Posts made by AaronAF

I just checked the Opera forum here for Microsoft Edge, hoping to find topics about Edge's coercing its app onto my computer, which has Windows 10. I am a long time user of Opera, and like it very much, especially its speed dial and bookmarks features. I also like that Opera warns me when my device memory is being swamped and guides me to ways i can fix the problem.
Now, suddenly after I responded to Opera's popup to update it, I received a message that the update failed! The first time this has happened. When I tried again, the following image filled my screen:
link text.
I want to make sure I understand the importance of following the instructions, and what would be the consequences if I decided to ignore them and just minimize that webpage displaying Edge's instructions, and continue using Opera without following those instructions.
I am guessing Opera will have no way of being updated unless I do follow those instructions, because it seems Opera was heavily dependent on the now obsolete Internet Explorer, which Microsoft Edge seems to have replaced; and that I'll eventually not be able to use Opera, if I don't accept Microsoft Edge. Is that the case?
After reading a few negative reviews about Microsoft Edge, I am concerned there is no workaround having to use Microsoft Edge. I did notice a 5-step method of disabling Microsoft Edge that I saw on The Verge (link text); but that advice was 4 years old.
I'd appreciate more information about Microsoft Edge and how it will affect my use of Opera.
Anyone in the Opera community, please advise.

@electroman00 Chrome? I don't understand. I was referring to Capital One Shopping, not Chrome. I want to have added Capital One Shopping to Opera, not Chrome.

@bert55 So, what's the harm of trying?? It might work better than you expect.

@electroman00 Thank you for your efforts! Would you please post Capital One's Shopping's contact information? I will use it to pile onto yours and others' requests hopefully to contribute to a collective surge of interest that might motivate Capital One to fix the problem of accessibility on the Opera browser.
I'm already a user of Capital One's Eno extension that works very well for payments at most shops. But that is not the same thing as their Capital One Shopping extension. Nevertheless, the people behind that app or extension might be familiar with the Shopping extension and willing to extend their knowledge to fixing it. What do you think?

@leocg What do you mean by "If they have one for Chrome, you can use it" ? I don't want to use Chrome's anything! Nothing Google related, if at all possible.
Why is Opera indifferent to this useful extension for its users??

@leocg It seems unpredictable! This clears up temporarily after I close Opera and reopen. I could be in the middle of opening another webpage from an open tab, and the screen will go opaque or black. When that doesn't resolve, I will sometimes be successful by doing a ctrl alt delete to bring up task manager from which I close Opera from there. That helps. But it is never a permanent fix. I clear the cached webpages and history, never the cookies though, and that doesn't really help much.
I still think I have reached the limit of my speed dial capacity; I have been accumulating websites there since 2014.

@leocg Context is just what it is. How could I be any clearer?

Opera says I am "out of memory." It gives me the option to reload. I do that, but I am back on only for a short while before Opera stops responding. Is this a problem with Opera, or with my pc's capacity? I am never sure. I'm thinking I have too many bookmarks, or too many folders on my speed dial. Please, someone, advise.

@burnout426 Well, whatever it was, the problem seems to have been fixed, at least temporarily! I made no changes. I would sure like to know what was done, if anything, to fix the problem. Maybe whoever checked that ID for me made a few tweaks remotely?

@leocg Amazing! My Opera browser is working again! Thanks for your patient help!

@burnout426 My opera browser began working flawlessly this morning! However, that turned out to be short-lived! It is now unresponsive. This would normally be a signal for me to restart my computer and hope for the best. But I don't have to do so urgently now that I have a working FireFox browser.

Fortunately, my FF is still running OK, with sporadic crashes. But at least it has the courtesy of acknowledging them and providing easy ways to recover. Opera is not that user friendly. Its recover program is very limited, and usually does not work.

@leocg My tracking blockers are always on deliberately, to help assure privacy. Why leave them open??

@burnout426 First I am doing the crash log thing. I got a log showing 38 page crashes. By the way, it's a page crash, and always not a browser crash, at least not recently; sometime opera does crash when memory runs low. (Incidentally, is there a way to get an upgrade to enhance my browser's memory capacity? I am getting popup warnings more and more frequently lately saying memory is low, and that usually precedes a real browser crash. My temporary fix is just to close the browser and reboot my pc.)

Here is my most recent page crash ID number:
CrashID=6222269f-d804-47ce-9c0e-1a7912221112 .

I'll do the standalone thing next.

@burnout426 I long ago put my email link on my speed dial page, and have been using it for a long time without any problem. But now, when I click on the link for it on my speed dial, it opens and immediately crashes.

Another instance of my Opera browser not working is when I click on my usual link to an ongoing ZOOM meeting, the connection crashes right away. To allow connection, I have to copy the url that appears on the crash page and paste it into my FF browser, which does the job properly, no crashing.

@burnout426 I know how to use the features of Opera that I need. I have already placed many webpages on my speed dial page with no problems, except the usual tedious effort required to move or drag them into positions more convenient for my personal requirements. I have gotten so many of them on my speed dial now, that I have resorted to placing new ones at the bottom of the page for easier finding them later.

The major problem now is that many of my speed dialed pages crash about a half second after they are opened! So my workaround is to copy and paste the url associated with the crashed webpage into the brower window of my FireFox (FF). There it stays open and I bookmark it into FF. Funny though, my Amazon account does open OK from the speeddial! But not my hotmail webpage! It crashes! Rumble.com pages crash. My protonmail inbox page crashes, too. My FLCCC Alliance website (www.flccc.net) does not crash. Why is this problem so dependent upon the webpage that's being opened?? I guess this behavior is a clue for a better informed observer; but, unfortunately, I am not that person.

Thank you @burnout426! You understood my actual concern: How to fix my ailing Opera app. Because of the tight temporal association with what occurred right before the sudden crashing behavior I observed, I can speculate on the cause of that behavior: my forced shutdown of my pc. I had initially selected a restart, but after that process began, it would not stop restarting! On and on it went with non-stop buffering, without completing the restart; I had no way to turn it off. So in frustration, I just turned off the power. I guess that interfered with some crucial resetting function related to Opera.

It is good to know that a reinstall will permit me to select "save data"! I would hate to lose years of effort in accumulating my bookmarks and also all of my important speed dial stuff! I was not aware of the save-data feature of a reinstall; and even now, I do not know how that option would appear. Hopefully, it will be made clear by some prompt that occurs automatically with the reinstall process. Would you please elaborate more on the reinstall process and how to save data? I'd also appreciate learning about how to transfer files if becomes necessary.

Meanwhile, I continue to use FF as an aid to prop up my wounded Opera app.

My Opera browser accessible from my pc desktop, outside of FireFox, is no longer working for me. Can't even access my email from the speed dial. Now, while I am inside FireFox, I see an ad for downloading Opera there. If I did that, would I be able to transfer all my already saved bookmarks of the dysfunctional Opera into the freshly downloaded one? That seems like an odd thing to do, because it would be running a browser within another different browser! How would that work?

Please advise.

Opera webpages keep crashing. I cannot even open my email using Opera! Also, I had a few tabs that I could not open; kept getting crash notification popups. Could this glitch have been caused by a problem with a previous restart action? My pc kept buffering during a restart for over 10 minutes, so I forced a shutdown. Please help with this problem.