OperaDriver fails to start

Question

There was an update last week for Opera browser. Since then it stopped working. It opens the browser and shows 'data:,' in the URL and throws webdriver exception. Is Opera 41 compatible with selenium 2.53.1?

Exception thrown is:

Result Message: Initialization method SDTestAutomation.HomePage_Tests.Init threw exception. OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://localhost:64865/session timed out after 60 seconds. ---> System.Net.WebException: The request was aborted: The operation has timed out..
Result StackTrace:  
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.DriverServiceCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.StartSession(ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver..ctor(ICommandExecutor commandExecutor, ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Opera.OperaDriver..ctor(String operaDriverDirectory, OperaOptions options)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Opera.OperaDriver..ctor(String operaDriverDirectory)
at SmartDebitTestFramework.Drivers.Initialize(String browser)

Browser initialisation is straight forward.

driver = new OperaDriver(path of the driver);

Tried selenium 3 as well but no luck. Got the same exception.

Answer 1

After downgrading Opera to version 40, I'm able to run my test suite as before.