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    • 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!?!?

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

        @zethnos Please follow the instructions.

        It happens with a specific page or with any?

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        • 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

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          • 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.

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

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

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              • A Former User
                A Former User 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!

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