@jaym12 So you are saying that you can open all those sites with any browser except Opera? At least they work just fine to me.
You can try disabling the ad blocking, or a private window, or a portable installation of Opera to test without any relation to your current installation/profile.

This started maybe an hour ago. I noticed one of the opera.exe processes was using 25% of the CPU (4 cores), so I closed probably "heavy" pages, but nothing changed. Opened Opera's task manager, and only thing using the CPU is the browser itself with 100%. So I close Opera and that single opera.exe process remains in memory, still consuming 25%.
I cannot open Opera again without killing that exe first. Every time I open the browser that process uses 25% and stays until I kill it. I disabled all extensions, closed all pages from my session and this is still happening. If I kill the process with Opera open, everything is shut down.
It's the most current version (74.0.3911.203), which has been running for some days now, so it's pretty strange. This is on Windows 7 x64 by the way.
I checked some other topics, I tried disabling the Cashback flag, but that didn't help.
For the record, I've been an Opera user for many many years and I don't recall this happening in the past.

Thanks!!

@kimkorton Were you able to solve it?

My Opera started having this ugly behavior a few weeks ago. A few times every couple of hours, when clicking something in a web page, it just keeps loading forever, or perhaps the home page itself never finishes loading at all.
Sometimes stopping and reloading the page works, sometimes a new tab does, and sometimes an incognito window does.
At first I thought it was my ISP, but then I tried other browsers and they work just fine.
Unfortunately it's not easy to replicate: it's like if at some point Opera just gets tired and doesn't want to load anything for several seconds.
I disabled the very few extensions I have but the problem remains.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Furthermore, lately it's been randomly using high amounts of CPU and starting to eat up RAM extremely fast, mostly on a Facebook tab. It just happened a minute ago, I closed Opera but all the processes remained, especially the one that was eating like 6 GB of RAM. I tried to kill it, it wouldn't let me, and seconds later finally most of the processes disappeared, except the 25% one I created this post for.

Here's a screenshot of what happens:

The first time was when after closing the processes remained, the second one fortunately Opera closed more quickly.

I have never used any of those extensions, I find them totally unnecessary.

Just add "pp" after youtube in the url and it will take you to y2mate, one of the many sites that lets you download the video. For example, www.youtubepp.com/watch?v=<video_id>.

@leocg said in Youtube not working properly in Opera browser:

And what is the problem?

I guess he's referring to those huge white icons...

Thank you, burnout426! I edited the Preferences file and removed the whole commands section, and that solved the issue. Although I see that someone else also recommends just changing all these shortcuts to global: false.

@cratte Well, to be honest, extensions can also stop working just as any site (especially if they use a web site's services), and y2mate has been working for many years. And even if it does end at some point, it's just a matter of looking for an alternative only once. I still prefer to only have extensions that are really necessary.

And any other browser works just fine with the same pages? It looks like an issue with the graphics card driver. If other browsers work ok, you can try downloading Opera Portable and check if the issue occurs there.

I cannot begin to fathom how this severe issue hasn't been solved in years... Only the day cutoff was fixed (e.g. day changing at 9pm), but not the 1 day off.

@idakooz said in Opera Browser Not Loading Web Pages Properly on Windows:

Same thing has been happening to me recently. Not exactly sure what's casusing it but feels like a cookies problem. Tried to enable 3rd-party cookies to see if it resolves this issue but Opera never saves the setting I choose for it. Keeps reverting back to disable 3rd-party cookies.

Do you also have Kaspersky?
I stopped having this issue for some months now, luckily.

I don't think a cookies issue would stop a page from loading. Does a private window have the same issue?

@burnout426 said in Opera Browser Not Loading Web Pages Properly on Windows:

@aleksr2 Kaspersky is known to cause issues like that. If you have it, to test if it's the cause, you have to temporarily uninstall it (disabling it isn't enough). Some system-wide VPNs can cause the issue too. In those cases, you also have to uninstall them and not just disable them to test if they're the cause or not. All of those can sometimes affect just Opera and not Chrome.

That's interesting. I also have Kaspersky and of course I tried disabling it, which didn't help, but I also tried a standalone portable Opera instance, and it worked just fine! So I assumed it was something related to my installation or profile.

Anyway, I think it's been several days since the last time I had this issue, so maybe either Opera or Kaspersky got updated and this "duo" now works fine? I'll keep my fingers crossed...

@TycheSD said in Opera Browser Not Loading Web Pages Properly on Windows:

@aleksr2 Hi, I ended up uninstalling Opera and then reinstalled it. The version I had apparently couldn't be updated normally. I haven't had any problems since then.

But did you lose all your profile data, like history, cookies, etc.? Because I think the issue is there somewhere. Trying a separate portable Opera version seems to work just fine.

@kimkorton Were you able to solve it?

My Opera started having this ugly behavior a few weeks ago. A few times every couple of hours, when clicking something in a web page, it just keeps loading forever, or perhaps the home page itself never finishes loading at all.
Sometimes stopping and reloading the page works, sometimes a new tab does, and sometimes an incognito window does.
At first I thought it was my ISP, but then I tried other browsers and they work just fine.
Unfortunately it's not easy to replicate: it's like if at some point Opera just gets tired and doesn't want to load anything for several seconds.
I disabled the very few extensions I have but the problem remains.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

@alobpreis said in Disconnect:

It does not work anymore. It has been displaying a ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND page for months.

Dear users: please read the previous posts before commenting the same thing again. Thanks.

@n4i75irhc1371 said in The High CPU/RAM/GPU Usage Topic - Opera for Desktops:

Some heavy pages sometimes start eating a lot of RAM and CPU here, mostly Facebook pages with videos. With Shift-ESC you can quickly see which page is the culprit. Closing that page alone solves the issue. And often reloading the same page in a new tab doesn't produce the problem again.

And regarding the RAM usage on your computer, you should go to the Details tab, right click on any column header, select columns and add the "Memory - Commit Size" column. In my experience that's the most realistic value, and a high number there will make your computer crawl. Order by that column and see what you find.

I'm not sure if this can be of help, but have in mind that the clipboard can have multiple types of contents. Take for example Excel. If you copy a group of cells, you can paste the text content into Notepad, but also paste a screenshot of those in Paint, having done just one Ctrl-C.
So it looks like in your case the text might have been copied to the clipboard but the image stayed, and the target app used the image content. Did you by chance try to paste afterwards in something like Notepad (where of course images can't be inserted)?
Another thought: some pages have Javascript limitation to copying stuff, I recall experiencing doing Ctrl-X and still having the previous text in the clipboard. I think the key here is exact reproduction steps, maybe related to a specific site.

@albertop Github is clearly not updated, they might have changed the repository. The extension says:

Last update: Dec. 3, 2021

2012 was a different "world", Disconnect would have stopped working much earlier if it hadn't been updated since.

@didad38 And......... why don't you try any other site to see if there's a problem with it? There are sites which have Javascript code that clears the fields.

@didad38 What about other sites? I tried that one and I get a certificate error (only valid for remote.*), not sure if that could be related to the problem.
Your screenshot means you deleted the credentials and they were successfully saved again later?