Opera’s last few updates began enabling an infuriating feature on Opera. Opera’s annoying splash screen is becoming more obnoxious as Opera seemed to has enabled auto-updates for its browsers.
Opera has a splash screen, which was never enabled or visible on the portable Windows version before. I’m using the Opera One browser, and seemingly the other variant of Opera has had the splash screen for some time now. It would launch on startup and some variants of browser has a setting to disable it, and this setting would not work too in some cases. Opera One has no setting for it, though.
My gripe here is, it’s totally unnecessary, and it should be easily disabled. Most importantly, WHY MUST THERE BE A SOUND CLIP ACCOMPANYING IT? A loud one at that. With unavoidable auto updates, Opera will update with no prompt, and the splash screen will re-enable itself everytime after an update.
Delving into Reddit and Opera forums, yielded a common theme. The executable file opera_gx_splash.exe is responsible for the splash screen. Another reason is a Preferences file in the Profile folder of Opera. Something changed in the last few updates because the Preferences file location has now changed.
The solution is to delete the exe after every update, or recreate an empty Preferences file in the root of the Profile folder. I found the answers in these online posts.
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