@leocg Well maybe someone needs to share with them that they should leave it.
Seriously? Why do they think that hogging up 20% of someone's screen space is a good idea?

@UNCLEJUNIOR
Doesn't mean you can't use it.
I have been getting that warning for years on my Schwab account. I ignore it and use it just fine.
And I think "the vast majority" is way overstating it.
I used it with all of my banks and PayPal today without any issues.

@leocg Actually, I submitted a bug report and after asking the person told me that if you enter opera://flags in the browser bar it takes you to this screen:

Selecting Disabled takes you back to the way it was.
Something you might wish to share with others.
Thanks,
Dave

@MontyPyFly
Just received a response from Opera directly after I submitted a bug report.
In browser bar, enter opera://flags
Choose Disabled and restart.
It is back to what it was before.
Just a shame it took me this long to get the answer.
Dave

@leocg
I don't know what this means:
"Maybe you can try a new profile directory."
If it means starting out fresh and losing all my settings, I have been using Opera for years and don't really want to reset everything because Opera effed up their interface.
I also have seen where a lot of people hate how Aria now takes up screen space instead of being an overlay like it was before.
I did today load Opera update again to get a clean update, and the only thing that changed is the settings for turning the AI button moved in the settings.
So I take it from all of your talk that there is no way for me to go backwards?
Thanks again,
Dave

@leocg There is no place to type anything. No text box, no icons, nothing.
Wierder still, when you search the settings there is nothing for Aria or AI. I only found out how to turn it off by searching Sidebar in the settings. It stil is in there to turn off, which is what I did, since the button placement is also annoying.

The Aria AI button on the right side now does nothing except open a flyout that reduces my screen size.
A blank flyout by the way, so I can't even do anything with it!
I want the old ARIA back!
I loved that it overlayed the screen!
This is horrible!

@leocg Flyout or whatever it's called from the right side, totally blank. Reduces the screen area. Creates a computed box size of 397 px wide by 100% screen height.
CSS only with no content.
Right clicking that space shows me two options: oddly one of them is for a plug-ing setting and the other is to inspect element (open the developer).
I did disable the plug-in to be sure that wasn't causing it, and it was not.
What is the button supposed to do?

@DeeBeeEff
Correction - New button is on upper right, not upper left as I misstated.

@leocg
Hi!
I was using Opera that had an Aria button on the left sidebar.
At the bottom of the flyout section for Aria was a link to upgrade to Opera AI.
So I did that.
My Aria on the sidebar disappeared and then the annoying one on the upper left appeared.
After that, I checked to see if I needed updates, and I did.
Then I followed the "news" page you sent me to and there was a download link there, so I downloaded that, which I think was what I already had.
So here is what I have:

Opera One(version: 124.0.5705.65)
Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System:Windows 11 64-bit
Chromium version:140.0.7339.249

Thanks for your help.
Dave