I am not sure why Opera has crashed on me a few times in the past 2 weeks. It could be due to internet connection problems. The program should not be bothered if the internet connection suddenly drops, but it may cause enough problems to crash it.

Regardless of cause, I think I may have found a possible way to avoid the "error, can't open user profile directory..."
When Opera has crashed/ not responding, try to close it with Windows Task Manager. Try to close the program under applications, and then try to close all processes that say "Opera" under processes. I think if all these processes are ended, the weird problem will not happen when you try to open Opera again.

I have been having a lot of weird things in the last 2-3 days with Opera Pop-Up Blocker(strict). This was a pretty nice add-on feature. Now, I don't get the little window that asks if you want to block a pop-up. It's kind of unpredictable. It's letting some pop-ups through without any type of notification. Did this have something to do with the new Opera version? If so, is there some way to go back to an old version of Opera? Also, why is the Speed Dial kind of weird and buggy these days? Does anybody else have that?

Opera has crashed way too many times. Sometimes Windows freezes up. I don't understand what the software problem is. I have uninstalled Opera and I may re-install it, to see if this gets rid of the problem. Otherwise, I will use Firefox.

Note: Firefox seems to use up a lot of memory on my laptop, so much that it slows way down at times. Opera manages the memory way better, and allows me to open more web pages at the same time. And I have a pretty good laptop with 4GB of RAM.

I am not sure why Opera has crashed on me a few times in the past 2 weeks. It could be due to internet connection problems. The program should not be bothered if the internet connection suddenly drops, but it may cause enough problems to crash it.

Regardless of cause, I think I may have found a possible way to avoid the "error, can't open user profile directory..."
When Opera has crashed/ not responding, try to close it with Windows Task Manager. Try to close the program under applications, and then try to close all processes that say "Opera" under processes. I think if all these processes are ended, the weird problem will not happen when you try to open Opera again.

Where are the Opera speed dial settings stored? I could not find this on the list of things that I could back up.

Yes, Opera has stopped responding, and I use task manager to close it. Even then, it doesn't want to close very easily. I hope I don't have to fix this whole thing by restarting my computer a bunch of times per week. Opera is doing a great job otherwise.

Hi.
Just this week, I have been using Opera 54.0 (Windows 7) and I am getting this message a few times. When Opera is forced to shut down, this error message pops up when I restart Opera. Then, it does not work. Then, I have to do a complete Windows restart to get Opera working properly. Is there some sort of easy(er) fix to this, or do I just have to accept it and restart Windows? Is there any chance that Opera 53.0 or some previous version would be better for me?
Thanks.

Last night, I had my computer crash (I decided to reboot.) Then I came back to Opera [52.0.2871.64, Windows 7 64-bit]. I did not have personalized speed dial settings at all. I also did not have Adblock plus or Pop-up blocker extensions. This was a total surprise. Is there a way I could get back my speed dial settings?