The connection was reset.
GX works fine for now, but regular Opera is mostly unusable. I switched TO opera from Firefox years ago and they keep making me want to switch back.
I’m using Opera 110.0.5130.39 64-bit on Windows 11 and have no issues. Sounds like something (anti-virus or firewall or VPN) is interfering with Opera because it changed to a new version or something like that. This especially sounds like the case as the users that usually get this problem get it right after an update.
You can restart Windows and uninstall and reinstall Opera for good measure.
Or, if you goto the URL opera://settings/system and turn on DNS over HTTPs and things start working, there could be some DNS issues on your system. That would be odd though since other browsers including GX work fine, but check anyway.
—Every other browser on my pc works fine including GX. And this happens in incognito mode, too on regular Opera.
You can rename your user data and cache folders to test if Opera starts working fine then. If so, you know it’s something messed up with your original folders. You can delete the new ones and rename the old ones back when you’re done testing.
You can see if it happens in a test standalone installation of Opera to rule out issues with your user data folder.
This started right after it updated. And why would my antivirus pick just Opera and nothing else? I already tried the DNS over HTTPS and it didn’t do anything. It still didn’t work. I’m also not using my vpn. It would just be odd for my system to suddenly have DNS issues that don’t affect Firefox, Chrome, Brave, GX, Waterfox, Comodo, Vivaldi, or Edge.
I just tried Opera portable and the same thing happened so I’m stumped.
Also just tried disabling AV and it made no difference. Also tried running with all plugins disabled, same thing, no difference.
Historically, some anti-virus software has been known to flag Opera and or its installer. Usually caused by false positives in heuristics. Sometimes it’s been caused by Opera using upx. Other times it’s the way Opera’s install fetches files from the net. Other times it’s because the folder where opera.exe is changes names. This used to affect firewalls too. That part should be better now though since there’s no longer a launcher.exe (in fresh installs) and there’s an opera.exe in the root of the install folder now.
There are some anti-virus programs like Sophos that are known to break Opera completely. Kaspersky is known to do that from time to time too. Guess a new update of Kaspersky just broke connections with Opera’s built-in VPN. See https://reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/1d1virs/operavpn_not_working/ for example.
So, that’s why it’s always good to change. There are also rare cases where just disabling an anti-virus isn’t enough. Sometimes you have to uninstall it (temporarily) to test if it really interfering with Opera.
Roll back to the previous version and see if everything works fine.
I did and it’s still broken. And it can’t just be my folder since the standalone version didn’t work, either, Stumped. Using GX right now. There are a few minor differences that make me not like GX as much, but it’s better than having to go back to one of the other browsers.
Very strange.
As a test (not a solution), you can temporarily create a new user account on Windows (local one not tied to a Microsoft account), log into it and see if regular Opera works fine there.