@ishnlv I've done all that. Like I said it soon goes back to acting laggy again after a few uses. It seem it's using too much memory. Somebody said 2GB is nornal. It isn't it used to use around 800MB like Windows Egde. Something has changed since Opera went to version 1.

I don't know what changes you've done to your browser regarding streaming videos but I've noticed over the past few weeks or so that when using YouTube it's become very laggy, Videos are slow to play when scanning forward or backwards and even typing a message in the comments section it's delayed when hitting a key and the text showing up on the screen.

It never used to do this so I'm assuming something must have changed in the recent updates in your browser. I looked in task manager in Windows 11 and Opera internet browser is using almost 2GB in memory. It has a number in brackets after it saying (27) whatever that means. I've cleared the cashe and gone back to default settings and it still goes back to doing this.

I tried Microsoft Edge and YouTube works better there with only around 7-800MB in memory. Any ideas why it;s doing this?

@veteranbadger No, only to use Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 11 for YouTube. I'm using a laptop HP Pavilion 15-eg2022na . Windows 11 Home, Intel Core i5-1235U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 15.6" 1920x1080 FHD Touchscreen. This problem only started recently, say 4 weeks so I think it's an update in opera.

@ishnlv I only tried Windows Edge. Like I said it uses around 800MB in memory whereas Opera is using 1.8GB.

I do think it's the ad blocker that's causing the issue. I've had it turned off now for a few days and YouTube seems to work better but I have to put up with annoying ads which is a shame.

@veteranbadger OK I may have found the problem. I disabled the ad blocker that comes with Opera. I looked at the memory resources and it dropped back down below 1GB. I might be this that's causing the issue. I'll have to run for a while see if it stays like this.

@veteranbadger No, only to use Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 11 for YouTube. I'm using a laptop HP Pavilion 15-eg2022na . Windows 11 Home, Intel Core i5-1235U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 15.6" 1920x1080 FHD Touchscreen. This problem only started recently, say 4 weeks so I think it's an update in opera.

@ishnlv I've done all that. Like I said it soon goes back to acting laggy again after a few uses. It seem it's using too much memory. Somebody said 2GB is nornal. It isn't it used to use around 800MB like Windows Egde. Something has changed since Opera went to version 1.

I don't know what changes you've done to your browser regarding streaming videos but I've noticed over the past few weeks or so that when using YouTube it's become very laggy, Videos are slow to play when scanning forward or backwards and even typing a message in the comments section it's delayed when hitting a key and the text showing up on the screen.

It never used to do this so I'm assuming something must have changed in the recent updates in your browser. I looked in task manager in Windows 11 and Opera internet browser is using almost 2GB in memory. It has a number in brackets after it saying (27) whatever that means. I've cleared the cashe and gone back to default settings and it still goes back to doing this.

I tried Microsoft Edge and YouTube works better there with only around 7-800MB in memory. Any ideas why it;s doing this?