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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.
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).
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:
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.
@burnout426 said in Show system color on top bar?:
@hucker When it comes down to it, pretty much, in my opinion. And, it's not going to be fixed as it clashes with the design in their opinions.
I'd say to try Vivaldi instead, but it also doesn't honor the OS for the tab bar. It has its own colors you can set. In options though, you turn set Vivaldi to use a native Windows and you'll at least get a colored title bar.
You might want to try plain Chromium instead. https://chromium.woolyss.com/. There's even an ungoogled version.
It's not just a coloured title bar I want, it's one that changes colour when it's in focus, so I know it's in focus. But I doubt I'll change browser just for one thing. I hate learning new stuff.
@leocg Seems to be working fine today, but it wasn't yesterday. Seems Opera has a bit of a problem communicating sometimes, I see others having similar problems.
@leocg The problem is most likely not local, so it's a stupid assumption to make. Before jumping to conclusions, perhaps Opera should test some random connections?
I know why the following is happening, the server is overloaded. It's Einstein's fault, not mine, so why does Opera tell perhaps innocent untechy users to start messing around with their cabling and router for goodness sake?!
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Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
Check your internet connection.
Check any cables and reboot any routers, modems, or other network devices you may be using.
Allow Opera to access the network in your firewall or antivirus settings.
If it is already listed as a program allowed to access the network, try removing it from the list and adding it again.
If you use a proxy server…
Check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using a proxy server: Go to the Main menu > Settings > Change proxy settings… > LAN Settings and deselect "Use a proxy server for your LAN".
When posting in here (new post) with Opera, I get a little red thing bottom right saying error. Not very useful.
I put Opera Browser assistant back on, that didn't help.
What does that thing do anyway? I can't see any benefit.
@paulrevere Wow, we're on 86? I thought only Firefox did that nonsense. Have they not heard of decimal places? The first number should be for a major revision.
Not sure what version slowness began with here, but it was within the last month it slowed down.
Still, mustn't grumble - Paintshop Pro takes 30 Seconds to load on the latest machine. And they think that's ok! whatever happened to decent programmers who wrote tight code?
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).
@leocg said in Turn of picture in picture:
@hucker Then you looked in all settings and found video pop-out.
Not sure why you're typing it as though I've already done it, but yes I found that, I'll see if it works. Youtube just does it randomly without asking, I'm not sure what triggers it.