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The splash screen only comes with each update, you'll get the splash screen again with the next update.
The current windows version is 111.0.5168.55 -- if the next update is 111.something it will make noise. If the next update is 112.something it is supposed to be quiet.
@leocg - Yes, every time anyone complains about this nonsense, the answer is always "We already fixed that" just not in the version that anyone gets to use. This has been going on for months. There have been several updates. But the update that will fix a known problem is always somewhere in the unknown future.
@leocg It certainly still did when I opened Opera today. Perhaps it may go away when version 112 comes out, but the worthless annoying intrusive loud noise is still part of Opera 111.0.5168.43 which was released in the last 24 hours.
@sgunhouse -- OK, that seems a bit better, but still a combination of a lot of work and some luck. It would be a lot better if Opera had developers with some sort of common sense.
@sgunhouse -- I had not thought about that, but the two problems that come to mind are:
@burnout426
Currently at 111.0.5168.43 which still has this worthless annoying and intrusive garbage, so I guess it will be just a few years and a few hundred more noisy starts before we may get rid of this idiocy.
@burnout426
"Opera" may know that that while "some users don't like" having their browser randomly make loud noises with no warning and no control, but what they refuse to acknowledge is that no one actually likes this ridiculous nonsense.
Depending on when and where you happen to be when this happens, it can be just annoying or embarrassing, but it is never something anyone in their right mind would want.
We were told this was going to be removed from the next version -- but it has not been. I just had it happen again today.
@leocg
It was still there in the last Opera update.
If it is gone now, that would be good, but I'll wait for the next update before I'm convinced that someone had the good sense to drive a stake through its heart.
@blackbird71 -- yeah. Personally I figure that the wasted popup tab is bad enough, without the stupid music that is nothing but a waste of time and disc space. I acknowledge that the screen telling me about the update is probably essential -- especially since all the browsers like to occasionally change your settings without asking.
But I would really really really appreciate a setting to skip the damn trumpet blare or whatever that stupid noise is supposed to be.
@burnout426 Thanks for the reply. I'll have to wait for the next update and check the version number to see if it waits for version 105.0.x.x -- perhaps it only happens for "major version" updates, but it still happens way to often to make me happy.
Part of the problem is that I have three computers, each with two accounts, so for each update I have to have Opera blare at me four to six separate times (one computer has headphones all the time, so I only hear the garbage music if I happen to have the headphones on when I start Opera after an update).
But that's all part of the problem -- I never know when Opera is going to blare its stupid noise at me, so I'm not prepared, and then it makes noise at me (sometimes at 1 or 2AM) which is annoying.
I guess once I get the first blare, I probably should just go around to each of the computers and start Opera, but even that won't completely solve the problem because they don't seem to all update at the same time.
is there some way to prevent the music that opera starts after each of its frequent updates?
I often use my computer when others are sleeping or doing things that they simply don't want to be disturbed. it is annoying that opera always plays a a burst of loud music when it starts if there has been an update -- to be honest the unexpected burst of music annoys me even when i am alone.
i realize that i could disconnect my speakers or mute the entire computer via the operating system, but i'd rather not do that when the problem is only with opera and only when starting the program.
Is there a way to disable the stupid useless Default Browser Check that the developers have created to harass anyone who dares try to use Opera without making it their only browser?
I had it disabled before, but apparently the [Never To Be Sufficiently Damned] developers decided to shove it back in -- and, of course, there is no menu to stop this insanity because the developers want to harass anyone who dares not have Opera as their default
Ooops sorry, two different thread that belong in differnt places.
@leocg
I thought I had said earlier. When I try the "reset" it says it needs the old password. When I enter the old password and click for the reset, it doesn't do anything.
I'm ready to give up on Firefox despite it having been my main browser for several years.
Unfortunately for some of what I do, I really do need multiple browsers, so what I think I'm probably going to have to do is to just kill the existing copy of Firefox on each computer, load a fresh copy, create an entirely new account, and fight through manually re-creating several years worth of various sites, account names, and passwords -- cursing this worthless P.O.S. every step of the way.
"Forced to change account password" might be just a bit strong... Opera apparently would have been fine with me keeping my password, so long as I didn't want to sign in ever again!
This whole debacle started because I thought it would be useful and convenient to sync the data between Opera running on my desktop and laptop, and my new desktop. When I looked at synchronizing Opera told me I had to sign in. So far so good, that made sense.
At least it made sense until Opera told me that my password was "Invalid" (not wrong, "Invalid"). Things went downhill rapidly from there.
The Only way Opera would let me log in was by creating a new password that it liked.
Then once I had created a new password, Opera refuses to sync my saved passwords. Opera says it can't sync the passwords because they were encrypted with the old password.
Opera also says that I can "reset" those saved passwords and supposedly not lose them, if I give it the old password. But when I enter the old password in the blank provided Nothing Happens . I've tried this from both computers, and both behave the same way.
So, I suppose you are right, Opera didn't "force" me to change my password -- it just didn't give me any other choice if I wanted to sign in.
Opera has declared my password "invalid" -- apparently because they decided retroactively that it was too common.
OK, I can put up with that stupidity (it IS stupid, but I can put up with it)
What I can't put up with it the insanity of Opera making it impossible for me to sync saved passwords because Opera forced me to change my password.
The "reset" function says it needs the old password -- but Opera won't accept the old password because it is "invalid"
So now I want to run Opera on three computers, one of which is brand new, but Opera won't let me sync them if I tell it to sync passwords. I couldn't care less about most other things Opera thinks it want's to sync, but without being able to sync passwords Opera is way too much trouble to be bothered using. If I have to start from scratch, Opera certainly won't be what I use.
@sgunhouse said in Is there any way to make Opera stop checking to see if it is the default browser.:
@xaunloc In Settings there is an option to check if Opera is the default browser, just turn that off.
This might seem like a silly question, but exactly where is the magical option?
I ask, because that was my first thought. I looked for any such option, I didn't find it and perhaps more disturbingly Opera itself could not find it when I used Opera's own Settings Search to look for any setting including the word default
So, whatever Opera calls this magical setting, apparently its name does not mention the word "default"
There is a setting option to MAKE Opera the default browser, but neither I not Opera itself have been able to find any setting that controls whether or not Opera checks to see if it is the default browser.
Windows 10 Pro (fully up-to-date)
Opera Version:75.0.3969.171 (fully up-to-date)
Situation: Opera is NOT the default browser, and I don't want it to be the default, but I do use Opera daily (as well as three other browsers)
Problem: Latest version of Opera insists on checking to see if it is the default browser, and begging me to make it the default browser every time it starts.
As noted above, I know Opera is not the default browser, and I don't want Opera to be the default browser. I wish that Opera would still let me turn off this nonsense (like every other browser in the world), but I cannot find any setting to tell Opera not to check to see if it is the default browser.
This unacceptable behavior is recent, so I assume the hard coded check for being the default browser was introduced recently.
