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I spoke to PayPal and flagged this as something for them to look into. Unless you specifically turn off VPN before using PayPal (on eBay even), PayPal stops working and doesn't say why. It's not just Opera's, but all VPNs.
Is it possible yet to exclude particular domains from VPN?
Thanks for replying. I tried to remove my last comment but Opera Software seem to have removed that feature.
Opera's slowness without extensions seemed to be a different issue I've never seen before: it caused slowness with the swapfile. Reboot seems to have fixed it.
So still testing.
Makes no difference without extensions. It's a bug or 'feature' since Opera 36.
Could be something to do with Facebook or the 180+ tabs I have hibernating.
Since Beta auto-updated to 36, I started having memory problems with Opera. It's possible this coincided with a new extension.
Anyone else having problems or should I start disabling extensions?
There's a nice extension that does an old-style speed dial. As indicated in the comments, you can also make it replace the current speed dial.
Only problem so far is you have to set your speed dial entries again.
https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/fvd-speed-dial-new-tab-page/?display=en
browser://flags/#tab-hibernation
It's probably one of my extensions but Opera is hogging my PC's memory these days.
I've seen zero evidence that Tab Hibernation is working and I've found a Chrome extension that performs a similar function:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg/related?hl=en
I know OS memory management is pretty complicated.
Anyone got answers?
PS. Zoomed reply preview uses only half popup box and bleeds over right margin on your own forums... Using v31.0.1889.16 (current beta).
Unhelpful replies. This should be core functionality of every browser.
Nonetheless, I found a Chrome extension that has similar functionality: