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    Deleting separate History entries is slow beyond any common sense.

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    • allanfelipe
      allanfelipe @SuperKoshej613 last edited by

      @superkoshej613 Haha ok, fair enough. I mean, better than nothing. But the developers could indeed take a look at some simple things that are broken, before launching these fancy stuff which I'll never use, like ai prompt or lucid mode.

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      • SuperKoshej613
        SuperKoshej613 @allanfelipe last edited by leocg

        @allanfelipe Or at least they should Read and Reply, well, Here, ya know. I've posted my own complaint about this History issue a month or two ago - and I'm yet to receive a single response that Wasn't "well, then just delete your entire History". Nope, it's Broken (their fault), not Overloaded (my fault). That's literally just dodging the actual problem. Annoys me a lot, mind you.

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        • burnout426
          burnout426 Volunteer @allanfelipe last edited by

          @allanfelipe

          I personally can't reproduce the issue so far.

          Are you using regular Opera or Opera GX or Opera Crypto or Opera Beta or Opera Developer?

          What version of that Opera as see at the URL opera://about?

          What version and build of Windows?

          Anything special about your installation? Do you have your profile on another drive besides the system drive (goto the URL opera://about and take a look at the "profile" path).

          On whatever drive it's installed on, is it an SSD or mechanical hard drive?

          What does CrystalDiskInfo say for the health of your drive the profile is on?

          Might want to check your system files for good measure.

          You can make sure the file system on your drive is not corrupted. See the "How to Run CHKDSK With the Right Flags" section at https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/stuck-chkdsk-use-fix-right-way/.

          Make sure you can reproduce the issue in a test standalone installation too.

          Maybe some of the info can help narrow things down why Opera is being slow at deleting history for some users.

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          • allanfelipe
            allanfelipe @burnout426 last edited by

            @burnout426 Hi, these are some information I can give right now. It's regular opera running on Windows 10 Home and this is the about:

            Version:99.0.4788.13
            Opera is up to date
            Update stream:Stable
            System:Windows 10 64-bit
            Chromium version:113.0.5672.127

            There's just one 2Tb drive (mechanical).

            Anyway, I don't have this kind of problem with other browsers (I have Firefox and Edge installed, but I prefer Opera).

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            • fobofobik
              fobofobik last edited by

              i have a problem quite similar to this. when i try to delete an entry, whole history window becomes unresponsive. it locks itself, the whole history entry disappears even. it's really annoying and forces me to switch browser when i don't want to.

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              • burnout426
                burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                There's a performance fix for deleting history that came out in Opera Developer 100.0.4796.0. Please test in the latest Opera Developer (100.0.4801.0 at the moment) to see if this issue is fixed too or not.

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                • fobofobik
                  fobofobik last edited by

                  Hello @burnout426, the latest version of Opera Dev. browser is working perfectly fine. I can delete single history entries both from mini history pop-up and history window. However, i got used to some of GX features such as keybord and tab sounds. Do i get to unlock similar sounds with Opera Dev. browser?

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @fobofobik last edited by

                    @fobofobik Opera Developer doesn't have it.

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                    • immamangoman
                      immamangoman last edited by

                      Your version isLVL 4 (core: 98.0.4759.82)
                      opera GX still having this issue

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                      • adyendre
                        adyendre @immamangoman last edited by

                        @immamangoman Yeah still an issue, any updates? It is really annoying, I have a 12MB history file.

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                        • dedar
                          dedar last edited by

                          Had same issue on mac os and windows...
                          firt I installed the actual version and than I used:
                          actualisation & restore... with keping my data...
                          it solve the problem for now...

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                          • dedar
                            dedar last edited by

                            Had same issue on mac os and windows...
                            firt I installed the actual version and than I used:
                            actualisation & restore... with keping my data...
                            it solve the problem for now...
                            but first, sync what's important because this action deleted my bookmarks and all opened tabs...
                            history was untouched and extensions also

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                            • beacon07
                              beacon07 @burnout426 last edited by

                              @burnout426 Slow deletion of history on opera has been an issue for a while now.

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                              • siraniks
                                siraniks last edited by

                                It is also my problem too ... history takes time to load and deleting one entry takes 3 seconds to load before it updates ...

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                                • emir0723
                                  emir0723 last edited by

                                  My version is 100.0.4815.54 and I'm having the same problem for a while. Deleting entries is extremly hard and besides that history tab is problematic as while. Multiple times I come up to a empty page when I open the history page.

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                                  • SuperKoshej613
                                    SuperKoshej613 @SuperKoshej613 last edited by leocg

                                    @superkoshej613
                                    Still persists. Even the most newest update still "silently nudges" me to clean my History at least weekly, or the OP problem comes back. How about you actually fix the stupid coding that causes the number of entries to be a problem to begin with? Because if it was just a text file, I'm pretty sure there would NOT be ANY delays or problems. So who needs this dumb encoding anyways? I sure don't.

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                                    • allanfelipe
                                      allanfelipe last edited by

                                      I use Opera for a long time and always recommended it, but unfortunately these "small" things, like the delay when deleting history entries, impossibility to disable the mute button in tabs, the existence of a border, crashes where I lost all my open tabs ... are pushing me towards Vivaldi.

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                                      • immamangoman
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                                        • Mrmilesmano
                                          Mrmilesmano last edited by

                                          Deleting one single entry seems to last more than 5 seconds and only have a month of entries. I also have has to crash the Opera.exe program several times for eating up all of my RAM. If these bugs are not fixed, I'm bailing out for a different browser. It is irritating that Opera thinks so poorly of its users.

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                                          • SuperKoshej613
                                            SuperKoshej613 @Mrmilesmano last edited by

                                            @mrmilesmano
                                            Note: This is the Opera Forum... So, yeah. Nice, nice.
                                            Good question: Why am I still using it? I mean, nostalgia and esthetic conditioning, yes, but why really?

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