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!

@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.

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!

@ghostrider82 said in Opera keeps randomly closing:

Well, anyway this Browser is full of Bugs from the reports I'm seeing in this Forum, I gave this Browser a chance but honestly, if it gives me so much, if these are the conditions, I prefer to use another Browser, I don't want it anymore to relogin all my accounts every week..
is not worth the trouble/the effort/the cost..

You try installing Chrome and seeing if the problem persists?

@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.

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!

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!