R.I.P. Opera 41

No bookmarks (are you kidding? who would use bookmarks in a browser that takes 26 seconds to open)

Chromium and Chrome and Foxfire and Vivaldi all launch in less than three seconds.

Cpu speed from cpuinfo 3409.00Mhz
cpuinfo might be wrong if cpufreq is enabled. To guess correctly try estimating via tsc
Linux's inbuilt cpu_khz code emulated now
True Frequency (without accounting Turbo) 3410 MHz
CPU Multiplier 34x || Bus clock frequency (BCLK) 100.29 MHz

Socket [0] - [physical cores=4, logical cores=8, max online cores ever=4]
  TURBO ENABLED on 4 Cores, Hyper Threading ON

  Max Frequency without considering Turbo 3510.29 MHz (100.29 x [35])

  Max TURBO Multiplier (if Enabled) with 1/2/3/4 Cores is  38x/37x/36x/35x

  Real Current Frequency 2157.34 MHz [100.29 x 21.51] (Max of below)

        Core [core-id]  :Actual Freq (Mult.)      C0%   Halt(C1)%  C3 %   C6 %  Temp      VCore

        Core 1 [0]:       2124.32 (21.18x)      16.1    31.2    7.69    51.1    33      1.0258

        Core 2 [1]:       2157.34 (21.51x)      14.1    30.4    6.92    53.8    32      1.0258

        Core 3 [2]:       2014.27 (20.08x)      6.61    15.6    4.18    76.3    36      1.0258

        Core 4 [3]:       2069.80 (20.64x)      4.81    17.3    1.16    78.6    34      1.0258


vmstat

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st

 0  0      0 9896016 172504 2071932    0    0    48    18  792  822 13  2 85  0  0

htop screen grab @ https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2Z1PtrPT-greWhEdERlVkJGYTQ

Hardware acceleration disabled, no change in launch time.

I tried the developer version and no improvement - opera-developer 43.0.2403.0-1

When I open opera from the terminal, I get this:

[--ljohnson{12:05:04}~]$ opera

(opera:5966): libnotify-WARNING **: Failed to connect to proxy

or this

(opera:6207): libnotify-WARNING **: Failed to connect to proxy

Sync enabled? Extensions?

No extensions installed.

No synchronization.

Ad blocker turned off.

No shortcuts.

Opens with prior tabs.

A reasonably plain jane installation.

Not sure what's happening, and not sure how to debug... .. .

Version information

Version: 41.0.2353.56 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Arch Linux (x86_64; XFCE)
Browser identification

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.87 Safari/537.36 OPR/41.0.2353.56

Paths

Install: /usr/lib/opera
Profile: /home/ljohnson/.config/opera
Cache: /home/ljohnson/.cache/opera