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?

@Tanki67 said in Access for extensions always requested...:

Automatically allow access was not here for all extension

It's there for OneTab at least. Is it there for OneTab for you too? If not, try removing the extension and adding it back in.

Or, test the extension in a test standalone installation?

@KenedSF What happens when you try the test at https://forums.opera.com/post/400511?

Close Settings in Windows if it's open.

In Opera, goto https://example.com and hit ctrl + shift + j to open the console in the developer tools.

Type:

Notification.requestPermission().then(permission => {
  alert("Permission: " + permission);
});

and press enter.

When asked to allow notifications for example.com, choose "yes". You should then see an alert dialog saying the permission was granted.

Then, in Windows, goto "Settings -> System -> Notifications", make sure notifications are enabled, "Do not disturb" is disabled and there's no focus session enabled. Then, see if Opera is in the notification app list (it should be now if it wasn't). If it is, click "Opera" in the list and make sure its notification settings are correct.

Then, restart Opera.

Then, go back to https://example.com/, open the console again, type:

new Notification("Test notification from example.com");

and press enter to test that notifications work for the site.

Does all that work at least?

It does for me, but I'm on 23H2.

There are Gmail and Calendar flags at the URL opera://flags. I enabled them, but they don't seem to do anything, so I guess they're just for Opera One at the moment. Not sure if GX is going to get them.

For now, you can add https://mail.google.com/ and https://calendar.google.com/ manually if you want.

In rare cases when this happens, uninstalling Opera (don't choose to delete your data when uninstalling) and reinstalling Opera brings them back or they come back after the next update for some reason. You can try it, but it probably won't help.

For OneTab for example, goto the URL opera://extensions and click details for OneTab. If "Automatically allow access on the following sites" is enabled for it, enable it and make sure it stays on after a restart of Opera. Also, enable "Allow access to search page results" so it can have access to search engine result ages and sites you goto from search engine result pages.

If that does the trick, try with the other extensions.

If needed, you can remove the problem extensions and install them again.

@4rigumus said in Opera GX is Very Slow Despite a Fast Internet Connection:

reinstalling Opera GX from scratch,

Including starting with a fresh "Opera GX Stable" folders in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Opera Software"?

What specific anti-virus and other security software (including VPNs) do you have installed?

If you goto the URL opera://sync-internals, does it give you more information about the error (after you start Sync and trigger get updates)?

Now that you mention Youtube, Opera has a bug report investigating Youtube notifications not working for some users at least. It's RNA-1653. The cause hasn't been figured out yet though.

@Himmelsschlingel Yeah, I saw some stuff on Google about DNS Rebind Protection too.