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@ajaxstardust said in Commandline Command-line CLI / Opera Launch Options:

The question is: Where is the list of opera command line args? switches? options?

Depending on whether Opera was installed for all users or the current user, you can do:

"%ProgramFiles%\Opera\opera.exe" --help > "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\operahelp.txt"

or:

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" --help > "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\operahelp.txt"

, press enter in the command-line window that pops up, and then look in the operahelp.txt file for some Opera-specific commands. You must do it with "opera.exe" and not "launcher.exe". You can try this for Opera GX and Opera Crypto too.

For the longest time, to start Opera in a private window, you had to use --private, instead of Chromium's --incognito. But, now Opera supports both. --private is just an alias to --incognito.

Then, if you look in the Windows Task Scheduler's library, and select the Action tab for an Opera task, you'll see:

C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe --scheduledautoupdate $(Arg0)

for example, where $(Arg0) will get replaced with argument 0 of the command so that:

"C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe" --scheduledautoupdate "C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe"

is executed to check for and update that Opera.

You'll also see one for the assistant like this:

C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe --scheduledautoupdate --component-name=assistant --component-path="C:\Program Files\Opera\assistant" $(Arg0)

For Opera GX specifically and its GX Profiles feature, you have:

"C:\Program Files\Opera GX\launcher.exe" --side-profile-name=31323333325F343034303835323938 --side-profile-no-gx-sounds --side-profile-muted --side-profile-clear-on-exit --side-profile-minimal --with-feature:side-profiles --no-default-br

to load a specific GX profile by its name/ID, and a few forced-option switches that are optional. But, Opera GX (and regular Opera and Crypto) still support the Chromium --user-data-dir=path way if you like doing things that way to get a separate profile.

So, that's basically the Opera-specific stuff. The rest is at https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/, but there's no copy of that list that marks which ones Opera doesn't support. I don't think anyone feels like doing that. But, Opera supports a lot / most of them.

For Opera's installer, see https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/installer_commands/.

@leocg Certainly in the desktop versions. right-click and Edit (on the closed folder, not on the folder's window).