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Chrome: “Your profile could not be opened correctly”

Takis — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:54:50 +0000

I’m using Google Chrome on my dear netbook, running Ubuntu 10.04. Since yesterday after an abnormal shutdown, I was getting the message “Your profile could not be opened correctly” yada yada.

I tried some rm – cp stuff, suggested elsewhere, but it didn’t work. In the end, I opened ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/ and I deleted every file related to “History” while having Google Chrome closed, i.e. every file starting with “history”. I re-opened the browser and I got rid of that dreadful message.

Google Translation in Opera’s Context menu

Takis — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:55:18 +0000

I’m not really fond of Opera’s translation menu; maybe it’s because it only offers a handful of languages (and I have some Finnish, Danish, Swedish and other -ishes friends on Facebook).

Hopefully Opera’s known power user, Tamil, had a solution for a similar task, which I changed a bit:

Go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Toolbar
Find “Menu Setup” (bottom right), click “Opera Standard” and press “Duplication” (skip this part if you already have a “Copy of Opera Standard”).
From the profile directory, open “menu” folder and edit the file called “standard menu (1).ini”
Find the section named “[Hotclick Popup Menu]” and add the entry:
Item, "Google Auto Translation"= Go to page, "http://translate.google.com/?hl=auto#auto|auto|%t"
Save the file, restart Opera

Now simply select a word or phrase from the HTML document, right click and choose “Google Auto Translation”.

If you want to have the ability to translate the entire page, find the section named “[Document Popup Menu]” and add the following item:

Item, "Google Auto Translation"= Go to page, "http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=auto&sl=auto&tl=auto&u=%u"

How to remove “Synchronization disabled” in Opera

Takis — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:24:54 +0000

I recently tried the synchronization feature of Opera. Although it’s a neat feature, I wasn’t really needing it, therefore I decided to cancel it. But for some days I kept seeing a new message on the status bar: “Synchronization disabled”.

A quick search didn’t reveal any non-trivial (read: touch ini files) methods, but, after reading a relevant post on Opera’s forum, I came up with the solution:

Open a new tab and type “opera:config“
On the “Quick find” text box type “Opera Account” (this may be a tad slow, depending on your computer – another way is to paste that text to avoid the delay)
Click on the “Opera Account” text which should appear bellow.
Uncheck the setting “Opera Account Used” and delete the text from the “Username” textbox.
Press “Save” and restart Opera.

You now got your status bar back again.