@duncanm Even after the update that came out today? That is interesting, and I don't know why; but today Opera changed the splash screen back to what it used to be. Anyway, deleting the executable will ultimately disable the feature irrelevant of settings.

@duncanm I could disable it and it's working (at least for me)
Go to settings and look for "splash screen on startup"

@samx-7 watch out for the fact that you might have multiple versions on that location; and look for the newest because that is the only one that counts. (or you can delete all files with that name)

The old one was fun and enjoyable; I don't know who's idea it was to put this annoying garbage in a browser. It's a browser not clown_show.exe

Or is it the usual change for the sake of change nonsense tech companies get hard on?