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    • kroppy
      kroppy last edited by

      So how do we start opera without tabs being loaded in the background? With around 50 tabs all my RAM is eaten in few minutes and my internet traffic is wasted. Strange thing is that on one pc tabs don't load, and on another they slowly load one by one. And it pisses me off that on pc with 4GB of ram tabs load and on one with 32GB don't. How do I stop that behavior?

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        So how do we start opera without tabs being loaded in the background?

        You close them before closing Opera. 馃檪

        How do I stop that behavior?

        Suggestions Box is not a place to make questions.

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        • kroppy
          kroppy last edited by

          You close them before closing Opera. 馃檪

          No, simply no. Session is for a reason, which is to continue where you left off.
          I don't see a point in loading tabs before activating them.
          Where did Opera's policy go?
          I mean what about traffic savings?
          What about Opera Turbo, which is now gone from menu and is available only from options page?
          I pay for each GB of traffic, so my suggestion is to give #extended-lazy-session-loading option back, or even put that functionality to options page as "Don't load tabs until selected".
          Otherwise I'm forced to use another browser on my laptop. And I'm sure it's not only me.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            It was an experiment, there used to be a flag to enable 'delay loading of background tabs' option in settings. When the feature was considered stable enough, they removed the flag.

            It was a very long experiment then. Too bad the Chinese developers have decided to end it.

            No, simply no. Session is for a reason, which is to continue where you left off.
            I don't see a point in loading tabs before activating them.
            Where did Opera's policy go?
            I mean what about traffic savings?
            What about Opera Turbo, which is now gone from menu and is available only from options page?
            I pay for each GB of traffic, so my suggestion is to give #extended-lazy-session-loading option back, or even put that functionality to options page as "Don't load tabs until selected".
            Otherwise I'm forced to use another browser on my laptop. And I'm sure it's not only me.

            That is so true.

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            • meminik
              meminik last edited by

              very disappointing

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Truly, I believe that we could influence Opera devs to bring it back.

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                • jackwhite9999
                  jackwhite9999 last edited by

                  I'm confused. Some say disabling #extended-lazy-session-loading makes the background tabs stay unloaded, but on mine, disabling it makes all the tabs load.
                  With it enabled (default), they still all seem to load, but are delayed until the selected tab finishes loading.

                  Is there no way to have all non-selected tabs never load unless selected? Having this feature makes complete sense. Why is this even an issue?

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                  • jackwhite9999
                    jackwhite9999 last edited by

                    Is there no way to have all non-selected tabs never load unless selected?

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      +1
                      I would really like to have this option.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        @leocg said in Keep #extended-lazy-session-loading flag:

                        Well, the thing is this particular option used to be not an experiment but an actual setting already.

                        It was an experiment, there used to be a flag to enable 'delay loading of background tabs' option in settings. When the feature was considered stable enough, they removed the flag.

                        You must be talking about #lazy-session-loading-default-enabled which wasn't added until version 41 when #extended-lazy-session-loading was also changed to enabled by default (was disabled in versions before), the "Delay loading..." setting however was added way before this in version 23 (implementing the #lazy-session-loading experiment in versions before) whose normal behaviour (ie: #extended-lazy-session-loading disabled) was to only load tabs when they were made active. So this desired option to only load active tabs was an actual setting through versions 23 to 45 and was the default behaviour up until 41 where the extended experiment was enabled by default, they then removed this option in version 46 when they implemented the extended experiment replacing it as the normal (and only) behaviour for delay loading.

                        The removal of the option makes zero sense, it would have been so damn simple to add an extra option to enable/disable the extended delayed loading but instead they dumb it down.

                        @jackwhite9999 said in Keep #extended-lazy-session-loading flag:

                        Is there no way to have all non-selected tabs never load unless selected?

                        Not in since version since 46, you would have to go back to version 45 to get the option back and nuking the auto-update file to stay there (stupid there's no built-in option to disable auto-updating that any decent software should have but that's another issue for another time).

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                        • zalex108
                          zalex108 last edited by zalex108

                          @sevic said in Keep #extended-lazy-session-loading flag:

                          you would have to go back to version 45 to get the option back and nuking the auto-update file to stay there (stupid there's no built-in option to disable auto-updating that any decent software should have but that's another issue for another time)

                          Or you can switch off the network before open Opera, then it will load as the flag enabled behaviour, - tedious but effective -.


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                          • sunsey
                            sunsey last edited by sunsey

                            Hate this "super improvements". For whom do you make them? What's the sense of removing this useful option. It ruins all the process of browsing. Why or why. Why to low the user experience to the level of housewives? Is it really your audience now? I could accept it if it was new feature request but ruining the thing which had been working perfectly for decades of version. Just insanity.

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User @sunsey last edited by

                              @sunsey because devs of old opera leaved the project?
                              I still want to see that flag bringed back. Since old times I have a habit to keep many tabs opened in Opera, up to 400 (usually 40-50), and thus not loading all tabs is vital. If I need, I will click on tab and it will load on demand. But it is gone, and for now I forced to install third-party extensions for functions that usually was integral part of Opera.

                              I still considering whether or not I will stay because 2000+ bookmarks and passwords is hard to transfer outside, especially with poor bookmarks editor.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                No idea about the passwords, but transferring bookmarks is easy. Just export as HTML, then import into another browser. Opera now has the ability to save bookmarks built in.

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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                                  You can export both your bookmarks and passwords.

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                                  • zalex108
                                    zalex108 @Guest last edited by

                                    @alexdc

                                    WorkAround.


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                                    • andkirby
                                      andkirby @zalex108 last edited by

                                      @zalex108 Thanks man!
                                      Opera is gonna become a stupid browser like FF which required tons of extensions to become usable?..

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                                      • leocg
                                        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                        This gone too off topic, so closing it

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