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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.

@stingear @teshia @blackwidow @goodness4411 I just fixed mine by deleting the browsing history (just the first tickbox in clear data, you can keep the rest) - Opera Menu, history, clear browsing data, select only the first box (browsing history) and untick the rest. Thanks to @burnout426

When posting in here (new post) with Opera, I get a little red thing bottom right saying error. Not very useful.

@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 A decision to remove something useful? To deliberately ignore an OS setting which all other programs follow? A very stupid decision. There is absolutely nothing to gain from ignoring the wishes of the user, and also behaving differently to every other installed program. Hire new staff please.

Every time I click a link in an email, Opera opens and displays

"[site address] is blocked
This page has been blocked by an extension
Try disabling your extensions
ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT"

Which extension? And it isn't blocked, as 2 seconds later the message goes away and the page loads normally. What the hell?

So, restarting the computer didn't help, yet leaving it overnight did? Another oddity, while it was doing the crashing, my browsing history was empty, yet menu, history, recently closed was ok. And now all the history is back.

I must admit it's the first crashing problem I've had with Opera since it was invented decades ago.

@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?

Could we either return the speed dial to the programming that worked a couple of versions ago, or call it something else. It's ridiculous to sit waiting for it to appear with the word "speed" in the title. You don't need to reprogram it, just undo whatever you did.

@burnout426 I haven't closed Opera. I changed the setting and it didn't take effect. Maybe a restart would have sorted it as did a manual check.

Kinda like the Task Scheduler in Windows. It needs a trigger first before the repeat delay starts, very annoying.

@burnout426 Thanks for all your help, that worked! Not sure how Shareaza was messing around when it wasn't running. Nowadays computers are so untidy we can't see what's going on anymore.