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@gmiazga

I am experiencing the same issue.

I am on Linux Mint20.2 (UMA), using cinnamon; I believe the window manager is "Muffin"

@thebatchman The snap version may work.

@khannom @vr51 It also crashes for me

Version 99.0.4788.9 from repository
Linix Mint 21.1 Cinnamon

@dev-arthurfernandes It crashes for me too

@elephantitis Turn off "Enable tab scrolling when many tabs are open" in the settings (User interface)

I have the same experience as spiritwind: first click (on pause) in a youtube video (pauses the video and) opens a new window. After that everything works as expected (ie no new windows when clicking).

Not sure when it started as I only watch youtube videos rarely on this computer. My opera version is a bit older than krebso's

Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon
Opera 106.0.4998.52 (installed from deb)

@entomashadoll For me the difficult part is getting the libffmpeg-file.

https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine has a script doing it all for you; get the ligffmpeg and copy it to the right lcoation. You run it every time you update opera. Or you could try the snap-version (as wonghow suggests) or the flatpack-version. Mint prefers flatpaks to snaps, but my experience with the opera flatpak was not good.

As long as you make a timeshift snapshot before changing anything you can always go back

Try sudo apt-get remove opera or sudo apt-get purge opera in the terminal; "opera" may be opera-stable.

Make a timeshift image before removing opera in case you break something and need to revert.