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.

Hit ctrl + a to select them all, hit ctrl + c to copy them. Then, go into the "Speed dial" folder and hit ctrl + v to paste those copies.

@burnout426 Testing, I don't think it will help.

What if you drag the shortcuts that you create on your desktop to the taskbar (and keep the desktop shortcuts there)? Does that make the taskbar buttons behave as expected?

Opera Developer has Bluesky by default now. Maybe the support will eventually trickle down to Opera GX.

Creating thread.

Sounds like a file permission issue. What operating system are you on?

Goto the URL opera://bookmarks and look in the trash. If you see them there, you can hover over each one and choose "undo delete". Or, you can select one (or all), cut and paste them back in the "Speed dial" folder.

If you're syncing bookmarks with your phone, look at opera://bookmarks again for an "Other speed dials" folder to see the speeds from your phone. You can then select, copy and paste them into the "Speed dial" folder.

Besides those things, you'd need a backup.

There's a post about this at https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1i310jj/comment/mc00dle/ that says disabling Nord's Antimalware function, Surf protection and Ad + Tracker blocker avoids the issue. Not sure if disabling all of them are needed or not.

With that said, check Nord's settings for those parts or Nord's settings in general to see if there's some exception list you can add to Opera. Also, it'd probably be good to post in the Nord community to see if they can reproduce the issue and see what Nord is doing wrong.

Click the Easy-Setup button on the right side of the address bar, scroll down to the "Start page" section and set "Speed dial effect" to none.

Opera, like all Chromium-based browsers, separates all kinds of tasks into processes. So, the process count itself is normal.

Does a test standalone installation have the same slowness though or does it search fast like it's supposed to?