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    • avl
      avl Opera last edited by

      @hummerds, can you see if you have these files somewhere on your system:

      com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
      com.apple.mDNSResponderHelper.plist
      

      If you do, could you try moving them to somewhere where the system won't try reading them (eg. just a new directory you create somewhere) and restart your system to see if it makes a difference?

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        Nope, can't find dem anywhere.
        Looked in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons and everywhere, nothing.

        Finder Search (with hidden files) turned up nothing, too.

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        • lanbrown
          lanbrown last edited by

          I have a similar issue with Opera 29 that didn't exist in Opera 28. There is nothing in the console messages and I do not have mDNS running, only discoveryd even though this Mac was upgraded from 10..9 to 10.10 and is currently running a beta of 10.10.4, but I had this issue under 10.10.3 public release as well. It is a late 2013 15" MacBook Pro Retina with 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, quad core 2.6GHz i7 and Nvidia GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of RAM. I couldn't use QuickTime to make a video as it would not display the spinning color wheel in the video, so it had to be recorded externally. The CPU was 80% or higher for the idle process and the RAM was had around 6GB free and no swap was used.

          Here is a video of the spinning wheel:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrnKOSJyeIY

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          • lanbrown
            lanbrown last edited by

            Apparently YouTube videos are not shown, so try the dropbox link.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrnKOSJyeIY

            https://www.dropbox.com/s/37wjqsjxw79wfsx/VID_20150512_223321.m4v?dl=0

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            • chas4
              chas4 last edited by

              lanbrown I have the same model Mac, I sometimes see slow downs (I did a separate bug report for a GPU process bug in O 29), I also upgraded from 10.9 to 10.10

              I looked in both preference folders for the mDNS .plist files and found none

              Do you have a lot of windows open for Opera? I some times see when a page says it is loaded but I don't see the content (it is all white no page content is shown at all) for another few minutes

              Why Open the Web?

              Despite the connecting purpose of the Web, it is not entirely open to all of its users.
              When used correctly, HTML documents can be displayed across platforms and devices.
              However, many devices are excluded access to Web content.

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              • lanbrown
                lanbrown last edited by

                Chas4,

                I might have around 25 to 30. I have another MacBook Pro that was one generation prior and I have 40 to 50 tabs and I do not see this issue. Both machines have the same upgrades performed on them.

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                • chas4
                  chas4 last edited by

                  Try closing a few windows

                  Does the older generation Mac have a Nvidia GPU?

                  Why Open the Web?

                  Despite the connecting purpose of the Web, it is not entirely open to all of its users.
                  When used correctly, HTML documents can be displayed across platforms and devices.
                  However, many devices are excluded access to Web content.

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                  • avl
                    avl Opera last edited by

                    I might have around 25 to 30. I have another MacBook Pro that was one generation prior and I have 40 to 50 tabs and I do not see this issue. Both machines have the same upgrades performed on them.

                    Note @chas4 said windows, not tabs, since the problem he's seeing is related to having many windows open at the same time. I do not expect you to have the same problem as him with 'just' many tabs open.

                    For some of you here: there's a bug in the Apple Dock we're investigating which causes OS X to get very slow if there are any minimized Opera windows. We're trying to find a workaround for it, but in any case check if you have any minimized Opera windows that could have an effect on what you're seeing.

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                    • chas4
                      chas4 last edited by

                      I do have a lot of windows minimized to the Dock (8 right now & no slow down, but sometimes it is slower with many more)

                      Why Open the Web?

                      Despite the connecting purpose of the Web, it is not entirely open to all of its users.
                      When used correctly, HTML documents can be displayed across platforms and devices.
                      However, many devices are excluded access to Web content.

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                      • lissarudy
                        lissarudy last edited by

                        Yes me too I have some issues using Opera, is getting slow using my Mac sometime when I using http://es.shopify.com to configure my online store compare to Chrome.

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                        • eybbye
                          eybbye last edited by

                          I use Opera before Safari and Firefox (recomended by my supplier)
                          BUT
                          The Opera is e x t r e m e s l o w and it doesnt help to restart either Opera or the Mac, at the same time the Firefox and Safari operates as normal.
                          How can I detect the problem?

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                          • fordster
                            fordster last edited by

                            @eybby have you tried renaming your session files. That worked for me in the short-term.

                            Quit Opera and go to ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/ Rename the files session.db, session-db.journal, session.dbak Restart Opera and it will re-create those files.

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                            • lanbrown
                              lanbrown last edited by

                              So far the Opera 30 release has fixed my issue. I figured it would as I switched to Chrome because Opera was just unusable. Chrome was one release ahead of Opera.

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                              • avl
                                avl Opera last edited by

                                Thanks @lanbrown, Opera 30 indeed improves session handling so I'm glad that turned out to be the problem/fix for some of you.

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