Still happening with Version:94.0.4606.38. Red dot is always there. Even when all messages and stories have been read. There is no message request, no spam, nothing, but the red dot doesn't go away. That's driving me nuts.

Solution: turn off hardware acceleration in the Opera options.

See also: https://forums.opera.com/topic/22169/deformated-text

@iba31 Thank you for the hint! That did the trick! I deactivated the hardware acceleration also, and everything is OK now. :party:

I already tried switching off clear type, but that didn't change anything.

Besides, if it were a system-wide problem then other software should be affected, too, shouldn't it? On my system it's only Opera that shows this weird behaviour. All other browsers (I have Chrome, Edge, Firefox and IE in their latest versions) are working fine without that problem.

I just registered with this forum because of the exact same issue, and it's driving me nuts.

I'm running Opera 47.0.2631.55 (PGO) on Windows 10 64bit.

Here's what I see, wenn I load the start page of this forum:
http://imgur.com/a/ACu8v

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!

Cheers,
Sascha

It's comforting that I'm not the only one having this problem. It started a couple of days ago (cannot tell exactly when, but 16th seems legit), and therefore I registered with this forum to ask for help.

Has there been an automatic update recently, which I didn't notice, and which might be responsible for this?

Here's an example of what I'm seeing when entering this forum. http://i.imgur.com/KYBs2kM.jpg