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Roll back to the 77 tree.. I had to..
https://forums.opera.com/topic/50730/win-7-opera-updated-to-78-0-4093-112-memory-being-chewed-up

Sorry I was unable to login to my acct for the past several days because the forums kept redirecting me to the TOS as if I were a brand new user, then Not accepting my acceptance of the TOS (it kept Not logging me in After I ticked both boxes and clicked submit; no one from support got back to me but I guess the finally fixed it)

Anyway

It's practically unusable

It's apparently disk space being chewed up by the pagefile, so yeah, memory, but virtual

All I can tell you, is this Never happened with before, and none of my behaviors have changed.

Even if I open just One private tab, eventually opera will reduce my 1.5GB free space to literally 80MB with some hours...

And as soon as I shutdown Opera (completely), ALL the disk space is back to 1.5GB free

So obviously, Opera is causing the pagefile to balloon, or rather, opening a private window seems to do this

I guess I have to look into downgrading

I wish there were anm official downgrade button..

I hate to lose open tabs, or anything else like history, etc, but this is unbearable

See here:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/50730/win-7-opera-updated-to-78-0-4093-112-memory-being-chewed-up

The only sol'n for me was to downgrade to the 77 branch as both 78 and 79 exhibited the same issue.

I am able to use the browser normally again without "chunks" of virtual memory (in the hundreds of megs at a clip) being swallowed and not released.

I wonder about the 80 branch now,. if this memory management issue has been addressed..

I am reluctant to upgrade and test it out.

I finally rolled back to the 77 version

I waited out All the versions in the 78 series..

I Even held out for this new 79 branch hoping that this issue would be addressed, but no.

None of them fixed this very fatal memory issue as I described in the OP

Once I opened the private window (it seems), and got beyond "some limit", of tabs, or I don;'t know what, my virtual memory (i.e., my disk space via my paging file) got eaten up in Huge gulps of several hundred megs at a clip. This ate up all the rest of my (sparse) free disk space real fast.

It became impossible to use the browser as I had to constantly restart it which then released that space back, but ofc I had to start the browser all over and open up the tabs I use constantly so they are "updated".

Back to 77, everything works great.

I can have 100 tabs actually active And plenty opened and active in the private window too, to No detriment to my disk space (memory via page file or whatever).

I've no idea if this is Opera's bug or the Chrome base but at least I can use the browser normally again.

Win 7

I've stayed on vers 77 because of significant memory leaks that rendered the browser totally unusable in versions I tried afterward (78-80. see here for background.

Now two years later, I am considering trying the last version for Win 7 (vers 95), but I am very leery.

1. If I install 95,. are there profile differences that would cause problems straight away? Extension issues? Will the direct to 95 install even work?

2. If there are issues, or the install simply fails, or if memory management is still broken (I assume it likely will be as I followed some other users who posted about a year ago who were still having the memory issues with versions up to 85 I believe)---

So again, if there are issues, would I be able to cleanly and 100% successfully roll back to my stable vers 77 by:

A) Making an eniter backup of my Opera Profile directory
B ) Uninstalling Opera completely through Windows Control Panel Programs and Files "uninstall" (data and all)
C) Installing Opera 77 from the setup file (using no auto-start and then disabling the automatic update system in Task Scheduler (etc) )
D) Copying back the entire backup of the profile directory

Profit?

Any issues with trying this that would prevent that from getting me back to where I currently am right now? Vers 77? 100%?

Thanks