Deleting separate History entries is slow beyond any common sense.
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SuperKoshej613 last edited by
As of somewhat recently (maybe a month, not sure), manual selective History cleanup became a stupidly annoying chore, because even single-entry deletion takes some 3 seconds per entry, and if I use a Search function to separate a group of entries, their deletion literally makes the entire PC overclock as if it's using up most of my Memory to do so.
Note: This is not caused by me having a months-worth clog of History. I deliberately checked it on a cleanly wiped History, and there was almost no difference, especially for the Search-related nonsense.
Also, Opera is known for years to be a Memory-eater for no valid reason, so I fully suspect it being yet another such bug. -
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SuperKoshej613 last edited by
@immamangoman
Nope. Probably the only "solution" is to simply not have any History in the first place, but that's not really a "solution". Funny how nobody even tries solving it beyond deleting History or its file. It feels as if this bug is not being taken care of altogether. -
edvardius last edited by
I've also stumbled upon this issue - sometimes, after removing an entry, the history hangs completely or/and doesn't show any records until I reopen the window multiple times.
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SuperKoshej613 last edited by leocg
@edvardius
Same problem, more or less. Basically, it looks as if it's writing to the file in some way that overclocks the PC in a way that has never happened before some of the recent updates. So it's clearly a bug, but I don't see the developers caring about it whatsoever. Also, it's a proven fact that it is related to the amount of current History, because I wasn't getting it for a day or less after a clean History wipe, but then it came back at an increasing length with each additional day of History. This is very suspicious and/or very buggy. I suggest the developers to actually address it, instead of deleting my complaints. And yes, this involves editing this post to remove the actual complaint. It's outright dishonest to do so, ya know. -
allanfelipe last edited by
It happens with me too. It takes several seconds to delete an item from history.
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SuperKoshej613 last edited by leocg
@allanfelipe I figured out the problem. It's because Opera is somehow doing memory-heavy writing routine to the History file in the Opera folder. When I deleted the entire (maybe a month-long) History, the file went from 6 Mb to 160 Kb, and the deleting speed dropped to nearly zero. This sort of issue has not been a problem until the start of this year or later, which means Opera has started to employ a new routine that now causes it. I outright ask them to fix it, dammit.
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SuperKoshej613 last edited by leocg
@allanfelipe It's not "nice", because it forces me to choose between "empty History" and "easily deleting specific entries". And also because the sole reason behind this is some shitty encoding that only got introduced recently in the first place. So, no, not "nice" at all.
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allanfelipe last edited by
@superkoshej613 Haha ok, fair enough. I mean, better than nothing. But the developers could indeed take a look at some simple things that are broken, before launching these fancy stuff which I'll never use, like ai prompt or lucid mode.
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SuperKoshej613 last edited by leocg
@allanfelipe Or at least they should Read and Reply, well, Here, ya know. I've posted my own complaint about this History issue a month or two ago - and I'm yet to receive a single response that Wasn't "well, then just delete your entire History". Nope, it's Broken (their fault), not Overloaded (my fault). That's literally just dodging the actual problem. Annoys me a lot, mind you.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
I personally can't reproduce the issue so far.
Are you using regular Opera or Opera GX or Opera Crypto or Opera Beta or Opera Developer?
What version of that Opera as see at the URL
opera://about?What version and build of Windows?
Anything special about your installation? Do you have your profile on another drive besides the system drive (goto the URL
opera://aboutand take a look at the "profile" path).On whatever drive it's installed on, is it an SSD or mechanical hard drive?
What does CrystalDiskInfo say for the health of your drive the profile is on?
Might want to check your system files for good measure.
You can make sure the file system on your drive is not corrupted. See the "How to Run CHKDSK With the Right Flags" section at https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/stuck-chkdsk-use-fix-right-way/.
Make sure you can reproduce the issue in a test standalone installation too.
Maybe some of the info can help narrow things down why Opera is being slow at deleting history for some users.
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allanfelipe last edited by
@burnout426 Hi, these are some information I can give right now. It's regular opera running on Windows 10 Home and this is the about:
Version:99.0.4788.13
Opera is up to date
Update stream:Stable
System:Windows 10 64-bit
Chromium version:113.0.5672.127There's just one 2Tb drive (mechanical).
Anyway, I don't have this kind of problem with other browsers (I have Firefox and Edge installed, but I prefer Opera).
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fobofobik last edited by
i have a problem quite similar to this. when i try to delete an entry, whole history window becomes unresponsive. it locks itself, the whole history entry disappears even. it's really annoying and forces me to switch browser when i don't want to.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
There's a performance fix for deleting history that came out in Opera Developer 100.0.4796.0. Please test in the latest Opera Developer (100.0.4801.0 at the moment) to see if this issue is fixed too or not.
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fobofobik last edited by
Hello @burnout426, the latest version of Opera Dev. browser is working perfectly fine. I can delete single history entries both from mini history pop-up and history window. However, i got used to some of GX features such as keybord and tab sounds. Do i get to unlock similar sounds with Opera Dev. browser?
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immamangoman last edited by
Your version isLVL 4 (core: 98.0.4759.82)
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adyendre last edited by
@immamangoman Yeah still an issue, any updates? It is really annoying, I have a 12MB history file.
