Opera just got faster, so you can start the year with extra speed!

[Opera Comments Bot]

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Happy new year, friends!  For those who celebrated and had a bit of a break during the Christmas and New Year holidays, hope you enjoyed your time off! But even if you didn’t, it’s time to get ready for the new year. And to let you hit the ground running, we’ve gone under the hood […]

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[kened]

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[tastodd]

tastodd last edited by

Thanks to the Opera team for developing the browser! I wish you success in its further development.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Here are the latest builds for each Opera at this moment:

Opera (94.0.4606.54).

Opera GX (93.0.4585.84).

Opera Crypto (94.0.4606.43).

Opera Beta (94.0.4606.19).

Opera Developer (96.0.4653.0).

For clarity, which ones have these recent improvements?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Opera just got faster, so you can start the year with extra speed!:

Opera Beta (94.0.4606.19).

95.0.4635.10

[lancealot]

lancealot last edited by

Now we just need the memory saver (https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-chrome-features-to-save-battery-and-make-browsing-smoother/) that Chrome will be introducing to be integrated into Opera so it is optimized for memory use also.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

How can we disable unwanted default extensions (visible in Task Manager window) permanently - Rich Hints Agent, Opera Touch Background, Background Worker? And what is the side effect if we terminate them?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@nimeshthakkar You can't, and if you could, it'd break Opera's features, where you might as well just download and use plain Chromium.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426: We can disable them from opera's task manager and does not seem to affect anything except getting ~100mb of more memory for other apps, hence asked if they can be permanently disabled. Opera is my primary browser from 2 decades so don't wish to switch to anything else.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@nimeshthakkar said in Opera just got faster, so you can start the year with extra speed!:

We can disable them from opera's task manager and does not seem to affect

Most of them will just restart themselves, but killing them affects the features they provide. Killing the Background Worker multiple times can break speed dial too for example.

hence asked if they can be permanently disabled.

I don't make the decisions, but in my opinion, this absolutely will not happen.

[avmon]

avmon last edited by

Faster, except the Speed Dial loading. This has been reported several times in the forum and with Opera 94 it remains the same. Some people say that clearing the history solves it but I don't understand why that affects the loading time of the Speed Dial.

[MaiMaiPls]

MaiMaiPls @avmon last edited by

@avmon: yep, it's bizarre and annoying.