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My Opera icon on the top-left corner of the browser gets red background. Normally it's a red letter "O" on dark background.
It's not the task bar icon and has nothing to do with broken downloads.
After I close / reopen the browser - the icon gets back to normal for a few minutes, but then it lights up red again.
Seems like it started happening yesterday, or a day before.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/40299/opera-icon-red-background-not-in-task-barRSS for NodeSat, 06 Jun 2026 05:50:55 GMTFri, 01 May 2020 14:19:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Icon red background (not in task bar!) on Fri, 01 May 2020 17:35:37 GMT]]>@andrew84
I thought this flag has been discontinued for over a year. However, I just restarted the browser with this flag and so far the notification is not popping up. I'll keep an eye on it.
Thanks!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/209030https://forums.opera.com/post/209030Fri, 01 May 2020 17:35:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Icon red background (not in task bar!) on Fri, 01 May 2020 15:09:39 GMT]]>@jenden try adding the --disable-update switch in shortcut
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It helped me in 58 version, without the switch I had red notification about an update even with renamed autoupdate.exe
*maybe it's need to re-pin the taskbar icon after this change if you run Opera using taskbar icon.
** also probably is need to remove update tasks from Windows task scheduler.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/208995https://forums.opera.com/post/208995Fri, 01 May 2020 15:09:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Icon red background (not in task bar!) on Fri, 01 May 2020 14:44:28 GMT]]>@leocg
I does have an option to get the "latest security update" but that links only takes me to Opera download page. Obviously I don't want to use that - I already have the version of Opera that I like. I have "autoupdate" file deleted and all Opera update tasks killed in taskschd.msc
I want to make absolutely sure that Opera does not update automatically. I will only update it manually when I need to. That means I also do not need to see any useless notifications from Opera about new updates.
I don't want to hide the entire side bar for this.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/208992https://forums.opera.com/post/208992Fri, 01 May 2020 14:44:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Icon red background (not in task bar!) on Fri, 01 May 2020 14:37:54 GMT]]>@jenden There isn't anything on the menu abou an update?

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