Topics created by torbjell

I found the culprit.

In the Opera Stable directory, there was the favourites database and journal. Those were created when I first installed Opera, after it went Turbo on me ... you know, ditched Presto for Chrome.

When that was created, there was a really poor bookmarks import utility available that would import all my Opera bookmarks and put it INTO the favourites. It created about 2000 bookmarks and many, many folders in folders in folders in folders.

Because I really do have a lot of bookmarks. I keep a lot of URLs handy that I sometimes do not need for years. 😉 Don't question it.

Anyway, these gazillions of bookmarks and subfolders IN the favourites, were causing this massive slowdown.
Now that I have all my bookmarks in the PERSONAL bar, I don't need'em down there anymore anyway.

🙂 So problem solved. The favourites routine just can't handle that much content.

Favourites = Quickdial

I thought you wanted to remove a specific url and not all urls of a specific domain.

You thought correct. I want to prevent certain specific URLs from being predicted when I type something in the address bar. The problem is that when I delete that specific URL from my history, it's still predicted when I type. When i uncheck the option to use opera's prediction service in the settings, it still predicts the URLs I've visited, and continues to predict new URLs (but only after I've visited them once). So far, the only way I've found to delete the saved addresses is to clear all browsing history. After doing that, the prediction service continues to save and predict all the URLs I type in the address bar.

The prediction service is supposed to save me time and effort. Currently, when I want to visit Youtube, opera predicts "youtube.com/user/someyoutubechannel/videos", and i have to write the whole "youtube.com" instead of just "y" in order to visit the front page of Youtube. It's annoying.

I think I'll start a new discussion, because my question/problem was a bit vague in this one, and it's starting to get cluttered. Thank you for your answers 🙂