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?

@mbstafs I can confirm also. It seems to only happen when switching to a different window and back if the address field drop-down is open. If I hit esc or click somewhere outside the drop-down to close the drop-down before switching to another window and back, the text in the address field remains as expected.

@buzzyheb Correct. For the test standalone installation, you do not import anything during installation or after.

Bug DNA-125528 has been filed for this issue. Will let you know if I hear anything.

As a test, does it happen with a test standalone installation of Opera.?

Do you happen to have CCleaner installed? Kaspersky, Eset, Bitdefender?

For what it's worth, no issues here in Opera 134.0.5954.66 64-bit on Windows 11. I even turned on Opera's adblocking and tracking protection with all lists enabled. Still shows up just fine.

@mbstafs I can confirm this. I wonder if it's a regression caused by the fix for:

RNA-4324 [Search Engines] Opera triggers inactive search shortcuts in address bar

that was first included in the previous Opera Developer build as shown at https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-136/.

I mentioned this new issue in that bug at least, so someone is at least informed about it.

@buzzyheb Same issue in a test standalone installation to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop?

@NatureWithGreenWorld You would need to have a backup of the "Sessions" folder in the profile folder (profile path shown at the URL opera://about) from the time your tabs were still there. If you have a backup like that, you can delete everything in your current "Sessions" folder and copy over the files from the backup "Sessions" folder.

Or, see https://forums.opera.com/post/406843 for how you can extract the open tabs from backed-up session files and open them back up.

Opera GX on what operating system?

When Opera started, did it show that it just updated? If so, what version do you have now and what version did you have last? You can find that out by going in to the install folder (path shown at the URL opera://about) and looking at the newest and last version folders.

I was no longer logged in. After I logged in, everything was just gone,

Are you referring being logged in to your Opera account and are you using Opera Sync?

Did you recently change your password for operating system account or change your computer name in your system settings?

You can try the --force-device-scale-factor command-line switch.

On Windows for example, you can hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type cmd and press enter to open a command prompt.

Then, with Opera closed, you can type:

"%localappdata%\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" --force-device-scale-factor=1.5

and press enter to start Opera.

1 = 100%, 1.25 = 125%, 1.5 = 150%, 2 - 200% etc.

Then, if that works, you can modify Opera's shortcut to do that.

For Opera's pinned taskbar button, right-click it, right-click "Opera Browser", goto "Properties", switch to the "Shortcut" tab and add a space and --force-device-scale-factor=1.5 to the end of the value inf the target field, click apply and OK out.

You can do the same thing for Opera's desktop shortcut, but right-clicking it and going to properties. For Opera's start menu shortcut, you can right-click it, choose "open file location" and then edit the properties of the Opera shortcut there.

If you want it to be a separate shortcut, you can right-click on your desktop, goto "New", choose "Shortcut", browse to opera.exe in its install folder, click "Next", name the shortcut "Opera Big" and click "Finish". Then, use that shortcut to start Opera.

If Opera is ever started by a file or protocol association though, Opera will open normally unless you edit some commands in the Windows registry. I can explain how to do that if ever needed.