Linux opera browser crashes on Debian-based systems whenever youtube videos or some other media are started to play.

Opera browser version: 79.0.4143.22
Debian 10 (with latest updates installed)
Ubuntu 20.04 (with latest updates installed)

There appear (graphic/video) glitches/artifacts in opera browser like never before - since version 71.0.3770.148

OS: Debian 64 bit
CPU: Athlon (2006 year)
Chipset/Video: nForce 430 / GeForce 6150SE (2005 year)

@jimunderscorep

The menu works both with a mouse click and Alt key on the machine with Ubuntu 18.04, but unfortunately it doesn't work at all on the machine with Ubuntu 16.04 (actually there is no O-menu there at all) - i don't know what makes that difference between the two Ubuntu installations (other apps also work differently on the two ubuntu computers) ?

As far as i can remember, the menu had worked before on 16.04 - it has stopped working since some previous version of Opera that i can't remember now.

I don't know exactly where the issue comes from but now microsoft edge also gets stuck at launch in exactly the same way giving the same error output as opera in terminal.

@vbnvbn said in Opera-stable 102.0.4880.16 gets stuck on launch:

Unfortunately, the latest version 104.0.4944.33 is bad - it runs very slowly.

Excuse me - i apologize. Actually 104.0.4944.33 works even better than 104.0.4944.28 - the issue turns out to be in the graphics drivers on one of the devices. Now everything works fine after a reinstallation.

@ondrejbenus said in Opera-stable 102.0.4880.16 gets stuck on launch:

Backlinking the issue on another forum with workaround that worked for me (disabling Qt) https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5847.0.html

Finally, that works for me - now opera runs on my devices with Debian LXQt again. Thanks for the reference.

Unfortunately, the latest version 104.0.4944.33 is bad - it runs very slowly.

Same old story with 103.0.4928.16 too.

@myswtest said in Opera-stable 102.0.4880.16 gets stuck on launch:

There are times when it seems all chromium-based browsers , when updated, render nothing, i.e., there is nothing shown in its window.

THIS IS the solution that works for everyone - keep in mind, this might NOT be the solution for your problem, but doing this will do no harm.

Open a command line window and execute this command

find ~/ -type d -name GPUCache

The list of files you see are simply cached data, that really doesn't matter ... however, for whatever reason, between version upgrades, they are corrupted.

So the easiest solution is to delete those - as I wrote, removing will do no harm. The following Linux command will delete all those , but if you prefer, rename that sub-directory to "GPUCache-backup" if you prefer

Reminder - this might be a long-shot solution for you, but it will not cause any issues - run this to clear:

find ~/ -type d -name GPUCache -exec rm -rf {} +

Hope it helps !

It doesn't work in our case because the issue is related to a basal incompatibility between the modern chromium-based browsers' GUI and GLib-GObject library in Debian 11 LXQt.

I don't know exactly where the issue comes from but now microsoft edge also gets stuck at launch in exactly the same way giving the same error output as opera in terminal.

same with 102.0.4880.56

@merlo1711
Try:
opera --force-device-scale-factor=x
where x can be a real number such as: 0, 0.5, 1, 1.7 etc.

@anindyasundarbhar
May this work for you too:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/42185/the-videos-don-t-play-topic/155?_=1694690044973

102.0.4880.51 also doesn't work for me.

@merlo1711
I found this link (as related to your issue):
https://forums.opera.com/topic/5343/faq-opera-s-whole-interface-is-too-big-how-do-i-fix-it