Fix for Opera 3.62

Anybody who did any serious surfing with
Opera quickly learned that it wasn't IF, but
WHEN it would crash. Last year a fellow
named Leon Fisk showed how to fix the problem
by altering the opera.exe file. I tried it
and the result was just short of magic.
Because not everybody has (or even knows how)
to use a hex editor, I automated the proccess.

You can download and try "operafix.zip" at:
http://members.roadfly.org/jxf/mikes.htm
(Includes simple instructions)

I'd recommend disabling scripting languages
under "preferences - multimedia" It's pretty
lame anyway. If you use Opera, I'd be REALLY
interested to know how this plays for you.
Mike

Hey..that's a legit reason to install W31
for one *last* time on my (either 486DX 133
or P100, i'm not really sure at this
point..)
The 486 smokes the pentium, i know that from
xperiens....
As i'm selling off all my 3.1 stuff
(humungous list, way too much to list here)
i should prolly give it a last hurrah.
The opera crashing was always a pain in the
.......
Doc...

%00

Hmmm...Never had a problem with it on either WfWG or Win9x/NT

I haven't had a chance to really wring it out, but it looks good so far. I was on eBay for over an hour last night with zero problems. That's got to be my all time best.
Whats that godos thing all about?
Too bad Opera didn't bother to fix it years ago instead of moving into the "bloatware" world.

Whats the status of the 3.62 version of Opera anyway? Is it shareware or freeware?

Opera is not freeware.

Bloatware? Well, functionality requires code, but even version 8 is only about 4Mb to d/l compared to IE's 80+Mb

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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Out of curiosity, I decided to try out this patch to see if it fixes one specific crash that I can do at will. Here is my method:

1. Open two or more child windows in Opera. They can be on any site or can be blank windows, so pressing Control-N twice is good enough for this test.
2. Maximize one of the child windows, if it isn't already.
3. Close the child window specifically by double clicking its control menu (but NOT the whole application!) Also do NOT use File - Close or Control-W either.
4. The child window will close, but you will still see an outline of the control menu. Press the left or right arrow key on the keyboard.
5. Opera crashes.

Unfortunately, this patch does not fix this particular crash, though it may fix others that I haven't yet tested. I will play with this some more whenever I have time to spare.

For those who are also curious of what the patch does, I performed a quick FC command and it shows that the patch modifies two bytes: 0x0009B478 changes its value from 0x82 to 0x84 and 0x0009B47C changes its value from 0x84 to 0x86. I may have to surf several sites for a while before I notice its impact.

Opera still chokes on invalid image formats too...

What it addresses is the problem where you open a
page, hit the back arrow, open another, hit the back
arrow, open another, hit the back, etc. etc.
I do a lot of searching for stuff and it was killing me. If things held together for even 20 pages, I was on borrowed time. I've been using the "patched"
version for several months now and haven't noticed
any downside. But, everybody configures it differently so who knows - Sometimes you fix one problem and create another. For the record, I use a ram drive for Opera's cache and cookies.

I've been using Opera for about five years now. (I paid $40 for it, assuming that Opera Software would work on crash prevention, but they just strung us along for a year or so.)

Previous posts here have claimed that Opera 3.60 is less crash-prone than 3.62, and I wholeheartedly agree. I just dusted off 3.62 to try mdorff's patch, which seems to have helped somewhat.

Glitchman's "forced crash" leads to a GPF in Opera at 0013:03A9, in both versions 3.60.0.287 and 3.62.0.326.

Here's a way to force a crash in Opera 3.62, but not 3.60! Go to the following URL, with image loading disabled (click the "camera" icon):

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/obituaries/

After a partial load, Opera halts with "Internal communication error" displayed. Click OK, then click "Reload docoment". Opera 3.62 crashes with a GPF at 0001:76BC.

With Opera 3.60, when "Reload document" is clicked, the web site is loaded, and there's no crash.

I think I'll just stick with version 3.60.

1- Opera *is* freeware..now. Ever since version 5x (well, ok, 'Ad-supported').
Although version 3.62 is actually a demo, before registration..it's still possible to buy , but not directly from opera, and it's not so easy to find out where from either..they have a special agent that deals with older versions, and sometimes inexpensively ( i bought 3.62 for BeOS for 10 bucks.
Opera still crashes just the same for me on win 9x (v.602), i haven't noticed a huge improvement..apparently 7 and up are really better..i know it runs better on my mac- but that one is ad-free (paid for, in other words :).
In windows 3.1, though, i found i had worse probs with 3.60 (i'm not absolutely sure if it was 3.60 tho) 3.62's main problem other than it's unexpected crashes, and probably related to the same thing, was with rendering pages. It seems websites get designed with no thought to the enormous load on the processor or browser, mostly from saturation with adverts..
It's the ads that crash version 3.62, and the ads that crash version 6.02..maybe a good thing 3.62 isn't ad-supported :)

Obviously, i think i believe you think i said what you want to believe, but i think you didn't believe what i think i really said...

It's been a couple of weeks now and I haven't noticed any side effects here. I'm rating it a keeper.
Thanks

Two questions:

Q1) Someone knows as I be able to do to use Opera 3.6x with Hotmail and Yahoo Mail?, since now I can not make it neither with "operafix.zip" of
http://members.roadfly.org/jxf/mikes.htm

Q2) Someone knows where I can download Opera 3.60, to prove it?

Thanks

Ing. Daniel G. Gionco