Date: 04/20/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: web

Last night I upgraded Opera from 7.54 u2 to 8.0 (on Fedora FC3).

Starting Opera ... begins to draw the 7 (or so) windows open from the last session ... crashes.

Run it from the command line - same thing - only output is "Segmentation fault". :(

Restart with only the home page (http://www.livejournal.com/) = OK. Some toolbars aren't shown (Main & Status) so turn them on. Close window; new window; enter my web site's URL (http://www.henman.ca/) - crashes!

Restart with just home page again; close window; new window; http://www.henman.ca/ = OK now. Open multiple new windows - OK. Close opera.

Restart opera with the windows that were left open when I shutdown v7.54u2 (i.e. use saved session) - OK!?

OK, I don't understand why, but without actually changing anything, it's seems OK now!

One thing though - the fonts appear to be different. Not worse, just different. Curious.

Spoke to soon! It's now crashing every time I try to restart it. :(


That's it! I've had enough!
# rpm --erase opera
# rpm -Uvh opera-7.54-20050131.5-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm (because I happen to keep RPMs that I download!)

Back to v7.54u2 :)


[Meanwhile, over on the Win2k box, v8 is just fine!]

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/opera_browser/31539.html