Enable New Redesigned Mini Player Flyout in Opera Sidebar

If you use Opera web browser and you don’t like the basic Mini Player fly-out with White background in the sidebar, this article will help you in enabling the upcoming redesigned Mini Player fly-out in Opera’s sidebar right now.

Opera browser comes with a built-in sidebar which appears at the left-side of the browser window. This sidebar provides direct and quick access to many useful tools such as AI services such as Opera’s native Aria AI, ChatGPT and various chat messengers such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.

Opera sidebar also displays icons to access the browser’s native services and tools such as My Flow, Wallet and Mini Player. The Mini Player is a simple media player that allows users to listen music using various online media streaming apps such as Apple Music, Gaana, Spotify and YouTube Music.

When the user is listening to a song using the Player app, he can just hover the mouse cursor over the Mini Player’s icon present in the sidebar and Opera shows a tiny fly-out to access certain media playback control options such as play/pause and play previous/next.

Following screenshot shows the default Mini Player fly-out appearing in Opera web browser sidebar:

As you can see the background of the mini player fly-out is White with no information or preview of the currently playing song. Also the size of the fly-out is very large and many Opera users don’t like this rectangular basic mini player design.

Did you know Opera developer team is working on a design overhaul for the mini player fly-out? Future versions of Opera web browser such as Opera One R2 will come with a redesigned Mini Player fly-out which will have dark background and information about the currently playing song.

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Following screenshot shows the upcoming redesigned Mini Player fly-out live in action in Opera web browser:

Opera team has already implemented the new redesigned Mini Player fly-out in the latest Opera stable version but the new design is deactivated and disabled by default.

Interested users can manually activate and enable the new redesigned Mini Player fly-out right now in their web browser by modifying a hidden secret preference/flag that we are going to share in this article.

If you also want to enable and use the new more advanced and modern Mini Player fly-out in Opera web browser, following steps will help you:

STEP 1: Launch Opera web browser and type opera://flags in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the hidden secret advanced configuration page called “Experiments“.

STEP 2: Now click inside Search flags text box and type miniplayer. It’ll show following option in the result:

STEP 3: To enable the new redesigned Mini Player tool and fly-out in your web browser, select “Enabled” from the drop-down box.

STEP 4: Opera will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Opera.

That’s it. After restarting the browser, you’ll get the new redesigned Mini Player fly-out in your web browser’s sidebar.

PS: In future, if you decide to restore default Mini Player design, set the above mentioned flag value to Default again.

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