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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.

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?

@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.

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.

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.

I get the message "Your extension was disabled because it is corrupted." every time I start Opera. I've tried everything but it won't go away, it's the Ruffle extension and I'm fine not using it anymore. I tried:

Repair. Restart Opera. Problem still exists.
Remove. Restart Opera. Problem still exists.
Reinstall. Restart Opera. Problem still exists.
Remove after the reinstall. Restart Opera. Problem still exists.

How do I stop this? Can I delete something manually? The extension will not go away. It's a Chrome extension running under the Chrome extension emulator.

@darthgtb Why? I like Opera the way it was. The illegal MS style forced updates have been thwarted.

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.

@vegelund said in General Opera One Appearance Feedback Topic:

@hucker said:

Actually, that website says 5021FF is Purplish blue. So blue but slightly off. Not purple.

https://colors.artyclick.com/color-shades-finder/?color=#5021FF

Nope, the Opera color is not that blue.

I saw 5021FF written up there, I just checked, my photo editor agrees, the Opera colour is exactly that one:

@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

@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.

@andrew84 Tabs shouldn't float, they should be attached. Go back to Opera 99 style. Get rid of the new age crap.

@leocg said in General Opera Feedback Topic:

@mollycockles you can download Opera 99 from https://get.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/99.0.4788.88/.

Remember that you should install it while offline and block the automatic updates by renaming the auto update executables in the installation directory.

Not good enough. I shouldn't have to hack into it to stop autoupdates. What are you guys doing?! It's my computer not yours, now keep your hands off it.

And when you move my post to another thread, at least have the decency to notify me.

@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.