Opera Latest Version Memory Leak.
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teenideek last edited by
I have been using opera for years and this is the first time this happened,right now its using 8gb with 15 tabs and every tab is using around 500mb,i can restart it and it starts normal and keeps slowly going up until it reaches 14gb!!i closed all suspect tabs and nothing happened,even with just youtube it happens,i disabled all extensions.
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A Former User last edited by
Hi guys and gals,
Um... what is Discord??? I have been having the same issues as the OP! I took some screenshots, both with and without 'Use Hardware Acceleration' See attachments!
As can be seen, the GPU Process uses a lot of RAM, and despite what I have read about multiple processes stopping browsers from crashing/freezing, that is NOT the case for me, Opera crashes/freezes many times a day, nearly everytime I go to either Caesars via Facebook or the Playtika site (pictured in screenshots)! This has only happened since I bought HP HP Pavilion Desktop 590-p0xxx, 3.50 gigahertz AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics, Windows 10 Home (x64) Version 1809 (build 17763.914), Opera Browser Version:65.0.3467.78. Any real help with fixing this drastic memory leak will be greatly appreciated 
P.S. I am a long user of Opera browser and never had it crashing/freezing before! -
blackbird71 last edited by@chris1970au said in Opera Latest Version Memory Leak.:
Hi guys and gals,
Um... what is Discord???
Discord is a voice(VOIP)/text/video chatting program that can exist as a downloaded program for computers as well as existing as a web-based and mobile app. It has been known to sometimes be involved with memory leak problems when co-installed with chromium browsers. Normally, unless you intentionally installed it, it shouldn't be present on your system.
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A Former User last edited by leocg
@blackbird71
Thank you Blackbird71, I just did a search of my PC for Discord, nothing found, so it is not the cause of my Opera crashing/freezing issue! I wonder what IS the problem??? -
blackbird71 last edited by
@chris1970au said in Opera Latest Version Memory Leak.:
... I just did a search of my PC for Discord, nothing found, so it is not the cause of my Opera crashing/freezing issue! I wonder what IS the problem???
I'm not sure. But for comparison, on my system when using either Opera or chromium-based Vivaldi at that website, the GPU process consumes only between 350,000 and 400,000 KB memory. This system has graphics acceleration enabled, but has an Intel internal graphics processor chip.
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A Former User last edited by
@blackbird71
The Radeon Vega 8 2GB Graphics is integrated. I had a 1GB nVidia pci in my old pc, and it was doing it's job! I'm no gamer, so I don't need heaps of gpu ram or whatever it's called, lol.
All I want is for Opera to not crash/freeze all the time, ie, work like it used to! -
A Former User last edited by
@chris1970au
Hi All, it seems that I may have fixed the memory leak issue! And it was so simple, all I did was block Flash for all sites! I did this earlier today and so far so good, and with 'Hardware Acceleration' ON! Yippee
I will let you all know if/when it starts crashing/freezing again. And no, I haven't checked either Task Managers, yet! Bye and thanks -
A Former User last edited by
@chris1970au
I spoke too soon, had to turn Hardware Acceleration OFF, as my Opera browser froze last night!
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
Iv noticed im getting this issue as well (Latest update as always), i was browsing through deviantart then opera gave an error saying its out of memory, if i remove all extensions it makes little to no difference, in windows taskmanager its using a crazy amount of ram
I dont use discord so its not that, something is definitely wrong with opera as of late
Was only 2 days ago i did a clean os install as its now on a m.2 nvme drive -
blackbird71 last edited by blackbird71
@john30011887 Is/was your Opera installation set to have its graphics hardware acceleration turned on (and enabled within your system)? Deviantart is a graphics-rich environment and there may be some kind of relationship per the @chris1970au post right above yours. Note: this is a troubleshooting question, not necessarily a forever "fix".
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A Former User last edited by
Yeah i always make sure iv got that setting on (which it is atm)
I notice theres more processes in taskmanager too used to be under 10 but now its around 17
I haven't even added anymore extensions than what i always have which is 4
My specs if needed (rtx2080, 16gb ram, 8700k) latest windows 10 pro, latest drivers as alwaysI never had this with older versions but i dont know when this issue started but i know it is recent
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A Former User last edited by
@john30011887 ya might check burnout post
burnout426 11 days ago
Opera's battery saver feature is known to cause low memory/out of memory issues. Make sure it's turned off.peeps with lottsa of tabs open (not say 'n you john) could try this new flag called - Calculate window occlusion on Windows - enable it..
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blackbird71 last edited by
@john30011887 In my Opera version (66.0.3515.27 with no optional extensions), there are 11 processes running in Windows Task Manager and 10 running in Opera's Task Manager (the difference being Opera crash-reporter being also shown in the Windows TM). If you have 4 optional extensions installed, I would expect you to only have 14 (or 15) processes running in a TM. Regardless, the relevant question is which named Opera process is causing the RAM explosion when it occurs.
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A Former User last edited by
I don't understand is this a recognised issue by Opera people or not?
I think new version handles memory more poorly, but it is not catastrophic.
I have about 10 windows open usually, Windows 8.1 -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
The built-in sidebar extensions like Whatsapp and Facebook etc. will create processes too if they're set up and enabled.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
For me battery saver is always off, also never used any of those built-in sidebar extensions
As i said i used to have under 10 processes even with my own 4 extensions so Opera is adding more and causing memory to go wildLol i just looked at taskmanager and for now its normal again, i haven't changed or touched anything and i even have twitch open right now and my usual 4 extensions being used, this makes no sense
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blackbird71 last edited by
@john30011887 said in Opera Latest Version Memory Leak.:
... Lol i just looked at taskmanager and for now its normal again, i haven't changed or touched anything and i even have twitch open right now and my usual 4 extensions being used, this makes no sense ...
Welcome to the wonderful world of troubleshooting! If the memory issue does seem to recur in the future, see if you can capture Opera's Task Manager listing (Shift+Esc) while things are still misbehaving. It gives a better process description for each running browser process than does Windows Task Manager.
