The Opera GX is slow topic

[wallyvianna]

wallyvianna last edited by leocg

Opera GX auto update is turning the browser lauching very, very, very slow.

I read some help in internet about this problem (and others derivated) and I like to suggest some solutions to agilize the problem-solving.

You can add options in Opera as

(a) at installing, do not load Opera Gx when the installation is finished (or give the option to load browser at install finish, but alert of the risk/peril about auto-updates)

or

(b) by default, do not update Opera Gx, but give to user a option to allow/disallow Manuals or Automatics updates
(c) offer links to download updates and make manual updates
(d) revert updates done, one by one (as a time-machine).I

I spent Much time to discover that the auto update was slowlinbg my Opera GX.

In my oppinion some changes - as that - would be retroactive, to older versions…

[player0923]

player0923 last edited by

i use to have oprea gx but my old laptop finnaly broke down and had to get a new one my dad set it up wiht google and i didnt have a computer so i was using google untill one day i saw an add and remmemberred it i decided to download it so that i could listen to songs and play games and all at higher frames but my laptop started dieing after i opened 1 tab and i uninstalled it thingkin it was a virus but i redlonloaded it again from an old link and updated it it was still lagging so i just uninstalled it and went back to google
i have a i7-6600U with 16 gb ddr4-2113 ram and am using the intergrated graphics

[aspol15]

aspol15 last edited by

Hello, after several attempts to get Opera GX working as intended I couldn't resolve this problem, since a few weeks ago it turned to be slower than anything else. Im talking about 20-25 segonds just to opening Opera, and for every download takes 20-30 seconds also to pop up the windows save file screen (also the download speed is about 100 kb...), even sometimes the screen freezes if i have to open something like Opera settings bar. This problem doesn't show up on secure mode with wifi access or any other browser, my steps to try to solve this were the following.

-Check that VPN, Adblock, Hardware acceleration and Energy saving options are disabled.

-Unistalled and reinstalled 5 times Opera GX cleaning the files on AppData, remaining registry keys and Program files folders.

-Started Opera GX without markers or extensions and with default configuration (Same problems, no speed increase noticed)

-Download from the same domains between Opera gx and Chrome (no delays noticed at chrome downloading the same file), also checked the wifi connection that im using with ethernet cable.

-Updated Opera GX to the latest version.

-Go to Opera flags and enable "Parallel downloading" (this one was just weird, at first it worked flawlessly, and i could download files in less of 1 second, but after reboot Opera went back to slow navigation and download).

-Check the background process running (Shift+esc), didn't find any clues about it.

-Tried to use GX Control for Network, Cpu, Ram limiter. no impact in any sense, no matter in changing the parameters.

-Scanning my own device using BitDefender, MalwareBytes and Adwcleaner, no malicious threats were found that could affect Opera browsing.

So in resume Opera works good in secure mode but out of it, its impossible to use and I'm forced to change browser to get normal navigation. I would really apreciatte any suggestions to solve this problem, I don't want to leave using Opera but its getting really annoying.

My sytem:

GPU: AMD 6600x
CPU: AMD Rysen 5 2600 3,4Ghz
Motherboard: Asus Prime X470Pro
Ram: Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3200 16GB
SSD: Crucial MX500 SSD 1TB SATA
OS: Windows 10

[orpheusrevox]

orpheusrevox last edited by leocg

!Resolved! In the history, I cleared everything except passwords and autocomplete. It is necessary to clear not in 24 hours, but for "all the time".
Before cleaning, the opera started quickly, but it was necessary to wait 10-15 seconds until the express panel appeared. After cleaning, the panel appears immediately.

[Stornz]

Stornz @mewssyz last edited by

@mewssyz said in The Opera GX is slow topic:

I was having issues with speed and this fixed it for me.

Turned off vpn, hardware acc and battery saving mode.

Ryzen 5 5600X | Radeon RX 6700X | 16GB 3200MHz RAM

This 100% Worked, the hardware acc i think is also one of the big reasons, thx so much

[Neon4435]

Neon4435 @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse
Running as Administrator allows the app to have full access to your computer.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @Neon4435 last edited by

@neon4435 Among other issues. Opera doesn't allow external sites access to your filesystem (unlike, say, Chrome) so that isn't as big an issue as you might think. But running as Administrator even once sets every file modified by the browser as requiring Administrator access, meaning you'd have to delete your profile before you can run it again in normal mode. When you've seen what a mess it is to clean up you know no one should ever do it, no matter how safe the sites they might visit while doing so.

[IAmCire]

IAmCire last edited by

Same, Opera on my pc takes forever to load and when i type something, it takes like 20 minutes to appear on the screen. I tried everything done in this post, but it is still slow.
My PC parts are
CPU:Intel Core i9-13900KS
GPU:Nvidia RTX 4090
RAM:Corsair Dominance DDR5 64 GB
Storage:Samsung 990 EVO
MB:Aorus 790 Elite
Do anyone know how to fix this?

[AshS77]

AshS77 last edited by

I've been having issues with GX being really sluggish these past few months. It got really worse this past month and I tried everything from reinstalling to clearing the cache. Then last night, being fed up, and nearly switching over to Firefox, I decided to clean out my bookmarks. I found that I had some duplicate ones and read that those could potentially cause browser issues due to corrupt data. So I went ahead and annihilated about 70% of the bookmarks I had saved, and lo and behold, it sorted out my issue.

[TNTPIG]

TNTPIG last edited by

It takes several minutes to open any website, including YouTube or discord. It is like that for all websites. Are there any settings or extensions that speed up the performance. It is almost unusable.

[A Former User]

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[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Irritating indeed, YouTube takes 30 seconds to give me a proper screen, what's the problem? I use W11 (of course) I ditched 50% of my bookmarks, but that wasn'ti, what is it, do we need a new version?

[Witzo]

Witzo last edited by

Same for me. I found some suggestions to turn on/off Speed loading, and found opera://flags/#use-angle and turned on and off and changed several settings about Angle and for rendering. But all result in the same: pages load very slow, up to minutes.

I'm on an AMD CPU and AMD GPU. Are there optimal render setting for that combination?

Also, before a few months ago Opera was quite fast. So it may have started with an update in the past six months or so.

[CriSpyM0nkeY]

CriSpyM0nkeY last edited by

Slow and laggy, terrible update.

[OnlySrat]

OnlySrat last edited by

Anyone else think Opera GX is very slow and sluggish? I can't watch a movies or videos without it having to buffer everything. I've had no issues with this on Chrome (yes much bigger company), but Opera claims to be more gamers (who watch videos) and can't control speeds of things. But i have no limiter on anything and everything is so slow.

[FelineX]

FelineX last edited by

I just installed Opera GX. literally not even 10 minutes ago.

I added in my bookmarks and such and checked out the settings. But then I noticed that it was incredibly slow, and my YouTube video was lagging and cutting.

Is this an issue with this browser? Or did I turn on a setting that makes it slow? I'm thinking of moving back to Google already.

[Nitropl]

Nitropl last edited by

I found a fix for this that worked for me.

1. Go to opera://update
   2.Go down to 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 and click 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀.
2. Restart your browser and everything should be fine.
   This is the only method that had worked for me.

[FelineX]

FelineX @FelineX last edited by

@felinex I found a fix for my issue.

For some reason my image and video enhance was turned on. I turned that off and it works perfectly fine now

[Nogozzeki]

Nogozzeki @mewssyz last edited by

@mewssyz Thank you a lot dude, my opera gx was really f*ed up when i used youtube. Turning hardware acc off solved the problem that had been haunting me for weeks, thank you again.

[The-Draco-Original]

The-Draco-Original last edited by

Well, I have the same Problem, Opera GX is extremely slow, Buffering Videos on YouTube etc takes hours. No there is definitely enough RAM and other resources on my PC available (32GB RAM, i7-11700K CPU and extremely good net speeds) also I already turned off VPN, Hardware ACC and some other things that could influence it, but still it takes more time than any other Browser I ever used.
So what else could be Reason for this slowdown, what else can I do to fix this Problem that shouldn't even exist in a "Gaming Browser"?