Opera launches Opera One R2 – the best Opera Browser to date
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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?
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parduspars last edited byAfter 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.
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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.
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max1c last edited by
@burnout426: Yes, OpenGL fixes the blinking. But these themes don't work at all with OpenGL. Everything is just white.
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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?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@andres85961234 What animation are you talking about? Here, Aurora has animation.
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andres85961234 last edited by
@leocg: On my device the animation and background Midsommar and Aurora don't work, they stay blank.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@max1c When you have hardware acceleration on and have the Angle flag set to "opengl", what does
opera://gpusay? 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 Volunteer 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?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@andres85961234 What OS? animation doesn't work even when you are on start page/speed dial?
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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!!!
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lancealot 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.
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max1c last edited by
@burnout426 I doubt this has anything to do with Opera specifically. Pretty confident this is a Chromium issue that has been there for a while. Just tried again:
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DerHimmelssheriff-99 last edited by DerHimmelssheriff-99@lancealot But it leaves the question: Are we open to exploitations because of the unfixed security holes? Shouldn‘t there at least be some backports in due time? I don’t see that really been done.
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lancealot last edited by
@healingcross316: Actually I see the opposite, when they update Chromium in a Opera release it is not always the latest Chromium version, which means they are backporting the security fixes into a older version which they had more time to test. They have said before themselves they backport fixes, and mention such instances from time to time (https://blogs.opera.com/security/2024/08/update-your-browser-security-fixes-for-latest-chrome-zero-day-cve-2024-7971/). It takes time for the upstream fixes to make it into all the Chromium based browsers, even for a big company like Microsoft and their Edge browser (I read their changelogs so I see the lag). If your really worried about being open to exploitation then you probably shouldn't be on the Internet since I can tell you no software is 100% secure, and there are always exploitations waiting to be discovered. The point is Opera does roll out security fixes as soon as possible based on needing to test for reliability, it is not like they are ignoring them completely as your insinuating.
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DerHimmelssheriff-99 last edited by
@lancealot That one didn’t come from me. It’s what they say on sites like this e.g.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2498884/chrome-130-first-patch-fixes-three-high-risk-security-flaws.html
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DerHimmelssheriff-99 last edited by
Let me be honest: The new Opera One R2 is mostly about eye candy - isn't it? I mean, why should I change my themes with even having music in the background?
It really got bloated in my eyes with all of that new stuff. Isn't a web browser mainly for searching the web and getting out of the way?
Also, I when experimenting with themes I couldn't delete my customized ones, which leads me to having five Classic, two Midsommer and three Aurora in my gallery.
Still, even with a Aurora enabled I see the sites in my sidebar with just classic dark theme which is very unpleasant for my eyes.
I'm sorry to say, I would have expected something different from this update.
Unfortunately, my other appreciated browser Vivaldi also has come up with a new visual upgrade these days. And I don't like them either. Time to switch to Firefox or Brave again, I think.
