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@mbstafs I can confirm also. It seems to only happen when switching to a different window and back if the address field drop-down is open. If I hit esc or click somewhere outside the drop-down to close the drop-down before switching to another window and back, the text in the address field remains as expected.
@buzzyheb Correct. For the test standalone installation, you do not import anything during installation or after.
Bug DNA-125528 has been filed for this issue. Will let you know if I hear anything.
As a test, does it happen with a test standalone installation of Opera.?
Do you happen to have CCleaner installed? Kaspersky, Eset, Bitdefender?
For what it's worth, no issues here in Opera 134.0.5954.66 64-bit on Windows 11. I even turned on Opera's adblocking and tracking protection with all lists enabled. Still shows up just fine.
@mbstafs I can confirm this. I wonder if it's a regression caused by the fix for:
RNA-4324 [Search Engines] Opera triggers inactive search shortcuts in address bar
that was first included in the previous Opera Developer build as shown at https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-for-136/.
I mentioned this new issue in that bug at least, so someone is at least informed about it.
@buzzyheb Same issue in a test standalone installation to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop?
@NatureWithGreenWorld You would need to have a backup of the "Sessions" folder in the profile folder (profile path shown at the URL opera://about) from the time your tabs were still there. If you have a backup like that, you can delete everything in your current "Sessions" folder and copy over the files from the backup "Sessions" folder.
Or, see https://forums.opera.com/post/406843 for how you can extract the open tabs from backed-up session files and open them back up.
Opera GX on what operating system?
When Opera started, did it show that it just updated? If so, what version do you have now and what version did you have last? You can find that out by going in to the install folder (path shown at the URL opera://about) and looking at the newest and last version folders.
I was no longer logged in. After I logged in, everything was just gone,
Are you referring being logged in to your Opera account and are you using Opera Sync?
Did you recently change your password for operating system account or change your computer name in your system settings?
You can try the --force-device-scale-factor command-line switch.
On Windows for example, you can hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type cmd and press enter to open a command prompt.
Then, with Opera closed, you can type:
"%localappdata%\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" --force-device-scale-factor=1.5
and press enter to start Opera.
1 = 100%, 1.25 = 125%, 1.5 = 150%, 2 - 200% etc.
Then, if that works, you can modify Opera's shortcut to do that.
For Opera's pinned taskbar button, right-click it, right-click "Opera Browser", goto "Properties", switch to the "Shortcut" tab and add a space and --force-device-scale-factor=1.5 to the end of the value inf the target field, click apply and OK out.
You can do the same thing for Opera's desktop shortcut, but right-clicking it and going to properties. For Opera's start menu shortcut, you can right-click it, choose "open file location" and then edit the properties of the Opera shortcut there.
If you want it to be a separate shortcut, you can right-click on your desktop, goto "New", choose "Shortcut", browse to opera.exe in its install folder, click "Next", name the shortcut "Opera Big" and click "Finish". Then, use that shortcut to start Opera.
If Opera is ever started by a file or protocol association though, Opera will open normally unless you edit some commands in the Windows registry. I can explain how to do that if ever needed.
Confirmed in Opera 134.0.5954.56 64-bit on Windows 11 with https://pluto.tv/us/watch/live-tv/. Same issue in Opera Developer and Opera GX. Works fine in Chrome and in the latest Vivaldi snapshot.
Not finding any workarounds.
Starting Opera like this:
"%localappdata%\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/151.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
to pretend to be the latest Chrome Stable on Windows doesn't help.
Going to the URL opera://browserjs and disabling browser.js doesn't help. (I checked browser.js and siteprefs.json and there are no workarounds for pluto.tv anyway.)
Closing Opera, deleting the 2 Widevine folders in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable", starting Opera, going to the URL opera://components, clicking update for the 2 Widevine components to redownload them and restarting Opera doesn't help. "Google Widevine Windows CDM - Version: 1.0.2738.0" and "Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 4.10.3050.0" to be specific.
A fresh profile doesn't help.
Disabling "Graphics acceleration" at the URL opera://settings/system doesn't help.
In Settings in Windows, goto "System -> Sound -> Volume Mixer" and click the "Reset sound devices and volumes for all apps to the recommended defaults" reset button. Try it with Opera open and with Opera closed.
I have un-installed Opera and and installed a new one
Do you also choose to delete your data when uninstalling when you were asked? If not and the problem is with your data/settings, an uninstall and reinstall alone won't help. In both "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Opera Software", you can rename the "Opera Stable" folder to "Opera Stable old" to start with fresh data and settings.
You can goto the URL opera://settings/reset and reset just your settings. You might lose your open tabs despite Opera saying otherwide, but it might help.
Even if your settings look fine, there might be something in the "Preferences" file that's messed up where resetting settings might fix it.
You can goto the URL opera://flags and reset your flags.
You can disable the "Hardware media key handling" flag at the URL opera://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling to see if it helps.
You can see if a test standalone installation has the issue too or not.
I tried with https://file-examples.com/storage/fe42a6a13e6a80e779c3cf0/2017/04/file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAGnKpE4NCI in Opera 134.0.5954.56 64-bit on Windows 11. Hammered left and right while the seek bar is focused to rewind and fast forward. Tried for quite a while and can't seem to reproduce it.
I also tried focusing a blank spot on the page at https://example.com/ and hitting left and right a lot to see if I could trigger it that way. Couldn't reproduce it there either.
You can try updating Opera to the newest build to see if you can still reproduce.
You can test with the "Hardware Media Key Handling" flag at the URL opera://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling disabled to see if there's any difference. Sometimes that flag (on by default) causes issues.
But, I'm guess the issue will still be there for you where it's just something that I can't personally reproduce.
If those extra entries correspond to the inactive search list at the URL opera://settings/searchEngines, then that's bug RNA-3999 that is already fixed in 135.0.5967.0 and newer so far. I don't think the fix has been backported to 134.
There's also another bug with those inactive searches working in the address field. That's RNA-4324 and just got fixed in Opera Developer 136.0.5988.0.
It's not just you. Happens here too. Guess we'll have to wait for Opera to fix the server.
@EdgeMoov said in Adware.Swagbucks!GSRE notice when using Opera browser:
When I visit "\Local\temp folder, there isn't any "scoped_dir".
Next time it happens, choose "Restore file" and then go in the scoped_dir folder and see what files and folders are in it and list them here.
I can give you step by step instructions in English at least.
There's a utility that can read your password file for you and show you your usernames and passwords. Even though Opera is having trouble reading its own password file, the utility might have better luck.
Here's how you try it:
In Windows, click the start button, goto "Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Windows Security" and click "Virus & threat protection".
Under "Virus & threat protection settings", click "Manage Settings".
Then, turn "Real-time protection" off. You'll turn it back on when you're done.
(The reason you need to turn it off is that if you don't, Microsoft will flag the utility as a potentially-unwanted program, remove the utility on you and pop up a warning that looks scary like a virus warning. The utility is legit though. Note though, if you have a different anti-virus, you'll have to go in its settings and disable its protection for a bit.)
Then, goto https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.html and scroll way down the page till you see the "Download ChromePass" link and the password for it (write it down or save it somewhere) below the link. Then, click the link to download chromepass.zip to your downloads folder.
When the download is finished, close Opera if it's open, open up Windows Explorer (File Explorer), go into your Downloads folder, right-click on chromepass.zip and choose "Extract all" and type in the password for the zip file (that's listed below the download link on the page) when asked.
Once it's extracted, you should be taken to the extracted "chromepass" folder. If not, in your Downloads folder, double-left-click on the "chromepass" folder to go into it.
Then, once you're in the folder, you should see ChromePass.exe. Double-left-click it to load it.
When ChromePass loads up, it should automatically show you all your login entries from Opera (and Chrome). For the Origin URL column, you'll see what site an entry is for. Then, you just need to look at the User Name and Password columns to see your username and password.
If everything is there, you can hit ctrl + a to select all entries and then hit ctrl + s to save them to a txt file so you have them.
Then, in Windows Explorer (File Explorer), with "File name extensions" and "Hidden items" enabled under "View -> Show", go in to the "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default" folder and delete the "Login Data" file since Opera can't read it properly. (Or, befor you delete the Login Data file, you can try the alternative method mentioned later.)
Then, you can start Opera and when you need to log in to a site, type your username and password for the site, log in and choose to save it in Opera. Or, you can goto the URL opera://password-manager/passwords and premptively add all your login entries.
Now, if ChromePass doesn't show your usernames and passwords, your "Login Data" file is probably damaged where you won't be able to retrieve your passwords from it. If that's the case, you can try the alternative method below. If not, you'll just have to delete the Login Data file and start with no passwords and not know what they are unless you have them written down somewhere or you have them memorized.
Once you're all done, you can go back and enable real-time protection.
As an alternative, and a more-advanced method, see https://forums.opera.com/post/398128 where you can download and try my Python script that can extract your usernames and passwords from your Login Data file and export them to a password CSV file that you can import into Opera at the URL opera://password-manager/settings. But, you'll need to be able to follow the instructions in the zip file and know how to install Python and run the Python script.
Filed RNA-4348 for it. I'll let you know if I hear anything.
Hitting ctrl + shift + i to open the developer tools makes it show too.
I filed DNA-125491 for this just in case it's not known.