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?

@whisperer File DNA-125315 for this so someone can look at it.

@jojo0587 Understood. I tried to reproduce it on another Win 11 laptop with the Sonic and classic themes and couldn't reproduce it there either. I tried different display scalings too to see if it made a difference. No go for me.

It seems the feature has been removed for some reason.

However, when you visit supported sites like Youtube that tell browsers how to search the site, you will see that a search engine for it is now automatically added to the opera://settings/searchEngines page where all you have to do is click "Activate" for it, and then edit its keyword if you want.

You can get to the opera://settings/searchEngines page fast by right-clicking in the address field and choosing "Edit search engines". Or, you can bookmark the opera://settings/searchEngines URL as a speed dial or bookmark.

@andrew84 Can't seem to reproduce it on Win 11 at least.

First, use ChromePass to see how many of Opera's passwords it picks up. How many does it show?

The downloaad link for the zip file is down the page a bit. There's also a password listed below the download link that you'll need to extract the zip file. Also, before you download the zip file, in Settings in Windows, goto "Privacy and Security" -> "Windows Security" -> Virus and Threat Protection" and click "Manage" under "Virus and Threat Protection Settings" and disable "Real-time Protection" until you're done using ChromePass.

At the URL opera://password-manager/settings, you can export your passwords to a CSV file and open the CSV file in a text editor to see if you only get 4 entries or all 30.

Also see https://forums.opera.com/post/398128 to see what my Python script is able to grab from your "Login Data" file.

All of that should tell you if it's just Opera that's messed up or if it's your "Login Data" file itself. If the latter, you're out of luck and you'll have to save what passwors are there, delete the "Login Data" file so Opera creates a new one and then manually type in your username and password for sites and save them.

If you've recently changed your Windows account password or switch to or from Windows Hello login, the Login Data file might have gotten messed up.

Or, there might be nothing wrong with the Login Data file and Opera Sync wiped out most of them if you're using Opera Sync and syncing passwords.

@jojo0587 That theme is not available for me, so I can't personally test.

@iop5 Freeze means to pause the tab's activity, but keep it open and loaded in RAM.

Urgent means to immediately unload all of the tab's content.

Proactive means Chrome will unload all of the tab's content when needed due to memory pressure.

If you're opening opera://discards, you usually want "urgent".

@whisperer I can confirm that in Opera Stable and Opera Developer.

Opera Developer CrashID=bp-293d4687-1697-4a7f-a02b-bf00e0260705

@jojo0587 What theme are you using?

There's a > at the beginning of the settings page.