<![CDATA[Opera Assistant is garbage.]]>What is this mess? Installs itself in the notification area, slows down loading of Opera GX browser tiles.
Has over half a dozen incidents running in the background that causes browser delays and weird taskbar notification behavior.

Complete garbage, when I removed it Opera went back to normal speeds and taskbar no longer glitching out. The entire Folder is 13MB of crap-ware.

Opera GX is better off without it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/89789/opera-assistant-is-garbageRSS for NodeFri, 23 Oct 2026 18:48:40 GMTThu, 15 Oct 2026 10:45:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Assistant is garbage. on Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:11:12 GMT]]>@rastanz The only catch with the standalone version is that you can’t set it as the default browser without extra work.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/411587https://forums.opera.com/post/411587Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:11:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Assistant is garbage. on Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:50:28 GMT]]>@burnout426 Thanks for the suggestion about the stand alone version, not too familiar with that one so I'm curious if some of the features might not be available on it.

I'll probably just remove it manually as I have been doing as it's a good way to do a bit of clean up in the Opera folder which honestly ends up being quite a mess after every update.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/411585https://forums.opera.com/post/411585Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:50:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Assistant is garbage. on Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:52:51 GMT]]>If you use a standalone installation of Opera GX instead, the assistant won't be installed.

Or, you could use this method (for browser_assistant.exe instead of opera_gx_splash.exe) to block execution of the assistant. See https://forums.opera.com/post/409763 for more info.

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