Here's what I did: https://davescomputertips.com/using-creating-animated-backgrounds-in-opera

A couple days ago the SaveFrom.net extension was blocked by Opera with a message that it was malicious. I removed it from Opera but recently noticed it's still in the Opera Addons. I've reinstalled it and Opera hasn't complained about it since. So is it bad or not?

You can add a background picture to your seep dial page. Opera keeps removing my background pictures. I set up a picture for the background (on opera speed dial) and eventually it will be gone. And it doesn't even show up in the Recent Wallpapers list as they normally do. It's not a serious problem but is annoying having to reset the background pic. Anybody else having this problem and is it something that can be fixed? This is on Windows 10 with the latest version of Opera and only started with this update.

@leocg

It happened to the last two pictures I used. Both where my own picture's not the ones built into Opera. It's not important enough an issue to create a new profile. Thanks anyway for the reply. I'm beginning to suspect it might have something to do with me moving the picture from it's original place on my hard drive.

It's usually only effects local images not the ones built in Opera, it doesn't matter which picture. It's usually gone within a day in my case. I'm beginning to think it's just a bug that Opera has to work on. Again thanks for all the replies.

@burnout426

In my case I have my personal pictures on my hard drive. I drag a picture to Opera and then right click on it and click on Use image as wallpaper. Sometimes it holds sometimes it doesn't.

I tried a little experiment, that so far seems to be holding, only time will tell. I went to the themes folder where Opera saves the wallpapers in zip format and deleted everyone there.

The path in my case was: C:\Users\Terry\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\themes

So far I've been able to keep a background picture for two days with no problems. I'll keep your updated. As I said originally it's not a serious problem but it is annoying.

Found it. Thanks.

@burnout426

Are you referring to the settings "Show Continue Shopping section" and
"Show Continue on Booking.com section". I now have them turned off. Thanks for the replies.

Got the same problem. Just updated to Version:72.0.3815.207, the problem is still there. What I do is to hilite the web address I typed in then copy and then right-click and Paste and search and it goes through.

@burnout426 Thanks. That worked.

When I hover my mouse over a link in a webpage, the hyperlink information would pop up at the bottom of the screen, showing me exactly where I'm going to go. That no longer works in Opera but works on every other browser I've got. It only works on the Speed Dial page. So, is this some new feature of Opera (a bad one at that) or did I accidentally disable it?

@plasma If anyone is still looking for an answer. If you have a webp format file, just open it up in Opera and right-click on it and choose the option, Use image as wallpaper. More detailed info here if you need it: https://davescomputertips.com/how-to-convert-animated-gifs-to-webp/

@oldcelt Type this in the URL or web address bar opera://settings/startPage

Hit Enter

Then disable the switch on the Show Continue Shopping Section

Usually, that will work.

@sgunhouse Thanks for the reply, but it was working all the time until the update. I had the Google Public DNS option enabled. I'm going to keep it disabled for now.

Every update and I can't get to any page online through Opera. And it's always the DNS Over HTTPS settings. I've tried all the settings, comes an update, then I have to change them again. I finally decided to disable this altogether. Is anybody else having these problems? Can it be fixed? Or is disabling the only option?

@akut Another option I forgot to mention is to Close Opera then go to : C:\Users(your account name)\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\themes, copy all the zip files there to another folder for backup and then delete all the zip folders there. Then open Opera again and try to add your wallpaper. You can salvage any other custom backgrounds through the backup zips.

If you can't see these folders, to unhide them: Type folder options in search, then click on it in the list, then click on the View tab, go to the Advanced settings list scroll down to the Hidden files and folders and check Show hidden files, folders and drives.

@akut Can you add any animated wallpaper from https://addons.opera.com/en/wallpapers/?tag=animated

otherwise Double check:

video is .webm format

make sure your thumbnail graphic is jpg format and named "first_frame_start_page.jpg" or "first_frame_start_page.jpeg". If you use jpeg as the extension rename the extension in the persona.ini

change the line "background = video.webm" to your actual video name. I don't know what the limit is in time or resolution so you might have to experiment there.

Put your name in the name field but I just tried it with all the info lines left blank and it still worked.

We Need A Text File Named persona.ini make sure the extension here is .ini and not .txt. When you make this file, before saving under file name, click on Save as type and switch from Text Documents (.txt) to All Files (.*)

[Info]
name =
author =
url =
version =

[Start Page]
background = video.webm
position = center center
title text color = #FFFFFF
title text shadow = #000000
first frame image = first_frame_start_page.jpg

zip up all three files into one zip which includes your video, thumbnail file, and persona.ini. Make sure it's a zip file and not 7zip or rar. I can confirm this also works in Opera GX.

Be sure to change the Wallpaper image option to Wallpaper archive when choosing your wallpaper.

Otherwise copy your zip file to this folder: C:\Users\Terry\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\themes (replace my name with your own account name. And see if you can add it.

@leocg I already have it disabled but I was hoping for a solution to keep it enabled without losing my connection. Otherwise, Thanks for the reply.

Anybody else having issues with the DNS over HTTPS settings? It started before the last update and continued after the update. If I enable it, my Internet works for a while. Then, it's gone. I got an error message screen that says:

No Internet
Try Changing DNS over HTTPS settings
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET
Then it gives instructions on how to do it.

AS soon as I disabled it, DNS over HTTPS, my Internet just starts working. Any suggestions?