Running 10.6.7 and Opera 24 is just swallowing RAM - after an hour of usage, the app takes over 150 MB and there are 6-7 helper processes that take over 300 MB (one for each tab, I guess.) Gmail takes about 150MB per id/helper. With just 2GB, this makes using the browser difficult. bte, after reading your post, I deleted the fb and yt speed dial links and that did not help at all for me. There seems to be a bigger problem in the browser.