My father with an antiquated computer says Opera takes ages to load. Since I have a fast computer (24 core with NVME), and have way less stuff on the start page, I've always enjoyed it only taking a second or two to load. But it's getting much slower recently. Is there a way to speed it up? Is it trying to access images to display on the start page thumbnails? Can I disable something to make it quick again? The start page opens instantly if I open a new tab, but it's the initial Opera start that's slow. If I close Opera then open it immediately, it's still slow, so nothing to do with disk access (I have an NVME anyway).

If you do a google search in the address bar, then click one of the links, then press back, Opera goes all the way back to the speed dial instead of the search results.

This seems to happen randomly, although one which always works is: do a search for Peter Hucker. Click the IMDB entry. Now click back.

I'm watching the new Operas on a secondary computer, hoping it gets reverted to the decent old interface, and forcing version 99 to stay on my main computer.

I don't want rounded corners on everything like a Mac, I use a real computer, not a kid's toy. My monitor is LCD, it has square corners. Rounded corners make me think I'm on an 80s CRT TV.

I don't want to have to hover over a tab and then find where the hidden X is.

Is there a way to turn off the new interface changes so I can enjoy any bug fixes etc I'm missing out on?

What is this nonsense you've flung on me without my permission? It's gone all mac like or phone like or something. It doesn't look like a proper browser anymore. There isn't even an X on each tab until I hover over it, and everything's got round corners, what incase I hurt my finger on it? I think I'll choose another browser, goodbye.

@paulrevere

Fixed!

I went into "C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" and emptied all the folders marked cache etc, using treesize to find large folders and folders with many files. Starts up in a tenth of the time now. So just the usual bloat programs don't take care of themselves.

There's no point in these grumbles. Grumble anywhere and your post gets put in here by a moderator without your permission, and they don't even tell you they've done it. It's the cupboard at the end of the hall nobody looks in. The designers have already made their silly design, they won't back down, they worked hard on messing it up. Until one gets fired, Opera is going to be rubbish. Time to leave.

Please add a warning if Opera is closed when multiple tabs are open.

Suddenly this evening, Opera now crashes on every other start. In the task manager I find Opera using one whole CPU core, with no disk access, and no change in the amount of memory in use. I also see "opera crash reporter" running, but nothing is displayed on the screen. If I kill Opera and start it again it works. Then crashes the following time. Is it trying to do an update or something?

EDIT: I've discovered it's actually crashing on EXIT. Hence:

1. Successfull start.
2. Close Opera, I can't see it's still running but crashed.
3. Open Opera, nothing happens.
4. Kill in task manager.
5. Start normally.
6. Goto 2.

EDIT: Version number is 74.0.3911.203
I closed Opera, downloaded it, thinking I might get a newer one that was stuck upgrading, and installed it. No help.
Strangely, when I run Opera, I see "Opera Internet Browser (24)" in the task manager, expanding this, I see the crash reporter running (before it's crashed!) and 23 instances of Opera. Is that normal?

And now Opera 99, which I forced to stop updating to 101, is showing the menu in bright red to annoy me about an update it insists on. This is as bad as Windows Updates.

@burnout426 Thanks!

If it worked all by itself I would use it, but user interaction just to save £0.02 what's the point?

@sgunhouse said in [Suggestion]Keep Opera in memory option.:

@hucker Try it. Running in the background is still running.

I don't understand, I want Opera to be running but not visibly

@sgunhouse said in [Suggestion]Keep Opera in memory option.:

Try this:

opera://settings/?search=start

See the option "Run when my computer starts"? Enable that.

But won't that just open opera? What I'm looking for is the code to be running in the background but without a window open, so it's ready for me to use when I want to. And I can close it and it's still ready to open quickly.

@leocg said in [Suggestion]Keep Opera in memory option.:

@hucker https://forums.opera.com/category/15/suggestions-and-feature-requests is still there

Thanks, I didn't see that because from the main forum page I go straight to opera for windows

Yes I know it's on the far right there, but I didn't look over there, I expected suggestions not to be inside opera for windows and looked down the main list.

@leocg said in Feedback? Keep Opera in memory option.:

@hucker This looks more as a suggestion.

Yes it is! But there is no feedback/suggestion box any more!

@leocg said in Feedback? Keep Opera in memory option.:

@hucker Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

You call it Opera One, but the Opera download page refers to it as simply Opera.
https://www.opera.com/download

@JayNightmare But Opera starts instantly if it's already running. All I need is it to stay in memory. Windows will swap it to disk if it's not used and I run out of RAM. It doesn't have to do things in the background, just wait until I open it. This could surely be an option. There is an extension which makes it minimize to tray, but this requires me to remember not to press close, and also the tab stay open which I don't want.

I cannot find anywhere to give Opera feedback, only to report a bug. The feedback option has been removed from the menu and the website. So I'll try in here. Can someone escalate this or direct me somewhere better?

Edge starts considerably faster than Opera. This is because it stays in memory. Opera doesn't have this extremely useful feature, which I'm sure would increase the number of people liking the browser. Staying in memory does not slow the computer down, as Windows deals very well with dumping memory to swapfile when you run out of RAM.

@burnout426 Unfortunately I can't remember the site! I'll note down your instructions.

@leocg Ah, like MS's policy to deliberately remove things people find useful. Whenever the word policy is used, something bad happens and common sense flies out the window.