[Solved]How would Opera work inside FireFox, another browser?
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AaronAF last edited by leocg
My Opera browser accessible from my pc desktop, outside of FireFox, is no longer working for me. Can't even access my email from the speed dial. Now, while I am inside FireFox, I see an ad for downloading Opera there. If I did that, would I be able to transfer all my already saved bookmarks of the dysfunctional Opera into the freshly downloaded one? That seems like an odd thing to do, because it would be running a browser within another different browser! How would that work?
Please advise.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426
Sounds like this has nothing to do with Firefox and you just have an issue with Opera. You could explain in more detail exactly what's wrong with your Opera and we can try and help you sort that out.
If nothing helps, you might just have to uninstall (don't choose to delete your data when uninstalling) and reinstall Opera. And, if that alone doesn't work, you will probably have to start with a fresh Opera profile to get things working again (with optionally copying over some of your old profile files to the new profile to retain things like bookmarks and passwords etc., if the files/folders are not damaged).
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AaronAF last edited by AaronAF
Thank you @burnout426! You understood my actual concern: How to fix my ailing Opera app. Because of the tight temporal association with what occurred right before the sudden crashing behavior I observed, I can speculate on the cause of that behavior: my forced shutdown of my pc. I had initially selected a restart, but after that process began, it would not stop restarting! On and on it went with non-stop buffering, without completing the restart; I had no way to turn it off. So in frustration, I just turned off the power. I guess that interfered with some crucial resetting function related to Opera.
It is good to know that a reinstall will permit me to select "save data"! I would hate to lose years of effort in accumulating my bookmarks and also all of my important speed dial stuff! I was not aware of the save-data feature of a reinstall; and even now, I do not know how that option would appear. Hopefully, it will be made clear by some prompt that occurs automatically with the reinstall process. Would you please elaborate more on the reinstall process and how to save data? I'd also appreciate learning about how to transfer files if becomes necessary.
Meanwhile, I continue to use FF as an aid to prop up my wounded Opera app.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@aaronaf said in How would Opera work inside FireFox, another browser?:
Would you please elaborate more on the reinstall process and how to save data?
When you choose to uninstall Opera, when the uninstaller launches, there will be a checkbox that says "Delete my Opera user data" that's unchecked by default. Just don't check it.
Also in the uninstaller, in addition to the "uninstall" button, there's a re-install button. You can try the re-install method first. If that doesn't help, try to uninstall again and click the uninstall button instead. Then, you'll download Opera from https://www.opera.com/download in Firefox, launch the Opera installer, click "options", review and adjust the options the way you like, and install.
If the reinstall or uninstall/reinstall doesn't help, when you post here to let us know that, also mention what exactly is not working in Opera and list the things that you must have restored with a new profile (like bookmarks and speeddials etc.).
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@aaronaf said in How would Opera work inside FireFox, another browser?:
Can't even access my email from the speed dial.
Why not? Are you having trouble bookmarking the webmail page to the speed dial folder so that it shows up on the start page? Or, does clicking the speed dial for your email not load the webmail page?
What else is wrong in Opera?
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AaronAF last edited by AaronAF
@burnout426 I know how to use the features of Opera that I need. I have already placed many webpages on my speed dial page with no problems, except the usual tedious effort required to move or drag them into positions more convenient for my personal requirements. I have gotten so many of them on my speed dial now, that I have resorted to placing new ones at the bottom of the page for easier finding them later.
The major problem now is that many of my speed dialed pages crash about a half second after they are opened! So my workaround is to copy and paste the url associated with the crashed webpage into the brower window of my FireFox (FF). There it stays open and I bookmark it into FF. Funny though, my Amazon account does open OK from the speeddial! But not my hotmail webpage! It crashes! Rumble.com pages crash. My protonmail inbox page crashes, too. My FLCCC Alliance website (www.flccc.net) does not crash. Why is this problem so dependent upon the webpage that's being opened?? I guess this behavior is a clue for a better informed observer; but, unfortunately, I am not that person.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@aaronaf Okay. So the problem is that certain sites crash Opera. You can see if there's a crashlog with an ID and post the ID here.
Then, do a test. In a test standalone installation open the sites that cause a crash in your normal Opera and see if they crash the test installation too.
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AaronAF last edited by
@burnout426 I long ago put my email link on my speed dial page, and have been using it for a long time without any problem. But now, when I click on the link for it on my speed dial, it opens and immediately crashes.
Another instance of my Opera browser not working is when I click on my usual link to an ongoing ZOOM meeting, the connection crashes right away. To allow connection, I have to copy the url that appears on the crash page and paste it into my FF browser, which does the job properly, no crashing.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@aaronaf If you open up a new tab, type the site's address in the address field and press enter, does the page still cause Opera to crash or does it load fine then? If the former, it has nothing to do with your speed dials specifically and this is all just about some sites crashes Opera for you.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@aaronaf Try the test standalone installation and previously suggested. Whether the sites crash there or not is important to know.
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AaronAF last edited by AaronAF
@burnout426 First I am doing the crash log thing. I got a log showing 38 page crashes. By the way, it's a page crash, and always not a browser crash, at least not recently; sometime opera does crash when memory runs low. (Incidentally, is there a way to get an upgrade to enhance my browser's memory capacity? I am getting popup warnings more and more frequently lately saying memory is low, and that usually precedes a real browser crash. My temporary fix is just to close the browser and reboot my pc.)
Here is my most recent page crash ID number:
CrashID=6222269f-d804-47ce-9c0e-1a7912221112 .I'll do the standalone thing next.
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AaronAF last edited by
@burnout426 My opera browser began working flawlessly this morning! However, that turned out to be short-lived! It is now unresponsive. This would normally be a signal for me to restart my computer and hope for the best. But I don't have to do so urgently now that I have a working FireFox browser.
Fortunately, my FF is still running OK, with sporadic crashes. But at least it has the courtesy of acknowledging them and providing easy ways to recover. Opera is not that user friendly. Its recover program is very limited, and usually does not work.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@aaronaf said in How would Opera work inside FireFox, another browser?:
CrashID=6222269f-d804-47ce-9c0e-1a7912221112 .
Someone checked that ID for you. Seems related to the adblocker (at least partially).
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AaronAF last edited by
@burnout426 Well, whatever it was, the problem seems to have been fixed, at least temporarily! I made no changes. I would sure like to know what was done, if anything, to fix the problem. Maybe whoever checked that ID for me made a few tweaks remotely?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@aaronaf Opera probably just issued an update with a fix for everyone.
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