The change comes from Chromium. They provided an option to disable it (for now at least). Disable chrome://flags/#enable-modern-media-controls.

opera://settings/searchEngines

https://translate.google.com/#auto/th/%s as the search URL should work.

In Opera, goto the URL opera://settings/startPage. Enable "Hide Speed Dial", disable "Receive promoted...", disable "Show Speed Dial suggestions", and disable "Show news...". But, make sure "Hide search box" is disabled. You want the search box on the start page to show.

Then, goto the URL opera://settings/wallpapers and disable "Enable wallpapers".

All that is to just make the startpage load faster. You can skip all those steps if you want.

Now, create a folder on you desktop named "Override Startpage".

In it, create these two files with a text editor (like Notepad):

manifest.json:

{
    "name" : "Override Startpage",
    "version" : "0.1",
    "description" : "Override Startpage",
    "permissions": [
        "tabs"
    ],
    "background": {
        "scripts": ["background.js"]
    },
    "manifest_version": 2
}

background.js:

var page = "https://www.google.com/";
var start = "chrome://startpage/";

chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener(function(tab) {
    if (tab.status === "complete" && tab.url === start) {
        chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, {
            url: page
        });
    }
});

chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(function(tabId, changeInfo, tab) {
    if (changeInfo.status === "complete" && tab.url === start) {
        chrome.tabs.update(tabId, {
            url: page
        });
    }
});

Then, in Opera, goto the URL ```opera://extensions`. Then, switch on Developer Mode at the top right. Then, click the "Load unpacked" button and point it to the "Override Startpage" folder that's on your desktop.

Any time you want to change the page that's loaded, edit the "page" URL in background.js and click the reload button next to the extension on the opera://extensions page.

You can then goto opera://settings/onStartup and adjust settings there too if needed.

Read through the "Sync your passwords" section at https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2015/06/opera-developer-32-0-1899-0-password-sync-animated-themes-and-more/. It has a little bit of details and then links to https://www.links.org/files/nigori-protocol.html.

Goto here to download the Opera version of FVD Speed Dial. Right-click on "Add to Opera" and save the crx file to your computer. Extract the crx file to a folder (with 7-zip for example). In the folder, goto "js/bg/newtab_replace.js" and edit it. Uncomment the commented code and save your changes. Then, in manifest.json in the root of the folder, delete the update URL info (just for good measure) and save your changes.

Then, in Opera, goto the URL opera://extensions and switch on developer mode. Then, choose "load unpacked extension" and point it to the folder. The extension should then load fine.

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.

Manually: Right-click the link and choose "open in new tab" or right-click and hold on the link and drag down (aka gesture down) or ctrl + shift + click. There's also middle-click, ctrl + click and right-click and hold on the link and drag down and then up (aka gesture down up). You can also drag the link to the tab bar. You can shift + click to open it in a new window.

To do it automatically, you could try some Chrome extensions. Install this extension and then try some of these.

You might find some at https://addons.opera.com/en/ too. I see this one, but it forces them to load in the background instead of the foreground.

Install https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/install-chrome-extensions/ in Opera and then goto https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grammarly-for-chrome/kbfnbcaeplbcioakkpcpgfkobkghlhen in Opera and install it to see if it works.

https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2019/10/opera-64-0-3417-73-stable-update

Fix for this is in the new Opera Stable build 64.0.3417.73. Make sure you update and confirm that it's fixed please.

For now, you can turn on the opera://flags/#temporary-unexpire-flags-m76 flag to get the opera://flags/#PasswordImport flag back.

64-bit is recommended for normal use. Forget that the 32-bit version even exists in your case. As @sgunhouse said, you'll get the 64-bit version automatically from https://www.opera.com/download and the Opera site in general. Opera just doesn't detail it for general users that don't know what the difference is.

You can of course still explicitly choose the 64-bit download from the Desktop Team blog or from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/ if you want.

Uninstall Opera (there's an option to keep your data if you want). Then, delete Opera's program files folder if it's there.

Then, download http://ftp.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/66.0.3515.36/win/Opera_66.0.3515.36_Setup_x64.exe, launch it, click "options", set "install path" to "C:\Program Files\Opera", set "install for" to "all users", adjust the rest of the options you like, and install. That should fix it.

For now, you can disabled the new behavior. Goto the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-extensions-in-browser-sidebar, disable it, and restart Opera. No guarantee how long the flag will remain though.

Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path.

Close down Opera and use Windows Explorer to goto the profile folder.

Delete the "History", "History Provider Cache", and "History-Journal" files.

Then, start Opera and see if deleting history via the UI works correctly. If not, you might have to goto the URL opera://settings/reset and reset your settings.

Do you Opera Sync?

You need to using regedit to edit the commands in the following keys to add --user-data-dir= to their commands:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\OperaStable\shell\open\command

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\OperaStable\shell\open\command

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\OperaStable\shell\open\command

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\OperaStable\shell\open\command

Then, if Opera is set as the default browser, things should just work. To test, open a command prompt and try:

start "test" "http://www.example.com/"

and:

start "test" "https://www.example.com/".

You should have to manually change the following keys. But, if you do, make sure to export them first to back them up.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\http\shell\open\command

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\https\shell\open\command

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\command

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\http

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\https

If that doesn't work, in windows, you might have to set another browser as the default browser and then set Opera back as the default.

Note though that an update of Opera or a reinstallation of Opera might revert your changes to the commands in Opera's keys.

Another option is to make a standalone installation of Opera and make just make it the default browser.

Download the Opera installer, launch it, click "options", set "install path" to to the folder you want (the "profile" (the user data directory) folder will then be inside it), set "install for" to "standalone installation", uncheck "import data from default browser", adjust any other options, and install.

Then, use http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/register-firefox-portable-with-default-programs-in-vista/ to set launcher.exe as the default browser on the system. Note that for the "Set apps by default" list in the Windows Default Apps/Programs settings, the one you want will say "Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition". You can change what it says by editing ApplicationName in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FirefoxPortable\Capabilities" in the registry if you want.

For your regular profile files, just use them to overwrite the ones in the "profile" folder in the standalone installation to essentially convert your regular profile to a standalone one.

Besides the standalone installation option, another option is to try a browser launcher like https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/browser_launcher. You put it next to Opera's launcher.exe and then use the same "Mozilla Firefox Portable" tool to register the browser launcher as the default browser. Then, you edit the browser launcher's config file to add the --user-data-dir switch you want. Then, no matter how you load Opera (the browser launcher), Opera will load with the right user directory.

As you can see, it's possible to make things work. But, you'll have to decide if it's worth the effort

Flash isn't use very often anymore. Are you sure the site in question requires Flash to play the video? What site is it? What's the URL to the video page in question?

What does http://html5test.com/ say for h.264 and aac support? Are they listed as supported under "Streaming/Codecs" too?

On https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm, does the video play fine? Also, what does it say for MSE and EME support under the video?

Are you using an "N" edition or "Enterprise" edition of Windows? If so, is the Windows Media Feature Pack installed and the latest version for your version of Windows?

Maybe you're experiencing https://forums.opera.com/post/193536.

What OS? What version of Opera? Did you try going to the URL opera://settings/system, disabling hardware acceleration and restarting Opera?

@fryeste said in Opera changes file names on download:

Chrome does the same as Opera.

It's probably a behavior change in Chromium. Could be a bug or perhaps they changed behavior for some reason.

What webmail service are you using?

Also, you might want to try in Opera Beta and Opera Developer on https://www.opera.com/download. If it's a bug, it might already be fixed in those versions.

@caraboy2001 and @vegelund, never mind on testing anymore. I was able to reproduce the keyboard shortcut crash and a bug has been filed. Thanks.

Not sure, but you can try this if you want:

• Goto the URL opera://bookmarks and export your bookmarks just in case.

If you want to backup your opened tabs, right-click on a tab and choose "save all tabs to a speed dial folder" first. Then, if anything happens, you can import your bookmarks back in. Then, you can right-click on that speed dial folder and choose to "open all".

• If you sync your passwords, goto the URL opera://settings/passwords, click on the kebab menu (3 vertical dots) to the right of "Saved Passwords" and export your passwords to a CSV file.

Then, if you ever need to import your passwords, goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "install" path and close Opera. Then, open a command prompt and run:

"C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe" --enable-features=PasswordImport

(adjust the path to launcher.exe to what opera://about says).

Then, you can goto opera://settings/passwords in Opera and use the same menu to import your passwords back in. Then, you can close Opera and close the command prompt and open Opera from its icon.

• Goto https://sync.opera.com/ and reset sync.

• In Opera, sign out of sync if it says you're signed in.

• In Opera, goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Close down Opera and use Windows Explorer to goto the profile folder. In the profile folder, delete the "Sync Data" folder.

• Start Opera and set up sync like you never set it up before.

In Opera's program files directory (see the URL opera://about for the install path location), does launcher.exe and opera.exe (in the latest version folder) have their icons?