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  4. Opera STILL using too much energy

Opera STILL using too much energy

  • My current Opera is:

    Version:	39.0.2248.0 - 
Update stream:	developer
System:	Mac OS X 10.11.5 64-bit

    Even with battery saver turned on, Opera still uses huge amount of energy.

    For instance a screenshot.

    This process which occupies entire CPU (100%) has following properties:
    Real memory size: 405MB
    Threads: 19
    Ports: 346
    Open files and ports:

     /
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera Helper
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Opera Framework
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreMIDI.framework/Versions/A/CoreMIDI
/usr/lib/libexpat.1.dylib
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/snapshot_blob.bin
/usr/share/icu/icudt55l.dat
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/SystemAppearance.car
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/icudtl.dat
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/natives_blob.bin
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/en.lproj/locale.pak
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/opera_100_percent.pak
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/opera_200_percent.pak
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/opera.pak
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleHDAHALPlugIn.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AppleHDAHALPlugIn
/System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/MacOS/CoreAudio
/System/Library/Components/AudioCodecs.component/Contents/MacOS/AudioCodecs
/System/Library/Fonts/SFNSText-Regular.otf
/System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeue.dfont
/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont
/private/var/folders/sp/cl_tyq_s6s16s_hk9kdwc30h0000gn/0/com.apple.LaunchServices-134501.csstore
/usr/lib/dyld
/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64h
/dev/null
/dev/null
/dev/null
count=2, state=0x12
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/SystemAppearance.car
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/icudtl.dat
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/snapshot_blob.bin
->0x71b42da1be449ce7
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/natives_blob.bin
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/en.lproj/locale.pak
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/opera_100_percent.pak
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/opera_200_percent.pak
/Applications/Opera Developer.app/Contents/Versions/39.0.2248.0/Opera Framework.framework/Resources/opera.pak
count=0, state=0xa
->0x71b42da1acb4c5a7
->0x71b42da19eac53e7
/dev/urandom
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  • I forgot to add - when I force-killed that process, nothing seemed to change in the active tab. So that has to be some background process (updater?) or some kind of an extension.

    Any thoughts?

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  • Opera

    You can use Opera's task manager to see which process this is.

    Turn on the developer menu using 'View -> Show Developer Menu'
    Then go to task manager using 'Developer -> Task Manager'.

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