Bug in Opera

April 17, 2004 8:28 PM

The "my comments" "most recent comments" etc. box does not show up when this site is viewed with the opera browser. Or does it, and I just don't have mine set right? I struggled with it for a while, thinking I hadn't actually logged in. However, I was logged in. I could post comments. I accepted all cookies.
posted by bingo to Bugs at 8:28 PM (20 comments total)

Must be something you're doing, because I've never not seen the drop-down box, and I've been using Opera since its first public release.
posted by five fresh fish at 8:51 PM on April 17, 2004

It's even wierder than that. I am clearly logged in so that I can post...if I click on the comments for any post on the front page, I do get the gray box at the bottom of the comments, and it does say "bingo" above it, suggesting that I am logged in. But at the top of the main page, I don't get the number of members, or my username, or the option to logout...in fact "login" is still a choice at the top of the page. And yet I *am* logged in. Surely this is more complicated than some setting on my browser? Anyway, if it isn't, sorry for the fuss.
posted by bingo at 9:13 PM on April 17, 2004

Opera 7.23, by the way. In case it matters.
posted by bingo at 9:20 PM on April 17, 2004

Works for me in Opera 7.23.
posted by y6y6y6 at 9:40 PM on April 17, 2004

STBU.
posted by The God Complex at 10:41 PM on April 17, 2004

have you tried: delete all mefi cookies (there's a shitload) and log in again?
posted by quonsar at 5:27 AM on April 18, 2004

This happened without me ever having logged in before from this browser. There weren't any mefi cookies to begin with.
posted by bingo at 7:17 AM on April 18, 2004

Ahem. Er, it works now. Either thanks, or never mind, or both.
posted by bingo at 7:28 AM on April 18, 2004

There weren't any mefi cookies to begin with.

misses the point. from having read many dozens of these "my browser is acting weird" threads, i can tell you that most of them seem to get cleared up by deleting all the cookies and relogging in. it is by far the most dispensed advice from matt himself. glad you got it fixed, anyway.
posted by quonsar at 5:36 PM on April 18, 2004

Talking about recent comments, am I alone in thinking that not only troutfishing but now that chatterbox y2karl post way, way too much? I mean, contribution indexes over 7.00? Have these garrulous creatures no shame? ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:03 PM on April 18, 2004

Yes, yes you are. Yes, they have no shame.

There weren't any mefi cookies to begin with.
I have been known to be wrong before and may be this time, but surely it is impossible to be logged in at a computer where you have never been logged in previously? Isn't the login driven by cookies? I thought that was why deleting the whole slew of MeFi cookies and thn logging back in has been proven to cure 98.3% of problems.
posted by dg at 6:11 PM on April 18, 2004

I mean, contribution indexes over 7.00? Have these garrulous creatures no shame? ;)

I know! I can't believe them--those...MetaWhores! ; >
posted by amberglow at 6:18 PM on April 18, 2004

Yeah! And who is this so-called "Ethereal Bligh" whippersnapper that dares share the sexy sixes with us? Can he not be disciplined? I fear a quiet word will not be enough. These young pups, they're everywhere nowadays - what's the world coming to, amberglow, I ask you?!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:27 PM on April 18, 2004

These young pups, they're everywhere nowadays - what's the world coming to, amberglow, I ask you?!

Actually, I like that--it makes me feel like an old hand. I like this new bunch a lot. : >
posted by amberglow at 6:49 PM on April 18, 2004

If logging in without ever having any cookies is not the same as logging in after having cookies and deleting them all, then something somewhere is wrong.
posted by bingo at 9:49 PM on April 18, 2004

If logging in without ever having any cookies is not the same as logging in after having cookies and deleting them all, then something somewhere is wrong.

what was previously true has no relevance to this issue.

if you are logged in and have the ability to post, you have a cookie, whether any was there before or not.

a cookie which has been set, has been set. repeat this 10 times to yourself under your breath. lather, rinse, repeat.

if that cookie was garbled in transmission, munged by your beta browser, or whatever, that's the way it is set. the only way to get it reset is to destroy it and receive a new one.
posted by quonsar at 6:18 AM on April 19, 2004

Funny how it ended up working without my ever deleting the cookies, though. How does that figure in?
posted by bingo at 10:10 AM on April 19, 2004

MeFi must have written a new value to the cookie, eh?
posted by five fresh fish at 12:32 PM on April 19, 2004

My first guess was it might have something to do with javascript disabling or something to that effect....

The only thing I miss when doing MeFi with Opera are the bold/ italic/ link functions at the bottom of the comments box. But on the other hand, I love Opera so much that it doesn't feel like much of a loss.
posted by kaibutsu at 1:13 PM on April 20, 2004

The moral of the story seems to be that sometimes the best thing you can do is toss your cookies. You'll feel better afterwards. Trust us.
posted by chicobangs at 2:01 PM on April 21, 2004