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    • hucker
      hucker last edited by leocg

      My father with an antiquated computer says Opera takes ages to load. Since I have a fast computer (24 core with NVME), and have way less stuff on the start page, I've always enjoyed it only taking a second or two to load. But it's getting much slower recently. Is there a way to speed it up? Is it trying to access images to display on the start page thumbnails? Can I disable something to make it quick again? The start page opens instantly if I open a new tab, but it's the initial Opera start that's slow. If I close Opera then open it immediately, it's still slow, so nothing to do with disk access (I have an NVME anyway).

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      • paulrevere
        paulrevere last edited by

        Same here. I run Windows 7. Slow loading, especially Speed Dial, began with Opera ver. 86.0.4363.32 and continues with 86.0.4363.50.

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        • Ohrenbaer
          Ohrenbaer last edited by

          Same here. For a few days now the speed dial takes several seconds to load. A fix would be appreciated.

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          • hucker
            hucker @paulrevere last edited by leocg

            @paulrevere Wow, we're on 86? I thought only Firefox did that nonsense. Have they not heard of decimal places? The first number should be for a major revision.

            Not sure what version slowness began with here, but it was within the last month it slowed down.

            Still, mustn't grumble - Paintshop Pro takes 30 Seconds to load on the latest machine. And they think that's ok! whatever happened to decent programmers who wrote tight code?

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            • hucker
              hucker last edited by

              Bug report filed, BS-33007

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              • hucker
                hucker last edited by

                I put Opera Browser assistant back on, that didn't help.

                What does that thing do anyway? I can't see any benefit.

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                • hucker
                  hucker @hucker last edited by leocg

                  @paulrevere

                  Fixed!

                  I went into "C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" and emptied all the folders marked cache etc, using treesize to find large folders and folders with many files. Starts up in a tenth of the time now. So just the usual bloat programs don't take care of themselves.

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                  • GNezmo
                    GNezmo last edited by

                    Speed Dial takes about 8 seconds to load after the last update. It's not a bad as it was a few years ago when it took over 30 seconds to load after an upgrade bug, but it's definitely related to the last update. I hate it when an automatic update makes things worse!

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                    • hucker
                      hucker last edited by

                      Update, it's got slow again in one day, clearly a programmer screwup. Can we have the ones that could write a chess program in 16KB in the 80s please? Imagine how fast modern computers could run software written properly like that. Do we still even use compilers or is Opera running in an interpreter?

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