This last update added 6 new shortcuts to my bookmarks bar. None of them I would ever care to use. I accepted long ago you adding them by default to the speed dial, but would you please stop putting shortcuts into my bookmarks that I have zero use for? Thank you.

Whose bright idea was it to integrate Facepuke into Opera? Why is there no option to completely disable it?

I despise FB with a passion, to the point where I'm about ready to abandon Opera completely over this, and I've been a faithful user (and paying customer at one time) for many, many years.

I want to know what level of integration they have with Opera? Does it have any telemetry data collection? And more importantly, why is there no option to completely disable it, like with an addon?

I don't know at what point it was integrated, I only just noticed it, but I really want some answers.

So, several times now, across multiple computers, I've had Opera just randomly decide to pin itself to the taskbar (just happened again today). This is quite infuriating, because I never pin anything to the taskbar. Is this a bug, or are you intentionally telling it to do this? If the latter, I really wish you'd stop, and if it's the former then I hope you can fix it. I don't like having to wrestle with a program to make it do what I want.

I realize this is only a minor annoyance, but it's still an annoyance.

This last update added 6 new shortcuts to my bookmarks bar. None of them I would ever care to use. I accepted long ago you adding them by default to the speed dial, but would you please stop putting shortcuts into my bookmarks that I have zero use for? Thank you.

Whose bright idea was it to integrate Facepuke into Opera? Why is there no option to completely disable it?

I despise FB with a passion, to the point where I'm about ready to abandon Opera completely over this, and I've been a faithful user (and paying customer at one time) for many, many years.

I want to know what level of integration they have with Opera? Does it have any telemetry data collection? And more importantly, why is there no option to completely disable it, like with an addon?

I don't know at what point it was integrated, I only just noticed it, but I really want some answers.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/04/17/1329200/chrome-59-to-address-punycode-phishing-attack
Of course, when Chrome releases their update Opera will get it automatically.

True, and I intended to mention that in my post, but forgot (thanks for catching that for me). My intent was simply to alert people to the phishing bug, so they can be aware of it.

Just wanted to add, that I tested the bug on an earlier build of Opera (10.54), and while it still displayed the incorrect domain, the "Secure" icon in the address bar did list the actual correct domain name.

So, I just saw this on another website. Apparently, there's a unicode phishing bug that's exploitable in multiple browsers. The linked article specifically mentions Chrome and Firefox, but Opera is also affected (obviously, as it uses the Chrome engine), as well as classic Opera v12 and a couple other browsers (ironically, Edge was not affected, but I still would never recommend it). It relies on using unicode characters in the domain, which the browser converts to appear as a different domain name. Add an SSL cert, and it's possible to make a phishing site appear to be completely legit, unless you actually check the SSL cert manually.

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-firefox-unicode-phishing/

So, in my Opera directory, I found a file that's 4.66GB in size. I don't know what it is, and I presume it's safe to delete (the file date is 9/1/2015), but I'd like some confirmation first and perhaps some information about where it came from.

The path is as follows:

profile\data\File System\001\t\00

And the file name is just 00000000. No extension, just the numbers.

Any thoughts? I've never noticed this before, and it's got me curious.

Adblock Plus has an option to allow (or not) acceptable ads. I'm not sure precisely how they're defined, though.

My question is different:
When I right click on a link and select "open in a new Tab", I would like Opera to automatically go to the new tab, instead of staying on the original tab (this obliges you to go to click on the new tab to display it).
Thanks for your replies,

Ah, gotcha. I misunderstood what you were asking.

There's three ways I'm aware of.

Press the + symbol in the tab bar at the top

Right-click on the tab bar and select 'New tab'

Or press CTRL+T on your keyboard

EDIT

Make that four, if you press the 'Menu' button in the upper left-hand corner and select 'New tab'.

I forgot about that one while making the list.