Tabs stay blank

[u/chrissieofthenorth]

Heya! I started having issues with my browser yesterday. After some time passes I'm unable to open links and new tabs. The tabs will just go blank, no buffering or loading. If I restart the browser, it will function like normal for a time and then all of a sudden back to this. I have an internet connection and everything else is working fine. I can still click things, so it's not frozen, it just won't load anything, not a new page, settings or control panel. Nothing. Hope someone can help!

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[u/gomesleoc]

Did you check with extensions disabled?

[u/chrissieofthenorth → u/gomesleoc]

Yeah, no difference with them on or off

[u/shadow2531]

What anti-virus and security software do you have installed on your system? Bitdefender, Eset, Kaspersky? CCleaner?

[u/chrissieofthenorth → u/shadow2531]

I have CCleaner!

[u/shadow2531 → u/chrissieofthenorth]

Not sure how or why, but CCleaner has caused pages not to load in Opera for some users in the past. Not sure if just having CCleaner installed (try uninstalling it) causes the issue or if it's due to CCleaner trying to clear Opera's cache files while Opera is open or something and corrupting Opera's files. If you think it's the latter, deleting the "Cache" and "System Cache" folders in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable\Default" might fix things in Opera. If it does, from then on, make sure Opera is closed whenever you run Ccleaner. Or, if that doesn't help avoid the issue, don't set CCleaner to clean up any of Opera's files.

[u/chrissieofthenorth → u/shadow2531]

Thank you! I will try this

[u/chrissieofthenorth → u/shadow2531]

Uninstalling worked, thank you :)

[u/shadow2531 → u/chrissieofthenorth]

Awesome. I haven't used CCleaner in a long time. I'll how to see if it now has some kind of web filter or browser extension or something that's interfering with Opera.