Since Opera made the switch from the Presto Engine to the Chromium source code a few years back, it has witnessed a massive rise in its popularity.
Further complementing its rise is that the browser tends to add quite a few interesting features at regular intervals. This, in turn, gives the user base a plentitude of options at their fingertips.
On the flip side, though, it does face a few occasional hiccups as well. Since it has added such a truckload of features, issues with any one of them could harm the browser as a whole.
Along the same lines, the installed extensions could also conflict with your browsing experience. Likewise, if the stored profile data or the temporary cache files get corrupted, you might have trouble accessing the browser.
Well, no doubt these issues are quite concerning, to say the least, but reset could easily rectify them all on the Opera browser.
And in this guide, we will show you how to reset the opera browser on a computer PC.
Resetting Opera on Computer
Keep in mind that resetting the browser will remove all the pinned tabs, restore the default search engine and reset the browser to its default settings. Likewise, it will also disable all the add-ons and delete cookies and cache.
Proceed with the reset option when you’ve exhausted all your other workarounds while rectifying a particular issue.
With that said, we have shared three different methods through which you could reset the Opera browser on your computer. You may try out the one that you find most comfortable to deal with.
Opera Settings menu
One of the easiest ways to reset the Opera browser settings is using the built-in reset option. We can click on the Reset settings to change to default as newly installed.
Here are the steps to reset opera browser settings to their default:
- Launch Opera browser on a computer.
- Click on the Settings
situated at the left menu bar.
- Scroll to the Advanced section, and click to expand the options.
- Scroll to the bottom Reset Settings section.
- Click on Restore settings to their original defaults option.
- Hit the button in the confirmation dialog box.
One issue that you might have with this approach is that it requires complete interaction with the browser. And since most users generally opt for this approach when their browser is not functioning along the expected lines, it might be a tough task in carrying out these steps inside the browser environment in its current state.
Reset Profile Settings
It’s the shortest and easiest approach towards resetting the browser and requires a couple of seconds to execute.
Here are the steps to reset profile settings in the Opera browser:
- Launch the Opera Browser on the computer.
- Copy-paste the Reset Profile Settings location in the address bar.
opera://settings/resetProfileSettings
- Click on the button in the confirmation pop-up.
Owing to its single click approach and minimal interaction with the browser, it is usually preferred for many users.
Manually Delete Opera Profile
As opposed to the aforementioned methods, you don’t need to communicate with the browser, even for a bit. We will be manually deleting your Opera profile and its associated cache files without even launching the browser.
Note: It will work only on the Windows PC.
Here are the steps to manually delete Opera profile data:
- Quit and exit the Opera browser.
- Keypress + shortcut to launch the File Explorer on PC.
- Copy-paste the Opera Roaming App Data location in the address bar, and hit key (make sure to change the UserName).
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
- Open the Profile folder within that directory.
- Delete all the files within the Profile directory.
- Next, go to the Opera Local App Data location (again, change the UserName accordingly).
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable
- Delete the Cache folder from that location.
While this method might call for maximum effort amongst all the three mentioned here, it is the only one that could come in handy if you aren’t able to interact with the browser even for the minuscule tasks.
Bottom Line: Reset Opera Browser
We round off the guide on how you could reset the Opera browser. We have shared three different methods for the same.
The second approach of directly copy-pasting the reset profile settings in the address bar is the easiest to carry out.
On the other hand, the third method would be the most useful one if the browser is in a non-responsive state. In the case of MacOS, you should consider re-installing the Opera browser.
On that note, we conclude this guide on resetting the Opera browser settings and profile data. If you have any queries concerning, do let us know. Would you please share if anything else has worked for you?