@cris2d2 I have had the same issue when trying to restore opera post crash -no effect of local profile loading. Same windows install.

In fact post crash (which have become very frequent), Opera never reloads old tabs, sessions etc. This is install & machine independent (I have 4).

The only thing that works is when I have a cloud session running which I access with another browser, then manually copy tabs opened and manually open in the faulty browser. It is a pain and in itself, this solution reveals another flaw (luckily) in that the cloud session has a lag in catching up with the crash.

I'm at the point where I am considering abandoning opera.

@cris2d2 Oh I misunderstood! I didn't realize you were going from opera to opera. Here's what I did in the past for extensions.

If you navigate to the right folder, for me:
it was something like C:/users/mellofellow/appdata/local/...
but you can look it up in Opera:about or using the menus

Find the extensions folder and you'll see a bunch of subfolders with long letter names like: jckjxzckjxznckjlxznccc
each of those is for a different extension and most are readable using JSON readers (I use sublime text).

So, once I have reinstalled the extensions, it is just a matter of reading through the new folders to see which extension is which, then manually writing over the settings with the old ones (again use sublime text).

This worked for me but really isn't worth it unless you have a few extensions with a lot of settings. It is so much faster to just put in the settings anew.

For the opera settings, one workaround may be to do the same via cut and paste. Or you could try going to about:config or opera:config taking screen shots and just updating the new install?

It's a shame, opera was the leader in innovation with tabbed browsing etc. but has since become bloated an removed features unecessarily. After switching to FF, with the same set of tabs open, i went from +4GB Ram usage and hourly freezes to 1GB, fluid browsing.

Give it a try, but the problem is sorting out which extension is which. it will of course get much faster as you start getting through them, but here's what I would do:

1. go to old extensions, replace the name "kdsjldjfs;jg;lkfdsjg" with "tab sorter" for example, once you browse through to see what it is.

2. go to the new extensions, find out which extension is what, but copy the top level sub-folder name e.g. 'hsjgdsfdsdsf' and rename the old extension folder that matches that you renamed already. Once you've gone through half it will be much faster by process of elimination.

3. lastly, take all of th enew extension folders, move them elsewhere as back up, then take the old ones and drop them into that new location.

Then you will end up with the old settings etc. for each extension in the new location with the new names. Hopefully some of them will work and correct the naming conventions if needed. For the ones that don't, browse through the sub folders, and rename anything that looks like 'hgdsjhgdsfgf' to the actual new folder name.

I think that will take care of 90% of them.

good luck!

Give it a try, but the problem is sorting out which extension is which. it will of course get much faster as you start getting through them, but here's what I would do:

1. go to old extensions, replace the name "kdsjldjfs;jg;lkfdsjg" with "tab sorter" for example, once you browse through to see what it is.

2. go to the new extensions, find out which extension is what, but copy the top level sub-folder name e.g. 'hsjgdsfdsdsf' and rename the old extension folder that matches that you renamed already. Once you've gone through half it will be much faster by process of elimination.

3. lastly, take all of th enew extension folders, move them elsewhere as back up, then take the old ones and drop them into that new location.

Then you will end up with the old settings etc. for each extension in the new location with the new names. Hopefully some of them will work and correct the naming conventions if needed. For the ones that don't, browse through the sub folders, and rename anything that looks like 'hgdsjhgdsfgf' to the actual new folder name.

I think that will take care of 90% of them.

good luck!

@cris2d2 Oh I misunderstood! I didn't realize you were going from opera to opera. Here's what I did in the past for extensions.

If you navigate to the right folder, for me:
it was something like C:/users/mellofellow/appdata/local/...
but you can look it up in Opera:about or using the menus

Find the extensions folder and you'll see a bunch of subfolders with long letter names like: jckjxzckjxznckjlxznccc
each of those is for a different extension and most are readable using JSON readers (I use sublime text).

So, once I have reinstalled the extensions, it is just a matter of reading through the new folders to see which extension is which, then manually writing over the settings with the old ones (again use sublime text).

This worked for me but really isn't worth it unless you have a few extensions with a lot of settings. It is so much faster to just put in the settings anew.

For the opera settings, one workaround may be to do the same via cut and paste. Or you could try going to about:config or opera:config taking screen shots and just updating the new install?

It's a shame, opera was the leader in innovation with tabbed browsing etc. but has since become bloated an removed features unecessarily. After switching to FF, with the same set of tabs open, i went from +4GB Ram usage and hourly freezes to 1GB, fluid browsing.

@cris2d2 The easiest most reliable way is still labour intensive. but here's what i did.

For each set of sessions, bookmarks or open tabs, I opened up all the links in opera, then visited my opera synched data in my opera account. I copied all that was there, an pasted into my email. that preserved all the links.

Then in FF, I logged into my email and simply opened each link by clicking. I installed a few add ons such as session managers, tab groupers and was able to save "sessions" etc.

You could also accomplish the same by saving files as html or scraping with python but I found this to be pretty fast.

I had a few hundred tabs.

You can export bookmarks directly I believe as html then import in FF. Passwords are a separate tougher issue.
I think you can go into opera and reveal each one. There used to be a really cool opera password tool to batch do this.
I took this as an opportunity to reset all my passwords anyhow!

@cris2d2 I have had the same issue when trying to restore opera post crash -no effect of local profile loading. Same windows install.

In fact post crash (which have become very frequent), Opera never reloads old tabs, sessions etc. This is install & machine independent (I have 4).

The only thing that works is when I have a cloud session running which I access with another browser, then manually copy tabs opened and manually open in the faulty browser. It is a pain and in itself, this solution reveals another flaw (luckily) in that the cloud session has a lag in catching up with the crash.

I'm at the point where I am considering abandoning opera.

Confirmed, exactly as you say. Windows 10. Also lots of crashes on logging in redirect loops.