Posts made by billh

Just a follow up note...tab management is a breeze in Vivaldi. I had to install an extension in Opera to get a new tab to be active when I opened it through a link. Oh well.

Re: Opera 70 crashes when I search via Address Bar

I must say, this issue has reappeared. The first time I open Opera then click into the address bar, which highlights my home page URL, then type in a single letter Opera crashes. If I have several tabs open, running music and something else, when I open the 3rd tab and do the same thing it crashes. The work around is to open Opera, click into the address bar, set the cursor at the end, then backspace all the way to the beginning. Then everything works but I keep forgetting to do this every time I open Opera.

Today was the last straw because I thought I'd try to fix it by resetting the browser (I run Opera portable). Well, two (2) hours later I'm still trying to configure the browser (I did save bookmarks) and configuration is such a nightmare (nothing is where I can find it). Now the same crashing occurs so I've given up.

I refuse to use Chrome so Vivaldi "standalone" seems like a decent alternative (especially configuration). I'm tired of these browser wars. Sigh...

@burnout426 Thanks for the ideas. I guess it's just another of those "use a different browser for a different purpose" things.

I started using Opera for video streaming because Firefox didn't work with some streaming sites (e.g. Sling TV). But it looks like I again have to do something different because of Disney+.

Today's technology is getting worse and worse because the bigger these entertainment and technology companies get the more they insist we use their standards, which usually breaks a bunch of things we've been using for years. Sigh...

@burnout426 It is just the Disney+ tab in Opera that's using the memory. I downloaded and installed Vivaldi as a standalone. The GPU Process stablizes at a higher level on Vivaldi than on Opera but it doesn't seem to be getting too high (100-150MB-Opera vs 400-450MB-Vivaldi). The Disney+ tab on Opera crashes at about 3GB (a little over an hour) but Vivaldi keeps running at 6GB with the GPU memory footprint at 550MB (I finally shut it down after three hours).

Windows 10 is not good.

@burnout426 It is 64bit Opera. I have disabled accelerated video and turned off hardware acceleration. I'm not an Opera support person so have no idea what flags do. I noticed that Opera (specifically the Disney+ tab) just keeps growing in memory usage until it aborts. I don't recall the GPU process doing anything unusual.

I tried Chrome and it doesn't seem to have this problem, in that the Disney+ tab's memory usage doesn't just keep growing and growing.