I've found that this behaviour coincides with Opera misbehaving when dragging tabs to another window (bug report DNAWIZ-114163)

Next time you face this "2 clicks to close the tab" issue, please also try dragging a tab to another window and see what happens: in my case I get a thumbnail that won't go away after docking the tab. The only way out is to force quit Opera (or you can move the tab thumbnail to another desktop out of the way as a temporary workaround).

@leocg it seems that this develops after Opera is open for a few days, so most likely explanation is a boring memory leak rather than anything specific to my install.

@the-operation said in Click twice to close tabs - sometimes:

Well this doesn't fix it forever but you can restart opera to fix the double click cmd w thing and the frozen tab problem. I think it's a little bug in Opera's system that they didn't find yet so yeah just restart Opera whenever you need to.

In my experience 99% of the time it requires a force quit - "just restart Opera" hangs during quit, and actually it can block OS shutdown too if you don't force quit it (when this issue arises).

Would be nice for someone from Opera to let us know what additional info we could provide to help isolate this bug.

When Opera gets sluggish, I open Developer > Task Manager and try sorting by Memory Footprint or CPU.

I usually see Extension: Background worker using lots of RAM. E.g. at the moment it's on 6GB!

I only have 3 extensions enabled (LastPass, Opera Ad Blocker, and a json formatter). Disabling all 3 extensions doesn't kill that process/task.

What is it, and why is it eating all my RAM?

I can 'End Process' in Opera's Task Manager and (apart from RAM usage / performance improving), nothing bad seems to happen. So I guess my question is how do I turn this useless thing off?

@747driver said in Click twice to close tabs - sometimes:

The only way to solve this is to restart Opera (sometimes multiple times a day...).

You won't want to hear it, but I solved this problem another way (for exactly that reason): switched to Vivaldi

It's obviously off-topic for this forum, but frankly if the Opera developers don't care to investigate and fix the bug, I have limited patience to continue using their browser over the multitude of others!

@paotrail Sadly that hasn't helped here. Still an issue with "Hold ⌘Q" option disabled.

Currently running 91.0.4516.16 (x86_64)

@paotrail interesting. How long have you been trouble-free since doing that? The intermittent nature of the bug makes it hard to know for sure if it's cured or just taking a break...

I've just disabled the mentioned option and will try to report back with my results.

@shortspoken said in Click twice to close tabs - sometimes:

I also faced the problem but updating to the new version 88.0.4412.53 fixed it for me.

Sadly it's still broken even on 89.0.4447.38 (about to update to 89.0.4447.48 but I'm not holding my breath...)

Maybe Gmail is a possible cause (or at least trigger)?

I will often put my Mac to sleep with Opera left open, and Gmail one of the handful of tabs kept open from that browsing session.

For example, this morning I see Opera using 2.4GB RAM, of which 1.4GB is the Extension: Background worker, and 540MB for the Gmail tab.

Because I use Gmail daily, it's hard for me to test the behaviour without it, but I will try to experiment with keeping it open vs. closing it and measuring what impact that has on Extension: Background worker memory growth.

@leocg it seems that this develops after Opera is open for a few days, so most likely explanation is a boring memory leak rather than anything specific to my install.

When Opera gets sluggish, I open Developer > Task Manager and try sorting by Memory Footprint or CPU.

I usually see Extension: Background worker using lots of RAM. E.g. at the moment it's on 6GB!

I only have 3 extensions enabled (LastPass, Opera Ad Blocker, and a json formatter). Disabling all 3 extensions doesn't kill that process/task.

What is it, and why is it eating all my RAM?

I can 'End Process' in Opera's Task Manager and (apart from RAM usage / performance improving), nothing bad seems to happen. So I guess my question is how do I turn this useless thing off?

@the-operation said in Click twice to close tabs - sometimes:

Well this doesn't fix it forever but you can restart opera to fix the double click cmd w thing and the frozen tab problem. I think it's a little bug in Opera's system that they didn't find yet so yeah just restart Opera whenever you need to.

In my experience 99% of the time it requires a force quit - "just restart Opera" hangs during quit, and actually it can block OS shutdown too if you don't force quit it (when this issue arises).

Would be nice for someone from Opera to let us know what additional info we could provide to help isolate this bug.

@kjeldahl yeah it won't drag, but if you ctrl+up to show all desktops it should be possible to drag it to another desktop that way. You cannot drag it to a different monitor though (in normal "view"), or around the same screen/desktop as you mentioned.

Like you, I didn't find how to actually reproduce the conditions to trigger the bug - just that it happens to me quite often, using Opera as my main browser with an average of around 10 tabs open at once, across 2 monitors (lots of tabs opened and closed throughout the day, and dragging tabs between those monitors / Opera windows quite often).

I even replaced my ancient Macbook Air with a new MBP - in part to see if it was related to underpowered hardware, or some kind of glitch with old hardware that nobody tests against anymore. Sadly the behaviour remains.

I've found that this behaviour coincides with Opera misbehaving when dragging tabs to another window (bug report DNAWIZ-114163)

Next time you face this "2 clicks to close the tab" issue, please also try dragging a tab to another window and see what happens: in my case I get a thumbnail that won't go away after docking the tab. The only way out is to force quit Opera (or you can move the tab thumbnail to another desktop out of the way as a temporary workaround).