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Hi Opera Community
I am hoping someone can help me please?
All of a sudden the purple icon has appeared at the top my Speed Dial Home Page and and when clicked, There is the Advent Message as per the second image.
I click the X and Close it and it reappears again.
Is this some new feature or have I been infected with Malware?
I did a full scan with Micrsoft Defender and nothing showed up.
I am running Window 11 25H2 Build 2600.7171 and my Opera Version is 124.0.5705.65.
If this is some new feature does anyone know how to disable it please?
Regards Fitzy

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/87339/new-purple-icon-at-the-top-my-start-page-with-an-advent-messgeRSS for NodeThu, 15 Oct 2026 04:28:32 GMTMon, 01 Dec 2025 17:53:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to New Purple Icon at the top my Start Page with an Advent Messge on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:48:37 GMT]]>@burnout426
Thank you for the update.
I will stay with the previous version for the time being.

Regards
Fitzy

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/396452https://forums.opera.com/post/396452Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:48:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Purple Icon at the top my Start Page with an Advent Messge on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:32:23 GMT]]>Clicking the X and choosing "Don't show again" isn't working as intended at the moment, but Opera is checking it out. (There's already a bug for it.)

It's a legit fun, holiday feature though and not malware or anything.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/396451https://forums.opera.com/post/396451Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:32:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Purple Icon at the top my Start Page with an Advent Messge on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:10:03 GMT]]>@fitzydj OK thanks for the update

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/396449https://forums.opera.com/post/396449Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:10:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Purple Icon at the top my Start Page with an Advent Messge on Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:08:08 GMT]]>@Sequester
I asked about it in a Windows 11 Forum, the icon is for Opera to serve ads.
Brave is doing the same thing though they far more overt about it a full page ad on the start screen, an explnation and easy way to disable it.
Regards Fitzy

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/396434https://forums.opera.com/post/396434Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:08:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Purple Icon at the top my Start Page with an Advent Messge on Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:42:42 GMT]]>@Sequester I submitted a bug report. You can turn it off but it keeps coming back.
If I could turn it off and it stayed off It would not be so bad.
I have uninstalled that version and gone back to the previous version.
Also have disabled auto update for the time being.
regards
Fitzydj

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/396425https://forums.opera.com/post/396425Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:42:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Purple Icon at the top my Start Page with an Advent Messge on Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:27:18 GMT]]>@fitzydj Yes I would like to know too, I hate it!

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