Some recent notes about Opera: including YouTube

A day or two ago, Opera stopped playing YouTube videos. Instead, users see "Old version. Go Update" for their Flash. They see this even if they are using the latest version of Flash. Two solutions: The first may be simplest, but not as general (i.e. may not work for all videos). It is from the Opera Support Forum. 1. Go to youtube 2. Right click 3. Select "Block content" 4. Select "Details" 5. Select "add" 3. Paste this: http://s.ytimg.com/yt/jsbin/www-core-new-vfl160018.js 4. Press "Close" 5. Press "Done" The second solution requires that you have established a UserJS folder. We just made a subfolder under Profile, called Userjs. Once you have done this, proceed with the following steps: Open Opera and go to Tools/Preferences/Advanced/Content. Click the Javascript Options button. At the bottom, beside User Javascript Folder, click Choose, browse to the folder you just created and click OK. Click two OK's to get back to the main window of Opera. Copy the text given below to a text editor. Save it to the userjs folder under the name: YoutubeProtectionRemover.js That's it. Opera should now play YouTube files again just fine. (The problem was caused by a YouTube change that may be corrected soon. In any case, the fixes won't interfere with any corrections that YouTube makes. Here is the text to copy: // ==UserScript== // @name YoutubeProtectionRemover // @include http://www.youtube.com/* // @description Removes lame protection on YouTube // @copyright 2010, Snap // ==/UserScript== window.opera.addEventListener('BeforeScript',function(ev){ev.element.text=ev.element.text.replace("yt.flash.update(swfConfig, forceUpdate);","");},false); //end NOTE! The line beginning "window.opera.addEvent ... ... false);" must be a SINGLE LINE so take out any line ends inserted by your browser or the text editor before saving it! Opera 10.51 The user interface on 10.51 has been dramatically altered since 10.10 and, among other things, the Toolbar is gone. (This, apparently, is to suck up to IE users who have lost their toolbar in an earlier version. FF is due to lose its in a new revision, so be careful!) You can restore it (although not some other really weird functionality) by clicking the red O at the top left of the window and making the appropriate choice. Or, if you don't like the other changes, you can stick with 10.10. Since Opera will bug you daily to update to 10.51, and since, if you're typing when this happens, it will think you clicked OK and do the update even if you do not want it, we recommend the following: Go to Tools/Preferences/Advanced/Security. Beside Auto Update, select Do Not Check for Updates. OK your way back to the main window Note that if you DO accidentally install 10.51 and hate it, you can simply reinstall 10.10 on top of it and it will smoothly revert to the older version. If, of course, you still have your 10.10 install file. Webmaster