Posts made by burnout426

As a workaround for now, if you have the URL for the web player page, you can add it to the sidebar yourself.

Right-click on Opera and Chrome's desktop shortcut and goto "Properties". Then, on the Shortcut tab, check the target field command to see if anything is being like a bing URL is being passed to opera.exe/chrome.exe. If so, edit the target field so that only the quoted path to opera.exe is in there.

Then, repeat for Opera and Chrome's taskbar button. Right-click on the taskbar button, right-click on "Opera Browser" and then goto properties.

@stefanw1337 said in Protected (DRM) content can't be played:

And I can see Widewine is on components etc.

Both Widevine components at opera://components show a version and not 0.0.0.0?

What does it say at https://html5test.opensuse.org/? Does it say "Yes", for h.264, VP8 and VP9 and does it say "Yes" for PCM, MP3, AAC, Vorbis and Opus?

At https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm, does it say "Using Widevine" above the video?

Does it have a check for:

video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c00d"
video/webm; codecs="vorbis,vp8"
video/mp2t; codecs="avc1.42E01E,mp4a.40.2"

for MSE below the video?

Does it have a check next to "Widevine" under EME below the video?

Does the video play with audio?

If everything is all good with all that, it's most likely not Opera that's the problem.

@stefanw1337

Goto the URL opera://settings/content/all, type the problem site's domain in the search field and click "Delete displayed data". Then, goto the URL opera://settings/clearBrowserData and clear "Cached images and files" for all time. Then, make sure Opera's adblocking and tracking protection is completely off at the URL opera://settings/privacyProtection. Also make sure lucid mode is off at the URL opera://settings/lucidMode. Also make sure the video popout is disabled at the URL opera://settings/videoPopout.

Then, close Opera.

Then, hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type cmd and press enter to open a command prompt.

Then, type:

"%localappdata%\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

and press enter to start Opera while pretending to be Chrome.

Then, goto the URL opera://browserjs and disable browser.js for the session.

Then, goto the problem site and try to play things.

@cookie-drummer Not via the UI.

Goto the URL opera://settings/vpn, turn the free VPN on and fully exit Opera. Then, start Opera and make sure the VPN is off and fully exit Opera again.

Then, in "/Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Default", you'll want to edit the "Preferneces" file (a JSON file without the json extension) in a JSON editor like https://jsonav.com/ or in a text editor. Either way, under root/freedom/proxy_switcher, you want to change the ui_visible boolean value from true to false and save your changes.

@Jerry12302 You can hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type services.msc and press enter to see the services list. You can go through the list to see if you see anything weird.

On the processes tab in the Windows task manager you can look through the list of running processes to see if you find any weird processes running.

In regedit, you can search bing.com (in "keys", "values" and "data" in the ctrl + f dialog) and what it shows (clicking find next each time till you see all matches). There might be some legit entries there, but maybe one will look odd, especially if it's in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tasks".

In both Chrome and Opera, just for good measure, goto the URL chrome://settings/content/notifications and make sure there are no allowed notifications for sites.

@Jerry12302 said in Can't stop Opera from starting on PC startup or login:

@burnout426 I tried setting Chrome as the default browser instead, but after locking and unlocking Chrome opens, and opens the Bing tab.

That means it’s not Opera and is something on your system causing it.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/1sfn6w0/opera_air_automatic_ambience_switch/ for a user wishing that there was an auto / system ambience mode.

@robinbarocas said in Messenger in Sidebar is not Opening:

I am guessing this could be due to META changes?

Facebook is getting rid of messenger.com and going back to loading messenger via https://www.facebook.com/messages/. So, yeah, any differences you see are caused by that.

@Jerry12302 said in Can't stop Opera from starting on PC startup or login:

I usually only lock my PC

While Opera is still running?

If Opera is set as your default browser, temporarily set a different browser as the default and see if that browser opens when unlocking your computer instead.

For Opera, you can delete the "Sessions" folder in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default". It'll wipe out all your open tabs, but it my fix the issue.

I would scan your system with the free version of Malwarebytes and AdwCleaner. Sounds like you have some malware that's loading bing on Windows startup in either Opera specifically or the default browser in general.

You can open up regedit and look in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" to see if you can find any shady startup entries. You can also look in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" and "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" in File Explorer for shady startup entries there.

You can also open up the Windows Task Scheduler, select "Task Scheduler Library' and look for a shady task in the list. You can start at the top of the list, switch the task to the "Action" tab and use the down arrow to go through each task to see if you see a task with an action that's like "path to opera.exe" "https://www.bing.com/" or just something with "bing.com" in it.

In Opera itself, make sure you don't have any shady extensions at the URL opera://extensions.

On the startup tab in the Windows task manager, if you see "browser_assistant.exe", that's Opera's browser assistant that will sometimes show an Opera icon in the systray. It should be unrelated to your issue, but right-click it and choose "disable" if it's there.

What version of Opera GX are you using as shown at the URLs opera://about and opera://version?

What operating system?

Read through https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/1r8s74v/comment/o6j5jk4/ and its replies, especially the last reply.

https://yu2go.com/paketi/48h-test/ loads fine here in Opera 129.0.5823.65 64-bit on Windows 11 23H2 in the U.S., for what it's worth.

I don't think I've ever seen a mod that uses manifest v2. They should all be v3.

keepa.com notifications are working in Opera Stable 129.0.5823.44 64-bit on Windows 11 23H2 now too.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/OperaGX/comments/1rmtbbn/comment/o9up6zv/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/OperaGX/comments/1s4gdc4/hard_limit_option_missing_on_ram_limiter_4gb/.

Can you create a demo HTML file with a simple file chooser input and some simple JS that reproduces the issue?

Also, does the issue happen in other Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi, Brave, Chrome and Edge too?

To install VPN Pro, you need to have the 64-bit version of the .NET 8 desktop runtime installed. See https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0.

Newer versions of .NET are supposed to be backwards-compatible these days, but unless the bug in the VPN Pro installer was fixed, you need to have 8 installed directly.