@burnout426 Sorry for the delay in responding. A bit of medical stuff to tend to. Anyway, I know what you are talking about in the windows 10 profile. Switching does not help. Usually when that happens something else would break first anyway. lol

I also forgot to mention that apparently an update to Opera screwed up my online watching of Xfinity. I can't get anything to work. I know it's Opera because I have to switch to Firefox to get TV to work.

All in all, I think there has just been too much fiddling with Opera. Over the course of time using it, I noticed things getting broken and when I mention them, the response is basically we are making things better? How is breaking web pages making things better?

The other issue was the fact that some things in settings looked like they are just there for "show". They don't work.

I like the whole Opera concept but they are just going overboard with tweaks and when things don't work they blame me or my computer. Xfinity blames everything but themselves too. lol

Anyway, I will continue to dig into it and see what I find out. If I run across any solutions I will archive them in this thread.

Thanks for the response. Appreciate it.

Chuck

@burnout426 Sorry for the delay in responding. A bit of medical stuff to tend to. Anyway, I know what you are talking about in the windows 10 profile. Switching does not help. Usually when that happens something else would break first anyway. lol

I also forgot to mention that apparently an update to Opera screwed up my online watching of Xfinity. I can't get anything to work. I know it's Opera because I have to switch to Firefox to get TV to work.

All in all, I think there has just been too much fiddling with Opera. Over the course of time using it, I noticed things getting broken and when I mention them, the response is basically we are making things better? How is breaking web pages making things better?

The other issue was the fact that some things in settings looked like they are just there for "show". They don't work.

I like the whole Opera concept but they are just going overboard with tweaks and when things don't work they blame me or my computer. Xfinity blames everything but themselves too. lol

Anyway, I will continue to dig into it and see what I find out. If I run across any solutions I will archive them in this thread.

Thanks for the response. Appreciate it.

Chuck

I did not think this was much of an issue but lately I am not sure. I browsed around and couldn't seem to either find my particular problem or at best things that did not work with related type problems.

I would say in the past 6-12 months after every update of Opera if I pulled up a new tab my speed dial would load as usual and with speed. Seems like it started at one point and is getting worse? However, when going to a website (virtually any) the home page would load pretty quickly. However, if I clicked a link/article/item on the page it would usually stop, the circle in the tab would freeze. Sometimes this would last a few seconds and others it would last 30+ seconds. Sometimes I would just click the tab or somewhere on the "loading" blank page but do not know if it actually did anything. Sometimes I would just close the tab and go back and try again, sometimes working somewhat good and other times the same thing.

I know this is weird. I have done all the basics of clearing things like the cache and the like but the hesitation, freezing persists.

Has anyone else had this problem? I am running at around 300Mbps connection so speed on my side is good. Could it be more intense content pages? Could it be a possible networking problem, such as some setting in the Ethernet card settings causing it? I have no clue as I have checked everything I can think of.

It's annoying to say the least that pages just don't pop in like they used to. I have been goofing around with computers since 1984 so am not some novice. lol I did load up a couple of other browsers, IE, Edge and Firefox but there was no issue in those. I am comfortable using Opera and am too old to learn another one, like I know this one.

Any comments, suggestions? Maybe I've missed something, somewhere? Would appreciate feedback on this if at all possible. Thank you..

Chuck

It seems every time Opera is updated more things are broken. Either it's no longer supported (I presume?) or just broken. I ran into a problem with Giant Food stores website. You can ad coupons to your rewards card. Worked fine until the last 2 updates to Opera. When you click the "raised" link it starts it's 3 dot thing in motion but will not load the item to the card. This is a general site. It's happening on a lot of sites now.

It seems to me that the various browsers are not letting the USER decide what to use. I have run into some sites that use Flash or whatever, but have the extension to automatically enable it.

There seems to be way too much killing of things in the browser, TOO EARLY. I hear the excuse that the newer browsers aren't supporting this or that. Or another excuse is that the websites need to update. Huh? So what am I supposed to do? Contact all the places that now DO NOT work in Opera and tell them they have to update their site? I would get laughed at.

Why is it that websites put up the warning You are using Opera or Chrome alternate and the website might not work right for you. Use MS Edge, IE or Firefox or something. So exactly why is anyone using Opera anymore? I have come across quite a few sites that bring up this message. I am confused. lol

I like Opera and have been using it for a while now. However, I did grudgingly bring up MS Edge and went to the Giant store website and wonder of wonders it loaded the coupons on the card. Why is that? lol

@sgunhouse That was my point. THEY changed it and I have NO say. They need to let the USER decide what's best for the USER? If the USER has no say, then why is there a forum for suggestions? Also, the settings did NOT change but the behavior has. So why have the settings not changed? In other words some things in the settings are bogus now? lol Makes no sense. It reminds me of the websites that say you are using Chrome, please us IE or something else. Yet is not Chrome number one in the world? So those websites are choosing what browser I have to use? lol I think it's time to rethink even being online anymore. I'm only on maybe a couple of hours at best, but chopped up into 15 minutes here and there.

I don't know about the rest of you but here's the thing. There are many, many users who just want the browser to work, period. In other words, people who really have no idea where to find, or how to change default settings. Lately, I have been discouraged by the last few updates to Opera. Instead of letting ME decide what becomes the default, Opera changes it and either you can't find out how to change it back, it won't change if you change it (yes, lol) and any other combination. My confusion came with Flash. It's supposed to be terrible and all that, but many sites still use it. In settings, it says use Flash on all sites, which is the "default", yet it doesn't work half the time for different sites or does NOT give me an option to ENABLE it. I saw a mention of an extension that will do all sorts of good stuff, turning off and on things. Seriously? I have to put another extension on for something that should be changeable IN OPERA? Most of the things Opera updates take away, in the settings it says it has NOT. It's becoming a nightmare. A POPUP should come up at the very beginning of a new update install for each item that is changed or SHUT DOWN so the USER can decide what stays or goes. I am seriously thinking about dropping Opera because it's getting too cute for laypeople. Techies like to play, I understand but this is getting ridiculous. Oh, and by the way, I have been playing with computers since 1983 and I see why lots of people won't get computers, because you have too much crap to do in set up and maintenance. lol

Actually, I thought of that and makes no difference. Up to this point it, it hasn't crashed anything. The behavior though, looks like it will lead to that. I am miffed at this. Does Opera have the capability of rolling back before the problem started? Could it be some unstable file?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I mentioned this forum as an example. It comes to this page then a less than a split second of black screen, then the page stabilizes. You are referring to what happens AFTER what I mention. This is not a refresh for the avatar. This happens on all web pages. Even when "locked" on a site if I go to a page within it, it does it too. When I navigate to any page this happens. It happens when bringing up speed dial, favorites, anything really. Even when I minimize Opera and say check Outlook or go to Notepad then bring up Opera again it goes black screen. I am not sure what it is, but it's annoying, like something is wrong but taking its time to finally bite the dust, die, go belly up. lol Like I said in my post it started to happen at the first update, then continued doing the same after the next update which brought me to the version in my post. -Chuck

Hi all,

Within the past week, maybe days? I am now up to 48.0.2685.35 (PGO) - Opera is up to date. One day I checked for updates and it installed one, then a day or so later it updated again. I have noticed a flickering to black screen and what appears to be like a refreshing of the same page. In other words, I came here to the forums and the page came up, then it like refreshed, I am not quick enough but it appears to go black for less than a second. Then too, when I bring up Opera via the taskbar, Opera goes black, hesitates and then appears. Actually in all the years I have been running a PC, I haven't seen this kind of thing. Hardware-monitor problem yes, software no. I cringe every time it happens which is every time I minimize Opera to the taskbar and click it to come up. Now I am noticing it does it when you bring up any page on the web. I think something is going major wrong with the PC but it's only Opera that has this behavior. Anyone else run into this or have any ideas? I have NOT changed, added, deleted anything since this started. As I think about it, the minimizing then bringing up Opera did have a black screen after the first update, but I didn't think much about it. I may have thought it was a minor glitch in Opera and the second update was going to fix it? Not on the computer much so...lol It was running fine before the two updates that were about a day apart to bring me to 48.0.2685.35. I don't spend much time on the computer anymore, maybe an hour a day.

Thanks for the responses but... I want the pop-up. I am on Ebay. If you haven't been.. My Ebay homepage has from the menu bar (the second from the left) a link to Following. I go to Following and the page comes up fine. I have saved searches and Sellers which show up in the Following page. Exhaustive entries showing what the searches and new items Sellers have put up for sale. The way it works is that I can hover over a picture and it will bring up a terribly brief what it sells for and what it is. I used to be able to click it and what appears to be an internal pop-up would appear ON the PAGE. It would have the option to click "more info" or put it on your watch list, add to cart etc. IF I decided to actually check out the actual page I would click on it and it would open a new window. I could then X out the pop-up and be right back on the Following page, meanwhile the other page would take me to the item.

You say so what's the problem? The problem is. If you want to check out a lot of items on the Following page and the pop-up is being blocked and you keep visiting each Following page entry, it is a HUGE time waster. With the pop-up gone or being blocked it makes it very unhandy to keep check each entry/item INDIVIDUALLY at it's own page. Also, when you first go to the Following page you may see several items you are interested in. If the pop-up is blocked and you go to the actual page of the item and GO BACK to the Following page Ebay shuffles them and you "might" find "some" of the things you were interested in.

Now, the quick fix is bringing up the context menu for EACH item and opening a new window, which is a quick fix or solution. What I am trying to find out is WHY the pop-up is being blocked in the first place? I am on Ebay and it is an INTERNAL Ebay pop-up, it is not a pop-up from another site.

That is my problem. lol I don't know why it's blocking the Ebay/feeds pop-up.

Chuck

Okay. I found the pop-up control in Settings > Websites > Pop-ups . I am old and guess I missed it..several times. lol

Here's the deal. It was set to allow ALL pop-ups on any site. This is not true as it blocks some while not others.
I tried to get the feed to work on Ebay. It keeps blocking it.

What I did was set it to block ALL on any site and entered Ebay and the Ebay feed url's in the exception. Restarted Opera with no change, it still blocks Ebay/feed. I then cleared the exception and checked the do NOT block pop-ups and restarted Opera. Still no change, Ebay/feed still gets blocked when I click something in the feed when it is supposed to pop-up about the item. Instead it says (a second or two) in the address bar blocked and goes to the actual page of the item. Extremely unhandy when perusing the items on the feed. That's all I know and have tried what I did with no good result.

I have been playing with computer since 1984 and it's a simple check/uncheck the box but something else must be wrong?

Chuck