Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:04:07 GMT

metana — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:04:07 GMT

@metana
@Opera-QA-Team could you plz check this out?

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:52:07 GMT

Opera-QA-Team — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:52:07 GMT

@ironbone: Hi what issues are you mentioning here?

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:08:31 GMT

filbo — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:08:31 GMT

@kilian01: no, you are misusing the packaging system. dpkg -i will install any package regardless of whether its dependencies are met. That is its role. apt et al are in charge of the higher level, including paying attention to dependencies. It is like... dpkg -i is you with a screwdriver and some random memory DIMMs, clicking then into your motherboard without checking for compatibility. While apt is you using a tool like pcpartspicker or paying a store to install RAM they've selected as compatible with your system. You can download any .deb from your OS's repo with apt download name-of-package, then install it with dpkg -i name-of-package_version_you_received.deb -- and the resulting installed package will fail in similar ways if you didn't grab its dependencies. The OS's packages -- and Opera -- have met their responsibility by recording those dependencies in the .deb metadata. apt implements paying attention to them. dpkg is a more internal tool and it has to allow installing packages without their dependencies (otherwise some early stages of system install could not work, as the most basic packages circularly depend on each other).

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:42:54 GMT

rick2 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:42:54 GMT

@MehrzadS the Opera flatpak is a community maintained package, Opera the company is not involved in updating it AFAIK.
At least that's what they told me a couple years ago and why I switched to using the RPM repositories instead.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:45:09 GMT

Opera-QA-Team — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:45:09 GMT

@scrofa: Hello, we already fixed the bug, please keep an eye on updates.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:22:40 GMT

MehrzadS — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:22:40 GMT

@mehrzads: And why flatpak shows 125.0.5729.15 as the final version is beyond me.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:13:57 GMT

Kilian01 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:13:57 GMT

@filbo Thanks, I did notice that you can avoid or rather hide the problem with apt. The thing is the missing dependencies weren't critical in Opera 123. It still started at least. But Opera 124+ doesn't. If this is intentional (might be, only the Opera developer can answer that), then Opera shouldn't even install with the unmet dependencies. So there is a bug either way.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:31:28 GMT

MehrzadS — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:31:28 GMT

Opera keeps wanting to update to 125.0.5729.21 but after every restart it's stuck to 125.0.5729.15. It doesn't upgrade.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:27:30 GMT

MehrzadS — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:27:30 GMT

In Zorin OS, when I want to attach a file in sidepanel telegram/whatsapp/... opera crashes (because the sidepanel window disapears and the file dialogue won't have a parent window)

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:16:41 GMT

MehrzadS — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:16:41 GMT

In Zorin OS the side panel closes when I press Win+Space

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:04:50 GMT

MehrzadS — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:04:50 GMT

In Zorin OS the main menu is mispositioned.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:10:07 GMT

Limon12324 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:10:07 GMT

Found a way to crash any user's Opera GX browser. See you in Bugcrowd Opera team

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:43:50 GMT

metana — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:43:50 GMT

@metana no one having the same issue ?

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:20:54 GMT

filbo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:20:54 GMT

@filbo: argh, I failed at formatting the setuid instructions. But, you shouldn't really do that anyway. Just install properly with apt install and the postinst script will handle the setuid.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:18:36 GMT

filbo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:18:36 GMT

@kilian01: I see 3 separate sets of issues in your log, unclear which of them might be relevant. First, easiest to fix, the sandbox binary has wrong permissions:

$ cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera-stable
$ sudo chown root opera_sandbox
$ sudo chmod 4755 opera_sandbox

Try after that.

But that is probably actually caused by the 2nd problem: the deb you're installing depends on 4 others, parts of your distro, which are not installed. Because of that it never finished installing, never ran /var/lib/dpkg/info/opera-stable.postinst which would have set up that setuid.

Package libqt5core5a is not installed.
Package libqt5gui5 is not installed.
Package libqt5gui5-gles is not installed.
Package libqt5widgets5 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package opera-stable (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

This not only leaves Opera unconfigured, but also missing libraries it depends on.

dpkg -i is the lowest level package installer. It is not meant to handle package dependencies; those belong to the higher APT subsystem. Try running instead: sudo apt install opera-stable_125.0.5729.21_amd64.deb. This will automatically pull in the packages it depends on.

The 3rd issue is a crash:

Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

but that might be caused by the other two issues, so ignore it for now.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:54:15 GMT

filbo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:54:15 GMT

@burnout426: that was fixed in a way that should self-repair successfully on package update.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:44:56 GMT

burnout426 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:44:56 GMT

@Kilian01 Opera had a bug a bit ago *DNA-123982( where you had to call opera-stable instead of opera to launch Opera, but it was verified fixed in 124.0.5705.30. I'm guessing that an update to a build with the fix doesn't fix the issue.

What happens if you uninstall Opera and remove any traces of it (including "opera", "opera-stable" and any aliases) (you can keep your profile in ~/.config) and then install 125 fresh? Does that sort things out? If so, that might be what users have to do to fix things if they have the issue.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:37:07 GMT

P1tzO — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:37:07 GMT

Hello Opera team! I would like to congratulate you on the redesign of the task manager window. it is a tool I utilize regularly and it helps me out a lot whenever some bum cant make a proper website and ends up eating up tons of gigabytes of ram and I have to terminate the tab. this is the second update that garners my interest. it's one of the better redesigns that actually retains functionality and is easy on the eyes and doesnt completely screw over my muscle memory forcing me to relearn the process again (cough cough unlike the picture in picture redesign)

also why does a red bar appear on the bottom of the window then go away when i open the browser and it hasnt finished loading yet? some new loading optimization?

lastly, any updates regarding pinboards? it's a feature I also use and would like it to be less clunky and more smooth and maybe have a little functionality added

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:11:17 GMT

Kilian01 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:11:17 GMT

@Opera-QA-Team Here are simple steps to reproduce the issue:

1 Get opera-stable_123.0.5669.47_amd64.deb and opera-stable_125.0.5729.21_amd64.deb

2 Open Terminal and install 123

user@workstation:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i opera-stable_123.0.5669.47_amd64.deb
[sudo: authenticate] Password:
Selecting previously unselected package opera-stable.
(Reading database ... 144087 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack opera-stable_123.0.5669.47_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking opera-stable (123.0.5669.47) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of opera-stable:
opera-stable depends on libqt5core5a (>= 5.3.0); however:
Package libqt5core5a is not installed.
opera-stable depends on libqt5gui5 (>= 5.10.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.10.0); however:
Package libqt5gui5 is not installed.
Package libqt5gui5-gles is not installed.
opera-stable depends on libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2); however:
Package libqt5widgets5 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package opera-stable (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-3ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.28-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.18-2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (2.4-5build2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
opera-stable

3 Type in "opera" and confirm that Opera successfully starts.

user@workstation:~/Downloads$ opera
[1212/184223.609685:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/file/directory_reader_posix.cc:43] opendir /home/user/.config/opera/Crash Reports/attachments/9559ff31-f72b-4a04-ae82-cc9b27f1f3c8: No such file or directory (2)
[8097:8097:1212/184225.084491:ERROR:extensions/browser/service_worker/service_worker_task_queue.cc:449] DidStartWorkerFail jifbgnmbgbdiedhdecealmlgmekpagde: 15
[8142:8148:1212/184229.046001:ERROR:net/socket/ssl_client_socket_impl.cc:914] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -101

4 Uninstall 123 and install 125

user@workstation:~/Downloads$ sudo apt remove opera-stable
REMOVING:
opera-stable

Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 1, Not Upgrading: 2
1 not fully installed or removed.
Freed space: 361 MB

Continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 144277 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing opera-stable (123.0.5669.47) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.18-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-3ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (2.4-5build2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.28-1) ...
user@workstation:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i opera-stable_125.0.5729.21_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package opera-stable.
(Reading database ... 144087 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack opera-stable_125.0.5729.21_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking opera-stable (125.0.5729.21) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of opera-stable:
opera-stable depends on libqt5core5a (>= 5.3.0); however:
Package libqt5core5a is not installed.
opera-stable depends on libqt5gui5 (>= 5.10.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.10.0); however:
Package libqt5gui5 is not installed.
Package libqt5gui5-gles is not installed.
opera-stable depends on libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2); however:
Package libqt5widgets5 is not installed.

5 Type in "opera" and confirm that Opera fails to start
user@workstation:~/Downloads$ opera
[1212/185927.019260:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/file/directory_reader_posix.cc:43] opendir /home/user/.config/opera/Crash Reports/attachments/b80c360c-3ab0-40a4-8061-3e33132e9102: No such file or directory (2)
[9031:9031:1212/185927.021586:FATAL:sandbox/linux/suid/client/setuid_sandbox_host.cc:167] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera-stable/opera_sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
[1212/185927.030139:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/file/file_io_posix.cc:145] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq: No such file or directory (2)
[1212/185927.030226:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/file/file_io_posix.cc:145] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq: No such file or directory (2)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:01:29 GMT

metana — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:01:29 GMT

2 problems:

DevTools in separate window isnt being resized, it gets full screen.
youTube PiP mode (small window in separated window) its not being resized too.

OS: Ubuntu 24.04 - Gnome:

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64 
Host: Vivobook_ASUSLaptop K3605VC_K3 
Kernel: 6.14.0-36-generic 
Uptime: 34 mins 
Packages: 2757 (dpkg), 37 (snap) 
Shell: bash 5.2.21 
Resolution: 1920x1080 
DE: GNOME 46.0 
WM: Mutter 
WM Theme: Adwaita 
Theme: Yaru-dark [GTK2/3] 
Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3] 
Terminal: gnome-terminal 
CPU: 13th Gen Intel i7-13700H (20) @ 
GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Gr 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Lap 
Memory: 10651MiB / 15655MiB

Opera Info: (Snap)

metana@metana:~$ snap info opera
name:      opera
summary:   Fast, secure, easy-to-use browser
publisher: Opera (opera-software✓)
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/opera
license:   unset
description: |
  Try the Opera browser - now with a built-in ad blocker, battery saver and
  free VPN.
commands:
  - opera
snap-id:      AljMvoQbHtnnrka00lIoxHJ6Qhfn0X8m
tracking:     latest/stable
refresh-date: yesterday at 20:32 +0330
channels:
  latest/stable:    125.0.5729.21 2025-12-11 (416) 187MB -
  latest/candidate: ↑                                    
  latest/beta:      ↑                                    
  latest/edge:      125.0.5729.21 2025-12-10 (416) 187MB -
installed:          125.0.5729.21            (416) 187MB -

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:20:44 GMT

Scrofa — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:20:44 GMT

The dock icon in Ubuntu still missing.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:39:23 GMT

sparrow93 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:39:23 GMT

@opera-qa-team: I have similar, yet different problem with deb installation on Zorin OS. I have updatedthe package but the browser is still not opening. No errors. Typing in the terminal "opera" renders nothing. Only thing that helped me launch Opera was chnage the executive in /usr/bin/ from "opera" to "opera-stable".

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:14:38 GMT

Opera-QA-Team — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:14:38 GMT

@rick2: Hi thanks for letting us know! We'll take a closer look into it.

Reply to Opera 125.0.5729.21 Stable update on Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:11:09 GMT

Opera-QA-Team — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:11:09 GMT

@kilian01: Hi we tried the deb installation before the release could you please share what is wrong, as we haven't noticed that issue before the release.