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    Opera 34.0.2036.25 is very slow to start and also to open a new Tab

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    • daniel-operas
      daniel-operas last edited by

      Other browsers like Firefox 43 64-bit and Chrome 47.0.2526.106 m (64-bit) do not have these problems.

      Note: Once a new Tab becomes active (after waiting for a while) and at this point it is then possible to enter a web address in the address box, the web page then loads quickly.

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      • jessehager
        jessehager last edited by

        I have the same problem. Do you have many fonts installed? I have 232 fonts listed in Windows composed of about 831 font files (About 602 megabytes total).

        Analysis

        I checked the startup of the opera.exe subprocesses using Sysinternals Process Monitor and it looks like every time a new opera.exe process starts it is spending 60 seconds digging around in C:\Windows\Fonts loading in every font file. Stack trace shows the Windows "DirectWrite" system may be involved. Since I had to disable that in Chrome for unrelated reasons (all international characters render as squares) I thought I would try disabling it in Opera. When I disabled "DirectWrite" it dramatically sped up Opera's load times and it seems more responsive as well.

        Workaround

        (This worked for me, but I give no guarantees)

        Open this url:

        opera://flags/?search=Disable%20DirectWrite
        

        And click the "Enable" button (this will actually disable DirectWrite even though it says enable)

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        • daniel-operas
          daniel-operas last edited by

          I have 728 font files. I applied the workaround that you suggested without any speed improvement to Opera.

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          • daniel-operas
            daniel-operas last edited by

            Because of this delay problem in Opera, I have had to remove Opera as my default browser in favor of Firefox 43 64-bit.

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            • massimo77mr
              massimo77mr last edited by

              I fully agree with you, you should install firefox now because opera is no more opera but it's one disgusting.

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              • massimo77mr
                massimo77mr last edited by

                Now it has a lot of problems.

                And so slow to start up that seems to have a virus 😃 ... hahaha

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                • massimo77mr
                  massimo77mr last edited by

                  hi
                  I noticed another problem with this new version v33 of the opera that the pop-up does not work well the windows open even if the block settings.

                  I also confirmed you this thing?

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                  • massimo77mr
                    massimo77mr last edited by

                    ?

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