Opera GX crashes and restarts when typing the letter “B” in the address bar
System Information:
- Update stream: Early Access
- Core version: 121.0.5600.55
- Operating system: Windows 11 64-bit
- Chromium version: 137.0.7151.122
- User agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/121.0.0.0
Issue Description:
Opera GX consistently crashes and automatically restarts when typing the letter “B” into the address bar. The crash occurs as soon as the autocomplete drop-down appears. This behavior is reproducible and occurs both in normal and incognito modes.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Launch Opera GX.
- Click on the address bar.
- Type the letter “B”.
- The autocomplete drop-down briefly appears.
- The browser crashes and restarts automatically.
Expected Behavior:
Autocomplete suggestions should appear without causing the browser to crash.
Actual Behavior:
Typing “B” triggers a crash and automatic restart of the browser.
Troubleshooting Performed:
- Disabled all extensions and mods.
- Cleared browsing data, cache, and history.
- Deleted History and Visited Links files from the profile directory.
- Tested in incognito mode (issue persists).
- Disabled hardware acceleration via settings and launch parameters (--disable-gpu).
- Ran full malware scan using AVG (paid version) and system diagnostics via Advanced System Care.
- Verified issue persists even when browser is launched offline (suggesting local rendering issue).
- Confirmed that no other letters cause this behavior — only “B”.
Additional Notes:
- The crash is triggered specifically by the autocomplete drop-down when typing “B”.
- No malware or system corruption detected.
- The issue may be related to autocomplete rendering or a corrupted suggestion tied to the letter “B”.
- No relevant files beyond History and Visited Links were found in the profile directory.
- The browser is running on Early Access update stream.