@stevejones Be better off sticking with your other browsers, Opera has been doing the same to me since the start of the year 2020 and gets worse with every new update... Funny thing is YouTube plays just fine with other browsers with exactly the same extensions and plugins installed.

There is no fix for it period unless you disable things that use to work with older versions, This browser has now turned to shit.

Speed dial has turned to shit again, slow to load or never loads at all, what did you guys break now?

Hi there community.

Anyone experiencing random crashes?

The latest GX update LVL5 (core: 102.0.4880.99) crashes randomly, I've applied ALL the recommended fixes in the help menu but it still happens, it's becoming frustrating and annoying as I'll lose all current progress when it happens especially if I'm typing a reply or visiting regular websites.

Thought it might be my Nvidia settings or a memory leak causing the random crashes but even after a system scan no issues were detected, task manager doesn't show any signs of background conflicts either, the issue doesn't present itself on other browsers Brave or Edge just Opera,

Also not a fan of the new tiles layout on the speed dial randomly using an image from a bookmarked website,

Crashed While Typing This Subject.

The newer version is ugly as fug and just makes the speed dial page look like a big mess as Opera defaults to using either a low resolution image found on the site or no image at all, also, not all image extensions and their dimensions found on a bookmarked site are supported which requires downloading of the image then manual conversion and resizing in an image editor, which is my reason for changing to GX because GX still uses the older default layout. JUST the color tile and the website title header (I find this aesthetically cleaner).

I use five extensions with Opera, Adblock Plus, Turn off the Lights, YouTube Enhancer, Home Button (because GX doesn't have one) and JDownloader. These plugin extensions have never presented any issues with older versions of Opera or Opera GX. I'm not willing to roll back to a previous version as I like to keep things up to date on my system.

I'm a bit stumped, I'm trying to avoid another complete uninstall reinstall again. Any suggestions other than the obvious help subject remedies would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

@kuhlkees Check the Speed Dial folder, it may have moved your tiles to another location further down the folder tree and Opera is having trouble locating them or not finding them at all.

Happened to me when I was updating my extensions and installing some live wallpaper, the Speed Dial folder reset itself and emptied out all my tiles and relocated them to my imported / other bookmarks folder. I had to manually move my tiles back into the Speed Dial folder for it to start working normally again.

@bestcodes Well this is a public forum and I've read worse language here.

My thread is no different from others expressing their own frustrations about issues with Opera and I only started my own thread to prevent hijacking another of which I was offering suggestions to a couple of fellow frustrated users.

"simply report the bugs, preferably with screenshots, and give your system info".

Well yeah, you must have missed the part above about sending crash reports and posting my system info of which I also stated that it isn't hardware related.

"I love Opera. Keep up the good work! No issues here for me, Ubuntu 23.10, Opera Dev, Beta, and Stable. Also, Neon and GX on Windows 10, 7, and 11".

Good for you, I'm between testing and trying other browsers and if the devs can iron out all the bugs so this shipwreck can sail smoothly then I'll continue to use it at my own discretion.

Already tried the nice approach which went unanswered, followed the rules whilst sitting back as others broke them, uploaded the screenshots of both reports and crashes, sent the diagnostics but still crickets, however, I'm still determined to get around this or else I wouldn't still be here.

Nothing wrong with the direct approach to realize issues continue regarding the same unfortunate circumstances, and if devs are having trouble handling criticism about the issues users are facing with their software then they're in the wrong profession.

You've offered nothing to help, fix or improve my situation. The only thing you are concerned about is how I registered my frustration in the forum.

Like I said, I've read replies that are far worse here, users dropping f-bombs.

Have a great day.
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Note to devs, tile issue is indeed that of the said extension "Home Button at Top Right" of which I have disabled until the developer releases an update. I found that the home button does not completely refresh the browser when going back to the start/home/speed dial page.

Now another issue has popped up which has to do with not enough memory, trying some suggestions I found online.

Doesn't start with my browser or Youtube (Opera GX) I have to manually enable it. Removed!

Yup, I just joined the "Opera GX is slow" group.

Recent updates, Opera now takes too long to start, there's a heavy delay when opening graphics heavy pages, experiencing sluggish playback of Youtube videos 1440p and up.

What I tried:
Disable all extensions Shouldn't need to...
Disable the ad-blocker Shouldn't have to...
Disable Speed Dial Shouldn't ask to...
Reset settings to default Recommended action by Moderators... Doesn't always work...
Reset flags to default Undo all customizations...
Create a clean profile folder/directory Pretty much a reset/refresh...
Adjust system settings Shouldn't need to just for a browser to work...
Uninstall Reinstall with Revo Clean install... No change of behavior...
Custom GPU profile created for Opera GX via NVIDIA Control Panel Dedicating GPU resources doesn't change a thing with Opera GX's sluggish performance...
Given up Pretty much getting there!

Since the last 3 updates Opera's been fucked to use, forces itself to update whether or not you disable the damn thing so it's a complete waste of time and effort customizing the browser to your personal taste when the update goes and resets it all.

Installed other browsers to do a speed and stability comparison test and where Opera GX was once ahead of the rest, it now fails miserably.

Fast = Slow = Could Do Better =

Browser loading speed test:
Opera GX - Mozilla Firefox - Edge - Vivaldi - Chrome
There's now a 5-8sec delay when loading up Opera GX's home page (set to google search with no speed dial tiles loaded).

Ad-blocker test:
Opera GX - Mozilla Firefox - Edge - Vivaldi - Chrome
Upon every new update there are random intrusive adverts popping up on my start page where there once wasn't any.

UI customization:
Opera GX - Mozilla Firefox - Edge - Vivaldi - Chrome
Opera has discarded all custom settings from earlier builds now limiting users to lackluster and restrictive UI templates.

Youtube playback:
Opera GX - Mozilla Firefox - Edge - Vivaldi - Chrome
Enhancement now does more harm than good for both video and image media, creating over sharpening that makes videos playback sluggishly and adds a ridiculous overlay of fuzziness to images.

Extensions behavior after browser updates:
Opera GX - Mozilla Firefox - Edge - Vivaldi - Chrome
There are conflicts with browser extensions that will simply no longer work after updating.

Resource hog after latest browser updates:
Opera GX - Mozilla Firefox - Edge - Vivaldi - Chrome
Opera has become a resource hog, simply by starting the browser, my system resources hit the roof for a brief amount of time.

I clean installed an older version of Opera GX which worked flawlessly, never experienced or had issues of any of the mentioned above, it just worked, however, it all went back to shit once it updated.

I've more or less accumulated most of the issues users are having in one post.

@leocg Let's hope they can sort it out as I'd prefer not having to hack my browser settings just to use a function that is much the highlight of my Opera usage.

@leocg So far so good, not had any issues with updates using this method.
Why they went and removed a completely useful action (drag and drop between tabs) has me bewildered.
All it achieved was slow down my workflow and add 3 extra steps to once was a single drag and drop action.

@MVDSGNCW I found a post here in the forum which had these instructions so I thought why the heck not try it since I've practically tried everything else. This worked for me to get my old UI back using the updated GX.

First unhide files/folders Windows option

Go to C:\UsersUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable\ and edit the "Local State" file with any text editor (try Notepad).

Using Ctrl+F find "gxx_flags":{"enabled":true," and change "true" to "false".

Save the file and then change it's properties to "Read Only" so Opera doesn't revert back to the new UI when you close or reopen it.

@MVDSGNCW Dragging links between tabs also doesn't work any more, I've reverted back to the old UI.

@lDzianis Awesome, works perfectly.
For some strange reason the new UI would no longer allow me to drag n drop download links into my file host.

@bestcodes Well this is a public forum and I've read worse language here.

My thread is no different from others expressing their own frustrations about issues with Opera and I only started my own thread to prevent hijacking another of which I was offering suggestions to a couple of fellow frustrated users.

"simply report the bugs, preferably with screenshots, and give your system info".

Well yeah, you must have missed the part above about sending crash reports and posting my system info of which I also stated that it isn't hardware related.

"I love Opera. Keep up the good work! No issues here for me, Ubuntu 23.10, Opera Dev, Beta, and Stable. Also, Neon and GX on Windows 10, 7, and 11".

Good for you, I'm between testing and trying other browsers and if the devs can iron out all the bugs so this shipwreck can sail smoothly then I'll continue to use it at my own discretion.

Already tried the nice approach which went unanswered, followed the rules whilst sitting back as others broke them, uploaded the screenshots of both reports and crashes, sent the diagnostics but still crickets, however, I'm still determined to get around this or else I wouldn't still be here.

Nothing wrong with the direct approach to realize issues continue regarding the same unfortunate circumstances, and if devs are having trouble handling criticism about the issues users are facing with their software then they're in the wrong profession.

You've offered nothing to help, fix or improve my situation. The only thing you are concerned about is how I registered my frustration in the forum.

Like I said, I've read replies that are far worse here, users dropping f-bombs.

Have a great day.
.........................................................................

Note to devs, tile issue is indeed that of the said extension "Home Button at Top Right" of which I have disabled until the developer releases an update. I found that the home button does not completely refresh the browser when going back to the start/home/speed dial page.

Now another issue has popped up which has to do with not enough memory, trying some suggestions I found online.

Well that didn't last long, not two weeks since starting this thread and Opera GX has gone back to crashing, and also Facebook and Youtube video's are randomly freezing causing the whole browser to crash. Useless!

Running update version LVL5 (core: 105.0.4970.63)1 and all seems steady, still having issues with the "Home Button at Top Right" extension though which is a downer because I like having to open speed dial in the same page. Opera devs, make a home button!