<![CDATA[Opera just started freezing seconds after startup]]>my Opera browser has just started freezing seconds after startup. I get to the splash screen and I have literally two or three seconds to click on a tab, the settings button, whatever, before everything completely freezes and it becomes 100% unresponsive. Even right-clicking on the open program icon on my taskbar and selecting "Close window" doesn't do anything, and I have to go into Task Manager and end task just to shut it down.
If I re-open Opera after end tasking it to shut it down, it freezes instantaneously, and the only way to get those two-three seconds of use back is to restart my whole computer.
I even managed to quickly disable my two active extensions after a few restarts to see if they were causing this issue, but that had no effect.

No idea why this is happening! Opera was working perfectly fine last night and I don't recall any browser updates or Windows updates before shutting my computer down before going to bed (I'm on the Windows 10 ESU scheme, so I wouldn't expect many updates anyway).

Is this happening to anybody else?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/87424/opera-just-started-freezing-seconds-after-startupRSS for NodeTue, 21 Jul 2026 14:47:12 GMTThu, 11 Dec 2025 05:03:49 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera just started freezing seconds after startup on Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:01:35 GMT]]>Just an update...
I tried a few things to fix the problem including disconnecting my computer from the internet and booting in safe mode to see I could close any tabs or clear the cache or anything, but that still didn't do anything to help, so I finally decided to do a full uninstall of everything and reinstall Opera.
Firstly, my user data backups didn't work and I lost about 2,600 tabs, all my bookmarks, and multiple important workspaces that I use for work while doing this, so I'm absolutely gutted, but secondly, even with only two tabs open Opera's still freezing, except it's taking about 20-30 seconds instead of 2-3.

I wish I knew what caused this in the first place, 'cause like I originally said, one day it was working absolutely fine and then the next it was completely stuffed. No updates to Opera or Windows in-between or any new, unrelated program installations or anything. This was brutal.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/397617https://forums.opera.com/post/397617Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:01:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera just started freezing seconds after startup on Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:58:44 GMT]]>@leocg Just the regular Opera? I didn't think it had a special name, and is just called Opera Browser on the Opera website. I don't use GX or Air

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/396938https://forums.opera.com/post/396938Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:58:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera just started freezing seconds after startup on Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:01:05 GMT]]>@wrathgaar Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

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