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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!!

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.

Still no news on this? I'd also really like Speed Dial to be actually speedy, without this animation.

Furthermore, as posted somewhere else, it would be great if the zooming of the Speed Dial is not shared with the bookmarks and the history. I always increase the Speed Dial size, but I don't want the other two to be zoomed as well.

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.

@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...

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.

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.

Well, I just upgraded to 69.0.3686.57 and something was fixed... Now the day changes at midnight, but there's still something wrong: now it's one day off! For example, urls from today, Monday 13th, appear as "Today Sunday 12". I hope version 70 fixes this completely...

At least now it's a bit easier to know which day each history entry belongs to.

Great, that did the trick. Thanks! For some reason I didn't think this configuration could be among the experimental flags. I wonder if this setting is temporary and in the future it will be impossible to undo this...

@leocg said in HIstory date is incorrect:

From Opera Beta 70 changelog:

DNA-79195 Wrong date on history

No luck, version 70 still has the same error as version 69. That is, date cutoff is fine, but it says "Today - <yesterday's weekday> <yesterday's date>"
And for "Yesterday", it's the day before. So the words "today" and "yesterday" are fine, but the dates are all wrong.

Now the Speed Dial seems to be the exact same instance across different tabs. If you open two tabs, and on the second one you scroll down and open a folder, if you then go to the previous tab (untouched Speed Dial), you will see the exact same thing. It will even make you think you didn't change the tab at all.
Furthermore, in this scenario, if you open a link from that Speed Dial open folder and close any other tabs with a Speed Dial, when you open a new tab, the Speed Dial will load just as it was before: scrolled-down and with a folder open. For those who are developers, this looks like a singleton.
This has started happening recently.

I always use the full page History, as I don't use the lateral bar.
Anyway, I just tried it and the issue is pretty much the same. With the lateral history I get "today" with no date (fine so far), then "yesterday" with no date, but then comes "Monday 27", instead of "Tuesday 28" (it's Thursday already here).

Weird. I was only able to reproduce something similar by enabling the sidebar menu (as per @andrew84's comment) and clicking alternatively on Speed Dial and Extensions. Otherwise, it doesn't seem to happen. I have dark background pages in my Speed Dial, which also has a dark background, but no flashing happens.

After a quick check, it seems the history alone seems right, I will confirm after a few days to be sure.

But there's still an issue with the date range. By default the date pickers show you today, but it seems the timezone bug is still there, as today is greyed out. As I'm in UTC -3 (the day change in history used to happen at 9pm), I think this happens because the calendar enables up to 9pm from the previous day.

If I go to Februrary and pick from 24th to 26th, it selects 23rd to 25th in the calendar (the dates are right at the top though).

I will also need some days to further test this, as I cannot select March 1st to test the date range filtering.

I added the pages you mentioned to the speed dial, and this is how it behaves here with a just-installed portable GX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p7jgOkFww

I left it open just to try, and after 20 minutes it stopped! So I took a leap of faith... closed Opera, opened it again, but no luck, the process is back at using 25% CPU...

@ljfried said in Opera Won't Open:

@jquartana I know that I look like a total jerk but I don't see any "instructions in search bar" when I copied and pasted and...do you copy and paste all three things (Install, Profile, Cache) or just Cache?

You have to copy the profile path, open Windows Explorer (which you use to browse folders, or when you open the "Documents" icon, for example), paste the path in the address bar above, and then you can delete those files (if you don't mind losing such data). You can try renaming them to see if that works. Remember Opera must be closed before doing this.