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

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.

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.

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

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.

In Opera Developer (68), it has been change to a search icon. You can goto the URL opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs, disable it and restart to get the old behavior back.

Are you using Opera 68?

@thegoaty I get the same behavior as @leocg. When there's only one window open, you can't close the last tab. When there are multiple windows open, you can close the last tab, which closes the window. If that action cause only one window to remain, the last tab in that remaining window will switch to being unclosable. (For Opera GX, right-click the GX Corner tab and choose "move GX corner to sidebar" so the pinned GX corner tab doesn't interfere with this behavior.)

This is all intended behavior. Opera users typically don't like the last tab to close the browser. It would be nice if there was an option to control this though, but there isn't.

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.

@sanguinellc

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

• Close Opera.

• Open the Windows Task Manager and make sure there are really no Opera processes running. If there are, end task on them.

• Close the browser you want to import from. Confirm it's closed in the task manager.

• Open up a command prompt (Windows Key + r, type cmd and press enter) and type this command and press enter:

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

(replace C:\Program Files\Opera with the install path you saw in opera://about.

• When Opera starts up, goto the URL opera://settings/importData, pick the browser you want to import from, uncheck everything but "saved passwords", and click "import".

If the import fails and there are really passwords stored in the source browser, try disconnecting from the net before opening Opera with the command to see if it makes a difference. Importing and storing of passwords might fail if your connection is marked as public instead of private in Windows.

Now, if you want, you can do the following to import from Chrome instead of the previous way.

• In Chrome, goto the URL chrome://settings/passwords.

• To the right of "Saved passwords" will be a kebab menu (3 vertical dots). Click the dots and choose to export your passwords. They'll be exported to a csv file.

• Open Opera the same way mentioned earlier. (As in, make sure Opera is really closed and launch it in a command prompt with the command mentioned earlier.)

• Goto the URL opera://settings/passwords.

• To the right of "Saved passwords", will be a kebab menu (3 vertical dots). Click the dots and choose to import passwords from the csv file you previously exported.

Then, they should show up in opera://settings/passwords.

One you're d one importing, you can close Opera, close the command prompt and open Opera the normal way from its icon/shortcut.

Disable opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs.

@ardony said in Cookies not deleted on shut-down:

Yes, I am synching with Opera on the mobile 'phone. Is this what's preventing the cookie data from being wiped?

I don't know but maybe. You can log out of Sync and test.

@pastelpink https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-automatic-tab-dis/dnhngfnfolbmhgealdpolmhimnoliiok usually works.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/custom_sd/.

Goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera, and delete the "Cookies" file in the "Network" folder in the profile folder. Hopefully that will fix it.

Are you using Opera Sync though?

I don't see a difference in the page between Opera and Chrome. If you load the page in a private window in Opera, is everything okay then?

@sgrandin Yes, we're talking about the same thing. The options are not missing in Opera for me.

Creating thread.

Goto the URL opera://settings/lucidMode. If it's turned on, turn it off.

Goto the URL opera://settings/clearBrowserData and clear cached images and files for all time. Then, visit each of those bookmark pages.

If that doesn't help, goto the URL opera://bookmarks, delete the bad bookmarks, empty the bookmarks trash, and add those bookmarks back in. Especially do this if the problem bookmarks were actually promoted speed dials that were moved to the bookmarks bar.

@oddssatisfy What's the name of your username folder?

Also, did you try the workaround mentioned?

Note that there's also another workaround. Download the Opera installer, close Opera, uninstall Opera (do not choose to delete your data when uninstalling), launch the Opera installer, click "options", set "install path" to "C:\Program Files\Opera" (or "C:\Program Files\Opera GX" for Opera GX), set "install for" to "all users", uncheck "import data from default browser", adjust the other options as you like, and install. That will move Opera's installation to the program files folder like other programs do by default. That should avoid the username folder for the launcher command and avoid the issue till it's fixed. But, when it's fixed, there's no need to move Opera back to a current-user install. You can keep using the all-user install.