@leocg Ok, so 200 is the standard for just a regular tab, I tested this and a tab with nothing on it is around 500 MBs, I know it's not a huge deal because I have a lot of memory, but I still want to know why its more than double the normal amount.

@nekoharu no offense bro but I already said I did that in the original post.

@leocg Weird, I read that around 200 MBs was the norm, oh well, anyway how do I fix a memory leak in opera?

So I've had opera for about a year now and its been great for me, but recently every time I try pulling up a youtube video it now takes forever to load and now most of the time It crashes and the errors says opera has run out of memory.

I am using Windows 11 and my browser is the latest version of Opera GX.

I went to my task manager and holy guacomole, its taking up 700 - 1000 MBs of memory on its own, when I try pulling up a youtube video its shoots up to 1500 and continually rises until it hits about 6,500 MBs and then it crashes, this process takes about 1 minute.

I am astounded to be frank with you all.

These are the methods I have tried (from another user on the forum)

You might first try clearing Opera's cache and history elements from within Opera via: Settings > Advanced > Privacy and Security > Clear browsing data > Time range: all time, then check all boxes shown except Passwords and Autofill data > Clear data. That may reduce Opera's memory consumption significantly if there is something massive stored in cache or history.

If that approach fails to reduce memory consumption, you could then try "resetting" Opera's profile by opening Opera to locate and copy down the file/folder path of your profile folder (Opera icon > Help > About Opera > Paths: Profile:, then turn off Opera's sync (if it's on). Next, with Opera turned off, use your Windows file explorer to navigate to that profile folder and rename it to something else (eg: rename Opera Stable to XXXOpera Stable). Then once more open Opera (which will automatically recreate the profile folder and files with its original name but default-condition files and settings); then see if Opera's memory consumption is significantly reduced. Note: the newly-created profile will not have your customized settings, bookmarks, etc., but it will eliminate any corrupted files within the profile as a test case; you can always regain your original profile by turning Opera off, deleting the newly-created profile folder name and re-renaming the XXX... folder back to its original name. If the original profile has been corrupted, one can try copying specific customization files (bookmarks, preferences, etc) one-at-a-time from the original renamed profile folder to the newly-created one to retrieve as much of your original settings, etc as possible (always keeping Opera turned off when copying profile folders/files).

I also tried turning off battery saver mode, didn't do anything.

Guys, I need a hero to save me.