I'm in the UK. Reading the forums it looks like a good number of people are experiencing the same problem.

@jamesisin when the title bar was taken away a menu icon was put at left of the open tabs. I seem to recall (not certain) there was once an option to enable/disable the menu button in previous versions of Opera. I can't find a flag for it now so my guess is it would be hidden in a config file that might need to be manually edited.

This is not very well documented. We can set a thumbnail image for each speed dial tab:

1. Click the tab,
2. Click the heart () in the address bar; this is the same heart that is clicked to add a bookmark,
3. Use the thumbnail carousel to select the thumbnail that is to be used to represent the bookmark in Speed Dial, then
4. Click 'Done'.

The Add to Bookmarks button (the heart) can be used to put any singular page tab into Speed Dial. I only realised this today after months and months of frustration from wondering why Opera didn't have the option available in the actions dialog displayed when a tab is right-clicked.

More details here https://blogs.opera.com/news/2015/07/customize-operas-speed-dial/

I have the same problem on a Galaxy Tab. The VPN has not connected for a few days. I thought it might be caused by my forwarding the device date and time to speed up games but with the time set correctly, after multiple device restarts and enabling/disabling VPN the tablet is still unable to connect to Opera VPN.

There is a way to restore the title bar in Kubuntu so probably the same method applies to vanilla Ubuntu.

Try setting a Window Rule for Opera windows. In KDE we do this under System Settings > Window Rules and set 'No title bar and frame' to 'Force' and 'No'. That's how I got mine back.

There is a quick guide to restoring Opera the menu bar here.

@nomansland I only stepped on finding a solution to this today because all my Speed Dial bookmarks had turned to purple after the Opera Stable update installed into my computer, and some shades of purple give me a headache.

Seems that the colours change each time Opera updates; almost as though the scheme resets. There must be a cache that is automatically wiped after Opera updates are applied. If there is a cache it would suggest we might be able to manually edit those button colours.

@leocg Opera VPN on desktop works fine. Opera VPN on mobile over the same ISP does not work and has not worked even though the data cache has been cleared, the browser has been uninstalled then reinstalled and the device restarted multiple times.

This started for me 4 or 5 days ago, as per with others with the same issue. I am in the UK, not Iran, not UAE and not China etc.. but the UK. My ISP is Virgin Media.

I originally thought the issue might have been caused by my adjusting the time on my tablet by setting it forward for game cheating purposes. Evidently this was an erroneous thought.

I believe the issue is with the VPN.

@leocg Ah, yes, exactly our point: it is an Opera issue not a device issue nor necessarily an ISP issue (except maybe in Iran) but an issue local to certain regions. When you said localised we assumed you meant local to our devices and not local to our regions.

Thanks leocg. I hope Opera is able to resolve this one soon. As browsers go, Opera is my favourite for desktop and mobile/tablet.

Do Opera Mobile and Opera Desktop use different VPN servers?

The mobile VPN is working again in the UK. At least it is for me. Thank you. Please pass my gratitude on to the Opera team

@leocg

@leocg Ah, yes, exactly our point: it is an Opera issue not a device issue nor necessarily an ISP issue (except maybe in Iran) but an issue local to certain regions. When you said localised we assumed you meant local to our devices and not local to our regions.

Thanks leocg. I hope Opera is able to resolve this one soon. As browsers go, Opera is my favourite for desktop and mobile/tablet.

Do Opera Mobile and Opera Desktop use different VPN servers?

@leocg Opera VPN on desktop works fine. Opera VPN on mobile over the same ISP does not work and has not worked even though the data cache has been cleared, the browser has been uninstalled then reinstalled and the device restarted multiple times.

This started for me 4 or 5 days ago, as per with others with the same issue. I am in the UK, not Iran, not UAE and not China etc.. but the UK. My ISP is Virgin Media.

I originally thought the issue might have been caused by my adjusting the time on my tablet by setting it forward for game cheating purposes. Evidently this was an erroneous thought.

I believe the issue is with the VPN.

I'm in the UK. I mentioned this in an earlier comment (2nd in the thread). I only restated it because a mod said, to paraphrase 'Well it works for me.'

There are so many reports of a now 4 day old fault with the inbuilt VPN on Opera Mobile that it is making Opera devs look incompetent when forum mods still say 'It works for us so it must be a problem on your side.'

Definitely a problem with Opera VPN. It is not just Iran. I've now tried uninstalling and reinstalling Opera. The VPN is just not working.

@andrej8anubis We can use Chrome extensions with Opera. There is an addon that makes it possible https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/install-chrome-extensions/

I'm in the UK. Reading the forums it looks like a good number of people are experiencing the same problem.

Session managers are no help. I clear the history regularly of everything for security purposes. I wipe my session manager at the same time.

Computer backup options would not help in this instance. See above for the reason.

The issue is that Opera wipes the browser session. Backup options would only work if I didn't clear the browser history every time I close the browser. Open tabs are not wiped when browser history is cleared -- they are restored when the browser is reopened unless Opera crashes twice in succession in which case the suspended open tabs are wiped automatically by Opera.

Thanks for your suggestions but they won't work for my use case.

A temporary workaround until Opera resolves this would be useful. Do you know of any?

Rocket Tab Suspender is reliable. Try it if unLoaded doesn't work for you. It should be in the addons/extensions repository. The main website is https://www.tabsuspender.com/