Status Bar Popup Missing

aam2018

aam2018

I know there is no status bar anymore but when you hovered your mouse over a link you would get a popup at the bottom of the browser showing you the exact link. I consider this an important security feature. Anyway, this morning in Opera GX this feature just stopped working. No popup. I had this problem in the past with Opera, the original, and I fixed it by doing the following: Type in the URL or address bar in Opera:

opera://settings/onStartup
Click on the “Open a specific page or set of pages”
Click On Add a new page
and add:
opera://startpage
to the list. Restart Opera.

This doesn't work in Opera GX. In fact, I can't even add it properly because the word opera gets replaced automatically with chrome. chrome://startpage/

Any other suggested fixes other than "resetting". Opera used to be nice and stable on my system. Until the latest few updates. Every day now is a new problem. I already switched from Opera One to Opera GX. I'm ready now to jump ship to Firefox and have it over with.