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    • kululuz
      kululuz last edited by

      Opera 34 is eating data in background even when I am doing nothing or browsing..Whenever I open task manager it denotes the Browser is eating data...as I use limited data plan..so every KB is precious to me
      I want to know what in opera is eating my data...pls help me how to know that

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      • donq
        donq last edited by

        Check in Opera internal task manager, which window creates network traffic - nowadays sites run background scripts for everything.

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        • joshl
          joshl last edited by

          Yeah, lots of stuff.

          It's site-dependent: some pages may contain frames or objects that "play" something and/or constantly updating data, perhaps.
          Maybe not constantly, but some sites - I open one and the same page in Chrome, and the icon says "o'k, fully loaded", but my data-meter keeps showing high speeds for several tens of seconds or something. I guess it might be banners etc. - content created elsewhere and only hosted on the site, on its pages.
          Well, you might try disabling/disallowing some dynamic content, depends on which settings the browser has for that.
          :sherlock:

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