<![CDATA[Slowdown and Delayed Browsing]]>I've been using Opera for quite a long time, since the 11 series, and I've had quite a couple of issues with Opera over the years, but the issue that came up from the auto-update from Opera 26 to 27 makes the browser damn near unusable.

My current problem is as follows: While trying to browse using Opera 27, everything in the browser is slowed, as in slow to load, slow to respond to my clicks, slow to everything in general. Furthermore, anytime I attempt to watch a video on say Youtube or even look at an image, the browser either chugs or gets stuck in an endless cycle of loading where either one of two things happens, either the browser becomes unresponsive and needs to be restarted or the browser goes into a "Not Responding" phase with every action I take. All delays that occur, even typing here, are four seconds in delay (yes, I timed it.) To test, I used Firefox and Chrome, using the same websites and videos with zero issues. Flash and the like are all up to date. I hope this gets patched in 28 otherwise I wont be able to use Opera because this right here makes no sense.

This is my version info:
Version: 27.0.1689.69 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 8.1 64-bit (WoW64)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/8219/slowdown-and-delayed-browsingRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 04:36:14 GMTMon, 16 Feb 2015 14:40:16 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Thu, 06 Oct 2016 02:36:26 GMT]]>I noticed if I disable trend micro anti virus then the speed issue goes away...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/108132https://forums.opera.com/post/108132Thu, 06 Oct 2016 02:36:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:24:26 GMT]]>Don't you believe in Martians?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/93865https://forums.opera.com/post/93865Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:24:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 16 Feb 2016 02:12:57 GMT]]>Someone needs to either get off their meds or double their dose.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/93795https://forums.opera.com/post/93795Tue, 16 Feb 2016 02:12:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:23:04 GMT]]>These issues were designed deliberately to force people onto the newer versions of opera which underneath is really NSA's chrome engine but on the surface is made to look like Opera. The fact is that the old Opera browser doesn't exist anymore and all the new browsers are in effect spy machines. Wake up to what going on around you people. They are preparing a global currency rest and martial law everywhere. At what point will you realize that you've been duped???

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/93773https://forums.opera.com/post/93773Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:23:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:18:00 GMT]]>They fixed the session issue several releases ago. So, if you are using Opera 24, its probably something else.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/90483https://forums.opera.com/post/90483Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:18:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:14:49 GMT]]>no session* files on Arch linux (~/.config/opera/).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/90477https://forums.opera.com/post/90477Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:14:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:43:54 GMT]]>I'm having the lag issues, although not as bad. When I try going to the profile folder I don't see any of these: session.db, session.dbak, and session.db-journal

Any idea?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/69333https://forums.opera.com/post/69333Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:43:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:36:25 GMT]]>

Heres a thing to try: go into your profile folder (location can be found in the About Opera page) and deleted these files: session.db, session.dbak, and session.db-journal. Make sure the browser is closed when you do this. See if that helps and report back here.

Lag was driving me nutty. Disabled extensions and plugins; no impact. Deleting session.db (which had grown to over 200 MB) did the trick. Thank you!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/69332https://forums.opera.com/post/69332Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:36:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:41:29 GMT]]>

Heres a thing to try: go into your profile folder (location can be found in the About Opera page) and deleted these files: session.db, session.dbak, and session.db-journal. Make sure the browser is closed when you do this. See if that helps and report back here.

I had the same problem and this solution is perfectly work for me, thank you.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/69271https://forums.opera.com/post/69271Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:41:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:12:37 GMT]]>I have been using the latest versions of Opera 27 and 28.

By the way peterx666, I loved your metaphor about kicking the tele! Hella of appropriate. I thought about it but chose to try another version, then Chrome, then back to Opera 27 because I could not bring myself to do the clean uninstall. I did try using CCleaner to delete some of the clutter but did not even delete the cache because every time I do it I end up hating the process of entering stupid secret questions for many websites.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68591https://forums.opera.com/post/68591Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:12:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:21:17 GMT]]>I have not seen anything like this - everything seems fast - even tho I am using XP on a slow machine?

Has anyone tried backing up the bookmarks, using an uninstaller to get Opera 27 off, delete opera folders and other dross in the registry....... and then re-installing from scratch?

I know its like kicking the tele to make it work.... but it seems to work for Microsoft!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68545https://forums.opera.com/post/68545Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:21:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:14:31 GMT]]>Heres a thing to try: go into your profile folder (location can be found in the About Opera page) and deleted these files: session.db, session.dbak, and session.db-journal. Make sure the browser is closed when you do this. See if that helps and report back here.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68538https://forums.opera.com/post/68538Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:14:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:57:37 GMT]]>That is odd, to say the least. I'm using the most recent version of Opera 28 Beta and it's fine for me, but 27 is still painfully slow. What version of Opera 27 and 28 do you have?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68523https://forums.opera.com/post/68523Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:57:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Wed, 04 Mar 2015 05:32:20 GMT]]>For the past 10 days I had been checking out Opera 27 to see if it would come back to normal while using Opera 28. Yesterday Opera 28 went slow and Opera 27 remained slow. Today Opera 27 is back to "normal". In case you are wondering, I have not installed/uninstalled anything or even rebooted the computer..

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68483https://forums.opera.com/post/68483Wed, 04 Mar 2015 05:32:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:35:21 GMT]]>I'm still using Opera 28 Beta, and it's still running smooth for me, aside from a few hiccups. It's really weird that Opera's acting like that now.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68419https://forums.opera.com/post/68419Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:35:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:47:57 GMT]]>This is really strange. I was using Opera 28 beta while waiting for the supposed bug on the 27 to be fix. Well guess what? Much the same way Opera 27 suddenly became choppy so did the 28 after about a week; this morning I went to use Opera and the trouble started: lag in typing every now and again, slow to respond to open and closing tabs..

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68398https://forums.opera.com/post/68398Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:47:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Thu, 26 Feb 2015 03:21:38 GMT]]>Oh, of course...
I asked without thinking too much. :o

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68009https://forums.opera.com/post/68009Thu, 26 Feb 2015 03:21:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:32:58 GMT]]>

It's times like that where I wish Opera still asked me update like it used to instead of auto-updating.

How would you ever know if you answered "no"?

On an older version, like the O12 series, Opera would have a prompt pop-up to tell me that there was a new version and gave the option to take or leave it, where I'd usually leave it until it was vetted by other users, so I could wait if there was a bad bug like this or if it was alright.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/68001https://forums.opera.com/post/68001Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:32:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:22:23 GMT]]>

It's times like that where I wish Opera still asked me update like it used to instead of auto-updating.

How would you ever know if you answered "no"?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/67947https://forums.opera.com/post/67947Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:22:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:10:32 GMT]]>Well I just installed Opera Beta and it does seem to be much better...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/67933https://forums.opera.com/post/67933Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:10:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 24 Feb 2015 03:50:08 GMT]]>I decided to bite the bullet and just switch over to Opera Next (or Opera Beta, whatever they call it nowadays), and much to my surprise Opera 28 runs smooth and clean, much like the Opera 26 stable did. I'm going to have to chalk up the Opera 27 issue to a bug in that specific version. It's times like that where I wish Opera still asked me update like it used to instead of auto-updating.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/67853https://forums.opera.com/post/67853Tue, 24 Feb 2015 03:50:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:18:48 GMT]]>Hate to say it, but me, too, for some while (not that I can correlate it with Opera 27 vs. 26). I have a fair number of tabs open (33 over two windows at the moment), but I used to have more than that with Opera 12. Opening new tabs, closing tabs, switching among them are all a bit slow, though not every single time. Opera is even sluggish taking my keystrokes right now as I type this, yet no Opera process is consuming any significant amount of CPU. (Windows 8.1)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/67847https://forums.opera.com/post/67847Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:18:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:31:58 GMT]]>I am having the same issues here. Opera feels really sluggish, opening and closing tabs is excessively slow, and sometimes I also get stutters while watching videos, as if the browser is freezing. Those issues are only there with OPERA and are constant no matter the number of tabs open, I can have chrome or any other browsers open with up to 50+ tabs no problem.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/67717https://forums.opera.com/post/67717Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:31:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Slowdown and Delayed Browsing on Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:22:38 GMT]]>I've done another test with Opera and a comparison to Chrome. Opera bugs out on me with my standard number of tabs, about 30 average (which has been the standard since Opera 11.64). Chrome, on the other hand, bugs out on me when I've jumped well beyond 70. Is it possible to just chalk these issues up to Opera 27 being bugged out? Furthermore, I've been looking into other solutions: Would Opera 28 beta be a solution, and is it known when Opera 28 stable is coming out?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/67665https://forums.opera.com/post/67665Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:22:38 GMT