@Torchwood2007 Here's to hoping the extension devs fix it

The recent extension reviews of "Pixiv Toolkit Next":

! Important !
I found the cause of the problem, at least on my end. It was an extension I use to download things from Pixiv. The extension is called "Pixiv Toolkit Next", removing it from the browser solved my issue.

I don't know if you all have the same extension, or if it's another extension causing the problem, or if it's not an extension at all for you. This is what I found, though.

@Torchwood2007 I've made a post about it on the Opera discord, and responses are more regular there.

It is nice to know someone is having similar problems though.

Update: I tried following a tutorial to disable the Efficiency Mode, but it did nothing to help the problem.

Whenever I try to save something from Opera GX, whether that be a picture, a video, a gif, whatever, it takes a long time to open the File Explorer window to let me save it. If I had to guess I'd say a full 5 to 10 seconds.

Furthermore, while waiting, the downloads icon at the top right of the browser has its bar completely filled in, like when a download is just completing. Clicking on it during this time shows nothing in the dropdown menu, even when things are downloading on their own, like when you click download on a page, for example, and it instantly saves to your downloads folder. Despite a download being in progress, the list is empty, only showing completed downloads.

In the task manager Opera GX is listed as being on "Efficiency Mode" with a little green plant next to it for some reason.

I tried switching to Firefox and this issue isn't present there, though Firefox is also on Efficiency Mode for some reason.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling opera, doing a disk cleanup, clearing some cache, setting the browser priorities to High in the task manager, etc.