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    • travvel
      travvel last edited by

      I recently noticed my Opera GX being slow as hell. It started happening a week ago, I thought it was my wifi or something, but it might be the new update. But again I haven't received an update before this started happening. So I don't know what to do at this moment.

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      • fidoulou
        fidoulou @Hydrolics123 last edited by

        @Hydrolics123 thanks you so much you made my day i'm looking for so long why opera gx was so slow disable the ad block solve my problem, agian thanks you so much 😋

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        • Xozzz
          Xozzz @alhaan313 last edited by

          @alhaan313 Try clearing the cache from your settings i had the same problem just like 2-3 mins ago and as soon as i cleared my cache it started running smoothly. (try if it works it worked for me tho)

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          • JBF3
            JBF3 @carbo0 last edited by

            @carbo0
            Yeah, I have been having the same issue, ever since the new update. I have done the normal troubleshooting. I am certain it is not something we can fix it is something they broke in the update that needs to be fixed.

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            • JBF3
              JBF3 @leocg last edited by

              @leocg
              Nothing normal about the browser taking 3 min to load a single page.

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              • AlphaStigma07
                AlphaStigma07 last edited by

                as of 4/9/2025 opra gx is still slow no matter what u do and now for no reason at all if i try to get on twitch is saids that is does not support this browser and i look up what they support and they do support this browser please fix this im about to got back to edge.

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                • simplyholly
                  simplyholly last edited by

                  Most pages are running fine, but youtube is extremely slow. This just started for me maybe a month ago (April 2025). Anyone have any idea how to fix?

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                  • Levael
                    Levael @simplyholly last edited by

                    @simplyholly said in The Opera GX is slow topic:

                    Most pages are running fine, but youtube is extremely slow. This just started for me maybe a month ago (April 2025). Anyone have any idea how to fix?

                    Same, more that month now, literally unusable after a few hours, so laggy

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                    • rastanz
                      rastanz last edited by

                      Yup, I just joined the "Opera GX is slow" group.

                      Recent updates, Opera now takes too long to start, there's a heavy delay when opening graphics heavy pages, experiencing sluggish playback of Youtube videos 1440p and up.

                      What I tried:
                      ✔ Disable all extensions 👎🏽 Shouldn't need to...
                      ✔ Disable the ad-blocker 👎🏽 Shouldn't have to...
                      ✔ Disable Speed Dial 👎🏽 Shouldn't ask to...
                      ✔ Reset settings to default 👎🏽 Recommended action by Moderators... Doesn't always work...
                      ✔ Reset flags to default 👎🏽 Undo all customizations...
                      ✔ Create a clean profile folder/directory 👎🏽 Pretty much a reset/refresh...
                      ✔ Adjust system settings 👎🏽 Shouldn't need to just for a browser to work...
                      ✔ Uninstall Reinstall with Revo 👎🏽 Clean install... No change of behavior...
                      ✔ Custom GPU profile created for Opera GX via NVIDIA Control Panel👎🏽 Dedicating GPU resources doesn't change a thing with Opera GX's sluggish performance...
                      ✔ Given up 👍🏽 Pretty much getting there!

                      Since the last 3 updates Opera's been fucked to use, forces itself to update whether or not you disable the damn thing so it's a complete waste of time and effort customizing the browser to your personal taste when the update goes and resets it all.

                      Installed other browsers to do a speed and stability comparison test and where Opera GX was once ahead of the rest, it now fails miserably.

                      Fast =👍🏽 Slow = 👎🏽 Could Do Better = 👌🏽

                      ✔ Browser loading speed test:
                      Opera GX 👎🏽- Mozilla Firefox 👍🏽- Edge 👍🏽- Vivaldi 👌🏽- Chrome 👌🏽
                      There's now a 5-8sec delay when loading up Opera GX's home page (set to google search with no speed dial tiles loaded).

                      ✔ Ad-blocker test:
                      Opera GX 👎🏽- Mozilla Firefox 👍🏽- Edge 👍🏽- Vivaldi 👌🏽- Chrome 👍🏽
                      Upon every new update there are random intrusive adverts popping up on my start page where there once wasn't any.

                      ✔ UI customization:
                      Opera GX 👌🏽- Mozilla Firefox 👍🏽- Edge 👌🏽- Vivaldi 👍🏽- Chrome 👎🏽
                      Opera has discarded all custom settings from earlier builds now limiting users to lackluster and restrictive UI templates.

                      ✔ Youtube playback:
                      Opera GX 👌🏽- Mozilla Firefox 👍🏽- Edge 👍🏽- Vivaldi 👍🏽- Chrome 👍🏽
                      Enhancement now does more harm than good for both video and image media, creating over sharpening that makes videos playback sluggishly and adds a ridiculous overlay of fuzziness to images.

                      ✔ Extensions behavior after browser updates:
                      Opera GX 👎🏽- Mozilla Firefox 👍🏽- Edge 👌🏽- Vivaldi 👍🏽- Chrome 👍🏽
                      There are conflicts with browser extensions that will simply no longer work after updating.

                      ✔ Resource hog after latest browser updates:
                      Opera GX 👎🏽- Mozilla Firefox 👍🏽- Edge 👍🏽- Vivaldi 👍🏽- Chrome 👍🏽
                      Opera has become a resource hog, simply by starting the browser, my system resources hit the roof for a brief amount of time.

                      I clean installed an older version of Opera GX which worked flawlessly, never experienced or had issues of any of the mentioned above, it just worked, however, it all went back to shit once it updated.

                      I've more or less accumulated most of the issues users are having in one post.

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                      • Levael
                        Levael @rastanz last edited by

                        @rastanz So true 😞 Well, Vivaldi, nice to meet you!

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