Opera Crash leaves me a little uneasy

[Wade Smart]

20090221 1003 GMT-5

About ten minutes ago I was on a news site. I had clicked on a link but 
nothing was happening. I waited and waiting; stopped the link and 
reloaded - nothing. Then all the tabs I had up were doing the same 
thing. I turned off the browser and restarted. First thing that popped 
up was a error box stating where to find plugins. Apparently it didnt 
know where any where. I click browse to where the plugins were. The 
browser start but lost all my pages it usually saves upon restart.

Even though I have shown it where the three locations are for plugins - 
opera, mozilla and flash non free, I cant play flash or audio files.

I have since noticed a few other problems: first, all pages load very 
slow - if at all - though they do load in FF. When it is loading a page, 
my entire system gets slow. I had the window manager open navigating to 
the location where the plugins are and it was running very very slow.

Because I have had several other problems lately this has really got me 
feeling a bit scared --- that my system has totally become unstable.

Wade

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