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

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

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.

I finally got this to happen to me in Opera GX. I then went to the URL opera://settings/system and enabled "Use DNS-over-HTTPS instead of the system’s DNS settings". Then things starting working. I don't know if that's coincidence or not yet though.

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://flags/#PasswordImport, enable the import flag and restart Opera. Then, goto the URL opera://settings/passwords, click the 3 vertical dots to the right of "saved passwords" and choose to import the csv file.

For the specific format of the CSV file, export passwords to a csv file from the same opera://settings/passwords 3-dot menu in any Chromium-based browser and look at the CSV file in a text editor.

@icebrg77 said in Can I export or print my Opera GX history file?:

I have it pulled up in an SQLITE viewer but cannot export or print.

https://sqlitestudio.pl/ can do that. After you add the History file as a database and connect to the database, you can right-click on the urls table and export the data in various formats. You can do that with the "visited_links" table too. You can also print the data.

When Chromium finally removes the MV2 API code, if Opera wants to keep supporting MV2, Opera will have to patch it back in with each new build of Opera. This might not be maintainable as Chromium code continues to change. So, I wouldn't be surprised if MV2 support disappears eventually.

What does Chrome at when you use a custom DNS provider at the URL chrome://settings/security and turn DNS over HTTPS off and on? Does it retain the custom entry? If not, it might be an issue in Chromium that needs to be fixed/supported so all Chromium-based browsers retain the setting.

@kotsapl If you're worried it's not enough, see https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/disable_updates_windows/#wiki_current-user_and_all-users_installations. You can also disable Opera's autoupdate tasks and block Opera's update servers.

Chromium changed the page to require something Opera doesn't support. Opera is investigating a workaround, but no guarantees. If it can't be sorted out, the page might have text informing the user that it's not supported.

Also, Chrome now supports a chrome://certificate-manager that chrome://settings/certificates now redirects to. Opera doesn't support that either, but it's be investigated at least.

So, major changes in Chromium in this area require Opera to adapt.

@genegold Opera might still have this bug with the camera and microphone settings, so keep that in mind.

Besides that, you might want to test with "Use graphics acceleration when available" off at the URL opera://settings/system. Or, with it on, you might want to test with the "Hardware-accelerated media encode" flag at the URL opera://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-encode disabled to see if it helps. Or, you might have to leave that flag enabled and adjust the Angle flag for your GPU.

@andrew84 I filed this as DNA-119219 in October.

@TimSchofield That option isn't available on Linux. You have to use the --lang=code command-line switch on Linux. You can do that in a terminal or modify the shortcut file for Opera to add it. See https://forums.opera.com/post/380391.

Not sure if that will then help with your issue though.

You can also use Opera Mail that's built into the old Presto-based Opera Browser suite. You can download it from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/1218/int/.

Just like the standalone Opera mail though, there are issues. There's no TLS 1.3 support, there's no oAuth authentication support and certificate and cypher support is very outdated. The standalone Opera Mail also has some crash issues in certain cases. The rendering of HTML messages is also outdated due to Opera Mail using an old rendering engine.

Besides those things, if you can workaround them, you can still use it.

Note that Vivaldi now has a built-in mail client that attempts to replace Opera Mail. It's pretty decent and modern.

The "Run Opera when my computer starts" setting at the URL opera://settings/onStartup should add/remove an opera.exe entry on the "Startup" tab in the Windows task manager by adding/removing the entry at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" in the Windows registry.

However, Opera also has a browser assistant that's set to run on startup that sometimes puts an Opera icon in the systray. There's no setting for that in Opera, but the assistant entry should show up on the "Startup" tab in the Windows Task Manager and in that registry key. So, make sure you disable the assistant startup entry too.