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?

Working fine for me for what it's worth. You're only allowed to add 5 custom sites. How many do you currently have?

Confirmed.

@andrew84 Never paid attention in Opera One, but in Opera GX, there’s often a vertical line to show the preview for the dark mode wallpaper and the light mode wallpaper at the same time. Mods can provide a different one for each mode. I forget if the line shows in GX when the mod provides the same for both modes. Can’t check at the moment, but that might explain why they’re there. Of course, if the wallpaper is the same for both modes, the line should be omitted IMO.

There's an issue where it might not work right if you have the level set to 100%. Setting it to 75% might work around that. Settings are at the URL opera://settings/lucidMode.

Download "Opera_131.0.5877.97_Setup_x64.exe" from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/131.0.5877.97/win/.

Make sure Opera is closed and make sure there are no Opera processes running on the "Processes" tab in the Windows Task Manager.

Then, uninstall whatever Opera you have installed via "Installed apps" in settings in Windows. Don't choose to delete your data when asked. If it fails to uninstall that way, don't worry about it.

Delete the "Opera" folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs"

Delete any Opera shortcuts remaining on the desktop, start menu and in the taskbar.

Open up the Windows Task Scheduler, select "Task Scheduler Library" and delete any Opera autoupdate tasks that are still in the list.

Delete everything in "C:\Windows\temp" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\temp". You can skip temp files that Windows won't let you delete because they're in use.

Then, launch the installer, click "options", make sure everything is how you want and install.

Then, see how things go from there with the next update.

As to why it happens, it could be some security software on your system that's interfering with Opera. NordVPN, Eset, Kaspersky, Bitdefender and CCleaner for example are known to mess with Opera.

You can also run:

ping autoupdate.opera.com

in a command prompt to make sure you can reach Opera's autoupdate servers.

You can also check:

ping net.geo.opera.com

Right-click Opera's taskbar button and unpin it. Then, right-click on opera.exe in "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera" and choose "Pin to taskbar".

Or:

Download "Opera_131.0.5877.97_Setup_x64.exe" from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/131.0.5877.97/win/, close Opera, uninstall Opera via "Install apps" in settings in Windows (but don't choose to delete your data when asked). Then, delete the "Opera" folder in "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs".

Then, launch the Opera installer, click "options", make sure all the options are how you want them and install.

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

added this to the Opera shortcut -after target: --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

When using that, you should keep it up to date by going to the URL chrome://version in Chrome and looking at the user agent string. Having version 120 in the string might cause some issues as it's super old.

@Opera-QA-Team Thanks for checking. Since you were not able to reproduce it, I restarted my GPU driver with Windows key + ctrl + shift + b and that fixed it. But, I restarted my computer for good measure.

So, all good. False alarm.

@whisperer Yep.

CrashID=bp-ff60d95d-7118-48f9-b80c-4467b0260523 (from Opera Developer)

@profesy said in opera has been restored after an emergency shutdown:

https://forums.opera.com/topic/75793/telegram-is-not-working/25?_=1778795259621

I wrote about this problem earlier

I don't have Telegram, but looking on the net, I see lots of memory leak reports for it in all browsers where the tab runs out of memory if you don't close it and reopen it or reload it often. While not a fix, that's something you can try in Opera to try and prevent it from happening as much. Not sure if clicking "reload" on the Telegram sidebar panel will help the same or not though.