+1. The bug arrived with version 96.0.4693.20. Two PCs, two Operas.
Unable to work with tabs.
Someone deployed on Friday?

Do not work anymore. No more popup window at all. Useless

+1. The bug arrived with version 96.0.4693.20. Two PCs, two Operas.
Unable to work with tabs.
Someone deployed on Friday?

@lelandiniowa it's because there's said: "Ask me when Opera is started by a shortcut specifying an URL"
While it asks for confirmation on Every link, even if Opera is already started.
But it works.

I can set it to run on-click or on specific sites - it does not matter. I can even disable it - no reaction. I still have a hard redirect with referral links on the all websites, who can sell.
Which is destructive for my experience, because many sites started to block this redirects and I could not even reach my work's site. Absolutely unacceptable!
Luckily, I found the solution:
opera://settings/?search=dify - Sign out.
While you signed in, it does not matter if extension is disabled or not, or how you tune it.

Shame on me, I trusted the Opera vendors and wanted to give it a shot.

@leocg wow, thanks! I usually remove tabs icon, because I don't need it.
I think, I got the Opera logic now!

@leocg Ok, right now I installed Opera USB along with my standalone O, on the same PC. I synced it. It retrieved all the bookmarks, etc. But I have no idea how to transfer my tabs. I even have the workspaces copied, but they are empty.
I see my tabs in O, the number of it on the sync page, but nothing appears in O-USB. How to sync it?

@leocg I thought so, but extensions are actually synced between the normally installed and standalone Operas. I don't know how.
About the tabs - right now I have 133 here and 270 in sync. Which means, there's 137 tabs I just can't reach because of the encryption. On the other PC I did sync without it and I could see the tabs list and reopen it.
Is there any way to open the encrypted sync, knowing the passphrase?

Same here. Open new tab, F5 and then it works. But it is terribly slowing the process.

1. I had one installed Opera instance.
2. I installed the standalone-usb version to another disk and synced it
3. Expectacions - it will restore tabs. Reality - I can see, how many tabs are synced*. But I can click all 100 of them one by one! Ok, I installed TabHamster, synced the extensions and restored the session. Win?
4. I reinstalled the OS. I opened the standalone Opera and guess what? It was empty! How?
5. I installed Opera and turned the sync on. Again, I see only how many tabs I had in the previous OS and I can open it one by one*. But settings and extensions are not synced. So I had to install TabHamster - thanks God, I made a proper backup! - and restore my tabs all at once.

*Important note: I can't see the tabs or restore it, if it was encrypted. I can't decrypt it even when I know the passphrase! I can only see how many tabs are synced with I don't know what. Right now I have exactly this painful situation with another Opera and different workspace.

@leocg Thanks for answering! My problem is a bit worse. I have only one device. I wanted to sync the tabs to backup, reinstall the Opera and then sync it back. Looks like I have lost everything. History trick do not work too.
But SpeedDial advice was Very helpful, thankyou!