Opera completely freezes itself and a windows 7

[DCscotland]

DCscotland last edited by

LindenColl, do you use the uBlock Origin extension ?

I was having similar problems a few weeks ago with Opera freezing after around 10 minutes of inactivity. I couldn't identify the cause.

But when an unrelated problem developed which I could pinpoint to uBlock Origin, I reinstalled that extension and I have not had the freezing issue since.

[LindenColl]

LindenColl @DCscotland last edited by LindenColl

Thanks, but it freezes with or without ublock.

Looks like it could be a sleep issue after all - tab snooze!

I dsabled this option, browsed for a while, left three tabs open, then took a long break for a meal and this time no freeze upon resumption.

For a moment it looked like it was going to hang as a menu took a tad too long to close, but then all fine.

I'll see how it goes.

[LindenColl]

LindenColl @LindenColl last edited by

No go - it froze everything again after the next break.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @LindenColl last edited by leocg

@lindencoll The option to disable tab snoozing seems to not be working.

For now try going to opera://discards and un-check the option for auto discardable for the tabs.

[LindenColl]

LindenColl @leocg last edited by

Thanks.

I see an auto-discardable option, so unchecked that.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @LindenColl last edited by

@lindencoll Thanks, fixed the previous reply.

[LindenColl]

LindenColl @leocg last edited by LindenColl

Sadly, it didn't work - everything still freezes.

I notice it says chrome://discards/, in fact the chrome:// prefix can be substituted for opera - chrome://flags etc

Looking like I'll have to enable retain tabs and remember to shut down before taking any breaks.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @LindenColl last edited by

@lindencoll So maybe the problem wasn't with tab snoozing.

[LindenColl]

LindenColl @leocg last edited by LindenColl

@leocg
A logical conclusion,

EspeciaIly as I just checked Chromium Ungoogled discards which has auto tab discarding enabled and doesn't freeze.

Opera is lighter and faster on my system though, hence my looking for options to rectify this freezing.

[LindenColl]

LindenColl @LindenColl last edited by LindenColl

But, one last try in this vein (which could also be useful in other ways)

I decided to check up on Chrome instead of Opera.

"The new solution to current tabs freezing during idle or sleep is to change the Chrome flag for occlusion from Default to Disabled. Hopefully that helps anyone else having this issue."

Opera has the same flag.

[LindenColl]

LindenColl @LindenColl last edited by

Only solution thus far is to remember to close Opera when I take a break from the pc, or brave the garish darkness of GX.

Mouse movers don't prevent the big freeze.

[LindenColl]

LindenColl @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse said in Opera completely freezes itself and a windows 7:

@lindencoll Sounds like the computer may be trying to go to sleep, but something is preventing it from doing so properly.

Finally sussed it.

I got fed up and after disabling both sleep and hibernation it doesn't freeze itself or the system.

Not too clever a solution tho'.