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I'm having an issue on a new laptop that I just purchased. Laptop is the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura w/ Ultra core i7 256v, 16gb ram.

Im seeing very high Ram usage on Opera Air compared to Edge. I have included a side by side screenshot for comparison. Both have the same extensions installed and have no tabs open. As you can see from the task Manager Opera is using about 1.6gb of ram at idle where edge only uses around 500mb.

This is a clean install of opera with my bookmarks synced from edge.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/84004/opera-air-high-ram-usageRSS for NodeSun, 15 Mar 2026 15:24:20 GMTTue, 01 Apr 2025 01:55:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:50:12 GMT]]>Hi Folks,

I noticed this topic is pretty old, however we made many optimizations along the way in terms of resource consumption.

If you still encounter performance issues, please let me know and share the details.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/395239https://forums.opera.com/post/395239Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:50:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:45:09 GMT]]>Also closely watching this. I've escaped the clutches of the great Chrome monster, and Air looked cool. Can't wait to see it slim down a bit.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/390956https://forums.opera.com/post/390956Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:45:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:09:59 GMT]]>@leocg Appears that the GPU process and browser itself are roughly 1gb. Boosts and takes a break features are 500mb and everything else like zen media, aria, background workers etc are around 50 - 70mb each.

Seems like the browser is just going to be very heavy on resource usage. Hope to see improvements in the future. Will keep checking back when updates occur

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/381665https://forums.opera.com/post/381665Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:09:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:37:25 GMT]]>@scrapefour Now check that path or the shortcut in Opera.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/381664https://forums.opera.com/post/381664Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:37:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:55:30 GMT]]>@leocg Task Manager does not show what processes are running on opera just that it is opera air. The high ram usage looks like its also affecting the take a break and Boosts features. When using opera air. Enabling any of mindful features causes stuttering scrolling and loading issues.

Since I work remotely and pretty much everything I do is web based, Opera Air just cannot handle the tabs and workload. Its just too RAM intensive.

Will have to switch back to edge for the time being till this is fixed. Ashamed because the take a break and boosts features were nice for work.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/381662https://forums.opera.com/post/381662Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:55:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:42:58 GMT]]>@scrapefour Menu > Developer > Task Manager. Or just use Shift Escape.

Opera starts with 10+ processes running because all of its features.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/381634https://forums.opera.com/post/381634Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:42:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:55:48 GMT]]>@leocg The only thing thats concerning is this is a fresh install with only 2 extensions opened. it should not have that many running processes? Is that the background mindfulness stuff running?

When I expand and look at the processes they are all just labeled opera air

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/381631https://forums.opera.com/post/381631Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:55:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:40:21 GMT]]>@scrapefour For any (Opera) browser.

Forget about opened tabs, check the number of running processes. It's using around 56MB per process on average, not so far from what Edge is using.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/381621https://forums.opera.com/post/381621Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:40:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:47:50 GMT]]>@leocg Are you sure for opera air? On normal opera its not that high. No tabs open using close to 2gb of ram is alot.

Why is opera air so inefficient compared standard opera, opera gx and edge?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/381620https://forums.opera.com/post/381620Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:47:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Air high ram usage on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:00:30 GMT]]>@scrapefour That RAM usage is normal

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/381596https://forums.opera.com/post/381596Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:00:30 GMT