Goto URL opera://settings/startPage. You'll see a suggestions option that you can disable (among other things).

Goto the URL opera://flags/#search-in-open-tabs, disable the flag, and restart Opera.

Test this solution. Remove the Opera Safe Store password from Keychain Access login item.

Steps:

Open Keychain Access application

Choose 'login' keychain on left

Choose 'Password' group

Find 'Opera Safe Storage' entry, right click it and choose Delete.

You can goto https://addons.opera.com/en/wallpapers/?tag=animated and install one of the animated wallpapers. Then, in Opera, goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera and look in the "themes" folder in the profile folder.

You'll see the folder for the wallpaper you installed. In it, you can see how to create your own. You then just zip up your persona.ini file with the webm file and thumbnail and you 'll have your custom wallpaper.

Things you can try:

Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Then, close Opera and delete the WidevineCDM folder in the profile folder.

Then, start Opera, goto the URL opera://components, click "update" for Widevine, let it update, and restart Opera.

Then, start Opera and goto https://html5test.com/ and make sure it shows "yes" for h.264 support and "yes" for aac support.

Once that's good, goto https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm, make sure it says "Using Widevine" above the video and "Widevine" for EME below the video, and "video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c00d" for MSE below the video. And, make sure the video plays and you can hear its audio.

Then, goto the URL opera://settings/siteData, type spotify.com in the search-cookies field and choose "remove all shown".

Then, goto https://open.spotify.com/ in a new tab, log in, and try to play some music.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://flags/#reduce-user-agent, enable the flag, restart Opera, and try again.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://settings/system, disable hardware acceleration, restart Opera, and try again.

If you still have problems, goto the URL opera://extensions, disable all your extensions, and restart Opera.

If you still ahve problems, make sure you're not using Opera's VPN, and try turning off Opera's Adblocking and tracking protection.

If you still have problems, try all of the above with a standalone installation.

You can also goto the URL opera://settings/content/protectedContent, and make sure "Sites can play protected content" and "Sites can use identifiers to play protected content" are set with no sites in the custom behaviors list.

In the Opera program files directory, right-click on launcher.exe to create a new shortcut and place it on your desktop. Then, on the desktop, rename it what you want. Then, right-click on the shortcut, goto properties and then the "shortcut" tab. On that tab, modify the target to add the --user-data-dir command-line switch.

For example:

"C:\Program Files (X86)\Opera\launcher.exe" "--user-data-dir=C:\Users\yourusername\Opera2"

(I personally have a "My Program Files" folder in "C:\Users\myusername", so I'd use "C:\Users\myusername\My Program Files\Opera2" for example.)

You can create as many shortcuts as you want with each using a different profile folder.

See http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#user-data-dir for more info.

Log into https://gemini.google.com/app in a tab.

Then, enable the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" flag at the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel, restart Opera, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the sidebar, scroll down to Custom Site Panels and add https://gemini.google.com/app.

As an alternative for now, note that you can enable the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" flag at the URL opera://flags/#sidebar-site-panel, restart Opera, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the sidebar, scroll down to "Custom Site Panels" and add the URL for the web app you want (https://bsky.app/ for example).

You can't customize the icon for it in the sidebar and you can change its position, but it's something for now.

If you have any trouble logging in to the site in the sidebar, you can log in via a regular tab first and then reload the sidebar.

Goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Close down Opera and delete the WidevineCDM folder in the profile folder. Then, start Opera, goto opera://components and try updating Widevine again.

You might want to make sure opera://flags/#new-component-update-mechanism is disabled too. It should be by default, but check that URL just in case.

Are you talking about the start page button that's missing on the left side of the address bar in Opera One builds?

@sklunk Yeah, that's always been annoying. It just does simple alphabetical sorting and doesn't handle build numbers well.

@raphaelbm said in Opera 131.0.5877.24 Stable update:

Version 131.0.5877.31 is unannounced.

Might have been an update that was only there on the servers for a short bit and got then got pulled. 131.0.5877.24 is shown as the newest now.

If you have .31, you might want to manually download and install .24 as there might be something wrong with .31.

@NetSkyCZ I couldn't reproduce it with https://authenticationtest.com/HTTPAuth/. Does it have to be on localhost like in your pic? I even tried with a custom site panel. Edit: Couldn't reproduce with a local server either.

@theory65-0 Try uninstalling all extensions instead of just disabling them.

What extensions do you have installed?

@theory65-0

Long shot, but check anyway. Goto the URL opera://flags/#policy, enable the "Show policy page" flag, restart Opera and goto the URL opera://policy. Does it show that any policies are set from the registry?

Looks like due to that situation, Opera either corrupted your existing session files or started with fresh ones. See https://forums.opera.com/post/402318 for some things to check.

Make sure you have the x64 ".NET Desktop Runtime 8" (8.0.26 currently) from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0 installed.

Also see https://forums.opera.com/topic/88601/strange-message-when-trying-to-install-vpn-pro.

@theory65-0 Someone on Reddit had this and it was one of their extensions that was causing it.

@robeyw if your open tabs are not in those Session_timestamp and Tabs_timestamp files,, and you don’t have a backup, your open tabs are gone forever.

In 95, the “Opera Stable” folder is your profile folder. It’s called the profile folder, but it’s not literally named “profile”. The “Sessions” folder in the “Opera Stable” folder is the correct place to look and your pic shows you have the right place.

@mohamedsalah said in Opera 132.0.5883.0 developer update:

The vertical tab strip is currently resizeable you can make it as small as the fav icon of the opened pages

I noticed that the start page favicon gets cut off a tiny bit when you shrink the vertical tab strip all the way.