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.

I'm watching the new Operas on a secondary computer, hoping it gets reverted to the decent old interface, and forcing version 99 to stay on my main computer.

I don't want rounded corners on everything like a Mac, I use a real computer, not a kid's toy. My monitor is LCD, it has square corners. Rounded corners make me think I'm on an 80s CRT TV.

I don't want to have to hover over a tab and then find where the hidden X is.

Is there a way to turn off the new interface changes so I can enjoy any bug fixes etc I'm missing out on?

What is this nonsense you've flung on me without my permission? It's gone all mac like or phone like or something. It doesn't look like a proper browser anymore. There isn't even an X on each tab until I hover over it, and everything's got round corners, what incase I hurt my finger on it? I think I'll choose another browser, goodbye.

@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.

There's no point in these grumbles. Grumble anywhere and your post gets put in here by a moderator without your permission, and they don't even tell you they've done it. It's the cupboard at the end of the hall nobody looks in. The designers have already made their silly design, they won't back down, they worked hard on messing it up. Until one gets fired, Opera is going to be rubbish. Time to leave.

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?

And now Opera 99, which I forced to stop updating to 101, is showing the menu in bright red to annoy me about an update it insists on. This is as bad as Windows Updates.

@burnout426 Thanks!

@cangyuyao said in General Opera One Appearance Feedback Topic:

What's going on with the gaps and spacing all over the interface? Generally a laptop only has a display between 13 to 17 inches. Can we make good use of it?

There's no staff in here to listen. We're talking to a brick wall.

@MikeR78 Opera should work the same on both platforms. If it doesn't they're not very good programmers. The word I'm looking for is consistency. Imagine you used both regularly....

@andrew84 So still needs fixing.

The blurryness looks like it's not used a very good resampling method. If you resample an image in a photo editor, it takes some time, so Opera correctly does a simpler one. What it could do is have these already made in two sizes and stored.

When I click a speed dial button, it bounces before opening the page. Folders do it too. So to open Ebay I have to wait twice for a bounce before I get to enjoy Ebay, can I please turn off this fluffy waste of time?

@andrew84 The more complaints the more likely it goes away.

@andrew84 Where do I put suggestions? I see nowhere in the forums. In the Opera menu I only find where to report bugs.

When I click a speed dial button, it bounces before opening the page. Folders do it too. So to open Ebay I have to wait twice for a bounce before I get to enjoy Ebay, can I please turn off this fluffy waste of time?

@leocg Ah, Chrome password generator works on another page. I guess it didn't detect it was a password field on the last page I tried.

But they are not the same. Opera always uses lower and upper case letters only. Chrome randomly uses a mixture of numbers, symbols, lower case, upper case. Although sometimes there is no number and the site won't accept it, it's better.

So Opera is not using it, or not using it the same way.

@leocg Chromium and Chrome browsers have no password suggester.

Suggested passwords from Opera have no symbols or numbers, so don't work on a lot of sites. My method of generating my own is to randomly hit three letters, three capital letters, three numbers, and three symbols, please use something like this.

@leocg But what about this chrome enabler? Should we be removing it? Why are there two if they're both built in?