Opera keeps randomly closing
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Vesper222 last edited by
Starting a week ago I've been having a real problem with the Opera browser just suddenly closing at random times. This happens every couple of hours. Not crash, just closing, even if I have something downloading. No crash report is ever generated. I've done all the usual steps--resetting to default, disabling extensions, deleting profile, and finally reinstalling twice now and the problem persists!
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Just as one extra test, test in a standalone installation to see if it happens there too.
It's not happening for me FWIW.
You could also test with hardware acceleration disabled at the URL
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pathyl last edited by
@vesper222 I started having the same problem using Opera GX a few days ago. It would either close within a few minutes of opening or within every hour or so. Going into the Windows Task Scheduler and disabling both Opera GX autoupdate tasks seems to have solved it.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426
@ghostrider82 Try what @pathyl did as a test to see if the problem goes away. If so, an uninstall of Opera (while not choosing to delete your data during uninstalling), the deletion of the install folder if it remains, the deletion of any Opera tasks in the task scheduler if any remain, and reinstalling Opera (with the newest version) might do the trick.
You can also always test in a standalone instlallation to see how things work there to rule out issues with Opera's install files, your profile in general, extensions, and Opera Sync etc.
You also might not have the Angle flag set to the best option for your GPU, which could cause instability in some cases.
It could just be a bug in Opera though. You can test in standalone installations of Opera Beta and Opera Developer to see if it's something that's already fixed that will eventually reach Opera Stable (and then Opera GX).
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Using Opera GX too or regular Opera?
What version and system is everyone one using? Goto the URL
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Keltia22 last edited by
Opera is becoming completely unusable now. It opens and closes every ten seconds.
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GhostRider82 last edited by
@burnout426 I'll try..
I'll let you know, tnks
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P.S.
What bullshit..
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Vesper222 last edited by
I finally figured out the problem. The clue was when I uninstalled Opera and installed Chrome only for the random closures to keep happening. That's when I installed Avast and Malwarebytes and did a virus scan and sure enough, it found potential keyloggers and a few other suspicious programs. After deleting the viruses Opera now runs fine with all my extensions and I haven't had a problem since.
I have no idea why these viruses were constantly shutting down Chrome-based browsers but they're definitely the culprit. If you're reading this message from the future experiencing the same problem now you know--don't just rely on antivirus tools that come with Windows and try running a third party program!
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GhostRider82 last edited by GhostRider82
I just did a deep scan and I found this:
Is it the same like yours?
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Vesper222 last edited by
@ghostrider82 Different for me all I remember is that one of them was an executable called archiver.exe and some others that were trojans. I deleted the anitvirus software off my computer once they had done their job so I don't have the logs anymore.
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GhostRider82 last edited by
@vesper222
After finding that virus, I waited hoping that the virus was the problem, but no, it happened again, just now Opera closed, I reopened it and it logged me out again from all my accounts where I was logged in -
GhostRider82 last edited by
I uninstalled and reinstalled Opera, as soon as the browser started for the first time, this appeared!
and this:
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GhostRider82 last edited by
@burnout426
No, I have to correct myself, these screens appear EVERY time I open Opera!I tried to open the other Browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) and the antivirus doesn't tell me anything!
it only does it with Opera!
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ghostrider82 Looks like a legit warning, and the site is in this warning list, and looks like Opera tried to connect to it. But, I'm not sure what on your system told Opera to do that or if it was something included with Opera that did that. I would think the former, but I don't know either way.
gogglerespite.com redirects to google.com, which does seem suspicious. But, I can't see what's in gogglerespite.com/sbar.json without a valid, unexpired key.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@ghostrider82 Weird. Do you see anything at
opera://extensionsthat's not supposed to be there?If you temporarily rename your profile, does it still happen?
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GhostRider82 last edited by
@burnout426
Ok, I fixed the problem..I opened Notepad++
I did CTRL+F, I went to the "Search in Files" TAB
indicating as targets:
"C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable"
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"C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable"
and I told it to search all the Files with the word "gogglerespite.com".Once it found me all files containing "gogglerespite.com"
renamed them all to "FileName.old" or (like with the "Preferences and Preferences.backup" File) opened them and searched for the word "gogglerespite.com", deleted all entries for "gogglerespite.com", I saved them , I opened Opera, no problem and everything works fine! -
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GhostRider82 last edited by
@burnout426
In any case, I think the problem was in "Preferences and Preferences.backup" because in the other files (I think to understand) that keep track of everything you "Write" in Opera by tracking LOGs of everything you do on the Browser, so if you type "gogglerespite.com" 1000 times, you will find it written 1000 times..
