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.

Nope, this is still an issue in Opera 68.0.3618.173. There is a workaround that uses a Window Rule to force the title bar to display. It's not perfect but it helps.

@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?

Tend to agree. I use Linux because I like to manage for myself the way my desktop and windows display and behave. Linux is very much about freedom of choice. Here in Opera we have a team of developers who insist they must control the browsing experience to the extent they enforce window behaviours and decorations -- well, lack of decorations -- on us. If I wanted to use tyrannical software I would use Windows or Mac.

I enjoy the Opera experience, in the main, but there are annoyances that will push me away from Opera. I want to be in control of my browser. Devs must not insist I suffer their preferences that they seem to choose for artistic rather than utility purposes. I left Firefox for similar reasons. I'm 90% certain that this year I will relegate Opera to the status of 'For Junk Sites Only' and move to Vivaldi as my main browser.

Other annoyances include forced search engine adds, forced closure of open tabs when the browser (usually my computer fainting through exhaustion) crashes several times in a row, and developer unwillingness to listen to end users.

For the most part Opera is a really nice browser. I'd happily pay $12 per year to unlock my browser

Nope, this is still an issue in Opera 68.0.3618.173. There is a workaround that uses a Window Rule to force the title bar to display. It's not perfect but it helps.

@systematic123 Create a bookmark or speed dial button to opera://settings/clearBrowserData

It's silly that browser makers make it so hard to properly clear the cache. It is a matter of security. You'd think they would make it easier to clear the cache for all time instead of tricking people into only clearing the last hour.

@rejzor Same happens to me. I delete them. They re-add themselves. I thought I'd got a dose of malware in the browser but everything checks clean.

Opera needs to get a handle on this kind of rubbish. It ruins the experience.

@1outlaw3 This is a longstanding issue created by Opera's developers. They refuse to address the problem. There are workarounds. Some of these workarounds might help users of Manjaro running XFCE.

See the solutions offered in the following forum thread. One of them might work for you https://forums.opera.com/topic/28344/new-lack-of-opera-menu-bar-is-unusable/6?_=1590601136501

A recent Opera update added a series of exceptions to the in-built adblocker rules. All but one of the sites excluded from adblock rules were search engines.

I know Opera needs to make money. I'm happy to donate toward the Opera project. I'm not happy to see adblock rule exceptions added automatically to Opera's adblocker when Opera updates. This is not just bad form it is rude and intrusive.

Please stop it with these bad design decisions. You already messed up the Linux experience when you removed the title bar. Now you're interfering with the browsing experience by forcing ads on to unsuspecting Opera users. Not all of us want to see ads for dating sites, f*buddy sites and similar rubbish.

If you, Opera, want money from your users stick a donate button on the Speed Dial screen, listen to user feedback and act on user feedback.

Anyone else plagued by ads in Google, Bing, Yandex etc.. and Facebook should go to Settings > Privacy Protection > Block Ads > Manage Exceptions to delete the rules that cause offensive ads to display.

The screenshot shows how this settings page looks for me with all but one of the adblock exceptions deleted.

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.'