Goto URL opera://settings/startPage. You'll see a suggestions option that you can disable (among other things).

Goto the URL opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs, disable the flag, and restart Opera.

Test this solution. Remove the Opera Safe Store password from Keychain Access login item.

Steps:

Open Keychain Access application

Choose 'login' keychain on left

Choose 'Password' group

Find 'Opera Safe Storage' entry, right click it and choose Delete.

You can goto https://addons.opera.com/en/wallpapers/?tag=animated and install one of the animated wallpapers. Then, in Opera, goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera and look in the "themes" folder in the profile folder.

You'll see the folder for the wallpaper you installed. In it, you can see how to create your own. You then just zip up your persona.ini file with the webm file and thumbnail and you 'll have your custom wallpaper.

Things you can try:

Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera and delete the WidevineCDM folder in the profile folder.

Then, start Opera, goto the URL opera://components, click "update" for Widevine, let it update, and restart Opera.

Then, start Opera and goto https://html5test.com/ and make sure it shows "yes" for h.264 support and "yes" for aac support.

Once that's good, goto https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm, make sure it says "Using Widevine" above the video and "Widevine" for EME below the video, and "video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c00d" for MSE below the video. And, make sure the video plays and you can hear its audio.

Then, goto the URL opera://settings/siteData, type spotify.com in the search-cookies field and choose "remove all shown".

Then, goto https://open.spotify.com/ in a new tab, log in, and try to play some music.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://flags/#reduce-user-agent, enable the flag, restart Opera, and try again.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://settings/system, disable hardware acceleration, restart Opera, and try again.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://extensions, disable all your extensions, and restart Opera.

If you still ahve problems, make sure you're not using Opera's VPN, and try turning off Opera's Adblocking and tracking protection.

If you still have problems, try all of the above with a standalone installation.

You can also goto the URL opera://settings/content/protectedContent, and make sure "Sites can play protected content" and "Sites can use identifiers to play protected content" are set with no sites in the custom behaviors list.

In the Opera program files directory, right-click on launcher.exe to create a new shortcut and place it on your desktop. Then, on the desktop, rename it what you want. Then, right-click on the shortcut, goto properties and then the "shortcut" tab. On that tab, modify the target to add the --user-data-dir command-line switch.

For example:

"C:\Program Files (X86)\Opera\launcher.exe" "--user-data-dir=C:\Users\yourusername\Opera2"

(I personally have a "My Program Files" folder in "C:\Users\myusername", so I'd use "C:\Users\myusername\My Program Files\Opera2" for example.)

You can create as many shortcuts as you want with each using a different profile folder.

See http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#user-data-dir for more info.

Log into https://gemini.google.com/app in a tab.

Then, enable the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" flag at the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel, restart Opera, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the sidebar, scroll down to Custom Site Panels and add https://gemini.google.com/app.

As an alternative for now, note that you can enable the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" flag at the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel, restart Opera, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the sidebar, scroll down to "Custom Site Panels" and add the URL for the web app you want (https://bsky.app/ for example).

You can't customize the icon for it in the sidebar and you can change its position, but it's something for now.

If you have any trouble logging in to the site in the sidebar, you can log in via a regular tab first and then reload the sidebar.

Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Close down Opera and delete the WidevineCDM folder in the profile folder. Then, start Opera, goto opera://components and try updating Widevine again.

You might want to make sure opera://flags/#new-component-update-mechanism is disabled too. It should be by default, but check that URL just in case.

Are you talking about the start page button that's missing on the left side of the address bar in Opera One builds?

@andrew84 Never paid attention in Opera One, but in Opera GX, there’s often a vertical line to show the preview for the dark mode wallpaper and the light mode wallpaper at the same time. Mods can provide a different one for each mode. I forget if the line shows in GX when the mod provides the same for both modes. Can’t check at the moment, but that might explain why they’re there. Of course, if the wallpaper is the same for both modes, the line should be omitted IMO.

There's an issue where it might not work right if you have the level set to 100%. Setting it to 75% might work around that. Settings are at the URL opera://settings/lucidMode.

Download "Opera_131.0.5877.97_Setup_x64.exe" from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/131.0.5877.97/win/.

Make sure Opera is closed and make sure there are no Opera processes running on the "Processes" tab in the Windows Task Manager.

Then, uninstall whatever Opera you have installed via "Installed apps" in settings in Windows. Don't choose to delete your data when asked. If it fails to uninstall that way, don't worry about it.

Delete the "Opera" folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs"

Delete any Opera shortcuts remaining on the desktop, start menu and in the taskbar.

Open up the Windows Task Scheduler, select "Task Scheduler Library" and delete any Opera autoupdate tasks that are still in the list.

Delete everything in "C:\Windows\temp" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\temp". You can skip temp files that Windows won't let you delete because they're in use.

Then, launch the installer, click "options", make sure everything is how you want and install.

Then, see how things go from there with the next update.

As to why it happens, it could be some security software on your system that's interfering with Opera. NordVPN, Eset, Kaspersky, Bitdefender and CCleaner for example are known to mess with Opera.

You can also run:

ping autoupdate.opera.com

in a command prompt to make sure you can reach Opera's autoupdate servers.

You can also check:

ping net.geo.opera.com

Right-click Opera's taskbar button and unpin it. Then, right-click on opera.exe in "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera" and choose "Pin to taskbar".

Or:

Download "Opera_131.0.5877.97_Setup_x64.exe" from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/131.0.5877.97/win/, close Opera, uninstall Opera via "Install apps" in settings in Windows (but don't choose to delete your data when asked). Then, delete the "Opera" folder in "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs".

Then, launch the Opera installer, click "options", make sure all the options are how you want them and install.

@stefanw1337 said in Protected (DRM) content can't be played:

added this to the Opera shortcut -after target: --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

When using that, you should keep it up to date by going to the URL chrome://version in Chrome and looking at the user agent string. Having version 120 in the string might cause some issues as it's super old.

@Opera-QA-Team Thanks for checking. Since you were not able to reproduce it, I restarted my GPU driver with Windows key + ctrl + shift + b and that fixed it. But, I restarted my computer for good measure.

So, all good. False alarm.

@whisperer Yep.

CrashID=bp-ff60d95d-7118-48f9-b80c-4467b0260523 (from Opera Developer)

@profesy said in opera has been restored after an emergency shutdown:

https://forums.opera.com/topic/75793/telegram-is-not-working/25?_=1778795259621

I wrote about this problem earlier

I don't have Telegram, but looking on the net, I see lots of memory leak reports for it in all browsers where the tab runs out of memory if you don't close it and reopen it or reload it often. While not a fix, that's something you can try in Opera to try and prevent it from happening as much. Not sure if clicking "reload" on the Telegram sidebar panel will help the same or not though.

Not sure if it was mentioned, but on Windows 11, when Opera Developer (fresh profile) isn't maximized, clicking the Opera Menu button at the top left of Opera opens a new window instead of opening the context menu.

More specifically, what action gets triggered depends on the position of the window, which affects what item in the context menu the mouse cursor would be on if the context menu actually showed up.

All is good in Opera Stable.

If you're talking about Opera Sync, in the old Opera, after logging in to your Opera account, enabling Sync, choosing to sync everything on the opera://settings/syncSetup page and closing the syncSetup page to initiate syncing, you have to wait a tad bit for things to sync. Then, you need to goto https://www.sync.opera.com/, log in and confirm that your data is all there. Once it is, you should then be able to log in and enable syncing of everything in the new Opera and it should just work. Just note that speed dials for the old Opera will be in a folder for the old Opera at the URL opera://bookmarks where you have to copy them to the "Speed Dial" folder for the new Opera. For non-speed-dial bookmarks, they should just sync as expected. Also note that, not all settings are synced, only extensions from addons.opera.com are synced (and only their installations, not their settings and data) and open tabs for the old Opera are just available at the URL opera://activity for you to manually open in the new Opera.

Now, if Sync isn't working for you and you can still load the old Opera on the old computer, you can do exporting and importing:

In Opera on the old computer, goto the URL opera://bookmarks and use the drop-down at the bottom left to export your bookmarks to an HTML file. Then, copy that HTML file to a USB stick for example to transfer it to the new computer. Then, in Opera on the new computer, goto the URL opera://settings/importData, select "Bookmarks HTML file" in the drop-down and point it to the bookmarks HTML file to import your bookmarks. Then, goto the URL opera://bookmarks and go in to the "Bookmarks Bar" folder to find your imported bookmarks. You can then move the bookmarks to where you want. For example, you can move imported speed dials to the "Speed Dial" folder and imported bookmarks to the root of the "Bookmarks Bar" folder or "Other Bookmarks". How ever you want.

For passwords, in the old Opera, goto the URL opera://password-manager/settings and export your passwords to a CSV file. Then, open up the CSV file in a text editor to make sure the passwords are actually there. Then, in Opera on the new computer, goto opera://password-manager/settings and import the CSV file from the old Opera.

For open tabs, before you export your bookmarks, in each workspace, in each window, right-click on an open tab, goto "Save" and choose "all tabs to a speed dial folder". You can then name those speed dial folders "Window 1 - Workspace name1", "Window 1 - Workspace Name2", "Window 2 - Workspace Name 1" etc. so you know what tabs are for what workspace. Then, in the new Opera, after creating the same workspaces and number of windows, in each workspace, in each window, you can right-click on its corresponding imported speed dial folder and choose "open all in tabs" to restore your open tabs. This does not restore navigation history for each tab though.

For history, you can goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera and copy the "History" file in the profile folder over to the new computer and use that copy to replace the existing one in Opera's profile folder.

For extensions, you reinstall them. For cookies, you don't transfer those. You just log in to sites again in the new Opera. For settings, you just adjust your settings again.

For autofill form data and a few other things, you might be able to copy the "Web Data" file in the profile folder for the old Opera and use it to replace the "Web Data" file for the new Opera. Might not work properly though if anything in the "Web Data" file is encrypted by the old Opera where the new Opera can't read it. But, you can try. If it doesn't work, you can just delete the "Web data" file to have Opera create a fresh one that it can write to again.