Same problem here. Downgrading in a few minutes to v22. It's very annoying not to be able to go outside windows without using the windows button. I really liked the new heart menu in v23, ah well, I'll wait.

Edit: Pfff, downgrading isn't a fine solution either. It will upgrade automatically to v23, and meanwhile your search engines and profile is messed up. Can't find the disable auto update, must be somewhere. Grr...

Edit2: "C:\Program Files (x86)\OperaN\launcher.exe" --disable-update should work, but it doen'st. I'm done here, will use chrome for a while until it's fixed.

@lem729 Aah, thanks, overlooked the star to bookmark a site.

@trimn, let me know when you fixed it!

Thanks, although I meant a button to create a bookmark. For the sake of clarity for people who encounter the same issues:

-Extension causing lag: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/-o-bookmarks/?display=en

-Extension without lag: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/add-bookmark/?display=en

Opera 20 is still a bit more lagging the Opera 12 when navigating backwards, but it's a lot better without this lagging extension.

I have around 6 sites in my Speed dial. Three websites I open at the same time from the speed dial, of which fastmail and gmail are the slowest.

Your tip about disabling extensions was an intriguing one. Disabled them all, and did notice a major improvement. The culprit is the extension called "Opera Bookmark Manager". This extension adds a small icon on a tab to bookmark a page. A page will lag until the icon appears. No extension -> no icon -> no lag, but no bookmark option either.

Will lookup an alternative for the extension. Thanks for your elaborated answer!

I'm using Opera 20 for a while now. Tab handling is kinda slow compared to the old Opera with Presto engine. I found lots of workarounds for other problems, and I hope there will be one for adding speed as well :).

Use cases where Opera is slow to me:

• Open three pages from your speed dial. While loading, try to close tab. Opera wll lag a few seconds, you tend to keep clicking on close tab and you close too many tabs.

• Opening and closing new tabs seems to be delayed by half a second. I liked this "instant response" feeling with Presto.

• Navigate backwards within a tab to a previous website: it takes a second or more for heavy pages. Presto did this in 0 seconds.

Does anyone know a way to speed up Opera 20?

Yep, offroad mode was on. Thanks for the suggestion!

Don't know how it got turned on, but at least I know what offroad mode does :D.

Does Opera 19 uses opera-mini.net as a proxy?

If I check my ip and proxy at www.watismijnip.nl, I see Opera19 uses opera-mini.net as a proxy. What's this, are you rerouting my traffic? You could harvest all browsing activities like that, not something I would like Opera to do. How can I disable this "feature"?