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Opera's extensions and speed dial bookmarks were saved by quite useful Win 7 feature from system protection - previous version of files. I surprised myself a bit when I recalled this function as I felt like a complete returd after that crash-while-defragmenting C: fiasco.
I should probably consider buying some dependable SSD (Samsung, Crucial mx I reckon, I don't really trust those cheap ones) instead of buying unnecessary pieces of rather unstable shardware like cheap AMD GPUs to play silly (gory) videogayms.
I'm glad I could have this nice conversation with myself.
Hasta luego, muchachos!
Btw. Any recent changes in the download/history tabs UI department? I'm still attached to my precious v58.

Well, I should probably add I was in the most exquisite process of multiple uninstalls/restarts/installs/restarts while trying to find most stable version of AMD drivers. And I was defragmenting system drive, which in retrospect was not the best idea. Gotta love AMD and their lovely "adrenalin" drivers lol. Fortunately it seems there was a planned restore point at around high noon so I guess I'm gonna try that. Fingers crossed. Lol just as I was editing previous post the time for editing ran out. The 30-min time limit for editing is a bit short IMO.

And of course that restore point is going to restore those most recent adrenalin drivers that I wanted to get rid of. F*ck me sideways while running backwards. Oh well, here we go. I'm seriously considering returning that 570 and paying 50%+ for an overpriced Nvidia alternative.

Now I'm going to pray to the purest energy of the Universe to not let this POS crash during the restoring process.

Hello, can anybody advise me what to do in case of Win7 PC crashing with Opera opened and when I've launched it after restart all my extensions and speed dials have disappeared. I'd really appreciate if I could somehow get it back. Unfortunately I haven't backed it up in some time. Thanks in advance. Browsing and downloading history seems intact btw.

The site is working correctly now after I deleted a specific cookie from netatmo.com (and a few others likely unrelated). Makes me think if those cookies were even deleted properly when I used the non-specific "clear browsing data" function (cookies and site data, cached files).
It looks like the Win desktop version of Oprah browser isn't a priority for the dev team as they're probably focusing more on other things like their "gaming" browser (quite pointless IMO) etc.
I guess they can always shift the blame on the "ignorant" user utilizing older (58) version and so on, because in the most recent version everything works just fine, like the history and download tabs lol.
Have a nice day.

Anyone experiencing or able to reproduce this behaviour?
I'm just wondering if it's limited to pre-60 Opera and works fine in last version or there's other issues like some extension problem etc.
Deleting cache made no difference btw.

Why should it amaze you when there's no official support site for Opera with paid staff?
I'm still on the last 58 version because of the botched functionality and UI layout of history and download tabs. I know everything is possible but I don't think it's very probable they'll revert those unwanted changes.

Neither standard nor satellite map is showing, only blank white space with weather station icons. Worked normally until 2 days ago or so. I'm using 58.xxx.132 version (because of the 60 update's history/download tabs functionality/UI problems). No such issue in Firefox - both maps are being displayed as usual.

You think Opera's using too much memory in your case?
Come back when one single process eats almost 1 GB of RAM.
Takes a few hours of running time to get there, but it almost never decreases. So I just kill the process every hour or two (restarts automatically) to keep its memory consumption within reasonable limits. The times when Opera was noticeably the least resources-hungry browser on the market are over.

Sucks I can't edit (or delete as I've just noticed) my previous post after an hour or so. Oh well, just wanted to say it's a bit strange the asterisks I used as a multiplication sign in 4x1 and 2x2 disappeared. A quirk of this forum I guess.

Well, as a long-time professional procrastinator I haven't really tried that much, just the usual suspects like Gaggle's chromed spyware and Firefox and admittedly Opera 58 is still my favourite (not using 60 mainly because of those user-unfriendly botched download/history tabs; it's not the most important thing for me, but a nuisance big enough to stay away from it).
Anyway, switching browsers with all that exporting/importing which can go wrong/sideways, lack of some extensions, the process of adjusting settings according to my preferences etc. isn't very convenient process. So I'll just keep using workarounds like killing the "GPU process" every once in a while - it restarts at about 200-250MB so I have around 500-600 MBs free for an hour or two as it slowly creeps back to 7-900. And I'll limit my browsing, disable a few extensions etc.
I've been thinking of buying a new PC as this desktop sometimes begins to feel like a relic. Too bad when I built it I decided to go with the 41G sticks of RAM instead of 22.
Have a productive day.

Well it depends on whether you consider slowing your system down to a crawl due to memory overload "an issue".

And I know, I could buy a new computer and all my problems with insufficient RAM would be solved. But I guess I'll rather try various other browsers to find out if there's still a serviceable alternative for people with older PCs.

What do you think about this value, is 800MB for GPU process still reasonable memory utilization?!
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A week without a single reply from anyone from Opera?
Looks like they don't care at all about some issues.
But I had the same problem as you and the only solution was to use another browser (Firefox IIRC). IMO Opera has been progressively more user unfriendly lately, but it's nothing new in the world of everchanging net browsers. I had used Firefox originally, then after a short-lived stint with IE I switched to Chrome (which has become too memory hungry for me) so then I went over to Opera and it looks like another change is on the horizon.
Don't get me wrong I still like Opera, but all these issues are kinda piling up and it's getting a bit tiresome. Problem is I still haven't found a proper alternative.
Have a healthy life.

To my recollection there are at least 2 recent threads in the forum about the botched download tab which is one of the primary reasons for me to revert to version 58.0.3135.132(last one remaining with working VPN prior to version 60.x).

Come to think of it I may have sounded a bit dismissive in my post as I have never used this Shift+LMB shortcut, so wasn't even aware it was definitely removed in that 55.x version (and on top of that you had to use a specific flag to make it work after the 52.x patch). Ignorance is bliss as always. And I too wouldn't want my problems on my worst enemy.
So how does the shortcut work, you can press Shift+LMB anywhere on the tab to close it or even multiple tabs at once?
Have a nice life. Buenas noches!

@rak282
Lol I wish I had your kind of problems. I know we perceive the seriousness of our trouble/inconveniences subjectively, but in this case you have plenty of other options which may seem to be slightly less convenient for you but still work completely in the same way - if you can't use shift+LMB to close a tab, is it really that difficult to move the mouse a few pixels to press the "X"? Or press MMB? Or press Ctrl+W?

I'll just add a little snippet from Opera Task manager. !
One of the main reasons I started using this browser was its ability to frugally manage resources. Times are a changin'...♪♫
Looks like it's time to go back to Firefox or try some of the smaller browser projects.
Like IE 11.

Thanks for the screenshots, they say more than a gazillion words.
Now I'm not in possession of the sharpest mind or the most vivid imagination, but I really can't comprehend who would have thought providing users with less information on 3 times larger screen space would mean an actual improvement of previous functionality.

I guess the devs are so persistent in their effort to push new versions of Oprah even though you manage to block the various auto-patching processes you'll still be presented with a nice little red dot to remind you of your disobedience.
EAT. SLEEP. UPDATE!!!
You don't have to click on the button to update. Unless of course there's someone from the dev team actually standing beside you holding a gun to your head. In that case I'd suggest to cave in to the pressure.

Welcome to the club and please enjoy your stay.