Posts made by burnout426

Goto the URL opera://settings/enhancedAddressBar, disable "promoted suggestions" and restart Opera to see if it helps.

At the URL opera://settings/profiles, if you click the 3 dots to the right of the profile and choose "create shortcuts", do you get a desktop shortcut that works fine at least?

At the URL opera://settings/profiles, if you click on the profile's name to launch it, do you get the right profile then?

Same if you click the menu button at the top left of Opera, go down to "Profiles" and click the specific profile?

Are you on Windows 10? If so, is it 21H2 or 22H2?

Are you on Windows 11? If so, is it 23H2, 24H2 or 25H2?

Or, are you on macOS?

See https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/known_issues/#wiki_slow_download_speeds for some testing to do and some things to try.

Filed DNA-124434 for this. Hopefully someone can check it out.

Okay. I tried with Popup My Bookmarks.

I went to arstechnica.com, clicked the heart and bookmarked the page to "other bookmarks" in Opera.

I then clicked the Popup My Bookmarks extension icon and went to "other bookmarks".

Result: The Ars Technica bookmark is there, but it's missing its favicon to the left.

Examining the chrome-extension://mppflflkbbafeopeoeigkbbdjdbeifni/popup.html page, for the extension, when it tries to load the favicon for that bookmark via the URL:

chrome-extension://mppflflkbbafeopeoeigkbbdjdbeifni/_favicon/?pageUrl=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2F&size=32

, the console shows:

_favicon/?pageUrl=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2F&size=32:1  GET chrome-extension://mppflflkbbafeopeoeigkbbdjdbeifni/_favicon/?pageUrl=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2F&size=32 net::ERR_FAILED
Image
lY @ common.js:9
e @ common.js:9
(anonymous) @ common.js:9
sL @ common.js:9
sS @ common.js:9
S @ common.js:33
P @ common.js:33

So, there's an error fetching the image for some reason in Opera. Works fine in Chrome.

With chrome-extension://mppflflkbbafeopeoeigkbbdjdbeifni/js/common.js, I can jump to the lines in it from the console error links, but I'm not really seeing the cause of the error. I'll have to file a bug to have someone check it out.

The Github page for the extension is at https://github.com/foray1010/Popup-my-Bookmarks and an issue could be filed there. But, I think it might be on Opera's end, especially since other extensions are affected.

So https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/popup-my-bookmarks/mppflflkbbafeopeoeigkbbdjdbeifni, https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bookmarkie-bookmarks-in-p/ahlphbdcaacfhkiajebghpngknafklbj and https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/quick-bookmarks-menu/fkemipdcgbeknabedhecepcebhlnlhbf?

@Hay-mars-01 Thanks for the clarification.

If this happens to you again, it's probably due to having Early Bird turned on in settings and having a split screen tab open while closing Opera (or while disabling Early Bird and then closing Opera).

See the known issues at https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2026/02/opera-127-stable/.

See https://forums.opera.com/post/396926.

Just goto the URL opera://settings/onStartup and turn it on.

You might even want to install a mod like https://store.gx.me/mods/nsxjip/capybara-party/ that can set a custom splash screen.

Opera does hide the opr part on certain websites where it's absolutely necessary.

If you start Opera like this (via a command prompt or a shortcut that you modify):

"%localappdata%\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

, that should cause Opera to pretend to be Chrome everywhere and might work better than some user-agent extensions. The downside to this way though is that you'll appear as Chrome on Opera's sites too, which can break things with addons.opera.com and store.gx.me/mods for example.

@Himmelssherifff Under Appearance -> Top bar, you can click "Manage Top Bar" and it'll take you to opera://settings/manageTopbar where the settings you're looking for are at. It's a weird way to have to get to the user interface settings, but...

@Hay-mars-01 Awesome! Did you have to do both parts or just delete the "Sessions" folder?

Download my nnnn19.zip, extract it and check out the readme.txt.

What's the path to your opera.exe?

Is this regular Opera (Opera One) or Opera GX or Opera Air?

Also, do you just need to set it as the default for your current user account or for all users?

@nnnn19 I can put together a reg file for you to try when I get a chance.

Uninstall Opera (don't choose to delete your data when uninstalling) and reinstall it to fix the installation files to see if that helps.

If not, you might need to wipe your settings.

Opera GX on macOS or Windows?

You really need to be running that old Windows user account to be able to decrypt the password file.

If you can't do that, you'll need:

• The old "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable\Local State" file.

• The old "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera GX STable\Default\Login Data" file.

• The old "C:\Users\yourusername" folder so that the "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect\id_here" folder is present.

• The password for that old user account.

If you have all that, in ChromePass (download link way down the page), you can goto "File -> Advanced options" and set it to load passwords from another Windows user where you point it to the old user folder and enter the old user account password. Then, it might work. If not, you can explicitly set the folder the old "Login Data" file is in, the path to the "Protect" folder and explicitly set the path the old "Local State" file. Then, you might get lucky if the old account was a local account not tied to a Microsoft account.

I wouldn't get your hopes up though.

Note that Windows Defender will flag ChromePass as a potentially-unwanted program and remove it on you, so you'll have to go into the Windows Security settings and disable real-time protection before you download the zip file and extract it with the password provided below the download link.

Try deleting the "Sessions" folder in "/Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Default". You'll lose all open tabs, but that will probably fix it.

If needed, you can start Opera in safe mode in a terminal like this:

"/Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera" --disable-gpu --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-update

Then, you can goto the URL opera://flags and reset your flags and turn Early Bird off in settings. Then, close Opera and start Opera normally.