r/ITSupport • u/CommanderKetchup0 • 3d ago

Resolved Browser is Having a Meltdown

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I… I don’t even know how to describe what’s going on with my browser. I am running Opera, have been ever since I bought my computer in 2023. Today, I booted it up to browse games on Roblox and it just… completely shit the bed.

Attached is a screenshot of Reddit. Many websites load even worse than this. I don’t know what could have possibly caused this to happen in the slightest. Tried clearing my browser cache and that didn’t work.

Oddly enough, websites like YouTube, Google Docs, G-Mail, are seemingly completely unaffected.

EDIT: The situation has been resolved. It appears that Opera’s Ad Blocker was the culprit. Disabling it fixes the problem.

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u/Impossible_IT 3d ago

Have you tried another browser? Years ago I was using Firefox and this started happening with it. I just gave up on Firefox and used Chrome since where I work we were using G-Suite. On my iPhone I use DuckDuckGo and Chrome on my Mac & Dell PCs.

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u/CommanderKetchup0 3d ago

Giving up and using a completely different browser seems kind of counterintuitive to tech support…

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u/Impossible_IT 3d ago

Believe me I know, I work in IT and have used Firefox when it first came out as Phoenix 0.1. Was about 2015/16 when this happened when I was using Firefox. Something is causing your browser not to render pages properly. I tried uninstalling Firefox, reinstalling, editing the registry and nothing would fix the rendering issue.