I wish I had the option of 1 speed dial for both of my computers. I recently migrated PCs, and was startled to find that my speed dials had not appeared; it was only after poking around that I found them under a speed dial thingy from my other machine.; I then copypasted them into my new PC's speed dial. Not a biggie, but a little annoying. Ideally, it would be the same for both, since I use both machines the same, and it makes bookmark sync look messy, with speed dial folders from old computers I don't use anymore appearing. I keep my Work Only and Home Only and School Only sites in separate folders, anyway, so I don't need multiple speed dials. This feature request gets an upvote from me.

Would it be an option, Opera devs, to add an On/Off autoupdate option, to avoid all this hassle?

Thank you, @burnout426 for linking the bug report website; I didn't know where it was. I have submitted a bug report just now.

Would it be possible to merge the Extensions Bar (Menu>Extensions>Extensions Bar) and the Opera Sidebar? It just feels they fill more or less the same functions, and I can't imagine anyone who would ever use them both simultaneously, whereas I would never be tempted to pin the Sidebar without the option of custom extensions like the Extensions Bar, and the Extensions Bar, by itself, doesn't have enough functions, compared to the Sidebar.

As it is apparently desirable to use the Opera Sidebar (hence why Opera pins it by default on new installations), why not merge the somewhat redundant Extensions Bar, and bring its functions to the mainstream? I believe it would be a very good change.

Thanks for posting about the flag option to disable the new settings; didn't realise it existed!

@leocg said in Auto Update no ON/OFF switch!:

People using old versions may have a high cost. They will start reporting issues that were already solved long time before because they forgot to update and dealing with those reports are costly; They may lose their data because the current version deals with data in a different way and dealing with it has a cost.
No software house wants people using old versions.

What about putting the switch under "Advanced Settings" or chrome://flags, with red warning text?

This is really weird... I was on O_55.something (the version where you fixed that "New Tab Omnibox not focused" bug), then this afternoon, I updated to O_55.0.2994.61, and scrolling feels a lot better... Not sure if it's fixed yet or not. Will keep y'all posted.

If legitimate links are redirecting to ad websites, it sounds like you might have got some browser malware. I got that behaviour years ago randomly when using Google Chrome. I tried antivirus scanning, Malwarebytes, Hitman Pro to no avail.
The solution was to delete my browsing data - you might be able to keep your password data, etc., just delete as much of it as you possibly can afford to lose. It's some sort of adware that stores itself in your browsing data, and antiviruses don't think to look there.

Go to Opera Settings/Privacy/ then click "Clear browsing data" and untick "passwords" and anything else you want to keep, but delete as much as you can. That should get rid of the ad redirects (and the rest of it, too), if I've understood your problem correctly.

This is the same problem outlined in my earlier post at: https://forums.opera.com/topic/29028/bug-1px-line-visible-when-opera-56-is-maximised/

The window border of 1px is visible along the top of the tab row when Opera is maximised. It's an irritating bug. It might not appear on the latest versions of Windows 10 (e.g. v1809 or v1803), with a clean install of the latest version of Opera (v56.0.3051.43), but will definitely appear if you're on an older version like v1709.

Solution: I think this bug was introduced in O_v56.0.3051.36 (see PS). If you find it irritating, go back to O_v56.0.3051.31 and rename the autoupdater exe (see https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/56.0.3051.31/win/). Possibly reinstalling Opera may fix it, too (?)

PS. I think this, based off the dates of Opera releases, and the date of my first post about it here, when I noticed it. I will test out my solutions once I get some free time at home. Possibly it was introduced with the first version of O56, in which case, the last version of O55 is available at https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/55.0.2994.61/win/

Apologies, leocg; my bad. Will post screenshots asap; currently trying to reinstall windows 7. Pretty sure it was with a clean profile; no previous installations of Opera on that PC.

Anyone there?

Title says it all, basically. I tried installing Opera 52 and Opera 57 - both had the same problem: the (unpinned) sidebar is completely blank/empty. I can still hover over it, and tooltips appear, showing where the buttons are, and the invisible buttons work, but it's annoying. Pinned, the sidebar works as expected, but uses a lot of screen real-estate.

I've previously used both those versions of Opera on Win7 without this problem, and have no idea what could be causing it. Any suggestions/help? (other than "update Opera" - the UI in newer versions of Opera is cr*p)

Since updating to O58, all dropdown/suggestion menus (e.g. for search boxes, password boxes, etc.) are twice as large as they used to be, with extensive blank padding. I don't know if this is a "feature" introduced by the Chromium base, but it is definitely a functional regression. I can now see less information at a glance than before, and have to move my mouse further to click the correct suggestion.

A bug that has been present since ~O56:
Expected behaviour: When I download a file, if it is successful, I should have no browser notification. If it fails/has a problem, the taskbar icon for Opera should turn red (Windows standard).
What actually happens: When I download a file, whether successful or not, Opera's taskbar icon turns red and stays red until it is restarted.

This issue has been fixed in Opera 57 - there is no longer a 1px line along the top of maximised windows. Wondering if it was related to window drawing methods and interaction between Win10 v1709 and/or glass8.eu?
Anyways, it's fixed now, though O52 might still be a better bet, as O57 has the janky Start Page news, with more ads/telemetry and more annoying extension "recommendations". O52 had none of these, and worked...

This issue seems to have been fixed in Opera 57. There is no longer a 1px line along the top of the window when maximised. However, O57 introduces Netflix ads in the Start Page news feed, and the extension recommendations (eg. Amazon, Aliexpress, ebay, etc.) are more annoying than ever. O52 is probably still the "golden version" of the new Opera.
Pick your poison: update to O57 or downgrade; recommended O52 or thereabouts - this will eliminated the 1px line.

No luck - it didn't occur with a real mouse. Anyone have any ideas?

I'm wondering if it might occur when I right-click and middle-click simultaneously (by mistake and over-sensitivity, of course) with the touchpad... I'll test with a real mouse.

The program TwoFingerScroll only sends a middle-click signal to the computer when I tap three fingers on the touchpad, as far as I can tell. This shouldn't crash Opera, should it?