There is this very useful "Paste and Go" introduced firstly by Opera and later borrowed or stole by others... Anyways, there is a very useful suggestion here:

I want (possibly) to have a "Paste as Quote and Go" for the search bar too. This option should put double quotation marks around the copied text and then paste the quoted "string" to the Google Search bar, so Google searches for the exact phrase (without me bothering to hold the shift key and type the quotation marks at the beginning and the end of the statement). I desperately need such an option.

I hope that is not too much.

I use Firefox for Gmail (I dislike the incompetent Chrome), and visit all other sites using Opera 11.60. I hope the developer team can add both engines to a single Opera.

Originally posted by sherool:

...seems like a memory leak (at least it doesn't free up memory when you close tabs it seems...

No they intentionally made Opera this way, so when you undo a closed tab (ctrl Z), the re-opened tab is immediately right there.

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

Originally posted by victorxstc2:

they could already do this by downloading Chrome itself, right?

Exactly, and you know what was happening? Because of sites lagging and breaking in Opera like GMail, people were already switching to Chrome or other browsers regardless. Opera is losing users because of these issues affecting 12.x and now that Opera offers people an usable browser all you do is nitpick.

Opera 15 isn't a second Chrome. Opera 15 has an user-defined unlimited Speed Dial, built-in mouse gestures, full closed tabs list, Off-road, downloads pop-up, etc... As long as you want a browser with additional features, Opera is the answer.

Thanks for your feedback on my feedback.

My post is not nitpick. It is essential feedback. If you look at my history of requests (and the history of victorxstc), you can see that quite a handful of useful features or changes available in recent version of Opera were requested by many many people here, me included. So I believe my feedback as a concerned user can and will give good information to Opera team, no matter how it looks small.

1. I don't have any problems with changes in Opera's rendering engine.

2. I don't have any problem with more than one rendering engine(s) in the software (like Netscape had two different rendering engines).

3. I don't have problems with two different versions of Opera (light and sophisticated). Nor I don't have any problem with a single Opera software that can be switched to Expert mode or Light mode.

4. I don't have any problem with Opera grabbing more users. Actually I have converted many of my own colleagues and friends to Opera.

5. But I do have problem with the severe lack of features that come with Opera 15. And no, those few features you counted do not satisfy me, now being adapted with a so much more sophisticated software. Those few features make it something like Chrome with add-ons, at best.

6. I am an Opera user for a long long time (10+ years), so I am at least as concerned as you about it, if not more. It is the product I am enjoying currently and I think I should give my feedback on this 180-degree U turn of Opera policy. I am extremely worried, so I am shouting about it.

7. I think this new Opera will grab a good deal of non-technical users at the cost of losing many of its current base and its originality. Maybe this is why in the first place they have not updated the current 12x users with the 13, 14, and 15 versions. Maybe as you once said, they are testing it and the user feedback.

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Anyways I deeply hope Opera would not discontinue its masterpiece. It is (was) a unique browser. At least I hope if Opera team is discontinuing the 12x franchise for ever, it embeds the very sophisticated set of features 12x used to have, on the new Chromium-based franchise. Or, embed the Chromium-based rendering engine into its own unique software (as the new engine, or as the Second rendering engine besides its already powerful super-fast engine).

Thanks again.

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

Opera 15 is the answer for this problem.

Thanks but if Opera users wanted to use a second Chrome, they could already do this by downloading Chrome itself, right?

I agree Opera isn't quite compatible with Gmail. Actually Gmail is the culprit I guess.

j7n that was one very comprehensive feedback to the Opera team. I loved the Opium term (literally laughed).

Originally posted by spartaa:

put this start up command

--disable-gpu --in-process-gpu

it will decrease RAM usage, with cost Decrease Perfomance.

http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

Thanks a lot. I will use it.

j7n, I appreciate your nice comment.

I have forgotten how to quote within quote, so my response would not be as neat as yours.

About disabling Facebook integration without disabling Facebook itself, thanks a lot. That is awesome.

About the ad filter and url filter, thanks a lot again. I am aware these are in part caused by ads, but I believe the used RAM is actually wasted somewhere else (poor coding, etc.). If each page of LolzBook really contained around 50 megs of information to occupy RAM, my internet connection was dead by now. I pay for my bandwidth per the used gigabytes. 50 pages, each with 50 megs of information would eat up all my connection and I had to pay and re-new it! So although disabling some features and blocking the ads would definitely help, these are not the culprits. As an addition to your solution, I even use my Opera in the "Cached Images" mode to prevent an image to load twice from the server (less bandwidth usage, better speed, less RAM). So I agree with you in reducing the bloated content of the websites.

But I think about 95% of the RAM used for each tab of Lolz Book is a waste of RAM, due to code issues. (kind of bug actually).

It is interesting that you loaded the same amount of tabs with only 300 megs of RAM. It is shocking! However, I think the ads are not consuming RAM. How Opera deals with those ads is the culprit. Each ad might need 500 K or 1 meg, not 20 or 30 megs.

And yes I would definitely use all your advice. Thanks.

About the piece of junk and your suggestion on Expert Mode, I fully agree. However, another idea was to release two different versions. One simple (Light Opera) which used less resources and was easy for non-tech people and also for netbooks, and the other one was heavy. Making a single software having both looks and both behaviors, itself, might bloat the software. But anyways, I would hug any solution other than this!

Besides as you said this new version is not even "light"!

I see Opera 15 has even copied multiprocess approach of Chrome. It looks so pathetic. I am sorry to say this, but I thing Opera guys need negative feedbacks too.

It also occupies 10 to 60 megs of RAM per different tabs which might need only 1 to 3 megs RAM. TERRIBLE.