opera monster leaves you with no ram memory

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I am a lover of the opera but lately his excessive consumption of ram has me wrong and I would not like to change the browser I use it like 5 years ago I had never given myself that problem. Is there any help now?

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

You can try with this and this.

Also,
Open up the Opera Task Manager "Shift+Esc" and try to find who is the eater.

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[acidinmyfridge]

acidinmyfridge last edited by

do you have a lot of active extensions? if so, maybe try Nooboss

This addon allows to set rules for extensions so that they will be enabled only when you opened certain websites.

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[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by zalex108

@acidinmyfridge
As per the Screenshot it looks that just a Translation extension is installed.

@ryugamer97
If previous hints are not enough, try cleaning the browser's cache and with a Clean profile:

• F1 > Find solutions
  | And rename - not delete - the folder.

@acidinmyfridge
Weeks ago installed that extension - known from VForums - but didn't tested yet, are you happier than with SimpleExtManager?.

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[acidinmyfridge]

acidinmyfridge @zalex108 last edited by

@zalex108 Currently i am using both so i can compare them. NooBoss, like i said, offers a so called auto state function, which allows to set rules for extensions so that they will be enabled automatically only when you opened certain websites. For exactly that reason i use NooBoss since I use quite a few extensions,
SimpleExt does not have this exact option. Here i still have to enable/disable manually, whereas NooBoss does that by itself.

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[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

I'll check it.

Thanks!

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[aimzz]

aimzz @zalex108 last edited by

@zalex108
Thanks for the info on Opera Task Manager "Shift+Esc"
My PC bogs down pretty often & Windows Task Manager sometimes shows that Opera memory is high on the list, but I didn't know how to find the offending page.

More important (for me), my entire PC starts creeping along, eventually just above a freeze. Win Task Manager shows Opera using 100% Disk. It usually starts after Opera has been up for 2 hours or more.
I tried:

• Clearing Opera cache
• Uninstalling all extensions (only had one)
• Exiting/Restarting Opera
• Doing uninstall/reinstall
• Added USB thumb drive set up with ReadyBoost

The behavior started sometime last fall (2016). The only way I can free it up is to reboot the PC.

I think Windows TM %Disk field is the same as virtual memory, but haven't been able to find much info & am not sure. Haven't found a particular Opera page causing the problem. Just now looked at the Opera Task Manager. There are several fields that can be added. Which one would indicate the %Disk shown in Windows Task Manager? Any other suggestions?

[zalex108]

zalex108 @aimzz last edited by

@aimzz

Do you start Opera with many tabs opened?

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[aimzz]

aimzz @zalex108 last edited by

@zalex108
I used to but cut down to around 3-4 to see if it made a difference. It takes longer for %Disk to go up, but it eventually does. I used to have around 4 tabs pinned plus others open, but unpinned all except gmail.

I just saw that Opera TM shows gmail using a lot of memory, but hi memory use in Win TM doesn't necessarily correlate with hi %Disk. Anyway, am about to unpin gmail to see if it helps.

So I start Opera with around 4 tabs open (+/-) and while using it often have 10-15 open. Sometimes I do a lot of opening & closing. Am not sure how many tabs are too many.

I don't see it making a difference if the "Delay opening background tabs" is activated,,, had hoped it would

I don't use many other programs while using Opera-- generally Word, music, games, IrfanView...

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

Try the Clean profile steps mentioned above, also, you can try disabling the AV for a while and test if there is any difference.

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[A Former User]

A Former User @zalex108 last edited by A Former User

@aimzz
just ask 'n while opera is running Only What happens when ya minimize opera to task bar ?.. How is memory now..