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downloads from opera not working. tested ports they are ok. what next.
1)First of all try clearing your cache and cookies...Do this by clicking on Tools -> delete private data -> details. Over here select to delete the cookies and cache and hit delete. Another way of deleting cache is by tools -> preferences -> advanced -> history. Over here on the right pane, click 'empty now' button against disk cache and hit OK. Now check to see if the downloads are working.

2)Check again in your firewall config if the ports aren't blocked. i know you say you checked..but try again...maybe something is blocking the ports.

3)you've been downloading torrents for a long time so you should know that some sites block opera's built in torrent feature. Check if you're able to download torrent files on another site.

4)In the address bar type 'opera:config' (wtihout quotes) . Here click bittorrent. Now make sure enabled is selected. When enabled is checked, that means the built in torrent within opera is used. Also click Toopera downloadsols -> Preferences -> Advanced -> downloads . Here untick 'hide files opened with opera' and in the search field type in bittorrent. Now select the entry application/x-bittorent and click edit. here make sure open with opera is checked.

5) If the above point is true and still torrents with opera wouldn't work, then don't use Opera's torrent client. Use a standalone one. For this uncheck 'enabled' by going to opera:config as described in 4th point, and hit 'save'. Alternatively, click edit on the entry application/x-bittorent and choose open with default application or open with another application and select the path for it.

6) If all this fails, then reinstall opera. While uninstalling, also remove the settings files. See this article . Needless to say export bookmarks and backup some files(if you need them) before uninstalling. The article to backup opera files is here

Goodluck
Great! It worked for me. Thanks very much!

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Probably a browser problopera downloadsem. If you're using the Opera browser then there really should be no problem. If not and you are trying to download the Opera browser itself then any browser should be fine. I've used Avant Browser, Internet Explorer and Firefox to go to the Opera site and download the browser. If you can't download the browser then more than likely you have a browser problem. In a lot of cases downloading from Opera.com runs in the background in some browsers and sometimes in plain view in others. Check the mirror sites and see if they are compatable with the browser you're using as Opera has a list of download sites that automatically check for compatability with web browsers. You can forget about using Netscape to download from Opera. It doesn't work.
What are you downloading?
If its torrents, then they may not always start (but you should know that by now).
They are just regular downloads?