Opera question 6.01: Password prompt not offered

[Joel Hammer]

I just installed 6.01 version of opera. I really am getting desperate over
netscape (slow, crashes, consumes mucho CPU time).

I have a home page with a password required for one of its links. I can
access this easily with netscape 6.2 and opera 6.0 but when I try with
opera 6.01 I get a forbidden access error without an opportunity to enter
my password. I have compared the security settings on 6.0 and 6.1, and
they seem identical. I have no trouble visiting web sites with passwords.

Any insight appreciated,
Joel