Posts made by whs37

Hmm, I guess there was a confusion. I thought he was talking about my profile here on this forum, lol.

I will try what you suggested. I never had any plug-ins or extensions - at least none that I put in. I am usually a pure vanilla person.

Thanks for the answer but I don't really know what the profile has to do with my question. I'll try the newer releases but this behaviour I have noticed since a long time on older releases too. It must be something in Opera because it is the same problem on 2 completely different systems. And it cannot be my systems which have an i7, acres of RAM and always SSDs.

I have a standard default installation of the latest Opera release (12.16) on Windows 7 and on Linux Mint Mate. On both systems it is a lot slower than my other browsers. It already takes a lot longer to even start - and I have fast SSDs for both systems. Then it noodles forever before it gets a webpage. The IE, Firefox, Chrome and Chromium are a lot faster in all cases.

Is there a setting I might be missing that could speed it up?