Posts made by julianmolin

It seems to work fine in a private tab both with and without my extensions activated. So it doesn't seem to be an extension problem. The tabs dump a lot of the memory and consistently stay below 100 MB.

The problem is much more pronounced in "Source" quality. It literally adds like 15 MB per second. In "Medium" quality it manages to handle the memory quite well but it still adds up and doesn't dump enough for the tab to stay small.

Very strange. I've run anti-virus/malware software and the computer is clean.

Any other idea what could cause this? Cookies?

I'm using Opera version: 39.0.2256.71 and Windows 10 Home 64-bit.

I'll give you some screenshots here so you can see how it looks: http://imgur.com/a/qa9Yo

The Opera process on the top is a tab with a Twitch stream running on "Source" quality for about 10 minutes.

2nd picture shows the same tab after 30 minutes of having the tab open. As you can see it just accumulates too much memory. If I keep it open for too long it will simply crash.

Am I the only one experiencing severe memory leaks in Opera for many streaming sites such as YouTube and Twitch?

A Twitch stream in "Source" quality will continuously accumulate 3-4 GB of memory until the tab finally crashes. This process normally takes around 30-45 minutes.

Same thing with YouTube live streams. It eats enormous amounts of memory until the tab crashes. Normally it reaches around 3-4 GB before crashing.

It only happens with live streams. Haven't experienced the same with normal videos or normal tabs.

Is this a known issue and are there any plans to fix it anytime soon?

Is it worth going back to Opera again after they decided to betray the user base and instead go for quick money with the Chrome engine?

Have they managed to make it into anything even remotely similar to 12.16? Is there any reason to use Opera over Chrome, Firefox, IE or Maxthon?

Thanks in advance,

--An old Opera user who abandoned the sinking ship