Goto the URL opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs, disable the flag, and restart Opera.

Goto URL opera://settings/startPage. You'll see a suggestions option that you can disable (among other things).

Test this solution. Remove the Opera Safe Store password from Keychain Access login item.

Steps:

Open Keychain Access application

Choose 'login' keychain on left

Choose 'Password' group

Find 'Opera Safe Storage' entry, right click it and choose Delete.

You can goto https://addons.opera.com/en/wallpapers/?tag=animated and install one of the animated wallpapers. Then, in Opera, goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera and look in the "themes" folder in the profile folder.

You'll see the folder for the wallpaper you installed. In it, you can see how to create your own. You then just zip up your persona.ini file with the webm file and thumbnail and you 'll have your custom wallpaper.

Things you can try:

Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera and delete the WidevineCDM folder in the profile folder.

Then, start Opera, goto the URL opera://components, click "update" for Widevine, let it update, and restart Opera.

Then, start Opera and goto https://html5test.com/ and make sure it shows "yes" for h.264 support and "yes" for aac support.

Once that's good, goto https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm, make sure it says "Using Widevine" above the video and "Widevine" for EME below the video, and "video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c00d" for MSE below the video. And, make sure the video plays and you can hear its audio.

Then, goto the URL opera://settings/siteData, type spotify.com in the search-cookies field and choose "remove all shown".

Then, goto https://open.spotify.com/ in a new tab, log in, and try to play some music.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://flags/#reduce-user-agent, enable the flag, restart Opera, and try again.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://settings/system, disable hardware acceleration, restart Opera, and try again.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://extensions, disable all your extensions, and restart Opera.

If you still ahve problems, make sure you're not using Opera's VPN, and try turning off Opera's Adblocking and tracking protection.

If you still have problems, try all of the above with a standalone installation.

You can also goto the URL opera://settings/content/protectedContent, and make sure "Sites can play protected content" and "Sites can use identifiers to play protected content" are set with no sites in the custom behaviors list.

In the Opera program files directory, right-click on launcher.exe to create a new shortcut and place it on your desktop. Then, on the desktop, rename it what you want. Then, right-click on the shortcut, goto properties and then the "shortcut" tab. On that tab, modify the target to add the --user-data-dir command-line switch.

For example:

"C:\Program Files (X86)\Opera\launcher.exe" "--user-data-dir=C:\Users\yourusername\Opera2"

(I personally have a "My Program Files" folder in "C:\Users\myusername", so I'd use "C:\Users\myusername\My Program Files\Opera2" for example.)

You can create as many shortcuts as you want with each using a different profile folder.

See http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#user-data-dir for more info.

Log into https://gemini.google.com/app in a tab.

Then, enable the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" flag at the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel, restart Opera, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the sidebar, scroll down to Custom Site Panels and add https://gemini.google.com/app.

I finally got this to happen to me in Opera GX. I then went to the URL opera://settings/system and enabled "Use DNS-over-HTTPS instead of the system’s DNS settings". Then things starting working. I don't know if that's coincidence or not yet though.

As an alternative for now, note that you can enable the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" flag at the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel, restart Opera, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the sidebar, scroll down to "Custom Site Panels" and add the URL for the web app you want (https://bsky.app/ for example).

You can't customize the icon for it in the sidebar and you can change its position, but it's something for now.

If you have any trouble logging in to the site in the sidebar, you can log in via a regular tab first and then reload the sidebar.

Goto the URL opera://flags/#PasswordImport, enable the import flag and restart Opera. Then, goto the URL opera://settings/passwords, click the 3 vertical dots to the right of "saved passwords" and choose to import the csv file.

For the specific format of the CSV file, export passwords to a csv file from the same opera://settings/passwords 3-dot menu in any Chromium-based browser and look at the CSV file in a text editor.

@bavali001 said in error 0xc0000022 when trying to open Opera GX:

Any explanation of why the update breaks would be appreciated.

One case is because you have a launcher.exe in the install folder that's for a different version than the Opera you have installed and you're trying to launch Opera with launcher.exe instead of opera.exe. As for why the mismatch, sometimes an update fails to update both in the root of the install folder correctly (where just uninstalling and reinstall alone won't fix it).

Opera doesn't use launcher.exe anymore though and it won't be present in a fresh install folder and fresh Opera GX shortcuts won't reference it. They'll reference opera.exe like they're supposed to now.

For the non-MS-store version, if it's showing in "Settings -> Apps -> Installed Apps", you need to uninstall it. Then, either way, you need to delete the "Opera GX" folder that's in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs" (or "C:\Program Files"). The uninstall process does not delete the install folder and leaves a few files in it that can cause issues like you're seeing.

You then need to delete any Opera GX shortcuts (on the desktop, in the start menu and on the taskbar) for the non-MS-store version.

Then, in whatever browser you want, download "Opera_GX_116.0.5366.118_Setup_x64.exe" from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera_gx/116.0.5366.118/win/, launch it, click "options", set "install path" to "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera GX", set "install for" to "Current user", adjust all the other options as you like and install.

That will give you a fresh install folder of the non-MS-store Opera GX.

Do not use the MS Store version as its way outdated.

Each Opera window has its own set of tabs. Workspaces in Opera are just a visual separation of tabs in the window. Given that, you should see why all the workspaces are empty when you open a new window. It's because that window doesn't have any tabs yet besides the one (start page or site you opened in a new window).

In other words, workspace "test" in one window and workspace "test" in another window are not the same workspace. They're different instances of that workspace.

Given that, Opera would have to change the fundamentals of how it handles tabs or set up some kind of workspace syncing across windows to do what you want. It's probably technically possible, but not something simple. You're not the only one that's asked for this though.

For an alternative for now, you can try one of the extensions at https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/autoplay. Some are just for Youtube. Others are for all sites.

In Windows, goto "Settings -> Apps -> Default Apps", scroll down to the bottom and click "Choose defaults by file type". Then, type .png in the search field, click "Choose a default" for ".png" and pick the program you want to handle png files. For example, you can set it to the Windows "Photos" app or Opera or another browser.

Another way to do things is to right-click on a png file, goto "open with", click "choose another app", pick the app you want and click "always".

Make sure Opera's window is not maximized so that you can see at least part of your desktop. Then, on the tab in question, drag the badge at the left of the address field (usually the lock icon) and drop it on your desktop. That will create a shortcut for that tab that will launch in the default browser on the system when you double-left-click it.

@Gv56 Open up a new tab, type opera://bookmarks, press enter, left-click on "Speed dial" in the left-hand pane to open the folder in the right-hand pane, focus the right-hand pane and paste there.

Make sure you go into the "Speed dial" folder and left-click the background of the right-hand pane. Or, keep right-clicking in the right-hand pane till you see "paste" in the menu.

You can try right-clicking for "select all" and "copy" in the source folder too if you don't want to use the keyboard shortcuts.

Hit ctrl + a to select them all, hit ctrl + c to copy them. Then, go into the "Speed dial" folder and hit ctrl + v to paste those copies.

@burnout426 Testing, I don't think it will help.