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.

@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?

Try this. Just press on Alt + Spacebar then the letter M. Then, if your second monitor is on your right side, like mine, just hold down on the left arrow key and this will move the Opera Window to the right screen. Or reverse depending on your setup.

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

OK, I seemed to have solved this problem. It was an extension. Two, in this case, the Honey one and the WOT. I disable the Honey one and Facebook automatically became a little more responsive, then I disabled WOT and Facebook seems to be normal again.

This only started a few days ago. I cleared out the cache thinking it might help but didn't. After a few minutes on Facebook, the page becomes more and more unusable. Response times are greatly slowed down. When I check the task manager Opera is using over a GB of memory. This is just with Facebook open. No other tabs. Twitter also jumps to over a GB when open but it still works properly. Any suggestions? Anybody else having this problem?

Just wanted you to know I opened the details report from Avast and it was coming from an extension called "Video Downloader For Facebook". So, as long as I know what's causing it.

leocg, Thanks again for the suggestion.

@leocg

Yes, it might be an extension. Thanks for the info.