an Opera guru can help me solve this one while we’re at it . . . why has the Myspace address bar icon set up shop as the SDMB address bar icon? I actually figured this out once before, a long time ago, but it came back and I can’t remember how I fixed it last time.
Eugh, favicons. I used to favour the occasional blitz-reset of the whole stinking lot of 'em by going to “C:\Documents and Settings\My Name\Application Data\Opera\profile\images” and deleting everything in there. They’ve changed this in the new version, however - the favicons are stored in some .idx file that I’ve yet to find. The new version seems to garble them more frequently than before, which is a bit annoying. Should I work out a solution, I’ll report back here.
I’m stumped with your original problem unfortunately, as I can’t reproduce it. The guys at the Opera forums are always very helpful, though, so trying there might be worthwhile (it’s particularly busy at the moment, as you might imagine, so lots of people on hand to help). I suppose the next thing I might suggest would be to back up your mail directory and do a clean re-install, but they might have a better option than that.
Too late to edit:
You can clear all the cached favicons by going Tools > Delete private data… and making sure that the “delete entire cache” option is checked. This’ll get rid of all of 'em, and they’ll come back as you visit each page again.
Yeah, I was banned from the Opera forums so I can’t go there for help (you posted in that thread, btw :).)
That worked, but when I came back to the sdmb it just loaded the Myspace icon again.
Hey, so I did. Small worldwhen you’re an Opera user. 
That’s really bizarre about the MySpace icon. Did you restart the browser after deleting the private data? Maybe the icon was cached in memory or something.
That said, it looks as though quite a few people are having issues with mangled favicons due to the new storage format, so you might be better off just living with it until 9.51 or so is released. This seems like quite a major release for the Opera guys, and they’re clearly still ironing out some crinkles…
Actually the favicon thing has been going on for a few generations so I’m not really that worried about it. The mail thing, though, I really want to fix. F4 is a good temporary fix but I use a laptop and the F4 key is reeeeally small, so even though I’m generally a keyboard guy, I want to be able to click the X in this case.
Edit: You got banned from the Opera forums?
I think that I found the solution, but it’s a bit awkward, so bear with me. My panels are on the left edge of the screen and my instructions reflect this. If your’s is set up differently you can probably just switch the directions.
First, check to see if there is a long button on the left edge of the screen which can be clicked to show or hide the panels. If there is not, go to Tools -> Appearance, go to the Panels tab and check “Show panel toggle at edge of window”.
Now right-click on the panel toggle (on the left side of my screen) and select “Customize”. Go to the Toolbars tab, find the drop-down box marked “Placement” and select an option other than “Off”. After doing this the X is ungrayed on my computer.
Before you mentioned it, I never really noticed the X on the panels… I just click on the edge-of-window toggle button.
No no, “so I did [post in your earlier thread].”
I can confirm that if I reverse Dr. Love’s instructions, I get the greyed-out x, so it looks like he’s nailed it. Good detective work.
It works, but it adds some annoying new bar to the left side of the screen.
Idea #2: Right-click on the top portion of the panel and select Customize. Go to the Buttons tab and choose “Panels”. Move the X in this location to your panel. This works for me, without adding the extra bar to the left side of the screen.
The panel bar? That’s always been there, surely. I’m a bit surprised that you had the mail panel without the panel bar in the first place; in previous versions, how did you bring the mail panel back once you’d clicked the x?
As an alternative, if you go back into Tools > Appearance and go to the “toolbar” tab, click on the annoying new bar and select “off” under “placement”, you’ll still have the edge-of-window toggle button running the length of the screen, which will perform the same function as the x button - click it to reveal or hide the mail panel. It’s actually a much easier target to hit, I find (as long as you have your main window maximised). I admit I don’t know why they’d grey out the x button, though. All very odd.
Edit: once again, Dr. Love’s beaten me to it - his suggestion works for me. That’s really weird that replacing the x with an identical one makes it work.
I tried that, too. It just gives me two Xs, both grayed out.
I think that the two X buttons, one in the Panels section and one in the Defaults section, aren’t linked to the same piece of code. Probably the Opera developers wanted the X and the edge-of-window toggle to do slightly different things: the X closes the panel but leaves the panel bar open, the toggle removes both the panel and the panel bar.
I turn off the panel bar like Cisco, but I use the edge-of-window toggle or the F4 key to control everything.
Cisco: Are you by chance on a Mac? I tried my second suggestion on both my XP and Linux machines, and it works for me on both. Are you sure you tried both X buttons: the one in Defaults and the one in Panels?
Hey now! Missed the word panels the first time. That worked. Thank you very much.