Opera 37 won't open any pages

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

If you start Opera with command line --no-sandbox, there is any difference?

[falfan762]

falfan762 last edited by

Yes, Opera runs using that, but Windows 7 won't let me add that to the taskbar icon properties. I can only run Opera by going through the "run" feature and adding the "--no-sandbox" after the executable. Windows 8 would let me add it to the desktop icon. What gives? I don't know enough about Opera to fix it.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

but Windows 7 won't let me add that to the taskbar icon properties

Create a desktop shortcut, add the command line to it. Then open Opera using that short-cut and pin to task-bar.

I guess it should work.

[falfan762]

falfan762 last edited by

What is the danger involved in running --no-sandbox?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

What is the danger involved in running --no-sandbox?

Don't know.

[hntried]

hntried last edited by

Hi falfan762, I had the same issue when I was using Opera via third party such as LiberKey. When I launched Opera from the opera.exe, no the launcher provided by LiberKey everything worked fine. The only difference I noticed was that via the launcher the user profile and cache folders were not at their defaults (AppData/temp/etc...) but instead in the LiberKey folder.

Therefore, if worried of using --no-sandbox, perhaps check what are your profile, cache, etc. folders (the ones Opera works with) and change to default. (e.g. Profile: $username$\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable; Cache: $username$\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable).

It worked for me, hope it works for you.

[falfan762]

falfan762 last edited by

Windows 7 and 8.1 won't let me modify the shortcut for launcher.exe or opera.exe, so Firefox it is!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Windows 7 and 8.1 won't let me modify the shortcut for launcher.exe or opera.exe

Right click on launcher.exe > send to desktop. Go to desktop, right click on the short-cut and go to properties. Add the command line in the target field.

Can't you do that?

[falfan762]

falfan762 last edited by

Not in Win7

[lando242]

lando242 last edited by

And why can't you do that in Window 7? It is a feature of Windows 7.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Not in Win7

What happens when you try to do it?

[falfan762]

falfan762 last edited by

"The name 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe --no-sandbox' specified in the Target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are correct."

Both Win 7 PCs give that error. Win 8.1 also...

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

"The name 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe --no-sandbox' specified in the Target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are correct."

Are you adding the parameter after the quoted path, like this?

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera beta\launcher.exe" --no-sandbox

[falfan762]

falfan762 last edited by

No, I entered it just as previously posted, with the parameter inside the quotation marks. I'll try as you suggest and post the results.

[falfan762]

falfan762 last edited by

I was able to save the modification to the icon properties by entering the parameter outside the quotation marks in Win 8.1 and will try the same on Win 7 later.

[falfan762]

falfan762 last edited by

FWIW, I "upgraded" to Windows 10 on my laptop with Windows 8.1, removed "--no-sandbox", upgraded Comodo Firewall, and Opera works normally again! I want to point out that both PCs that had this problem ALSO had Comodo Firewall. Thank you again for all the help...