Opera using insane amount of memory!

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

For the last 3 days Opera has been using close to 2k MB of ram constantly for one tab open. I only have 5 extensions and I even tried disabling all of them. All I am doing is watching youtube and browsing the net. My task manager says there are 21 listings for "Opera Internet Browser". What is going on!?!?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@zethnos Please follow the instructions.

It happens with a specific page or with any?

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Opera using insane amount of memory!:

@zethnos Please follow the instructions.

It happens with a specific page or with any?

Disabling adblocker didn't work, A large chunk of it is youtube, but other pages also give a larger than normal RAM usage. I tried this on my laptop and it doesn't do the same thing. The task manager still shows a large number of of listings from Opera. Installing and booting up a portable version does the same thing even with just speed dial open.

I am using windows 10. Opera version 52.0.2871.40

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@zethnos said in Opera using insane amount of memory!:

The task manager still shows a large number of of listings from Opera

This is the regular and expected behavior for any Chromium based browser.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@zethnos Does opera://gpu says that hardware acceleration is being used?

[rudrick]

rudrick last edited by

Get tab suspender ext.

Also some extensions harvest RAM and like never releasing, check Opera's task manager to see what extensions are high on RAM/cpu consumption then just quickly disable and enable the fat ext. U can do that instead of restarting the browser.

GPU task also is a fat hoarder sooo sloooow to release any: kill it it will be back up in seconds but much more lightweight.

Perhaps Chromium based browsers should have tighter weight watching!? Veganize em!