Afternoon mates! I've been using opera 30.0.1835.59 in a Win8.1 x64 machine and since last update (made today as I restarted the computer) my cpu usage skyrocket.

Usually it wouldnt go above 15% browsing or gaming, however when I open 3 pages at the sime time (clicking open all in a speeddial folder) my cpu go as high as 80%... The processor is quite reasonable, its a i7-3770 so I cannot pinpoint any other culprit for the issue (resource monitor seems to agree with my hypothesis)

Is anyone else having the same issue?

HAHAH tried to disable it and it crashed Opera

Same problem here (2).

Google calendar, adblock plus and disconnect. My bet is google calendar, will disable for a while.

Sorry, but this is laughable.
Opera 20 is just a shadow of the 12.x versions.
If the developers clearly stated that they are going to bring back the BASIC FEATURES (like rss, bookmarks, content blocking etc.) that the 12 versions had, that would be fine.
Instead we're getting RETARDED tirades about how the new version is somehow great and everything is fine. This is stupid.

"Hey, Opera 12 was awesome but wanna work with Opera 20? Here this Chrome plugin so you can use other Chrome's plugins on your Opera 20"

I really think sigza raised some great questions about what make us 1% of desktop users STICK to opera.

Even though it is amazing, I was using Opera 12 + Chrome combo, because some sites just lock up at Opera 12. So I decided to try 20 and really, I do not want to have to download extensions to use things that came "stock" on Opera 12. If was to "personalize" your browser, why not personalize Chrome, since it does not have any navigation problems?

I've been too using opera for as many years as I can remember, however this version is really a big disappointment. Many features that were "ahead" of other browsers were just dropped and Opera 12 is just too outdated and out of support for many sites.

I'll still try to put up with Opera 20, but now its just because of the brand, not because of the product. Unfortunately.