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

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

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.

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://about and take note of the "profile" path. Close down Opera and delete the WidevineCDM folder in the profile folder. Then, start Opera, goto opera://components and try updating Widevine again.

You might want to make sure opera://flags/#new-component-update-mechanism is disabled too. It should be by default, but check that URL just in case.

Are you talking about the start page button that's missing on the left side of the address bar in Opera One builds?

@Himmelsschlingel I see there's a 134 build for macOS and Windows (no Linux) at https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/134.0.5954.26/, but it's not approved for updating yet. As to why and why a post was published and removed, not sure.

@stubbedtoe Not sure.

@ghastly-gruber said in Return the ability to separate search and url bar:

More often, I start typing something in the search but don't search before I realize that I need to copy the url from the page I'm currently on, but I can't find that url unless I refresh the page.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copy-url-to-clipboard/miancenhdlkbmjmhlginhaaepbdnlllc. might help with that (as a workaround) for now.

On Windows, when Opera is in fullscreen mode and I hit ctrl + t, a new tab is opened and Opera immediately switches to it as I would expect. There's no address field in that new tab in fullscreen mode though to type an address to go to, but I can click on my speeddials etc. Old, Presto-based Opera had an option where if you pressed F2 (in fullscreen mode or not), you'd get a dialog with an address field where you could type an address and press enter. Something like that in current Opera might be nice.

In current Opera, you can do a little hack in fullscreen mode after you hit ctrl + t. You can then hit ctrl + shift + j to open the console, type document.location = "https://example..com/"; and press enter. But, it's probably just easier to F11 out of fullscreen, type the address, press enter and hit F11 again to go back to full screen.

Opera does have ctrl + tab and ctrl + shift + tab to cycle between tabs, which works in fullscreen mode too. That can be useful. If you want an instant no-visual switch, you can use ctrl + pageUp and ctrl + pageDown instead.

Having an option to show the address bar and tab bar when hovering at the top of the page while in fullscreen mode like you said Edge does, might be nice.

https://forums.opera.com/category/15/suggestions-and-feature-requests is where you can post feature requests (one request per post).

Sounds like https://forums.opera.com/topic/89217/disabling-operagx-update-page. I personally don't have the issue though.

You can close Opera and delete the "Sessions" folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default" to see if it helps. You'll lose all open tabs though.

While Opera is closed, you can delete everything in "C:\Windows\temp" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\temp" to see if it helps.

You can uninstall Opera (don't choose to delete your data when asked), delete the "Opera" install folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs" that remains, clear those 2 temp folders, download the Opera installer in whatever browser you want, launch it, click "options", adjust everything how you want and reinstall. That might fix it. Not sure as I don't have the issue.

It should only display once when Opera starts after an update. It shouldn't be displaying on every launch. If it is, it's likely Opera is not updating correctly. What version does it say you have at the URLs opera://about and opera://version? 133.0.5932.81 is the latest is this very moment.

Now, if you don't want to see it at all, even after an update, see https://www.reddit.com/r/OperaGX/comments/1b24otz/comment/ksql4ix/ for my extension that blocks the page and auto-closes that tab.

@t-bone-tone said in Session restore broken:

Couldn't even find 'site settings' after clicking the site banner left of the address bar, which is what I presume when you say 'badge'.

The badge is usually a lock icon when the site is secure. Here's a pic:

@DeltaKestrel said in White text on white background on multiple websites:

On multiple websites

URLs to those sites?

@t-bone-tone said in Session restore broken:

Older restore recovered tabs and sessions files are just overwritten

Goto https://web.archive.org/web/20221027220343/http://lsauer.net/chrome-session-restore/#. Once there, click the badge at the left of the address field, goto "site settings" and set "popups" to "allow".

Then, right-click on the max tabs field and choose "inspect". Then, right-click on the max="50" attribute, choose "Edit attribute", hit backspace to delete it and hit ctrl + enter to apply. Then, set the max tabs to 1000 for example. You can do that via the field on the page or edit the attribute and ctrl + enter. Whichever way you want.

Then, at the bottom of the page, click "choose files" and pick one old "Session_xxx" or "Tabs_xxx" file.

Then, click the "Recently-closed" drop-down on the page and at the top, click the top "Open all" entry. That will open all the tabs the page found in the session file.

Then, repeat for other session files. Don't choose multiple session files at once even though it allows you to.

Hopefully your old session files you have laying around contain what you need.

Keep in mind that if you have a 500 open tabs from the file for example and you choose to open them all at once, Opera might crash if it can't handle it. Otherwise, things should work fine.

Also note that the page just parses the file and makes the links available to the webpage for you. It doesn't not analyze those links and send them anywhere, so there's no privacy concern.

It might fix itself once Opera upgrades to the next major version.

For now, if you want:

Goto the URL opera://settings/content/all, type bancolombia.com in the search field and click "Delete displayed content". This will log you out of your bank and clear its cookies and storage. Then, goto the URL opera://settings/clearBrowserData and clear "Cached images and files" for all time.

Then, install https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/custom-useragent-string/ and pin it to the address bar. Then, goto the URL opera://extensions and set "allow access to search page results" for the extension. Also, if you want the extension to work in a private window, enable the incognito mode option for the extension.

Then, click the extension's icon on the address bar and click "Open options page".

On the options page, in the "Enter desired URL" field, delete the * and enter https://www.bancolombia.com/personas. Then, in the "Enter a custom user-agent string" field, delete everything and enter:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/150.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Then, click the + button to add that entry and make sure that when the entry appears at the bottom that it has the "Domain" checkbox checked and that it shows a check for the state to show that it's enabled. You can then close that tab.

Then, in a new tab, goto https://www.bancolombia.com/personas, log in and try using the site.

If bancolombia.com is not the right site, adjust things above to the correct site.

That will make you appear to be using the latest Chrome for Windows 11 when on your banking site so that it doesn't have a fit hopefully.

As an alternative to above:

You can right-click on your desktop, goto "New", choose "Shortcut", click "browse", browse to opera.exe ("Usually at "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\opera.exe"), click "Next", type "Opera as Chrome" for the name and click "Finish".

Then, right-click on the "Opera as Chrome" shortcut on your desktop, goto "Properties" and switch to the "Shortcut" tab. There, edit the "target" field to add a space at the end and then "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/150.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" so that it looks like this example:

"C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/150.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Then, apply and OK out.

Then, whenever you want to log in to your bank, close Opera and use that "Opera as Chrome" shortcut to start Opera and log into your bank. If you have any issues with doing that, you might have to goto the URL opera://settings/content/all, type bancolombia.com in the search field and click "Delete displayed data" to clear cookies for the site before logging in.