@burnout426 Thank you for your time, your suggestions, and your willingness to help.

But ultimately I just have to ask why bother? Why go through a bunch of trial and error in this arcane s*** to try to get Opera back to some level of "acceptable"? There are other browsers that are already acceptable.

I've uninstalled Opera from my work machine and have moved on.

Best of luck to all.

@leocg said in [Suggestion]Option to disable splash screen at startup:

Like in Opera GX, the animation should run only after an update

No it should not. That's the point. It should not exist.

Bug or not, it went from being irritating on every update to being irritating on every startup. Well done, Opera. It's still irritating whenever it runs.

I've been using Opera as my default browser since last century, but this is irritating enough that I created this account (and consented to Opera collecting and using my information without any way to opt out) just to complain about this one thing. I am looking at other options, because of this one thing.

Imagine having to endure a splash screen and listen to a little song every time you opened your refrigerator, or looked at your watch, or looked in your sock drawer.

Just stupid.

(As a dev though, I suspect this is not the devs' fault. This is marketing. This seems typical of middle management trying to justify its existence.)

@burnout426 Thank you for your time, your suggestions, and your willingness to help.

But ultimately I just have to ask why bother? Why go through a bunch of trial and error in this arcane s*** to try to get Opera back to some level of "acceptable"? There are other browsers that are already acceptable.

I've uninstalled Opera from my work machine and have moved on.

Best of luck to all.

@burnout426 Nope, no such entry in the latest installer_prefs.json file.
(I do see this, which is clearly not respected by the program: "autoupdate":false)

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction though. In the installation_status.json I found a very suspicious flag. It certainly looks like Opera is setting itself as the default browser every time it updates without my permission.

{"data":""C:\Users\********\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera\Launcher.exe" --makedefaultbrowser",
"name":"ReinstallCommand",
"type":"REG_SZ"},

Thanks for the help.

Posting this using Brave.

@leocg It updates itself because there's no setting to turn that off.

It happened again this morning coinciding with the 103.0.4928.16 update.

On my machine Opera is setting itself as the default browser without my permission.

Is there any way to disable this?

Twice in the past week I've had to reset the default browser on my work machine.
Opera had somehow become the default browser both times.

These events coincide with the release dates on the 102 change log.
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-102/

Is this just me or have others experienced this as well?

@leocg said in [Suggestion]Option to disable splash screen at startup:

Like in Opera GX, the animation should run only after an update

No it should not. That's the point. It should not exist.

Bug or not, it went from being irritating on every update to being irritating on every startup. Well done, Opera. It's still irritating whenever it runs.

I've been using Opera as my default browser since last century, but this is irritating enough that I created this account (and consented to Opera collecting and using my information without any way to opt out) just to complain about this one thing. I am looking at other options, because of this one thing.

Imagine having to endure a splash screen and listen to a little song every time you opened your refrigerator, or looked at your watch, or looked in your sock drawer.

Just stupid.

(As a dev though, I suspect this is not the devs' fault. This is marketing. This seems typical of middle management trying to justify its existence.)