High cpu usage watching youtube
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A Former User last edited by
My fix was very simple and straight forward: Unistalled Opera and installed Firefox.
I was a very avid Opera user, Opera was my main browser, and pretty much I convinced everyone on my family to shift to it, but since this bug I decided to remove since it's pretty much very unstable, one release it gets fixed, the next one it comes back.
I need something reliable since I'm a web developer, Opera let me down with this, this isn't something related to Chromium or Blink/V8 since other Chromium based browsers doesn't suffer of this issue, at least for me.
It was good while it lasted, I'm subscribed to all these threads, might come back once they decided to take this issue seriously and fix it for good.
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zalex108 last edited byOfficial BugReport is not Forum's report.
Someone from Opera receives those messages.Should be already fixed or worked-around.
Animated icon is unnecessary, a toggle to a Static one for those with the problem is more than enough until find a global fix."You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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andrew84 last edited by
@zalex108 said in High cpu usage watching youtube:
Animated icon is unnecessary, a toggle to a Static one for those with the problem is more than enough until find a global fix
Sure.
But I just suggested a compromise in case if they (Opera) want to keep the equalizer view (jumping bars) to be different from other browsers. I'm pretty sure that very few users will notice the difference or will be against the simple animation,
*Vivaldi also has an animated tab's indicator (sound waves) but this is just a simple loop animation and doesn't consume CPU. -
zalex108 last edited by
Yes,
Options to fix it, exists.
I don't know the reasons for this situation."You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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andrew84 last edited by
By the way, I don't use Opera GX, but there was a report also regarding the new feature 'Dynamic audio visualizer' which also consumes CPU https://forums.opera.com/post/224782
The feature can be turned off there, but the implementation of such feature tells me that they don't care much for fixing the bug (looks a bit funny because GX offers some RAM and CPU limitations and at the same time GX itself contains feature which consumes a lot of CPU. If I limit CPU usage, the feature will lag, I guess) -
A Former User last edited by
The Opera 72 update and cleaning out my laptop (both physically & through software) seem to have fixed this issue for me. i have a feeling hardware decoding for video wasn't being used correctly, even though I have a kaby lake CPU
On MacOS 10.15.7
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zalex108 last edited by zalex108
@nintendork07
Good!
I did twice here on Win x64 months ago, still the same on them.
I'll see for V72.
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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marjang last edited byFor me, problem persist in v.72, Win8.1, fanless i5 CPU, power consumption jumps from 9W to 14W if favicon is animated on youtube vs cursor hover over tab:
(Using Open Hardware Monitor to show temp. and power consumption)
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
The main reason I believe this is occurring is because hardware accelerated video decode is not working correctly. Turning hardware acceleration off and then on again seems to fix this for me. I can tell if it's working by how long youtube videos take to load or how high my fans spin (on a simple 1080p youtube video...)
Another step I used was looking at Opera://GPU and seeing the Hardware Video Decode status.
For me it said:
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Metal: Disabled (I am on Mac)I changed the Flag: Override software rendering list and now it says my hardware protected video decode is enabled.
This is occurring on other chromium based browsers as well (Chrome & Brave)
I am on MacOS 10.15.7 with Macbook Pro 13 inch 2017
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suman169 Banned last edited byActually i watch videos now sometimes i thaugt some bugs not fix when refresh no bugs i still consufused and some websites loads very slow some are opened but not seenimage Eg:
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A Former User last edited by
CPU usage is not as high as before, but it is still way higher than Chrome's on YouTube. While watching the same video, Opera gets consistent 30% CPU usage, while Chrome only 8~10%. Disabling audio tab animation does nothing to change this.
I really like Opera, the look and feel is amazing, but I'm not using it as my main browser until it's solved for good.
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marjang last edited by
Problem persist in v.73, maybe it is not as critical as it was, but still too much for fanless CPUs!
This time i measure about +40% higher cpu power consumption with favicon animation.
Spec: win8.1, fanless i5 (4570T) cpu, internal gpu.
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zalex108 last edited by
Hi,
You can try this workarounds in the meantime.
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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andrew84 last edited by andrew84
Is there any info that Opera is aware of this performance bug?
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zalex108 last edited by
Since seems mostly related to W7, with "ended support", It seems it has no attention to be fixed, even to give an option to disable it, at least from Flags.
It seems to affect also on W8.1 too and even on Mac, but...
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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Fragger911 last edited by
@zalex108
That problem stays here for more then 2 years now, over many generations and versions of Opera, regardless which Windows version is used.I switched hardware in the last years (Intel to AMD CPU, older to newer AMD GPU), still the same. Windows 10 Pro all the time.
Firefox does use way less CPU in general for that task and also makes no difference between with sound and muted tab.
All that combined looks weird for Opera.
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zalex108 last edited by zalex108
Is unusable for those with the problem since Media is mostly everywhere, even without the ability to stop AutoPlay and not always you use or watch in FullScreen.
The Workaround about change between WorkSpaces, for daily use, it's annoying.
If it's not fixed even for W10, then...
"You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". 路 Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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gamedevchrs last edited by
I may have found a fix.
For me, Twitch was using about 30% of my CPU per screen. I'm not going to go into detail or lay out my specs but I did find a way to fix my problem.
- Make sure hardware acceleration is enabled or this won't work
(If you can't find hardware acc, go hereopera://settingsand type in "hardware acceleration") - Go to
opera://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist
Enable that setting, relaunch and you should be good.
I think someone above already answered this but I was unable to find this setting using their instructions.
I really hope this helps cause I've been having to stress over this for about 2 weeks and it feels good to be back at minimal CPU usage.
- Make sure hardware acceleration is enabled or this won't work
