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Well, I finally got Opera working properly again. Here's what I did:
Ran a malware scan; no problems found.
Made a backup of all my Opera bookmarks, settings, etc.
Uninstalled Opera and told it to remove all Opera-related data.
Ran several registry scans, using Registry Mechanic and ccleaner, until all remaining traces of Opera were removed.
Reinstalled Opera, this time to folder C:\Program Files\opera1217.
Now it works and I can access www.deseretnews.com once again.
Have you tried restarting Opera since preforming all those actions ?
Yes, many times.
Since my first post I have:
Uninstalled and reinstalled Opera 12.17. No joy.
Compared the list of certificates from the Opera 12.17 installation that works with the one on my main Windows XP installation and deleted all that didn't appear in the working installation. No joy.
Used ccleaner do clear out cookies and everything else associated with Opera. Still no joy.
I'm running out of ideas.
Also, I can no longer post to the Opera forum from Opera; had to do it from Chrome this time.
I have been using Opera as my default browser for years and love it. I am currently using version 12.17 (because when I tried the newer versions I sorely missed some of features of the older Presto-based version). There is one web site, www.deseretnews.com, that I look at every day. Since Monday, Opera can no longer access that site. It doesn't which page on that site. Opera just sits there with the spinning wheel and makes zero progress. I haven't found any other site that I have tried to visit that has become inaccessible. That same site loads successfully from the same computer with IE and Chrome. That same site loads successfully with Opera 12.17 from a different Windows installation.
I have checked everything under Tools -> Preferences I can think of:
Content -> Manage site preferences (www.deseretnews.com was listed there; I removed it; no change)
Content -> Blocked Content (nothing at all listed there)
Cookie -> Manage Cookies (deleted all cookies that appeared to be related to that site; no change)
History -> Disk cache (cleared the cache; no change)
History -> Addresses (cleared; no change)
Something appears to be blocking that site, but only from Opera, and this just started a couple of days ago. Worked fine from this computer for years before that.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?