Opera process won't die

[gt40]

Anybody else have this problem?
On three seperate computers - win98, win2k, win XP:
when I shut down Opera it remains open as a process, hogging CPU cycles.
the only way to completely kill it is ctrl-alt-delete, end process.
???

[Tempest]

Yes, other people have the problem. A friend of mine was bitching about it too.
I haven't heard of him finding a solution, but then again I'm not an Opera man myself...

[Chris B]

I have the same problem. The program will keep running after I close it, and it will even block other programs I try to start. So when this happens I can't start any other programs until I've killed the opera process via taskmanager.

I haven't found the exact cause. However I HAVE narrowed it down to certain websites causing this. If I have certain websites open when I close opera the process will keep running. So I just try to make sure I'm not viewing those specific sites when closing Opera.

[The PIT]

Buggy software

[UtwigMU]

Perhaps this might help you.


Seriously:
- Is there a startup option that keeps Opera in memory?
- Is it a reported bug, does it affect all versions?

[orangejulius]

Happens once a week to me with 7.23 and NT4. Don't remember seeing it happen with 7.5x betas yet.

[K6-III]

Sometimes it takes a while to exit. Sometimes it doesn't exit. I don't think the problem has been as prevelant with 7.50 preview 3, but I'll continue to check...