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It most certainly has to be a regional thing, as when I swapped my VPN to anything else beside US and Canada, with my other options being optimal location, Germany, Singapore, and Netherlands, I'm good. Switch to either Canada, US, or my local IP, and I'm using that other layout.
@aimzz I just tried it on my Edge and Chrome again. Those still work fine. I can't test Firefox since I don't have it, though.
I can only think of two possibilities. That the last update, or two broke something, again, or it's something on Google's side.
@leocg So this issue does not duplicate when you use a US IP?
@leocg My IP location would be in the US. Is it just a location based thing or something?
@leocg On my end, I only have Avast, and I'm using the built in adblock on Opera.
I out my laptop to sleep last night, and turned it on today, and it showed the old layout when I first used Google about two hours ago. I just updated to the recent version about two hours ago, and it was still an issue until I turned on VPN.
I did a test when the layout switched on Opera, and much like others, the new layout was there on Chrome, but Opera had been reverted to the old layout.
I've also got the same issue as of May 26 as well.
As @joelkuiper has stated, enabling VPN seems to clear up the issue, as far as my end goes, and I'm running the latest update as well.
Version:
45.0.2552.881 (PGO) - Opera is up to date
Update stream:
Stable
System:
Windows 10 64-bit (WoW64)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36 OPR/45.0.2552.881
That is odd, to say the least. I'm using the most recent version of Opera 28 Beta and it's fine for me, but 27 is still painfully slow. What version of Opera 27 and 28 do you have?
I'm still using Opera 28 Beta, and it's still running smooth for me, aside from a few hiccups. It's really weird that Opera's acting like that now.
It's times like that where I wish Opera still asked me update like it used to instead of auto-updating.
How would you ever know if you answered "no"?
On an older version, like the O12 series, Opera would have a prompt pop-up to tell me that there was a new version and gave the option to take or leave it, where I'd usually leave it until it was vetted by other users, so I could wait if there was a bad bug like this or if it was alright.
I decided to bite the bullet and just switch over to Opera Next (or Opera Beta, whatever they call it nowadays), and much to my surprise Opera 28 runs smooth and clean, much like the Opera 26 stable did. I'm going to have to chalk up the Opera 27 issue to a bug in that specific version. It's times like that where I wish Opera still asked me update like it used to instead of auto-updating.
I've done another test with Opera and a comparison to Chrome. Opera bugs out on me with my standard number of tabs, about 30 average (which has been the standard since Opera 11.64). Chrome, on the other hand, bugs out on me when I've jumped well beyond 70. Is it possible to just chalk these issues up to Opera 27 being bugged out? Furthermore, I've been looking into other solutions: Would Opera 28 beta be a solution, and is it known when Opera 28 stable is coming out?
I've gone and renamed everything, but the issue still persists, and is quite a bit more annoying given the fact that Firefox is running like a breeze and my coveted Opera is running like stop and go traffic. There's no real reason for it.
So, I've gone and disabled hardware acceleration and the plugins. The issue still persists. Furthermore, I have no clue how to go on and make a clean profile.
I've checked and I have no extensions installed and I've attempted to install Opera 26, but it only bumped me up to Opera 27. I feel that a fresh re-install is a last hope, if all else fails.
I've been using Opera for quite a long time, since the 11 series, and I've had quite a couple of issues with Opera over the years, but the issue that came up from the auto-update from Opera 26 to 27 makes the browser damn near unusable.
My current problem is as follows: While trying to browse using Opera 27, everything in the browser is slowed, as in slow to load, slow to respond to my clicks, slow to everything in general. Furthermore, anytime I attempt to watch a video on say Youtube or even look at an image, the browser either chugs or gets stuck in an endless cycle of loading where either one of two things happens, either the browser becomes unresponsive and needs to be restarted or the browser goes into a "Not Responding" phase with every action I take. All delays that occur, even typing here, are four seconds in delay (yes, I timed it.) To test, I used Firefox and Chrome, using the same websites and videos with zero issues. Flash and the like are all up to date. I hope this gets patched in 28 otherwise I wont be able to use Opera because this right here makes no sense.
This is my version info:
Version: 27.0.1689.69 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 8.1 64-bit (WoW64)