I hate Facebook and their policies with user data, which are the antithesis of privacy and user respect. I always turn off their services in the Opera side chat widget bar thing, and repeatedly I get a pop-up asking me to sign in or sign up.
I close it and delete/hide it.
It pops up again a few weeks/months later when I start opera again.
I posted a bug report about this, and mentioned it in a review. Clearly Facebook's ad/signup money is more important to Opera developers than it's users' sanity. remembering that Opera claims to have an "automatic ad-blocker" is the insult added to this injuiry.
this, coupled with other policy changes I noticed(automatically turning on some "safe" advertisers and other hidden user setting changes I catch here and there, very simply made me lose trust in Opera software, and the good intentions of its policy makers.
I just finished downloading Firefox. Good bye Opera, it's been mostly good while it lasted the past couple of years.
@cratte Mine uses a lot less. It depends on what you store there.
If you have open video or media tabs, the browser will store more data in your RAM (open streams) and possibly also in your local storage (stored media files or sections).
You can limit the amount of cookies and data that is stored if you set Opera to delete it when you exit at: 'opera://settings/cookies'
If you're storing website data on a drive with large file allocation sizes, smaller files will be bloated. I.e. each 0 b file become from 4 kb (normal drive setting) up to 2 MB+ (bad setting for browser drives).
You could try to clear browsing data and use the Advanced option under 'opera://settings/clearBrowserData' to do a more thorough data clear. Note that this will make websites forget you, so you might have to log in again. If Opera is unable to clear this data for some reason, you can manually clear it at: '%LocalAppData%\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Cache' (Windows).
@synthercat Yes! This is happening to me too! I don't have a picture showing up there for me, so I can't even tell if I'm signed out until I click the icon.