The topic for things that were answered/discussed lots of times already

[Caternal]

Caternal @leocg last edited by

@leocg I'm just asking if you can reduce this amount of everything it takes. It literally took 1% of memory and cpu a few days ago with 1 tab and now it takes 70% with the same tab.

[Mdavis3]

Mdavis3 last edited by

I want to disable the auto updates of opera browser, It's like I wake up at morning check pc and the new version is there, it's annoying how to disable it.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Mdavis3 last edited by

@mdavis3 There is no setting for it, but there are some workarounds that you can try like renaming/deleting the auto update executables in Opera's installation folder.

[Stringence]

Stringence last edited by

Hello,

In case Opera browser lose bookmarks and passwords, how do we backup them for later recovery?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Stringence last edited by

@stringence It was answered several times already, but you can use Sync or export bookmarks and passwords.

[Stringence]

Stringence last edited by

Found the bookmarks export.

Where do I find the passwords export, if there is one?

I read the Help section again. Under Crashes and issues https://help.opera.com/en/latest/crashes-and-issues/ it's described what files to backup manually, and how to restore manually.

[excalibur5]

excalibur5 last edited by

I have 10 tabs open in the Opera browser ...why are there 40 processes in task manager. When I have 1 tab open- there are 22 processes or more. I only have a few extensions enabled.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @excalibur5 last edited by

@excalibur5 Because there are processes that are not for a tab.
As said, use Shift + ESC to see them.

[excalibur5]

excalibur5 @leocg last edited by

@leocg I have been seeing 23 listings in Task Manager and I have 3 open tabs. But I don't know what any of the processes are doing or if they are safe.................

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @excalibur5 last edited by

@excalibur5 Please read my previous reply again. I said how you can see what are those processes.

[excalibur5]

excalibur5 @leocg last edited by

@leocg https://ibb.co/Jr8GTjf Do you mean like this? See image. Right clicking each one does not say anything about what they are

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @excalibur5 last edited by

@excalibur5 Nope, forget about Windows task manager and just use Shift + Esc in Opera.

[excalibur5]

excalibur5 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thanks.....that works

[swyde]

swyde last edited by

I understand that I cannot change the default search engine, but can I make google to redirect to goole.com.au in address bar instead of google.com, google.com stops working every time I'm on vpn.

[PDoug]

PDoug last edited by

There is a google search bar on my opera home page. I do not use google search, how can I remove it from my home page.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @PDoug last edited by

@pdoug as said, you can hide it in settings page. Check the start page section.

[PDoug]

PDoug @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in The topic for things that were answered/discussed lost of times already:

@pdoug as said, you can hide it in settings page. Check the start page section.

Thank you, that worked fine.

[johnbrook]

johnbrook last edited by

It is not possible to manually activate as default another search engine than the defaults that came with Opera linux desktop, for example, I tried to make Startpage or Ecosia as default and it was not possible.

It is only possible in search engines that you already see installed by default (google, bing, yahoo, duckduckgo, amazon and wikipedia).

The bug happens both in the stable version (93.0.4585.37) and in the beta version (94.0.4606.19) installed via snapstore:
https://snapcraft.io/opera
https://snapcraft.io/opera-beta

OS Info:
Kubuntu 22.04 64 bits
System: Ubuntu Core 18 (x86_64; KDE)

Thank you

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @johnbrook last edited by

@johnbrook It's by design as said in the FAQ

[johnbrook]

johnbrook @leocg last edited by

@leocg Hello, thanks for clarifying. I still think it wouldn't be difficult for the Opera team to solve this, because the Chromium code allows this and all browsers based on Chromium allow this, except Opera.