Goto URL opera://settings/startPage. You'll see a suggestions option that you can disable (among other things).

Goto the URL opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs, disable the flag, and restart Opera.

Test this solution. Remove the Opera Safe Store password from Keychain Access login item.

Steps:

Open Keychain Access application

Choose 'login' keychain on left

Choose 'Password' group

Find 'Opera Safe Storage' entry, right click it and choose Delete.

You can goto https://addons.opera.com/en/wallpapers/?tag=animated and install one of the animated wallpapers. Then, in Opera, goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera and look in the "themes" folder in the profile folder.

You'll see the folder for the wallpaper you installed. In it, you can see how to create your own. You then just zip up your persona.ini file with the webm file and thumbnail and you 'll have your custom wallpaper.

Things you can try:

Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera and delete the WidevineCDM folder in the profile folder.

Then, start Opera, goto the URL opera://components, click "update" for Widevine, let it update, and restart Opera.

Then, start Opera and goto https://html5test.com/ and make sure it shows "yes" for h.264 support and "yes" for aac support.

Once that's good, goto https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm, make sure it says "Using Widevine" above the video and "Widevine" for EME below the video, and "video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c00d" for MSE below the video. And, make sure the video plays and you can hear its audio.

Then, goto the URL opera://settings/siteData, type spotify.com in the search-cookies field and choose "remove all shown".

Then, goto https://open.spotify.com/ in a new tab, log in, and try to play some music.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://flags/#reduce-user-agent, enable the flag, restart Opera, and try again.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://settings/system, disable hardware acceleration, restart Opera, and try again.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://extensions, disable all your extensions, and restart Opera.

If you still ahve problems, make sure you're not using Opera's VPN, and try turning off Opera's Adblocking and tracking protection.

If you still have problems, try all of the above with a standalone installation.

You can also goto the URL opera://settings/content/protectedContent, and make sure "Sites can play protected content" and "Sites can use identifiers to play protected content" are set with no sites in the custom behaviors list.

In the Opera program files directory, right-click on launcher.exe to create a new shortcut and place it on your desktop. Then, on the desktop, rename it what you want. Then, right-click on the shortcut, goto properties and then the "shortcut" tab. On that tab, modify the target to add the --user-data-dir command-line switch.

For example:

"C:\Program Files (X86)\Opera\launcher.exe" "--user-data-dir=C:\Users\yourusername\Opera2"

(I personally have a "My Program Files" folder in "C:\Users\myusername", so I'd use "C:\Users\myusername\My Program Files\Opera2" for example.)

You can create as many shortcuts as you want with each using a different profile folder.

See http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#user-data-dir for more info.

Log into https://gemini.google.com/app in a tab.

Then, enable the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" flag at the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel, restart Opera, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the sidebar, scroll down to Custom Site Panels and add https://gemini.google.com/app.

As an alternative for now, note that you can enable the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" flag at the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel, restart Opera, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the sidebar, scroll down to "Custom Site Panels" and add the URL for the web app you want (https://bsky.app/ for example).

You can't customize the icon for it in the sidebar and you can change its position, but it's something for now.

If you have any trouble logging in to the site in the sidebar, you can log in via a regular tab first and then reload the sidebar.

Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Close down Opera and delete the WidevineCDM folder in the profile folder. Then, start Opera, goto opera://components and try updating Widevine again.

You might want to make sure opera://flags/#new-component-update-mechanism is disabled too. It should be by default, but check that URL just in case.

Are you talking about the start page button that's missing on the left side of the address bar in Opera One builds?

@stefanw1337 said in Protected (DRM) content can't be played:

And I can see Widewine is on components etc.

Both Widevine components at opera://components show a version and not 0.0.0.0?

What does it say at https://html5test.opensuse.org/? Does it say "Yes", for h.264, VP8 and VP9 and does it say "Yes" for PCM, MP3, AAC, Vorbis and Opus?

At https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm, does it say "Using Widevine" above the video?

Does it have a check for:

video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c00d"
video/webm; codecs="vorbis,vp8"
video/mp2t; codecs="avc1.42E01E,mp4a.40.2"

for MSE below the video?

Does it have a check next to "Widevine" under EME below the video?

Does the video play with audio?

If everything is all good with all that, it's most likely not Opera that's the problem.

@stefanw1337

Goto the URL opera://settings/content/all, type the problem site's domain in the search field and click "Delete displayed data". Then, goto the URL opera://settings/clearBrowserData and clear "Cached images and files" for all time. Then, make sure Opera's adblocking and tracking protection is completely off at the URL opera://settings/privacyProtection. Also make sure lucid mode is off at the URL opera://settings/lucidMode. Also make sure the video popout is disabled at the URL opera://settings/videoPopout.

Then, close Opera.

Then, hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type cmd and press enter to open a command prompt.

Then, type:

"%localappdata%\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

and press enter to start Opera while pretending to be Chrome.

Then, goto the URL opera://browserjs and disable browser.js for the session.

Then, goto the problem site and try to play things.

@cookie-drummer Not via the UI.

Goto the URL opera://settings/vpn, turn the free VPN on and fully exit Opera. Then, start Opera and make sure the VPN is off and fully exit Opera again.

Then, in "/Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Default", you'll want to edit the "Preferneces" file (a JSON file without the json extension) in a JSON editor like https://jsonav.com/ or in a text editor. Either way, under root/freedom/proxy_switcher, you want to change the ui_visible boolean value from true to false and save your changes.

@Jerry12302 You can hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type services.msc and press enter to see the services list. You can go through the list to see if you see anything weird.

On the processes tab in the Windows task manager you can look through the list of running processes to see if you find any weird processes running.

In regedit, you can search bing.com (in "keys", "values" and "data" in the ctrl + f dialog) and what it shows (clicking find next each time till you see all matches). There might be some legit entries there, but maybe one will look odd, especially if it's in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tasks".

In both Chrome and Opera, just for good measure, goto the URL chrome://settings/content/notifications and make sure there are no allowed notifications for sites.

@Jerry12302 said in Can't stop Opera from starting on PC startup or login:

@burnout426 I tried setting Chrome as the default browser instead, but after locking and unlocking Chrome opens, and opens the Bing tab.

That means it’s not Opera and is something on your system causing it.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/1sfn6w0/opera_air_automatic_ambience_switch/ for a user wishing that there was an auto / system ambience mode.

@robinbarocas said in Messenger in Sidebar is not Opening:

I am guessing this could be due to META changes?

Facebook is getting rid of messenger.com and going back to loading messenger via https://www.facebook.com/messages/. So, yeah, any differences you see are caused by that.

@Jerry12302 said in Can't stop Opera from starting on PC startup or login:

I usually only lock my PC

While Opera is still running?

If Opera is set as your default browser, temporarily set a different browser as the default and see if that browser opens when unlocking your computer instead.

For Opera, you can delete the "Sessions" folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default". It'll wipe out all your open tabs, but it my fix the issue.

I would scan your system with the free version of Malwarebytes and AdwCleaner. Sounds like you have some malware that's loading bing on Windows startup in either Opera specifically or the default browser in general.

You can open up regedit and look in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" to see if you can find any shady startup entries. You can also look in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" and "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" in File Explorer for shady startup entries there.

You can also open up the Windows Task Scheduler, select "Task Scheduler Library' and look for a shady task in the list. You can start at the top of the list, switch the task to the "Action" tab and use the down arrow to go through each task to see if you see a task with an action that's like "path to opera.exe" "https://www.bing.com/" or just something with "bing.com" in it.

In Opera itself, make sure you don't have any shady extensions at the URL opera://extensions.

On the startup tab in the Windows task manager, if you see "browser_assistant.exe", that's Opera's browser assistant that will sometimes show an Opera icon in the systray. It should be unrelated to your issue, but right-click it and choose "disable" if it's there.