Ok i have been a diehard firefox user since day 1. i no longer use firefox because it is now worse then IE! more holes then swiss cheese so i started using Opera. everything was fine for the first few months then about a week ago it began to lag an long buffering an i could no longer print things. one thing after another opera is falling apart and i have no idea why other then a virus which no malware program can find. so i was forced to download chrome just so i can print important docs for the work i do for a living. well let me tell you that was a huge mistake! chrome changed a ton of setting on my pc as well as made opera even more dysfunctional. at this point it looks like i have to reload windows again because the problems are far to many to even attempt to repair. im pretty sure i got a virus some how but how? opera is my default browser and i did not have any other browser. is opera swiss cheese like IE? does anyone have any suggestion as to another browser that works well and is stable? im not ready to give up on opera but if i have to reload windows every few weeks just so i can print a doc then i need to move on just like i did with firefox

i had to reinstall windows and opera too. after doing so i had this problem. what you have to do after you install pop up blocker extension is to disable it then re-enable it and click on the cube thing in the tool bar and click that 3 dot thing and a drop down menu opens then click "pin" and it will appear on your tool bar.

what was happening was when you first install that or any extension, by default it was not pinned to tool bar or even the cube when you click it. how to pin and unpin things to your tool bar is the problem here. in my opinion its time for new developers at opera because it will take them years before they fix this or even think its not a good idea. Time for some new talent opera!

@Bolts27 yup i have been reading this very same problem all around the net. a lot of people are saying it has something to do with the last auto update but google is also a very big problem read my other reply

@leocg ok it appears to be a conflict with all google products. after removing everything google and chrome related from my pc, i got a 60+% increase in performance on my pc as well as opera. i do believe google is sucking everbody's pc's dry for resources in order to make their cloud functions work. google is like a system cancer if not removed correctly, it metastases and spreads causing more an more problems. however its not all google at this point opera still runs 30% slower then when i first installed it. images can take as long as 3 or 4 minutes to load now. pages also have a longer load time. some website are worse then others with load times and images. opera has an auto update policy and i believe this last update is part of the problem. opera need to allow the users the option to turn off auto update. operas original concept to achieve faster browser speeds are deteriorating fast because they are losing focus and the reason why every was moving to opera. i also inspected the elements on opera an i found some kind on embedded ad integration by google chrome which i removed and also increased speed. but opera has some scripts running in the background that is causing some of this buffering problem. i already installed firefox 35 an it runs about 25% faster then opera at this point and i can print too!

Ok i have been a diehard firefox user since day 1. i no longer use firefox because it is now worse then IE! more holes then swiss cheese so i started using Opera. everything was fine for the first few months then about a week ago it began to lag an long buffering an i could no longer print things. one thing after another opera is falling apart and i have no idea why other then a virus which no malware program can find. so i was forced to download chrome just so i can print important docs for the work i do for a living. well let me tell you that was a huge mistake! chrome changed a ton of setting on my pc as well as made opera even more dysfunctional. at this point it looks like i have to reload windows again because the problems are far to many to even attempt to repair. im pretty sure i got a virus some how but how? opera is my default browser and i did not have any other browser. is opera swiss cheese like IE? does anyone have any suggestion as to another browser that works well and is stable? im not ready to give up on opera but if i have to reload windows every few weeks just so i can print a doc then i need to move on just like i did with firefox