[Compilation] Discussions on Opera using a high amount of RAM and having OOM messages on YouTube
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Jakobe12 last edited by Jakobe12
So I've had opera for about a year now and its been great for me, but recently every time I try pulling up a youtube video it now takes forever to load and now most of the time It crashes and the errors says opera has run out of memory.
I am using Windows 11 and my browser is the latest version of Opera GX.
I went to my task manager and holy guacomole, its taking up 700 - 1000 MBs of memory on its own, when I try pulling up a youtube video its shoots up to 1500 and continually rises until it hits about 6,500 MBs and then it crashes, this process takes about 1 minute.
I am astounded to be frank with you all.
These are the methods I have tried (from another user on the forum)
You might first try clearing Opera's cache and history elements from within Opera via: Settings > Advanced > Privacy and Security > Clear browsing data > Time range: all time, then check all boxes shown except Passwords and Autofill data > Clear data. That may reduce Opera's memory consumption significantly if there is something massive stored in cache or history.
If that approach fails to reduce memory consumption, you could then try "resetting" Opera's profile by opening Opera to locate and copy down the file/folder path of your profile folder (Opera icon > Help > About Opera > Paths: Profile:, then turn off Opera's sync (if it's on). Next, with Opera turned off, use your Windows file explorer to navigate to that profile folder and rename it to something else (eg: rename Opera Stable to XXXOpera Stable). Then once more open Opera (which will automatically recreate the profile folder and files with its original name but default-condition files and settings); then see if Opera's memory consumption is significantly reduced. Note: the newly-created profile will not have your customized settings, bookmarks, etc., but it will eliminate any corrupted files within the profile as a test case; you can always regain your original profile by turning Opera off, deleting the newly-created profile folder name and re-renaming the XXX... folder back to its original name. If the original profile has been corrupted, one can try copying specific customization files (bookmarks, preferences, etc) one-at-a-time from the original renamed profile folder to the newly-created one to retrieve as much of your original settings, etc as possible (always keeping Opera turned off when copying profile folders/files).
I also tried turning off battery saver mode, didn't do anything.
Guys, I need a hero to save me.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@jakobe12 said:
I went to my task manager and holy guacomole, its taking up 700 - 1000 MBs of memory on its own
That's a very normal memory usage
when I try pulling up a youtube video its shoots up to 1500
Still normal
:and continually rises until it hits about 6,500 MBs and then it crashes
There seems to be a memory leak
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by sgunhouse
@killopx Most reports I've seen seem tied to live streams, and seem to indicate a similar issue on Chrome. Unfortunately if it is a bug in the underlying Chromium engine then it may be up to Chromium to fix.
Having said that ... it sounds to me like the browser is trying to keep the entire stream in memory, which is guaranteed to overwhelm RAM after only a few minutes.
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MateusDrte13 last edited by leocg
Opera Gx consuming 3000Mbs of memory with high power consumption, sometimes giving insufficient memory. What should I do?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@mateusdrte13 You stared a topic with just an image and no (con)text on it, what is not allowed. Fixed it for you this time.
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NekoHaru last edited by
i found a way to fix this
just disable opera gx built in ad blocker by doing it it takes 6gb less memory and no longer has any problem
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MateusDrte13 last edited by
@leocg sorry! my english is not so good, so i thought i had published it right.
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MateusDrte13 last edited by
@leocg yes, it only happens on youtube, it's becoming more and more common. I've been using opera for almost 2 years, this is the first time it's happened
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@mateusdrte13 Any difference if you disable all extensions?
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MateusDrte13 last edited by
@leocg no, just for a better way to control my sound and also to read text from photos (https://webextension.org/listing/ocr.html) and (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/volume-master-controlador/jghecgabfgfdldnmbfkhmffcabddioke)
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southc last edited by
Opera GX is using high memory ram in the recent updates (it was fine last month) well looks like we can't use a same tab to watch videos, if you open a video you need to close the tab and open the new video on new tab to reset the memory. hope you fix this memory leak. i have 16gb ram and sometimes i have out of memory message. below a print of gx control
