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What does Chrome at when you use a custom DNS provider at the URL chrome://settings/security and turn DNS over HTTPS off and on? Does it retain the custom entry? If not, it might be an issue in Chromium that needs to be fixed/supported so all Chromium-based browsers retain the setting.
@kotsapl If you're worried it's not enough, see https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/disable_updates_windows/#wiki_current-user_and_all-users_installations. You can also disable Opera's autoupdate tasks and block Opera's update servers.
Chromium changed the page to require something Opera doesn't support. Opera is investigating a workaround, but no guarantees. If it can't be sorted out, the page might have text informing the user that it's not supported.
Also, Chrome now supports a chrome://certificate-manager that chrome://settings/certificates now redirects to. Opera doesn't support that either, but it's be investigated at least.
So, major changes in Chromium in this area require Opera to adapt.
@genegold Opera might still have this bug with the camera and microphone settings, so keep that in mind.
Besides that, you might want to test with "Use graphics acceleration when available" off at the URL opera://settings/system. Or, with it on, you might want to test with the "Hardware-accelerated media encode" flag at the URL opera://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-encode disabled to see if it helps. Or, you might have to leave that flag enabled and adjust the Angle flag for your GPU.
@TimSchofield That option isn't available on Linux. You have to use the --lang=code command-line switch on Linux. You can do that in a terminal or modify the shortcut file for Opera to add it. See https://forums.opera.com/post/380391.
Not sure if that will then help with your issue though.
You can also use Opera Mail that's built into the old Presto-based Opera Browser suite. You can download it from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/1218/int/.
Just like the standalone Opera mail though, there are issues. There's no TLS 1.3 support, there's no oAuth authentication support and certificate and cypher support is very outdated. The standalone Opera Mail also has some crash issues in certain cases. The rendering of HTML messages is also outdated due to Opera Mail using an old rendering engine.
Besides those things, if you can workaround them, you can still use it.
Note that Vivaldi now has a built-in mail client that attempts to replace Opera Mail. It's pretty decent and modern.
The "Run Opera when my computer starts" setting at the URL opera://settings/onStartup should add/remove an opera.exe entry on the "Startup" tab in the Windows task manager by adding/removing the entry at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" in the Windows registry.
However, Opera also has a browser assistant that's set to run on startup that sometimes puts an Opera icon in the systray. There's no setting for that in Opera, but the assistant entry should show up on the "Startup" tab in the Windows Task Manager and in that registry key. So, make sure you disable the assistant startup entry too.
@miliardo Make sure to upvote the first post above. There are only 46 votes so far.
@haired said in Opera 117.0.5408.142 Stable update:
@daria19 how can I create a new profile for testing?
You can just make a test standalone installation to a folder on your desktop and test in it.
Cannot confirm on Windows 11 23H2. Tried with both regular Opera and Opera GX.
I pinned the Opera icon to the taskbar by right-clicking it and choosing "pin to taskbar". Then, I right-clicked the taskbar button, right-clicked "Opera Browser", went to "Properties", switched to the "Shortcut" tab and added a space and --private to the opera.exe command in the target field. Clicking the taskbar icon loads Opera in private mode using that existing taskbar button and doesn't create a new one.
Are you on 24H2 or a Windows 11 insider build?
You can enable logging (not crash logging) and see if the log reveals anything helpful.
@stents said in OperaGX Not Opening At All.:
117.0.5408.93
That build is for regular Opera (Opera One). Are you sure you're using Opera GX?
Upgrade to 117.0.5408.100 with "Opera_GX_117.0.5408.100_Setup_x64.exe" from https://ftp.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera_gx/117.0.5408.100/win/ to see if there's any difference.
Try making a test standalone installation of Opera Developer. Download the offline package from the developer section at https://www.opera.com/download.
If that test Opera developer installs and runs fine, close it. Then, in its install folder, there will be a profile/data folder. In it is the "Local State" file. And, in the "Default" folder there, is the "Login Data" file. Replace those 2 files with copies of the ones in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Developer".
Then, start that test Opera Developer and goto the URL opera://password-manager/passwords to see if your passwords are there. If so, goto the URL opera://password-manager/settings and export your passwords to a CSV file.
Once you have the CSV file, whenever you get your regular Opera Developer up and running again (by starting with a new profile and cache folder maybe), you can goto opera://password-manager/settings and import that CSV file.
As for speed dials (which are bookmarks), you can copy the "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" to the test Opera developer (choosing to overwrite the existing ones there) while that test Opera developer is closed. Then, when you start it, you should see your speed dials hopefully. You can then goto the URL opera://bookmarks and use the drop-down at the bottom left to to export your bookmarks to an HTML file. Then, in your regular Opera developer (when you get it working), you can goto the URL opera://settings/importData, choose "Bookmarks HTML file" in the drop-down and point it to the HTML file. Then, you can goto the URL opera://bookmarks and get the speed dials from the "imported" folder in the "bookmarks bar" folder, select them and move the selection to the "Speed dial" folder.
Or, another way to try things it to make a backup of "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Developer". Then, in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Developer", delete everything by the "Local State" file and the "Default" folder. Then, in the "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Developer\Default" folder, delete everything except for "Login Data", "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras".
Then, Opera Developer should start mostly fresh except retain your passwords and bookmarks (speed dials too) as long as they're still in the files.
You can also try uninstalling again, deleting the Opera Developer install folder afterwards and then using the offline Opera Developer installer to reinstall.
All kinds of things you can try as I'm not sure where the issue is.
@stents said in OperaGX Not Opening At All.:
Have reinstalled GX but no success - problem persists.
Including starting with a fresh profile and cache folder?
Same issuing in a test standalone installation?
What if you hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type cmd and press enter to open and command prompt, type:
"%LocalAppData%\Programs\Opera GX\opera.exe" --disable-gpu
and press enter to start Opera GX (make sure there are no Opera processes running in the Windows Task Manager before you try)?
Uninstall Opera (but do not choose to delete your data when uninstalling).
Then, delete the install folder, which is the "Opera GX" folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs".
Then, download the Opera GX installer, launch it, click "options", adjust everything how you like and install.
@Ssouled I recently saw someone on Reddit mention that Chromium removed support for disabling efficiency mode. If that's the case, Opera probably inherited the change.
Old, Presto-based Opera had a solution for this. While you were in fullscreen mode, you could press F2, which presented you with a dialog in the middle of the screen with an address field (and autocomplete drop-down) where you could type the address you want and press enter.
Something like that might be cool for current Opera.