I believe this is caused by the Intel HD Graphics manager being in enhanced power save mode, it seems as if the gamma of the scene changes when the overlay is being drawn which causes more gpu utilization. You can run opera with a dedicated gpu to bypass this, but I cant tell if disabling Max Battery Life and Enhanced Power Save Mode work, as it changes the brightness too. I would say it works. This would be nice to have fixed though, as it affects all 6th,7th,8th, and possibly 9th generation Intel mobile graphics adapters.

Edit: after more testing, my conclusion may not be correct at all, the same still occurs if you run opera with a specific gpu, because it defaults each process created afterwards to the integrated chip no matter what you do. I do think its related to the Intel driver though, and it seems like the gamma changes, thats all I know for sure.

I hope they bring this feature back, in the latest beta version that setting is entirely removed.

ctrl+shift+i > 3 dots in top right > more tools > network conditions > user agent

@burnout426 No, it just does its own auto updates. Initial installation is done with an installer with manual config Per-Machine I start with the full offline installer for version version 112.0.5197.35, then it does it's own updates thereafter.

installation_status.json clearly states _all_users":true

{"_all_users":true,"_launch_from_install_dir":true,"_skip_launcher":true,"_subfolder":"112.0.5197.35","app_id":"1691177590","channel":"Stable","copy_only":false,"files":["112.0.5197.35.manifest","MEIPreload\\manifest.json","MEIPreload\\preloaded_data.pb","d3dcompiler_47.dll","dxcompiler.dll","dxil.dll","headless_command_resources.pak",

@burnout426 https://pastebin.com/HHWtHxcF for the full Install Status

It looks like there are two scheduled autoupdate tasks one for the user and one for program files installation. The one in Program Files includes C:\Program Files\Opera\autoupdate\opera_autoupdate.exe --scheduled-task --bypasslauncher $(Arg0)

The one for the user profile includes C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera\autoupdate\opera_autoupdate.exe --scheduledtask --bypasslauncher $(Arg0)

Is it possible that the users themselves somehow ran another installer? or maybe selected an update prompt in opera that triggered it to do it's own thing?

@burnout426 No, it just does its own auto updates. Initial installation is done with an installer with manual config Per-Machine I start with the full offline installer for version version 112.0.5197.35, then it does it's own updates thereafter.

installation_status.json clearly states _all_users":true

{"_all_users":true,"_launch_from_install_dir":true,"_skip_launcher":true,"_subfolder":"112.0.5197.35","app_id":"1691177590","channel":"Stable","copy_only":false,"files":["112.0.5197.35.manifest","MEIPreload\\manifest.json","MEIPreload\\preloaded_data.pb","d3dcompiler_47.dll","dxcompiler.dll","dxil.dll","headless_command_resources.pak",

We've been trying to deploy Opera as our organization's default browser, however upon installing an update rather than staying installed to C:\Program Files\Opera it's instead defaulting to C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera

When this happens, it makes it impossible to create a Defender ASR Rule to allow Outlook to Open Opera.exe because the user path is a wildcard. This is required to allow links in Outlook to open in Opera With Defender. Because the profile is not and was not configured to ever be installed per-user, it should respect that it was installed per-machine, why would the updater do otherwise?

@leocg I tried to get it to happen again from a different IP on a different computer and couldnt get it to happen, but it was the most legitimately designed page I've seen. It genuinely looked like a real update page that could have been created within the browser. If anyone else clicks it and gets it to pop up, take a screenshot.

Here is the JS file itself. (7zipped for security) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZMjHAD700AKchyiViDPD6wcaUh0kct44

Here is the text out of the JS file https://pastebin.com/rYFsdfTj

it looks like a bunch of arrays and obfuscated code. I dont know JS well enough to decipher it.

Specifically this was the website I was on. http://justsomething.co/kitten-breaks-his-owners-earphone-cable-and-returns-with-snake-as-a-replacement/?fbclid=IwAR00IFQZAMtKldKhe2w5-s3_-5kiANpfp_RmvsZJHrbxVrh1ih15FWVoV-I

The update screen just popped up, it didnt change the web address, in fact history shows the website url with Opera update as the url. I was previously on 62.0.1 or something like that, it only updated a minor build

I just had my browser redirect a site I was looking at to a page that looked very legitimate claiming that Opera was out of date, and automatically downloaded a javascript file. Is this normal behavior or nefarious, I have the javascript file saved in an archive and can upload it if needed. I immediately closed and re-opened opera then checked for updates where it updated to 62.0.3331.18.

I'm going to hijack this and link to my new thread since the issues seem related. https://forums.opera.com/topic/32871/opera-60-extensions-and-settings-reset-after-windows-deployment

This seems to be a related thread https://forums.opera.com/topic/32640/opera-portable-stopped-saving-extensions-between-pcs

This is what Chrome uses in Enterprise, which I never successfully got to work https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/187948?hl=en
Instead we tried using registry keys and group policy to set with no success.

This is where you can read all about what is causing the issue https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=419855

And this is my very old post noting the issue beginning in Opera 58
https://forums.opera.com/topic/30635/opera-settings-change-after-sysprep

Managing an IT department, we've fully switched from Chrome to Opera due to Chrome resetting user installed extensions and settings after deploying the image to other machines. Unfortunately this behavior has been picked up by Opera and is CRITICAL to it's functionality. Many IT professionals despise chrome for this reason and many will also leave Opera if this is not resolved.

In Chrome this behavior is due to user data being tied to machine ID in an encrypted folder, which is no longer the same after deployment forcing chrome to make a new user for each machine.

In Opera I assume the same is the problem, however not all settings get reset certain things, specifically the "suggested speed dials" and pre-installed extensions are missing from deployed images.

Please for the love of all IT departments do not follow chrome's lead and just allow us to deploy a fully configured browser without needing manual intervention, or give us simple means to do so.

To Reproduce:

1. Install Opera 60 and preconfigure it with desired extensions and settings
2. Run Sysprep
3. Install drive in another computer and leave System Audit mode
4. On original user account in different computer Opera is partially reset.