<![CDATA[Slow loading times on Opera Portable]]>Hi.

Im currently using Opera portable. I have noticed that surfing the web is really slow. Loading websites is taking noticeable long.

However:
If im surfing in an private window, browsing the web is way better since the long loading times are gone and using opera is fast and fluid (for an portable browser).

My Question is:
What can i do to get the same browsing experience of the "private mode" in the "normal mode"? My quess would be that it is the caching of websites which takes the time/ressources, since the browser seems to not cache websites in private mode. Is there a way to disable the cache entirely? Or is the problem somewhere else?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/23337/slow-loading-times-on-opera-portableRSS for NodeWed, 09 Sep 2026 20:45:01 GMTWed, 15 Nov 2017 23:00:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:00:07 GMT]]>@snowtear said in Slow loading times on Opera Portable:

The application is on an usb thumb drive. therefore i dont expect an ultra fast browsing experience. it would be sufficient if it would run as smooth as within private windows.

Try removing everything from the drive and then putting everything back. When everything's off the drive, you can reformat it as NTFS (to rule out file system corruption or to convert it to NTFS if it was FAT32). I do that some times with thumb drives and it helps for a while.

I'm guessing that private mode is only faster because it's not using the disk as much.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132107https://forums.opera.com/post/132107Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:00:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:50:25 GMT]]>Wow i think pples need to say where opera is installed 1st ! hard drive, usb stick, card, ect ! lol

(just saying

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132080https://forums.opera.com/post/132080Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:50:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:04:17 GMT]]>Too bad the command to set the cache to zero doesnt work... but thanks anyway.

what about the problem, with a potential profile folder, that was mentioned earlier in this thread? how can i check if it is broken and if so, how i can fix it?

@burnout426:
The application is on an usb thumb drive. therefore i dont expect an ultra fast browsing experience. it would be sufficient if it would run as smooth as within private windows.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132071https://forums.opera.com/post/132071Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:04:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:17:47 GMT]]>All flags listed:
https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

^ Bear in mind that some of them brake Opera (and Chrome) - such as for example "--one-process" etc.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131603https://forums.opera.com/post/131603Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:17:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:09:56 GMT]]>What type of drive is the portable installation on?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131555https://forums.opera.com/post/131555Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:09:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:57:37 GMT]]>@snowtear Maybe nothing, there is a chance that the command just doesn't work.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131552https://forums.opera.com/post/131552Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:57:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:48:29 GMT]]>So, i tried:
...\launcher.exe" --disk-cache-size 0
and
...\launcher.exe" --disk-cache-size=0

but opera is still writing to:
...\profile\data\Cache

what am i doing wrong here?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131551https://forums.opera.com/post/131551Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:48:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Fri, 17 Nov 2017 02:58:58 GMT]]>@snowtear said in Slow loading times on Opera Portable:

--disk-cache-size

--disk-cache-size VALUEHERE

VALUEHERE = bytes

so for example 20000000 bytes = 20 MB

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131305https://forums.opera.com/post/131305Fri, 17 Nov 2017 02:58:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:41:13 GMT]]>@snowtear You rename it so Opera will create a new one.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131291https://forums.opera.com/post/131291Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:41:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:35:59 GMT]]>Thank you very much for your answer.

I dont think the problem comes from an extension since i only have one (ublock) installed and this extension is also running in private windows that, as i mentioned, are running well.

Maybe it is a broken profile folder. If so, the follow up question would be: How do i fix a broken profile folder?

Setting the disk cache size to zero is something i would like to try.
Just to be clear:
I would create a shortcut of "launcher.exe", right click on the shortcut and under "Target" it should read:
...\launcher.exe" --disk-cache-size
(With quotation marks and the double line between "....exe" and "disk..." ?)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131284https://forums.opera.com/post/131284Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:35:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slow loading times on Opera Portable on Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:16:50 GMT]]>Problems in a normal window usually means issues with a extension and/or with a broken profile folder.
It also can be a security software scanning the files.

Don't know a command to disable cache but you should be able to use --disk-cache-size and set it to zero.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131193https://forums.opera.com/post/131193Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:16:50 GMT