Not everyone is having this issue, so there is some situation on your system or perhaps a specific configuration of Opera that triggers it.

Could you try running Opera with a temporary profile to see if you still have the problem then? You can do that by entering this in a Terminal.app instance:

open /Applications/Opera.app --args --user-data-dir=$HOME/.opera-throwaway

Now try logging into gmail and downloading your documents again. If the problem occurs again in the same way, we know that it's not your Opera configuration causing it. If the problem is fixed, we can start seeing what in your profile is triggering this behavior.

Hello @applecoach , where did you download this installer? Opera only distributes signed installers on https://www.opera.com.

Have you tried disabling your installed extensions?

Do you only have this problem on sites from Google and Microsoft - does it work on other sites? Or is the problem for example that all https sites don't work? If you go to https://www.nytimes.com , does it work?

The only thing I can think of is that you have some other software installed on your system that is breaking these connections. Do you have a third-party firewall installed, or some other security software? Do you use another VPN in the system? Do you use a proxy?

@fjuk We don't 'choose' to limit this functionality. Unfortunately there are complicated legal restrictions around distributing support for H264 video decoding, and it comes down to 'we can't give you this functionality ourselves'.

Therefore we rely on others to give it to you. On Windows and Mac, it's the operating system that provides libraries that do H264 decoding, and Opera uses those. On Linux it's a bit more complicated, but it comes down to 'we use what Chromium uses except we can't give it to you ourselves'.

Unfortunately this means that now and then, when the library Chromium uses changes, Opera needs a certain minimum version of the library to be able to work with it. The rule of thumb is that Opera can always use a library if it's the same version as the Chromium version Opera is based on (check opera://about to see which Chromium it's based on), and sometimes older versions, depending on when Chromium last changed the library. Since the library changed in Chromium 67 / Opera 54, we currently can't use older ones.

While we are waiting for the stable package to be updated in Ubuntu's repositories, if you want a more official, Ubuntu-supplied up-to-date version of the codecs package, there's a package available for Cosmic Beaver which is already at Chromium 67. You can find it here: https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra .

Are you using the VPN or Opera Turbo (if so, try turning them off)? What is the exact error you get?

@jaffar , it looks like some of the content distribution networks Opera uses are blocked in Bahrain. Your best bet is downloading directly from our archive site as @sgunhouse pointed out.

For the current release that would be here: http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/54.0.2952.41/mac/Opera_54.0.2952.41_Setup.dmg

Good luck

@khaled-alyafey, which country are you connecting from?

Right/two-finger-Click -> Hide Extensions Bar

or

View -> Hide Extensions Bar in the application menu.

@concretable said in Newest version of Opera won't remember passwords:

So, because of one change to a certificate, that means that Opera needs access to the keychain forever?

Only to its own Keychain item that it put there itself, the Opera Safe Storage. Opera doesn't have access to any other Keychain items.

I cannot stay logged in to anything any more unless the password is in the keychain?

The password is not in the keychain - it saves an encryption key in the keychain that is used to encrypt your cookies.

That is pretty crazy. None of my other browsers behaves that way, since persistent cookies work fine.

All Chromium-based browsers behave this way.

There is more information available in this blog post as well: https://blogs.opera.com/security/2018/05/opera-53-on-macos-new-application-signature-why-you-are-getting-asked-to-grant-opera-access-to-your-macs-keychain/