Opera 46.0 Browser- how to set home page?

Sounds like a corrupt preference file, ok so lets try moving the Opera preference file out, and restarting Opera.

Then input your www.apple.com/ipad as your start up page.

The preference file you need to locate is in the file path Macintosh HD/Users/<home folder>/Library/Preferences/com.operasoftware.Opera.plist. See example below.

Now the Users home folder Library is hidden by default, unless you have already unhidden it, so in Finder click on Go in the menubar, when you see the drop down menu, press the alt/option key and the Library should popup, click on it then access the Preferences folder. Once you have located the preference file drag it to the trash, don't empty the trash.

Now restart the mac, relaunch Opera, go to Browser preferences put in the page you want Opera to start on. Quit Opera, relaunch Opera hopefully it will now open on the page you want.

If you are happy then you can empty the trash, a new preference file was created when you restarted the mac.

If a relaunch and clearing Opera history/cache didn't help, you may have a piece of malware installed, that resets your preference.

Try running Malwarebytes, but I'm not sure if it ch cks Opera files. It's safe to use.

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Once you have entered your desired page are you clicking OK, if you click Use Current Page you will go back to the Google default.