@windbags said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@peak4 said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@jimmybfmv said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@windbags Have you tried peak4's "solution"?

@peak4 said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

When I had this problem, I just let Opera " wait for program to respond" rather than "end program"
Be patient, it can take several hours, or even overnight.

I had sync disabled since the update but I just tried signing in again and it worked for me, too! "Several hours" seems a bit extreme but I did have to wait 5 minutes on a sluggish laptop and 1–2 minutes on a less sluggish desktop PC for Opera to respond again. After that I was logged in and everything had been synced.

It may well depend on how many tabs you have open at the time it hung.
For various reasons, and it never normally causes issues, I was probably running with 100+ open at the same time,

I had a few tabs, as I always have several "tasks in progress" that need the info, but nothing like that many. I did try removing ones I thought I could easily retrieve, but after three goes I was getting fed up of it "not responding".
Waiting for minutes/hours/overnight on the "hope" of eventually getting a response is not the mark of a useful browser - especially when Windows 10 updates keeps forcing me to restart the system.

I've had the problem three times now, and in each case, it's when Windows has decided to do a major update in the background without telling me.
It's almost as though Opera is using a file in Windows, which the update changes on the fly, and then Opera gets its knickers in a twist.
Maybe because I normally have so many tabs open, otherwise without issue, the file update causes something to re-sync which then fails.
even when I save all open tabs to a speed dial folder, it doesn't take long, maybe a couple of minutes at most.
It's also noticeable that when Windows is updating itself, Opera Crash Reporter (or whatever it's called) itself crashes.
Bill

@jimmybfmv said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@windbags Have you tried peak4's "solution"?

@peak4 said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

When I had this problem, I just let Opera " wait for program to respond" rather than "end program"
Be patient, it can take several hours, or even overnight.

I had sync disabled since the update but I just tried signing in again and it worked for me, too! "Several hours" seems a bit extreme but I did have to wait 5 minutes on a sluggish laptop and 1–2 minutes on a less sluggish desktop PC for Opera to respond again. After that I was logged in and everything had been synced.

It may well depend on how many tabs you have open at the time it hung.
For various reasons, and it never normally causes issues, I was probably running with 100+ open at the same time,

I had a few tabs, as I always have several "tasks in progress" that need the info, but nothing like that many. I did try removing ones I thought I could easily retrieve, but after three goes I was getting fed up of it "not responding".
Waiting for minutes/hours/overnight on the "hope" of eventually getting a response is not the mark of a useful browser - especially when Windows 10 updates keeps forcing me to restart the system.

I've found that, for the moment, synchronization is completely broken.

I agree, that seems to be the issue in 67/win x64.
Removed the sync and everything works without ANY waiting.

@windbags Have you tried peak4's "solution"?

@peak4 said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

When I had this problem, I just let Opera " wait for program to respond" rather than "end program"
Be patient, it can take several hours, or even overnight.

I had sync disabled since the update but I just tried signing in again and it worked for me, too! "Several hours" seems a bit extreme but I did have to wait 5 minutes on a sluggish laptop and 1–2 minutes on a less sluggish desktop PC for Opera to respond again. After that I was logged in and everything had been synced.

It may well depend on how many tabs you have open at the time it hung.
For various reasons, and it never normally causes issues, I was probably running with 100+ open at the same time, maybe a lot more.
I've not tried it yet, but the latest version of opera has something called Workspaces available as a plugin or something, which might let me organise things differently.
Bill

@peak4 said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

When I had this problem, I just let Opera " wait for program to respond" rather than "end program"
Be patient, it can take several hours, or even overnight.

I had sync disabled since the update but I just tried signing in again and it worked for me, too! "Several hours" seems a bit extreme but I did have to wait 5 minutes on a sluggish laptop and 1–2 minutes on a less sluggish desktop PC for Opera to respond again. After that I was logged in and everything had been synced.

opera://settings

From here, go to your search, just type "sign", and the first thing that pops up should be to sign out of your account. It's a pain, but I've found that, for the moment, synchronization is completely broken.

@AnthG don't know if you're still monitoring this thread.
When I had this problem, I just let Opera " wait for program to respond" rather than "end program"
Be patient, it can take several hours, or even overnight.

I Can Confirm This Worked For Me As Well.

[Post edited to remove shouting]

How can I go back to 66?

You can read through https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/rollback_version to see if it helps.

@jimmybfmv said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@windbags Have you tried disabling synchronisation?

any help about how to find such welcome!

Answering my own question:
O-menu-Settings-Synchronisation-Sign out
(even though it was the sign-in that was failing)

They seem to have broken the sign in!!

Sad that this had to be posted via Chrome ! :-0

@windbags Have you tried disabling synchronisation?

any help about how to find such welcome!

@windbags Have you tried disabling synchronisation?

Struggling to find how to that! (almost 2am!)

But what if 68 is also broken? We have no way to know.

Download the Opera stable installer, launch it, click "options", set "install path" to a folder named "Opera Stable Test" on your desktop (or somewhere), set "install for" to "standalone installation", uncheck "import data from default browser" and install.

Keep testing in that Opera now and then and keep checking for updates in it and letting it update. When things are finally fine, you can enable updating with your regular Opera again and update. You can then disable updates in your regular Opera again and always test the next update in the standalone installation before you update your normal Opera. The standalone installation won't interfere with your normal Opera (besides syncing if you enable it and it works and you delete a bookmark or something of course).

Here's how I fixed that:

1. Exit Opera (force-close)
2. Back up the file "Current Session" from your profile folder: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/crashes-and-issues/
   Alternatively, just back up the whole profile folder (C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable).
3. Delete the file "Current Session" from your profile folder.
4. Start Opera. (It should work fine now but your open tabs will be gone.)
5. Close Opera.
6. Copy your backup of "Current Session" back to your profile folder (replace the new file Opera created automatically).
7. Start Opera.
8. Success!

If you don't need to keep/restore your open tabs just follow steps 1, 3 & 4.

https://forums.opera.com/topic/38639/bookmarks-side-panel-broken-on-opera-67-0-3575-31