Opera launches Opera One R2 – the best Opera Browser to date

[max1c]

max1c @max1c last edited by

@max1c: Video pop-out doesn't work for me either which is pretty annoying.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @max1c last edited by

@max1c

Aurora and Midsommar show as "Coming soon" for you?

[max1c]

max1c @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Here's what I see:

I installed the preview versions and I had Aurora and Midsommar before. But not in this release.

[max1c]

max1c @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426: Ok, nevermind. It's because I disabled hw acceleration since I keep getting blinking black screens all the time.

[max1c]

max1c @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426: I get a blinking screen sometimes and then the whole browser just turns white until I completely restart it. Happens on RTX 3080 and on a laptop without a dedicated GPU. Unfortunately, not exactly usable themes.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @max1c last edited by

@max1c Ah, makes sense. I assume you tried setting the "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" flag at the URL opera://flags/#use-angle to "opengl" when hardware acceleration is on to see if that fixes your issue?

[KeivMS]

KeivMS last edited by

In previous version i could set my daily changing desktop wallpaper as my background in opera.
Not seeing that anymore.

Why was this feature removed?

If not removed, where is it now?

[parduspars]

parduspars last edited by

After a long time, I wanted to update my Opera and give it another try, but my classic problem continues: I can't watch Twitter and Instagram videos. I don't have this problem in other chromium-based browsers on my system, but I can't figure out why I have it in Opera. It seems like I'll close Opera again now and wait for the next version.

[andrew84]

andrew84 last edited by andrew84

*It's a bit strange that it's impossible to select wallpaper when predefined theme is selected. I think it should be possible after the 'Animated' toggle is disabled.

*Another one thing I noticed is that tiles on your screenshot have the semitransparent light background. But here it's dark background.

*and I think that the search box should be also semitransparent while not focused.

[max1c]

max1c @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426: Yes, OpenGL fixes the blinking. But these themes don't work at all with OpenGL. Everything is just white.

[andres85961234]

andres85961234 last edited by

For me the annoying thing is that the Midsommar and Aurora Theme does not have the animation or the background, maybe they use opengl and not vulkan?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @andres85961234 last edited by

@andres85961234 What animation are you talking about? Here, Aurora has animation.

[andres85961234]

andres85961234 @leocg last edited by

@leocg: On my device the animation and background Midsommar and Aurora don't work, they stay blank.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @max1c last edited by

@max1c When you have hardware acceleration on and have the Angle flag set to "opengl", what does opera://gpu say? Is it showing everything is hardware-accelerated or does it say it's using software? If the latter, that would explain why it really doesn't work any better than having hardware acceleration off. If the former, it might be a bug in Opera or your GPU drivers. Not sure. Nvidia + hardware acceleration + opengl is usally the ticket to getting everything working perfectly, but...

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @KeivMS last edited by

@KeivMS Click the Easy Setup button. If you already have the classic theme selected, hover over it and click the edit button. If you don't have it selected yet, click "theme gallery" and choose the classic theme.

In the properties of the classic theme, there should be wallpapers lister there where you can pic your desktop as the wallpaper.

Does that work and it's just not animated or does that not work at all?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @andres85961234 last edited by

@andres85961234 What OS? animation doesn't work even when you are on start page/speed dial?

[lancealot]

lancealot last edited by

The most welcome news and feature from this update has to be that Opera R2 will continue supporting Manifest V2 extensions beyond the June 2025 cut off date. That is great news!!!

[lancealot]

lancealot @max1c last edited by

@max1c: Have you tried setting opera://flags/#use-angle to "D3D9". I found I have less display issues when I set it to that.

[lancealot]

lancealot @max1c last edited by

@max1c: In addtion to #use-angle, I also set #ignore-gpu-blocklist to enabled.

[lancealot]

lancealot @daria19 last edited by

@daria19: Great post about how Opera handles the Chromium updates. I always find it interesting how quickly users criticize Opera for not being on the latest Chromium version, without realizing it takes work on your end in ensure it doesn't totally break things by rolling it out too quickly. I know based on previous posts on this same topic that Opera will also prioritize pushing Chromium updates out as quickly as possible when major security issues are involved. I applaud the work you and Opera are doing considering how complex web browser are.