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    • burnout426
      burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

      @jsssx said in Opera standalone will refresh desktop and create icon at every start:

      I have 3 monitors plugged to this computer, does it count ?

      Not sure. Multiple desktops or extending a desktop or the virtual desktop feature might cause Opera to always create an icon and refresh. Not able to test that myself though. I supposed if you have the time and want to go through the trouble, you can disconnect all but one monitor and make sure you only have one desktop to see if there's any difference. Maybe there's something in the AMD driver config for how things are extended across screens that triggers it. Sounds unlikely, but...

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        Thanks for your help but I'm giving up, icon and desktop refresh is still here.

        Today after doing some search on Amazon, I've had a privacy issue with Opera showing continue shopping, the same I had for booking.com which I disabled in the past.

        That was the straw that broke the camel's back, after almost 2 decades with Opera I will now switch to something else.

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        • burnout426
          burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

          @jsssx said in Opera standalone will refresh desktop and create icon at every start:

          Today after doing some search on Amazon, I've had a privacy issue with Opera showing continue shopping, the same I had for booking.com which I disabled in the past.

          That's the feature introduced here https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2019/08/opera-63-0-3368-51-beta-update/ if you want to read more about it. You're supposed to be able to hide/disable that.

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          • burnout426
            burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

            Sorry you couldn't sort out the refresh issue. Good luck!

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            • burnout426
              burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

              @jsssx said in Opera standalone will refresh desktop and create icon at every start:

              I've had a privacy issue with Opera showing continue shopping, the same I had for booking.com which I disabled in the past.

              Options to turn those off are at the URL opera://settings/startPage in Opera Developer at least.

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