The Opera GX is slow topic

[Neon4435]

Neon4435 @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse
Running as Administrator allows the app to have full access to your computer.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @Neon4435 last edited by

@neon4435 Among other issues. Opera doesn't allow external sites access to your filesystem (unlike, say, Chrome) so that isn't as big an issue as you might think. But running as Administrator even once sets every file modified by the browser as requiring Administrator access, meaning you'd have to delete your profile before you can run it again in normal mode. When you've seen what a mess it is to clean up you know no one should ever do it, no matter how safe the sites they might visit while doing so.

[IAmCire]

IAmCire last edited by

Same, Opera on my pc takes forever to load and when i type something, it takes like 20 minutes to appear on the screen. I tried everything done in this post, but it is still slow.
My PC parts are
CPU:Intel Core i9-13900KS
GPU:Nvidia RTX 4090
RAM:Corsair Dominance DDR5 64 GB
Storage:Samsung 990 EVO
MB:Aorus 790 Elite
Do anyone know how to fix this?

[AshS77]

AshS77 last edited by

I've been having issues with GX being really sluggish these past few months. It got really worse this past month and I tried everything from reinstalling to clearing the cache. Then last night, being fed up, and nearly switching over to Firefox, I decided to clean out my bookmarks. I found that I had some duplicate ones and read that those could potentially cause browser issues due to corrupt data. So I went ahead and annihilated about 70% of the bookmarks I had saved, and lo and behold, it sorted out my issue.

[TNTPIG]

TNTPIG last edited by

It takes several minutes to open any website, including YouTube or discord. It is like that for all websites. Are there any settings or extensions that speed up the performance. It is almost unusable.

[A Former User]

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[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Irritating indeed, YouTube takes 30 seconds to give me a proper screen, what's the problem? I use W11 (of course) I ditched 50% of my bookmarks, but that wasn'ti, what is it, do we need a new version?

[Witzo]

Witzo last edited by

Same for me. I found some suggestions to turn on/off Speed loading, and found opera://flags/#use-angle and turned on and off and changed several settings about Angle and for rendering. But all result in the same: pages load very slow, up to minutes.

I'm on an AMD CPU and AMD GPU. Are there optimal render setting for that combination?

Also, before a few months ago Opera was quite fast. So it may have started with an update in the past six months or so.

[CriSpyM0nkeY]

CriSpyM0nkeY last edited by

Slow and laggy, terrible update.

[OnlySrat]

OnlySrat last edited by

Anyone else think Opera GX is very slow and sluggish? I can't watch a movies or videos without it having to buffer everything. I've had no issues with this on Chrome (yes much bigger company), but Opera claims to be more gamers (who watch videos) and can't control speeds of things. But i have no limiter on anything and everything is so slow.

[FelineX]

FelineX last edited by

I just installed Opera GX. literally not even 10 minutes ago.

I added in my bookmarks and such and checked out the settings. But then I noticed that it was incredibly slow, and my YouTube video was lagging and cutting.

Is this an issue with this browser? Or did I turn on a setting that makes it slow? I'm thinking of moving back to Google already.

[Nitropl]

Nitropl last edited by

I found a fix for this that worked for me.

1. Go to opera://update
   2.Go down to 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 and click 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀.
2. Restart your browser and everything should be fine.
   This is the only method that had worked for me.

[FelineX]

FelineX @FelineX last edited by

@felinex I found a fix for my issue.

For some reason my image and video enhance was turned on. I turned that off and it works perfectly fine now

[Nogozzeki]

Nogozzeki @mewssyz last edited by

@mewssyz Thank you a lot dude, my opera gx was really f*ed up when i used youtube. Turning hardware acc off solved the problem that had been haunting me for weeks, thank you again.

[The-Draco-Original]

The-Draco-Original last edited by

Well, I have the same Problem, Opera GX is extremely slow, Buffering Videos on YouTube etc takes hours. No there is definitely enough RAM and other resources on my PC available (32GB RAM, i7-11700K CPU and extremely good net speeds) also I already turned off VPN, Hardware ACC and some other things that could influence it, but still it takes more time than any other Browser I ever used.
So what else could be Reason for this slowdown, what else can I do to fix this Problem that shouldn't even exist in a "Gaming Browser"?

[alhaan313]

alhaan313 @The-Draco-Original last edited by

@the-draco-original Same here. I recently switched from chrome due to security concerns and I initially really liked opera gx due to its customizability and various other features.

It worked fine for the 1st month and now all of the sudden its become too glitchy and takes forever to open sites like youtube.

[birbol]

birbol last edited by

I have a problem with my Opera GX. (8 gb ram)
My opera worked well last week, it wasn't freezing or anything but now its slow even though there is no tabs open, it uses 1 gb when there is only GX Corner

Here is how it looks on task manager:

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @birbol last edited by

@birbol Looks normal.

[carbo0]

carbo0 last edited by

Opera works very slowly, pages take a long time to load, I don't even know how YouTube works, and Facebook is the same. I clean the entire browser every day and I still have 3.5GB of browser files...

[nizar-arena]

nizar-arena @leocg last edited by

@leocg what do you mean by it's normal ? I have less than 10 tabs open and I get 36 in my task manager