Posts made by windbags

@peak4 said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@jimmybfmv said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@windbags Have you tried peak4's "solution"?

@peak4 said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

When I had this problem, I just let Opera " wait for program to respond" rather than "end program"
Be patient, it can take several hours, or even overnight.

I had sync disabled since the update but I just tried signing in again and it worked for me, too! "Several hours" seems a bit extreme but I did have to wait 5 minutes on a sluggish laptop and 1–2 minutes on a less sluggish desktop PC for Opera to respond again. After that I was logged in and everything had been synced.

It may well depend on how many tabs you have open at the time it hung.
For various reasons, and it never normally causes issues, I was probably running with 100+ open at the same time,

I had a few tabs, as I always have several "tasks in progress" that need the info, but nothing like that many. I did try removing ones I thought I could easily retrieve, but after three goes I was getting fed up of it "not responding".
Waiting for minutes/hours/overnight on the "hope" of eventually getting a response is not the mark of a useful browser - especially when Windows 10 updates keeps forcing me to restart the system.

@linkinpark187 said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

I've found that, for the moment, synchronization is completely broken.

I agree, that seems to be the issue in 67/win x64.
Removed the sync and everything works without ANY waiting.

@windbags said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@jimmybfmv said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@windbags Have you tried disabling synchronisation?

any help about how to find such welcome!

Answering my own question:
O-menu-Settings-Synchronisation-Sign out
(even though it was the sign-in that was failing)

They seem to have broken the sign in!!

Sad that this had to be posted via Chrome ! :-0

@jimmybfmv said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@windbags Have you tried disabling synchronisation?

any help about how to find such welcome!

@jimmybfmv said in Opera 67.0.3575.31 totally unusable on Windows 10 x64:

@windbags Have you tried disabling synchronisation?

Struggling to find how to that! (almost 2am!)

How can I go back to 66?
I tried a full Win10 system restore back to February (before the last launcher was written) and, while that was OK, the launcher now didn't launch Opera!
So redid the "download" via OperaSetup and have ended up back with 67 and it freezing after about a minute...

@jimmybfmv Have same problem, but, sadly, it still froze after about a minute after doing this

@lando242 Session Buddy no longer seems to exit (not found in search)

@zalex108 said in Win10/Opera/54.0.2952.41 opera://print/ missing:

@windbags said in Win10/Opera/54.0.2952.41 opera://print/ missing:

@zalex108 said in Win10/Opera/54.0.2952.41 opera://print/ missing:

@windbags

Wait!!

You can access from Flags: opera://flags/#enable-new-print-preview.

That option is enabled when I open that

Revert it to "Default"

Thanks! That did the trick after a restart
Odd terminology where enabled made it fault, whereas default made it work fine..

I'm ignorant about what the "local state" thing is....

About "Local State" file, just follow the Back up signature's link.

Now I had time, I did go through that, and found that branch under flags, now set to zero - presumably reflecting the flags method change.

@zalex108 said in Win10/Opera/54.0.2952.41 opera://print/ missing:

If a "Save as PDF" option is present, I suppose that a physical Printer would be not necessary.

Save as pdf often ends up with a single tall thin skinny page, which is not printer friendly

@burnout426 said in Win10/Opera/54.0.2952.41 opera://print/ missing:

Test with other browsers. and test with Chrome specifically.

The print dialogue comes up fine in Chrome

@zalex108 said in Win10/Opera/54.0.2952.41 opera://print/ missing:

@windbags

Wait!!

You can access from Flags: opera://flags/#enable-new-print-preview.

That option is enabled when I open that

I'm ignorant about what the "local state" thing is....

@burnout426
Yes, I have a working printer and yes, it is turned on and printing fine from other applications, so yes, the spooler is working

@windbags No ideas?
I cannot find this on a forum search on "opera://print/" or just "print"...

If I try & print on my new PC system , all I get is:
"This site can’t be reached
The web page at opera://print/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address."
I tried to reinstall, but it made no difference.
How can I make progress to print pages?

Thanks again, Dave.
I have saved all relevant profiles.

...completely uninstall and reinstall Opera 36, using the standalone installer from here.

Got the file OK, but:

After uninstalling, clean the system of all Opera 36 folders (be careful not to delete your Opera 12.18 folders!) before reinstalling.

That is a problem - as they all seem mixed together. 12.8.exe is Feb 2016, 36.exe is 8/2016 but there are plenty of much older folders in there back to 2010 (inc OperaBackup)

Should I try an uninstall/reinstall without cleanup, or could that make things worse?

Bit of a pain at the moment as I can't get to so many of my bookmarks/passwords etc until I restore my old profile. Like having one hand tied behind my back.....

Simply rename your profile folder to something else, with Opera closed, and then start Opera again.
It should generate a new clean profile, with no extensions or bookmarks, and the default speed dial and settings.
Try surfing a few sites with that and see how it performs.
If it's no better, the problem isn't in your profile.

Thanks again. Did that, and a few odd things happened.
First, it moaned about 19 extensions and disabled them (eg WOT; not aware they had been a problem up to then).
Then it picked up one particular bookmark folder to place in the bookmark bar. It was my main base bookmarks folder that I transferred over years ago when moving from IE (actually in the Maxthon wrapper) to Opera, called "Internet Explorer Favourites".
Looks rather old, and I have no idea where it has plucked it up from.

So I tried a few basic sites:
www.ebay.co.uk (conveted it to https://www.ebay.co.uk) : (no load, blank page)
http://www.ebay.co.uk : get a badly unformatted text (not html source text) pictures & graphics about 20 pages down

• totally unusable : (I'd post a view of how it looks if I could seed a way)
  www.diynot.com (it converted it to https://www.diynot.com) : (no load, blank page)
  http://www.diynot.com : loads fine
  This thread: http://forums.opera.com/post/125265 : loads fine.

So, problem with https pages, but still other problems (ebay unusable either way).

Suggestions welcome.

I would try temporarily with a completely new clean profile, not an archived one.

OK, how do I do that?
It seems to be consistently be https pages, so probably the security exchange isn't completing...?

Thanks for the helpful reply; sorry about delayed response, I was trying out something based on your idea and seeing how it is panning out:

I would recommend first trying with a new clean profile and see if the problem is still there using that.

Your last helpful reply involved a profile problem, so I thought I'd try that approach again; I got a month-old copy of my profile, renamed the current one to an-old version and tried that (is there a weakness with profile stability in 36?)

It has improved, but not cured.

Particular remaining problems include log-in pages (with security?) which just never load, and some eBay pages, where the top photo refuses to load (ironically, the other pictures do).
No such problems on the same pages with 12.18 (which is still working a treat!)
I was a bit reluctant to try a blank profile as I'm under the impression that so much is lost in doing so (passwords & who-knows-what-else, no?)
I could just keep going back in my backups and trying those profiles.. or am I misunderstanding what might be lost in a new profile (or indeed, how I invoke a new one)
Or is there a way to make a new one based on an old one (would that repair the issue or just duplicate it?)

I assume you're actually now using Opera 12.18 BTW, 12.8 doesn't exist!

Doh, quite right, missed the "1" via a typo.

No suggestions?