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?

@bbildman That’s my fault. Try opera://browserjs instead (without the dot).

@bbildman You can goto the URL opera://browser.js and disable browser.js for the session to see if it helps.

Same issue in a test standalone installation?

This can happen if you installed some anti-virus program and then uninstalled it where it didn't uninstall properly and return control back to Windows Defender. If you think that's the case, you can reinstall that anti-virus program and then try uninstalling it again. If that doesn't work, you can look to see if there's a special, standalone uninstaller utility for that program.

This could also happen if you somehow totally disabled Windows Defender so that there's no anti-virus on your system.

Regardless of the situation, https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/known_issues/#wiki_downloads_are_broken_with_.22interrupted.3A_virus_scan_failed.22_message usually works around it for Opera, but skipping the attempt to scan your downloads when they're finished.

The share point could have an email button (that uses a mailto link that's automatically updated as you type/edit your message). Or, better yet, it could be like many social media apps where you have all kinds of share options. Guess it depends on how far you want to go with the little feature.

@andrew84 said in Opera 128 developer:

And why the icon is the same as one used for workspaces.

I think the icon should be one of the common share icons.

@Opera-QA-Team I had to go into the sidebar setup and enable it for it to show. It wasn't on by default.

@AugustMohr The updater for that old version of Opera probably isn't compatible with Opera's update server API anymore.

Also, that old version of Opera uses older formats of its profile files and a layout that's different than modern Opera. Upgrading your current Opera profile might turn out fine, but there's a chance that something could go wrong in the conversion process where you have to start with a fresh profile to resolve things.

Modern versions of Opera on macOS require macOS 12 Monterey or newer, so you should have no problem using the latest build which is 126.0.5750.43 at this moment. You'll just have to download the installer from https://www.opera.com/download.

You can always check https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7100626?hl=en for system requires as that's what Opera follows.

Usually means there's a version mismatch between opera.exe and files in the version folder in the install folder.

If you renamed opera.exe to something else to work around the Microsoft family issue and Opera updated, you'll need to delete your renamed opera.exe and rename the new opera.exe.

Another way to do things is to uninstall Opera (don't choose to delete your data when uninstalling unless you want to) and delete its install folder afterwards. Then, reinstall Opera.

If Opera won't uninstall, you can delete its install folder manually. Then, delete all Opera shortcuts. Then, in the Windows Task Scheduler, select "Task Scheduler Library" and delete all the autoupdate tasks for regular Opera and its assistant (leave the Opera GX ones there). Then reinstall Opera.

@K377IN Quite rough in the comments over there.