Opera GX randomly closes and reopens

[P4rtyB34r97]

P4rtyB34r97 last edited by

I had to uninstall Opera GX recently because I started dealing with issues of the browser randomly closing on its own, just to reopen seconds later. I don't know nearly enough about computers to be able to figure out why it was happening. It's very similar to the issue I faced with Google Chrome except when I close Chrome manually, it reopens itself. I'm genuinely worried about having to factory rest my computer because I don't want to have to do that. But if anyone can help, please.

[kookehdoge]

kookehdoge @P4rtyB34r97 last edited by

@p4rtyb34r97 The exact same thing started happening to me too, at first I thought I got hacked but that would make no sense. It's just annoying at this point

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Goto the URL opera://extensions. Do you have any extensions in there that are not supposed to be there or any extensions that are not from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions or https://addons.opera.com/. If you do find something odd there, turn developer mode on the opera://extensions page and click details for the malicious extension. Then, post the ID and name of the extension here.

Quite a few users are getting infected with some malware that force-installs an extension in Opera that hijacks your searches etc. and sometimes it causes Opera to close and restart. I'd scan your system with the free version of Malwarebytes to make sure snuck on your computer.

[TheEmeraldBlock]

TheEmeraldBlock @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 I'm experiencing this problem too, but I have no malicious extensions.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @TheEmeraldBlock last edited by

@theemeraldblock Opera GX is probably just crashing for some other reason. If you can get a crash ID, the ID might help.

[Artur144]

Artur144 last edited by

in my case i deleted cashback extensions and opera stop reopen.