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They are updated regularly and all are current. I will try the clean folder idea and report back (may be a day or two). I really appreciate your help!

Thanks for responding. I use the same extensions in both browsers. This happens at one time or another with all but two of my 12-14 enabled extensions. All of those cannot be memory hogs. I think one of them is affecting others. I am in the process of turning them off one at a time, so we will see.

I just want to add a key aspect: the same thing happens in chrome.

Yes....I can see that you do not have my problem. If anybody has an idea of how to deal with this, I would appreciate it.

I am going to start turning off extensions one at a time and see if one of them is the cause. Of course, more than one usually has the problem at one time, so if one of them is causing the problem, it would have to also cause the problem with other extensions.

The memory usage of of my extensions goes up tremendously as the computer is used. Individual or small groups (2-4) of extensions increase their memory usage, which can go as high as 200,000 KB. There is no pattern to this problem. The offending individual or groups of extensions that are problematic start out with a normal memory usage, but continue to add memory usage over time, sometimes in as little as thirty minutes after starting.

Like I said, there is no pattern.....different extensions and groups of extensions have this problem. If I disable the offending extensions and then re-enable them, their memory usage stays low, but then another 1-4 starts adding memory usage. Extensions downloaded from the opera page and those from the chrome page have the same problem.

Some that I am talking about (but all of my extensions intermittently have this problem):

Disable HTML5 autoplay
Popup blocker pro
Ublock Origin
One tab
Roboform Lite
search bar
smooth gestures
type ahead find
synotepad

For one example, at this moment, type ahead find ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/type-ahead-find/cpecbmjeidppdiampimghndkikcmoadk?hl=en ) is using about 130,000 KB, but normally uses about 10,000-20,000 KB.

Does anybody else have this problem and/or have a solution? Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

Correct....a slow computer, and because of that, I do not open many tabs, and because of that fact, the delay caused by the tabs reawakening is much more problematic than any slowdown caused by having too many tabs open, which is the specific problem tab hibernation is designed to solve. That is why I would like to eliminate tab hibernation as much as possible.

1. So again, it boils down to this: if a suspender extension is activated, does its suspension activity preclude the native suspension activity, or is it in addition to the native suspension? Do you know the answer to that?

If it is the former, I could set the suspender extension to suspend after a high number of minutes, which would effectively stop the tab suspension.

2. The last question: is there a way to raise the interval of time the system uses to initiate tab hibernation?

Basically the same thing.....just slower with Chrome.

Thanks, Zalex....but that is the one I listed above.

Bottom line: if a suspender extension is activated, does its suspension activity preclude the native suspension activity, or is it in addition to the native suspension? If it is the former, I could set the suspender extension to suspend after a high number of minutes, which would effectively stop the tab suspension.

Slow.....that is why I switched to Opera, which is lighter and faster, and is especially good for slow computers.

Most likely, you can't reproduce it because you do not have a slow computer like I do. On my computer, when the tabs reawaken, that causes a delay. Since I do not open a lot of tabs (due to the slow computer), I'm not worried about the resources used by the tabs. The delay caused when the tabs reawaken is the thing I am trying to stop or minimize.

Thanks very much for that! It will be very useful.

But again, for you or anybody:

Am I correct that tabs get natively suspended in Opera?

Can it be stopped or can the interval be changed?

And of course for anybody who has an idea, if I use a tab suspension extension and set the interval to large number of minutes, will it override the default interval of Opera (again....only if it has native suspension)?

Thanks in advance!

I want to add:

I think I found that Opera automatically suspends tabs.

A question about the extension Tab Suspender:

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/tab-suspender-tab-unloader/?display=en

If I set it to suspend only after a long period of time, for example, 90 minutes, will this prevent Opera's native tab suspension from suspending tabs during this 90 minute wait? If so, that would solve my problem.

I am new to Opera and use the latest version on Windows 7.

Like I wrote above, do tabs get natively suspended (without a special extension), and if so, can that be stopped? The problem is that when I have more than one open, and one is left idle for a decent period of time, when I click on the tab that has sat idle for a while, there is a delay in the page re-rendering, just like it had been suspended. I don't like that on a slow computer because I have to wait to view one of those pages (I never open more than 2-3 tabs due to my slow computer).

Are tabs now being natively suspended, and if not, is the delay due to my slow computer, or is there another problem that is causing this?

I use the latest version of Opera with Windows 7.

I have noticed that when you add a bookmark to a folder within "all bookmarks" (or anywhere in "all bookmarks"), it does not show up in the same spot in the bookmarks bar, and vice versa. Is there any way to have changes, additions, and deletions in "all bookmarks" show up in the corresponding bookmarks bar automatically, and vice versa? If not, is there a quick way to sync between them?

Also, when opening the bookmarks manager, it always opens to "all bookmarks" and not the bookmarks bar, even if the last time in the bookmarks manager was spent within the bookmark bar listings. Can that be changed (which would not matter if changes to the bookmarks bar automatically showed up in "all bookmarks", as noted in the paragraph just above this one)?

When saving a bookmark, the problem I have is that when clicking the heart, the listing of the web page you want to add to bookmarks is a folder view, which takes a lot of space from top to bottom, so I cannot see the "done" or "trash" buttons at the bottom of the bookmark list, and I cannot even see the last items at the bottom of the already existing bookmarks. Can we change the original view of the new bookmark so that it shows up in the list format and not the thumbnail format just before adding and saving to bookmarks, which would allow us to see further down the list?

I tried the workaround and it worked perfectly! Thank you!

When I go to bing videos I have a problem:

https://www.bing.com/?scope=video&nr=1&FORM=NOFORM

With IE, Firefox, or Chrome, after searching for a video, the previews play in the search results thumbnails, and as you scroll down, the view of video search results continuously feeds, meaning that you do not need to click on pages 2,3, etc.

In Opera, these things do not happen. No previews play in the thumbnails and the search results to not continuously feed. I am hoping someone will try this and let me know if you have the same problem, and of course, if anybody has a solution, I would definitely appreciate that! Thanks in advance...