Worked like a charm. Thanks.

Nevermind. I re-installed it to my programs directory. And I'll delete everything once again. I've wasted hours now. Thanks a lot for the terrible onboarding⸮

@leocg Yes, I did mean START page. I found it under advanced settings , thanks.

@leocg I think I may have resolved my own problem and the result seems embarrassingly obvious. The stop loading icon is hidden under the reload icon on the left next to the forward and backward icons in the navigation buttons area. When a search is being performed and a page is loading or being reloaded the Reload icon will change to an X and can be clicked on to stop the process. I do feel a little silly but I always felt there was no such thing as a bad question, at least most of the time.

I see ok I just downloaded Oprea mini and that worked out better.

@yanta said in Opera extensions don't work !: @ahmed6846 Do you use Opera's built-in VPN? If so, disable it for testing purposes or choose another VPN server. Sometimes a VPN server's poor availability causes such timed-out messages. The VPN wan't ON, but now I tried turning it ON and it worked !

Thanks for the explanation

Thanks for the explanation.

I am pleasently alarmed with the rebirth of the history function of my Opera (vers. 57.0.3098.106). The alarming aspect is that nothing can be named as the origin of the `rebirth'. I fear the moment that it will stop and disappear again,witout knowing why that happens. I have installed Bitdefender and Advanced System Care. In the latter I have blocked the function that cleanes privacy aspects. I hope that the history functions of Opera will remain intact.

Thanks @leocg . That did the trick my bad!

@leocg You were right. Gmail was the default setting. I removed it. And it's fixed. Emails now open Mail/iCloud. Excellent. Thank you very much. It's appreciated.

@burnout426 PERFECT!! The 1 sec setting was the issue. I just had my window too small and didn't see it!! Thank you so much!!

I did all the things you suggested. Interestingly enough, when I opened the Cmd window and keyed in the line about the launcher.exe, even if I typed it in quotes, I got the same message that Windows could not find c:\Program Not sure why it couldn't find it. The settings option was set to use the Start Page on startup, and to notify if another URL wanted to start it. I turned those options off and then back on and now the problem has stopped. I'm not sure why it stopped because I set it back to exactly how it was when I opened Settings. At least, now it has stopped doing it. Thank you very much for the detailed instructions. I appreciate the help and your time.

My system just installed the January 2019 Windows 1809 update and the problem affecting Opera seems to have gone away. Thanks, Bill Gates. I think I'll stick with Firefox for a while. Maybe permanently, with all the new bookmarks I've made. And the program handling. Entering this with Opera, by the by.

Well, i found my answer (by myself), i just pressed the flow icon in the right at top, it directed me to a page, i tried connecting again, and done.

@leocg Thank you

@elking82 A moderator (me) can edit your original post to add a "Solved" tag and then lock the thread (though if it comes up again you can message me and I'll unlock it for you).

@leocg Thanks, man! It was the blocker, indeed!

@leocg can you close this topic- issue is resolved