Thanks for helping me solve this, so I can use the Opera browser, which i like a lot. Its fast, sleek interface handles bookmarks well; its a lot more comfortable for me than google chrome, which I feel is, “watching me.”
Whenever I use Google Chrome I feel like, “somebody is watching me.” Whenever I use Internet Explorer 9 I feel like, “I am waiting forever.” Safari plain sucks on Windows, and Opera is the buggiest browser of them all… but its fast, has a great design, looks after bookmarks well…
What the fuck to do? Firefox is drama… Drama, drama, drama
Yeah, I always think the next update of firefox will play nice with flash and stop hanging on me, but it never seems to. I just stick to it because I like the addons and I`m so used to it now!
if you like chrome but want more privacy try iron. it even supports chrome extensions. I used opera for a while as a secondary browser but now use maxthon 3 instead. it’s mad fast.
Call me paranoid, but I just do not trust it… I feel like, “without logging in,” its still tracking me, so they can build a better advertising product.
I started using google, when it first appeared, long before it became a publicly traded company. Nowadays, I avoid google, at all cost! I cringe, when I have absolutely no choice, but to use google for some reason…
Yahoo, Facebook, twitter, soundclod, Fxpansion, hotmail, ymail, and gmail are not workIng properly in opera on my desktop… Opera mini on iPhone is giving too many problems to list…
I installed maxthon and all websites are working now… So??? I quite like opera too. As I said, “shame.”
Windows 7 home Premium, X64… – I looked in, “Program Files (x86),” where Opera’s main folder installed itself… Couldn’t find a config folder, in the sub directories… I also looked in, “Users, AppData, Roaming.”
I believe Program Files can only be edited by Administrator on Win7 and thus no program can store preferences/configs which may be changed by the user in there! WinXP and earlier didn’t either! So why would M$ make such a backwards move?
Should have assumed you were on a Windows variant…
Type this into the Explorer address bar: %appdata%
Within there hopefully you’ll find a Opera or similar folder (who makes Opera?)
So following my instruction to type %appdata% into the Explorer address bar didn’t take you to the Application Data folder, containing one called Opera?
Afraid I don’t use Opera and it wasn’t me who suggested it. I know the similar process in Firefox would be to go to that folder and then rename/remove the Profiles folder IIRC. But again I’ve only done so on WinXP so unsure of the changes in Win7…
You could possibly try renaming the whole Opera folder (make sure you keep it safe!) and then see if Opera will start without it being present at all. The entire folder is Application Data, IE related to the configuration of the application.