Opera Won't Open

[gp123]

gp123 @ljfried last edited by

@ljfried

Suddenly experiencing exactly the same problem -- with Opera and several other sites.

Other sites (like Foxfire) work just fine.

[Filip13HR]

Filip13HR last edited by

Just experiencing the same thing. Blank speed dial page, without any icon or folder

[AndreAvila0502]

AndreAvila0502 last edited by

Having the same problem as well. Takes about one minute of heavy CPU usage for Speed Dial to load every time I open Opera (before that is just an empty page).

Then it's behaving normaly until the next time I close it and use it again.

[Airetsiw]

Airetsiw @ljfried last edited by leocg

@ljfried Same problem

[ljfried]

ljfried last edited by

for me it now seems sporadic - everything opened just fine a little while ago but now I'm having the same problem - in fact, I can't even click on the Opera desktop icon to try to open it -

[ftfire]

ftfire @ljfried last edited by

@ljfried Same, 1-2 hours worked fine, but later launched and got a blank page.

[Airetsiw]

Airetsiw @ljfried last edited by

@ljfried Same problem here, My homepage disappear, I am use Opera for MAC

[jquartana]

jquartana last edited by

I have the same problem no ICONS work and the opera icon also does not work

[ftfire]

ftfire last edited by

This work for me. Go to your profile folder (My is for example here C:\Users\Ohaha\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable)

Delete files:
History
History Provider Cache
History-journal
Restart Opera.

[gp123]

gp123 @ftfire last edited by

@ftfire

Looks like it works for me as well. Opera now opens from my desktop shortcut, along with several of the sites that used this browser.

Thanks so much for the help.

[starfleet007]

starfleet007 @ftfire last edited by

@ftfire Excellent info. Had the same as others, speed dial was super delayed in opening. This did the trick. Opening fine now. Saving info for future reference.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

See https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/m1rvwd/startpage_not_loading_missing_favicons_missing/.

[ljfried]

ljfried last edited by

this old Luddite doesn't know how/where to find Profile page - can someone help? Thank you very much. (Nice to know I wasn't the only person with this problem!)

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ljfried last edited by

@ljfried Check the path in Menu > Help > About Opera or by typing opera://about in address bar

[ljfried]

ljfried @leocg last edited by

@leocg thank you but all I see there are the version I'm using (which is up to date) plus browser identification; paths; legal information

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ljfried last edited by

@ljfried Now read my previous reply again.

[ljfried]

ljfried @leocg last edited by

@leocg sorry but I don't understand. I followed your instructions to get to Profile page but did not see anything about what "ftfire" posted - I mean deleting History, History Provider Cache, History-journal. Sorry if I'm doing something wrong. You are very nice to try to help me.

[gp123]

gp123 @gp123 last edited by

@gp123 Morning after the "Opera crisis" the fix is still working.

For the folks contacting me about applying this solution there is confusion about finding the "profile page". This is the folder that stores attributes about the Opera program. For Windows 7 it can be found at:

C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable

For Mac and W10 users, should be something similar

Open this folder and delete the three "History" files cited. Then restart Opera. All should be OK.

[alobpreis]

alobpreis @ljfried last edited by

@ljfried said in Opera Won't Open:

@leocg sorry but I don't understand. I followed your instructions to get to Profile page but did not see anything about what "ftfire" posted - I mean deleting History, History Provider Cache, History-journal. Sorry if I'm doing something wrong. You are very nice to try to help me.

If you go to Help / About and scroll down a little bit, you will find your install, profile and cache folders.

[gp123]

gp123 last edited by

Problem seems solved (see other posts), but having invested about 4 hours on this and just about ready to switch back to Foxfire, I'm interested in knowing more:

What caused the problem?
Why did deleting 3 files fix the problem?
What assurance that this will not happen again?

Anyone know the answers???