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?

What are the URLs for the 2 dials that this happens with and what position is each in before dragging and which one are you dragging where?

@andrew84 I tested on Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2 in both Opera Stable and Opera Developer (both deb packages). What I see there is the old Linux issue of dead spots at the left and right edges of the window when the window is maximized. For example, if the sidebar has enough icons to be scrollable, putting the cursor at the left edge of the windows and scrolling (with wheel or trackpad) doesn't do anything.

Same type of issue happens with the scrollbar on the right side of a page. You can click to the right of the scrollbar and nothing happens. Same thing with Easy Setup, you can click to the right of the scrollbar and nothing happens.

In all those cases, those edges don't respond to mouse events (targeted for scrolling).

I don't remember what the bug numbers for those Linux cases are and can't find them.

Now, in Windows, in both stable and developer, everything seems good in that area except that Easy Setup doesn't touch the edge of the window/screen where you can click past its scrollbar to make Easy Setup disappear. This seems different than the Linux issues. Or, in another way, I can't really test if Opera on Linux has the Easy Setup disappearing issue when clicking to the right of its scrollbar because those are deadspots on Linux.

All of it needs to be fix though in my opinion.

I tested this on Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2 with 2 different ways.

For the first way, I went in the start menu, right-clicked on the Opera shortcut and chose "Add to desktop". Then, I moved that opera.desktop file from my desktop to "~/.config/autostart". I then, right-clicked on it, went to properties and changed the command to opera --lang=fr %U and that worked. When I logged in, Opera started automatically and in French.

For the second way, in "~/.config/autostart", I created the opera.desktop file in Text Editor with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Opera
GenericName=Web browser
Comment=Fast and secure web browser
TryExec=opera
Exec=opera --lang=fr %U
Terminal=false
Icon=opera
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;application/x-opera-download;
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=New Window
Exec=opera --new-window
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=New Private Window
Exec=opera --incognito
TargetEnvironment=Unity

After the file was created, I right-clicked on it, went to "Properties", switched to the "Permissions" tab and checked "Allow to execute this as a program" and that worked. When I logged in, Opera started automatically and in French.

@andrew84 said in Opera 122.0.5643.142 Stable update:

Yes, this is the original bug which @multiwebinc meant. It was fixed for windows almost two years ago in ~105 version.

Looks like that was DNA-112692 and was fixed for 106 in November of 2023 and backported to 104 and 105.

@multiwebinc Haven't checked on Linux, but it's happening on Windows 11 for me. Easy Setup (its scrollbar) doesn't touch the right-side of the screen like it does in Opera 99 for example. This means you that if you like to left-click, hold and drag that scrollbar to scroll Easy Setup and you accidentally click just to the right of the scrollbar, Easy Setup will disappear because you're clicking outside it. In 99 it works as intended.

As for Linux, I think it sill has the issue where a page's scrollbar doesn't cover the edge of the window where you can miss the scrollbar and end up dragging the window down causing the window to restore down (unmaximized). I'll have to check if that's still the case, but I guess that might affect Easy Setup on Linux too.

There's a "Keep limiters enabled after browser restart" option at the URL opera://settings/onStartup.

@chromeskeli There's no change in this area. Opera still purposely restricts modifications of the default search engines.

@multiwebinc There's a comment in the bug implying that the next Opera Developer (124) build that comes out doesn't have the issue. We'll have to double-check when it comes out.

Didn't test, but putting an Opera.desktop file in the "~/.config/autostart" folder might do the trick.

Opera.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=opera --lang=fr
Hidden=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=Opera
Comment=Start Opera at login

@Moonpick What operating system?