Posts made by jampsfenlander

This can be some misconfigured antivirus software interfering. I have seen such behavior with older Opera, when antivirus intercepted all temporary files traffic and made it very slow; possible that similar problems can arise with newer Operas too.
Vista HDD background indexing is not that optimal either; I had it disabled on Vista. With 1GB RAM Vista struggles with file caching; background disk access (both indexing and antivirus) slows it down substantially.
Another, pure browser problem can be some extension - try private window, extensions do not run there.
Then enable or disable graphic card display acceleration (I really can't say, where exactly in Opera is option for that, but it is possible) - sometimes (old) video drivers are not 100% compatible.

I will give that a go, as well. I was hoping chucking the almost full half of my partioned HD into the almost empty half might help, too.

1 gig of memory on Vista? OUCH! Thats like 1/4th of what you need for that OS. RAM is cheap now, bump that guy up to 4 gigs and your life will be so much better. With only a gig of RAM your system will be making heavy use of the swap file on your hard drive and that is a lot slower than RAM. The more programs/windows/tabs you have open the more you use that swap file and the slower your system will get.
As for having a bunch of tabs open I currently am rocking 5 windows (4 normal, 1 private) with a total of 29 tabs across them. I regularly jump to 6-7 windows and hundreds of tabs when doing something. My system was last rebooted on the 29th of August and Opera has been running continuously since that time. I regularly run it much longer than that without issues (had to reboot for Windows Updates). I'm using Windows 8.1 but I did the same stuff with Opera on Windows 7.

Thanks for your excellent reply. I tend to hang on to any PC that works for way too long. I wondered if it was a lack of memory, in fact, couldn't imagine what else it could be apart from inherent coding limitations of the Opera browser. So yes, a memory upgrade is simple and cheap enough. Thanks

All browsers fail at some point, be it IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and the one I use now, Opera.
It builds and builds and builds. After navigating only 3 or 4 websites it starts to slow.
Gets slower and slower the more you use it.
Forget having more than 4 tabs open. It doesn't like that at all.
Go to Facebook and don't expect any of the other tabs to open whilst you go and grow a tea plantation and collect the leaves and make a cup of tea.
Nothing cures it.
All I can do is logout and login to Opera again.
Then the same happens.
I use Vista and download speed is 7 meg. 1gig mem, 160 gig HD.
Obviously something somewhere is grabbing the CPU for god knows what.
I refuse to go round deleting stuff anywhere just because the Opera code is at fault.
Opera, you fix it or be doomed to the discard pile of failed browsers.