General Opera Discussion Topic

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by A Former User

Hi,

Opera is so fking broken nowadays. I can't even log in here without error messages and failed logins, so i have to use Chrome to be able to write this.

I went from IE to Firefox 2004 and loved it for 12 years, but around 2016 when Firefox decided to commit suicide by stupidity, i moved to Chrome, but I didn't fully liked it. I quickly found Opera and it was love immediately. But now Opera seems to have suicide plans as well as NOTHING works anymore.

I have posted these issues before and followed every suggestion given to me to no avail. I only have one option left, and that is to format and reinstall Windows. But I will not do that as this is my only computer for work and private, and i'm not sure the problems will be solved by a such drastic measure. Moving to Chrome is not an option, and seeing Firefox's death throes from the hangman's knot is not directly encourages one to give them a second chance either.

Opera problems (All works fine in Chrome)

• Many websites does not load correctly or take ages to load
• I can't mouse scroll on some websites
• Some website has a 3-10 seconds delay when typing
• Some login pages shows strange errors including this forum
• My bank in Vietnam "times out" many times
• My bank in HK takes forever to execute transactions or "times out"
• Facebook messenger only load a handful of contact and keep the rest grayed out.
• Facebook messenger- It takes 10-15 second to switch from one contact to another.
• Getting "out of memory" warnings all the time (Having 32Gb ram)
• Writing text similar to this and Opera decides to reload the page and all text is lost.
• And many more minor issues

I have updated to latest version, cleaned cache, history, uninstalled, deleted the profile directory, not using addons, reinstalled Opera etc etc and the problems are coming back after just a few days of use.

[bobsteel]

bobsteel last edited by

Why can't I get rid of googles search bar?
Why do Amazon entries just appear on my speed dial?
Why don't you give a shit about your users and follow the "lets make a dollar "path it seems.
Why do you want to snoop on all my activity.?

I am outa here you bastards.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @bobsteel last edited by

@bobsteel You can get rid of the Google search in speed dial - but you can't change it to something else. You can tell Opera not to add promoted speed dials (Amazon or otherwise). But if you don't want to look for such options, that's your choice.

[0006000011304c58]

0006000011304c58 last edited by

Re: Auto hide tool bar.

I was wondering about a way to hide the Sidebar while using opera, whithout going to settings and clicking enable and disable, and as far as i know there is no way to do it automatically, but i found a way, what you have to do is set a shortcut that will allow you to enable and disable using the keyboard, you just need to go to settings, advanced settings and search for Shortcuts then assing a shortcut to that accion.

Am Victor, Thanks!,

[abdrewmyles3]

abdrewmyles3 last edited by

For some reason you re-enabled Easy files which I disabled. I do not like that crap. I had to disable it again by clicking in the X and selecting to never showing it again. Do not mess with my settings.

[oo00]

oo00 last edited by

hi, in last couple monts or year i see i cant acces many websites with opera but with firefox i cant open any of these websites whats wrong with opera? i use windows 7 x64

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @oo00 last edited by

@oo00 Using an old OS like Windows 7 may already be a problem. However if you try to say what the problem is instead of just say something generic as i cant acces many websites with opera, maybe someone can help you.

[oo00]

oo00 @leocg last edited by

@leocg win7 is not problem.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @oo00 last edited by

@oo00 OS is up to date?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @oo00 last edited by

@oo00 There was/is a problem with an expired certificate affecting many systems and sites: https://www.zdnet.com/article/fortinet-shopify-others-report-issues-after-root-ca-certificate-from-lets-encrypt-expires/, don't if it could be the cause.

[oo00]

oo00 @leocg last edited by

@leocg i dont do updates on my os because pc will be slovly

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @oo00 last edited by

@oo00 OS updates don't make the computer slow. If it does, maybe it's time to get a new computer.

Anyway, if you don't want to keep your OS up to date, you will have to deal with the consequences.

[oo00]

oo00 @leocg last edited by

@leocg its not update cause

[AnotherMemberOfSociety]

AnotherMemberOfSociety last edited by

Why isn't the browser open-source? does it wanna hide anything?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @AnotherMemberOfSociety last edited by

@anothermemberofsociety Probably because they never had any reason to make it open source.
Also, being Opera a Chromium based browser, I would say that most part of it is already open source.

[cbxporsche98]

cbxporsche98 last edited by

I've encountered several websites that have rejected my use of the Opera browser, saying it's unsecure. E.g., my main banking website will not let me use Opera any longer.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @cbxporsche98 last edited by

@cbxporsche98 use an extension to change the user agent or turn on opera://flags/#reduce-user-agent, it should help most of the times.

[jimbop]

jimbop last edited by

You've discussed this b4 in a topic, if you can't update your browser, like in my case f.e., that you should simply run the latest installer. But can you guarantee, dear moderator, that I won't loose any of the settings from my previous version ? Thank you for looking into this.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @jimbop last edited by

@jimbop Just running the installer should not mess with your data.
Anyway, do a backup if that data is important for you.

[jimbop]

jimbop @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thank you anyway, how do I get noticed from new replies in the future ?