Apparently, disabling the hardware acceleration helps in here. No GPU usage at all, and still fast enough. I really recommend to turn that off on laptop.

Sadly Opera 27.0.1689.69 has problem again

I don't know why does loading a simple, non-hitech HTML5 website even consuming 40-50% of GPU power...

I've tried other browsers (*fox based, chrome), none has this kind of problem. Sure they also use GPU too, but its usage isn't as high as Opera.

It seems the 27.0.1689.66 update today fixed it, not much though, I still notice 40-50% GPU usage when loading a page, but somehow it drops quickly making it better than before. Thanks.

Nope, the problem still occurs. I don't think that is the cause (but I've tried it anyway, a help better than none).

"Ghosted" target in shorcut are usual, even for Microsoft product (something like this isn't? http://i.imgur.com/Bdx08Iq.png)

Any other thoughts?

Hi,

I notice there's something strange with latest Opera 27.0.1689.54 (which labeled "stable"). In my laptop, everytime I open a new site in a new tab or click a link (any kinds of links, secure or non secure), suddenly there's an increase (spiking) of CPU usage up to 50-65%. I checked it with Process Explorer (Sysinternals), along with it, the GPU also somehow, increase, around 20-30%. This is quite annoying when I open several tabs (6-8), it drains battery faster, and warmer. The spikes will down when the page is fully loaded, but this is quite annoying especially when I tried multitasking (open several tabs, click on some link, switch to other while waiting it's loaded). My specs are i7-3520M, 4GB (slot), Intel HD 4000.

Previous version (Opera 26) didn't have this problem. It occurs ever since I upgrade to 27. Reinstalling didn't solve, and I've checkup for any malicious programs that might run, there's none. So obviously it's Opera's.

And I can't downgrade back to 26, the installer stated that user data was incompatible because it's newer, damn.

Please check this out. Thanks.