Opera Browser: WTF

[MJ4H]

So I've been trying out the newest version of Opera because A) it had been awhile, B) Firefox 3 has problems with some of my igoggle widgets, C) I like the speed of Opera and always have.

Anyway, I had figured out how to adblocking, figured out how to change the behavior of tabs how I like them, and was just settling in to starting like the damn thing and then:

BAM

It won't do ANYTHING. No matter what page I try to go to, it just sits there. Doesn't even TRY to load it. What the hell? I've turned off all firewalls, I've cleared all temp files, caches, cookies. Nothing. I have no idea what to try next. I've done web searches and found nothing, I've looked through the KB on Opera's home page, nothing.

Anyone with the slightest clue?

[spleen1015]

Reinstall it.

[Sun Tzu]

rtfm

[MJ4H]

Reinstall it.

done and nothing.

[MJ4H]

rtfm

I've read every relevant thing I can find to read.

[MJ4H]

I have stumped the universe on this one. This kind of thing only seems to happen to me.

[MJ4H]

bump???

:( :(

[hukarez]

bump???

:( :(

Opera v9.5 is the latest version? Could it be any other plugins that you have on the browser?

[st.cronin]

Dude, just go back to firefox.

[lungs]

I've had the same thing happen to me with Firefox and it was because I was using a proxy server for some reason.

[MJ4H]

Got it! Hours of browsing the opera forums and googling random re-wordings finally found someone with a clue. Somehow the adblocking filter list got a * in it (I don't know how) and that means block EVERYTHING. Sounds logical. Fixed it.

[sterlingice]

Well, you wouldn't have had a single ad with "*" ;)

SI

[Pumpy Tudors]

see this is why they need to only let smart peoples on the inernet

[MJ4H]

trust me i wasnt seeing any ads!

[MJ4H]

diagf pumpy

[DanGarion]

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