I keep the Start Page button displayed on the address bar of Opera, so I can click it and quickly get back to the Speed Dial.

Ever since updating to version 117, however, it fills in the address bar with the URL of the page I was just on. I'd rather it leave the address bar blank, so I can quickly go somewhere else.

Is this a feature that was recently added to Opera? Can I turn it off? If so, how? Or is it a bug?

I'm also having this problem, and I tried deleting the cookies as sgunhouse up there suggested, and it didn't work. Being stuck on the crummy old version of Google is starting to drive me crazy, and I like Opera too much to switch to another browser (ESPECIALLY not Google Chrome, if this is a deliberate attempt to get me to start using it. I won't be coerced!)

What else should I do? Is there an extension I can download to force new Google, or should I try getting Opera Next and see if Opera's patched in a fix for it?