Posts made by mark-cantrell

operaoverseer: What you say would make sense if this were an old issue. It is not. This problem has only been going on for a very short time. I have been using Opera since it was a product one had to pay for. I have been using YouTube for many years. This is the very first time this problem has arisen.

So either YouTube has suddenly started doing something new and deleterious, or Opera is not handling memory usage the same as it used to. I have no way of knowing for sure, but I'll bet on the latter.

I, too, am now experiencing this same problem, especially with YouTube. This problem has only existed for a short time — perhaps two weeks.

Since my computer only has 4 gigabytes of RAM, I am often getting an "out of memory" message, which then replaces the page on the browser tab. I am asked if I want to reload the page, and if I do, I soon get the same message again.

Once this message has appeared, it seems I can only reduce my memory usage by shutting down Opera altogether. Merely shutting down the offending tab (which seems usually to be YouTube) is not sufficient.