My father with an antiquated computer says Opera takes ages to load. Since I have a fast computer (24 core with NVME), and have way less stuff on the start page, I've always enjoyed it only taking a second or two to load. But it's getting much slower recently. Is there a way to speed it up? Is it trying to access images to display on the start page thumbnails? Can I disable something to make it quick again? The start page opens instantly if I open a new tab, but it's the initial Opera start that's slow. If I close Opera then open it immediately, it's still slow, so nothing to do with disk access (I have an NVME anyway).

If you do a google search in the address bar, then click one of the links, then press back, Opera goes all the way back to the speed dial instead of the search results.

This seems to happen randomly, although one which always works is: do a search for Peter Hucker. Click the IMDB entry. Now click back.

@paulrevere

Fixed!

I went into "C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" and emptied all the folders marked cache etc, using treesize to find large folders and folders with many files. Starts up in a tenth of the time now. So just the usual bloat programs don't take care of themselves.

Please add a warning if Opera is closed when multiple tabs are open.

Suddenly this evening, Opera now crashes on every other start. In the task manager I find Opera using one whole CPU core, with no disk access, and no change in the amount of memory in use. I also see "opera crash reporter" running, but nothing is displayed on the screen. If I kill Opera and start it again it works. Then crashes the following time. Is it trying to do an update or something?

EDIT: I've discovered it's actually crashing on EXIT. Hence:

1. Successfull start.
2. Close Opera, I can't see it's still running but crashed.
3. Open Opera, nothing happens.
4. Kill in task manager.
5. Start normally.
6. Goto 2.

EDIT: Version number is 74.0.3911.203
I closed Opera, downloaded it, thinking I might get a newer one that was stuck upgrading, and installed it. No help.
Strangely, when I run Opera, I see "Opera Internet Browser (24)" in the task manager, expanding this, I see the crash reporter running (before it's crashed!) and 23 instances of Opera. Is that normal?

@burnout426 Thanks!

Of course it's a bug, it's a missing obvious feature every other browser has.

So now I can no longer open a previously closed tab, only the latest one, so I have to open 5 before I find the one I want.

Also I can't click the tab to jump to the top of the page like I used to.

Why keep removing the good stuff?

And they still haven't fixed Ebay! Most listings show the main description in a tiny inset frame that scrolls seperately, very difficult to use. No other browser does that.

@burnout426 Reducing the NUMBER of files in store to a third had little effect on the new size of a rebuilt lexicon. Deleting the few large files in store caused the lexicon to change size dramatically, from several times larger than store, to half the size of store. I think it must have been making a bad attempt at finding words in yenc encoding, which would essentially be a 3 million character word, or thousands of very long ones. I used to have binary groups in Opera and it usually coped. I think yenc just confuses it.

I don't really care if there's an 8GB store, but the problem is with a huge amount of random disk access when it's messing about trying to do whatever it's doing. Which puts disk usage to 100% continuously, and slows everything else down. This machine has a rotary drive, but my last one I had Opera on had an SSD, and suffered a similar problem. I don't really like the possibility of wearing out either type of drive, which I'm sure would happen if Opera continued at 100% usage 24/7.

It annoys me too. Why are "submit feedback", "snapshot", "privacy protection" and "add to bookmarks" mandatory? I never ever use them.

Sorted!

You don't need an extension. If you open the developer tools while the image is there, you can see all the images on that page in a list, and you can right click and save. Detailed instructions at https://www.alphr.com/save-images-when-right-click-is-disabled/ It's for Chrome, but it works in Opera too.,

Well since Opera has an option to disable Javascript in the settings, I tried that. But that stops any page which wants to use it from loading. Like an anti non-Javascript detector.

Laughingly, this very forum produced an error when I tried to reply:

"Your browser does not seem to support JavaScript. As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you have been placed in read-only mode.
Please download a browser that supports JavaScript, or enable it if it's disabled (i.e. NoScript)."

Are there extensions which disable only very small portions of javascript and wouldn't be detected?

And my original question - why are sites allowed to do this in the first place?

@leocg I tried pinboard, but it only shows a handful of images from a website. I think the best way would be to disable scripts preventing me from right clicking an image. Which extension does this?

@batsk8 said in Opera Cashback:

@hucker: I agree, I'm from Poland and I also hate the inconsistency with commas and dots, especially in spreadsheets, where it makes a huge difference, and a spreadsheet from abroad can contain errors due to that.
Anyway, that Opera Cashback seems like a scam, never got anything from them, even though my history of visiting online stores was saved, but the purchases were not.
Also should I use the built-in cashback feature, or this extension? The built-in feature disables the extension and vice versa. One way or another, it doesn't work.

Not sure why some countries use a comma for a decimal point. We say "fifty three point seven" - how can a comma be a point?

Yeah I was also annoyed at having two methods of cashback, both pestering me at once. I was told in here to turn off the extension. Mine works every time on Ebay (not tried anywhere else), I just use the built in little one on the left of the address bar. Although it would be better if it just stayed on all the time, like my Nectar points do. It does take quite a while (about a week?) for the cashback to come through, but you should be able to see pending things in your account after about a week.

@floops said in Opera Cashback:

@hucker: Opera operates out of Norway, hence the different notation. Stop the whining and get used to it. It isn't that difficult.

I will not get used to what is wrong.

@leocg said in Opera Cashback:

@hucker Several countries in South America, Central America, Africa, Asia use comma as a decimal separator.

Ah, the dominions of the 3rd... no I'd better not say that. The EU.

The EU uses the SI standard don't they? So why mess up the .?

@leocg Most common where? The only people using the comma are those <disgusted expression>EU lot</disgusted expression>.

@leocg Not good to do things like that differently to everyone else, that's how NASA crashed a spacecraft. As I said, it's a decimal Point And since the program functions in English, it should perhaps use English notation? Anyway we're all on the SI system, here's the official explanation:

https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/writing-si-metric-system-units

@leocg said in Opera Cashback:

@hucker Change the comma to a point.

A typo? 1.000 is a very accurate one. 1,000 is a thousand. It's called a decimal point, not a decimal comma.

My Opera now says (after changing many times) up to 1,2% cashback. I'm unfamiliar with this notation. Does that mean 1% or 2%? Why are two numbers listed?