VERY slow on Facebook

VERY slow on Facebook

Hi, I'm using Opera since YEARS, it's still my preferred and loved browser. However, recently it seems that it has some issues in rendering some pages. It gets "stuck" and crawls when Facebook is opened, especially when lots of content is loaded, to the point that even clicking on the "close tab" X takes 3-4 seconds to actually being "recognized".
Please take a look at this video, see how dragging down the scrollbar is followed by a slow rendering of the page. Around sec 30 I went up to the top and then kept pressed the down button: check how slowly and "on-off" is the scroll.
http://screencast.com/t/vaWInwiuoyO

This is happening on FB and also on a bunch of other sites, and I think are the ones that have lots of JS.
Google Maps is also very very slow in rendering pages, esp when you load a path and modify it.

I ran the v8 benchmark suite (http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v6/run.html) and Opera scored 3572 while Chrome 8621. (!!!)

In general it looks not "snappy" as it was. With some heavy pages it "hangups" and I have to wait several seconds until I have back control.

Anyone is having this issue? This is really driving me mad since sometimes it is really unusable (I'm so attached to Opera that I can't let it go, but if I was a new user I would be annoyed)

I'm running Opera 11.50 on Windows 7 Ultimate on a Dell Latitude E4310

on my winXP, 32bit - 11.64, build 1403 more or less fixed my issues with the opera/FB interface. not perfect, still times when my postings go bad, but not all the time anymore. reloading page and entering again was no big deal anyway. gotta agree with cecilia - if this is as bad as it gets, i'm ok. corporopigs control all the other browsers, monitor everything i do with them, so i keep them only as backup... in case opera gets totally squashed under their bootheels.

I started using OpenDNS (Changed from GoogleDNS) and now Facebook is fast.

thanks emaia but OpenDNS aint free!! i've found about 99% of my internet needs are out here free. whatever was screwing up the facebook/opera issue is now gone. i'm staying with opera 11.64 because 12 is a steaming pile of manure.

Originally posted by richaber:

thanks emaia but OpenDNS aint free!!

OpenDNS is free. There is also a paid "version" but it can be used for free.

Originally posted by LeoCG:

Originally posted by richaber:

thanks emaia but OpenDNS aint free!!

OpenDNS is free. There is also a paid "version" but it can be used for free.

Correct.

unless you know where i can get the free version, other than opendns.com, there is only a 14-day trial, after which i am sure, it will expire.

this may have had something to do with opendns' commercialization: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/08/01/underwriters-laboratories-selects-opendns-enterprise-protect-9000-employees-worldwide

Originally posted by richaber:

unless you know where i can get the free version, other than opendns.com, there is only a 14-day trial, after which i am sure, it will expire.

See (Completely Free): http://www.opendns.com/business-solutions/premium-dns/benefits/

nevermind - found the premium (free) version, but so far, entering opendns' preferred numbers isnt taking. doesnt list opera browser, in "clear broswer cache" step

must have crossed posts - ok, i think i'm set up all the way - dns listed in my network settings... added my network IP, still, when i click the "NEXT: Test your new settings" link, still says i'm not using opendns yet - gonna reboot and see if that works

ok, opendns said that with at&t u-verse router, have to reset computer, not router. i have laptop and older desktop - wonder if i can reset both computers, one at a time, using same OpenDNA account.

Hello!

This is the first time I post in the forums, hello to you all!

Well, so, now to my problem with Facebook... when I'm chatting with any of my friends using the chat system built into Facebook, as the conversation gets too long, my chat gets slower, i.e. my friend answers me, I want to answer them, I start writing my answer in my keyboard and I actually finish writing the sentence and it hasn't appeared on the chat field yet. It takes too long and it freezes when I write.

To solve this situation, I have to refresh the page (F5) so the conversation on the chat windows gets smaller and I can write normally again.

I hope you managed to understand what I mean, I find it hard to explain...

rafaeljvieira:

http://my.opera.com/sitepatching/blog/2012/06/26/facebook-chat

Try editing site preferences (right click) for facebook and masking as IE or Firefox.

Originally posted by Guest703:

rafaeljvieira:

http://my.opera.com/sitepatching/blog/2012/06/26/facebook-chat

Try editing site preferences (right click) for facebook and masking as IE or Firefox.

I will give it a try. Thanks!

also try zooming to 120-130%

I also found I couldn't use facebook after I updated to opera 12.00 now I am on opera 12.01 and again it wasn't working.
Also I had problems on Hotmail.
Bizarre thing is my 'tab' key didn't work either??
Eventually I was lead to User preferences -Java browser script- and here to change the number from 1 to 2 and then restart and everything is ok !
I hope this works for someone else.

i'm sticking with 11.64, so i can AT LEAST click and drag URLs to my desktop.

Originally posted by richaber:

i'm sticking with 11.64, so i can AT LEAST click and drag URLs to my desktop.

You can do that in Opera 12.01 too.

My 15-yr experience online and life in general has taught me: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Opera ver 12.01 just does not work on pages like opera forum, facebook, various bank login accounts, paypal, freelancer etc. It seems to lock up when loading pages in at the 95% mark and never finishes. Could not find solution to problem. Down grade to the Version 12.00 RC (Build 1456; Platform x64, System Windows 7). This worked fine for me and I am back up and running perfectly.

hope this help others

best regards

RJH007

Originally posted by rjh007:

Opera ver 12.01 just does not work on pages like opera forum, facebook, various bank login accounts, paypal, freelancer etc. It seems to lock up when loading pages in at the 95% mark and never finishes. Could not find solution to problem. Down grade to the Version 12.00 RC (Build 1456; Platform x64, System Windows 7). This worked fine for me and I am back up and running perfectly.

hope this help others

best regards

RJH007

but can you click and drag URLs to desktop? that's a biggie for me, and couldn't with 12.00 - which is why i had to clear my registry after uninstalling it, to reinstall 11.64.

Originally posted by rjh007:

Opera ver 12.01 just does not work on pages like opera forum, facebook, various bank login accounts, paypal, freelancer etc. It seems to lock up when loading pages in at the 95% mark and never finishes. Could not find solution to problem. Down grade to the Version 12.00 RC (Build 1456; Platform x64, System Windows 7). This worked fine for me and I am back up and running perfectly.

hope this help others

maybe it's a windows issue, but I just upgraded to 12.01 on Linux and logging into my bank just to see if it would. No problem there and I have been on Facebook, G+ and obviously here. My opera acts the same.

Opera is very slow during the scroll in Facebook and other sites with Oper 12.01 (64 bit and also 32 bit).

But I have partially resolved with the extension "Slim ScrollBar". Install this and then go to extension>Slim ScrollBar>preferences and check only "Fix slow scrolling".

Then go to the preferences of Opera, advanced, browsing (sorry for the translation, my Browser is set in Italian language, and I don't know about the original english language) and check "scroll bars": this is necessary to maintain the original scroll bar, because the graphics of the Slim ScrollBar could add other problems...

Let me know if you notice some scroll improvement!

All my opera page hanging issues were resolved when I increased both memory and disk caches to 400mb, with no emptying on shut down. Basically, when you have large proportions of the pages you look at already in the cache, you don't have to rely so much on Opera 12+'s poor page loading ability.

try type in: Opera:cpu

then you will see which tab is taking a lot of resources, then just close that one.

it seems to solve my problem now.

I have the same problem, slow with facebook in linux, but in windows 7 64-bit with the same browser version it runs extremelly fast.

And facebook consumes lots of CPU resources, including ECMAscript.

I tried for fun to disable javascript for facebook, and everything ran really nice. Except for facebookpage not being directly functional.

Dunno what to do, but I have reported it 100 times via the browser.

I agree, I cannot switch away from Opera, and I really love M2.

I must say that enabling disk cache helped a bit on the facebook-lag/resource usage. But I thought running only thru memory would be the fastest and best. Still, I am using disk-cache but to a temp-location which is tmpfs (which is mounted in the memory and not disk). So it is something weird with the cache. Chrome is still way faster on javascript-heavy pages like facebook.

I don't understand the complications you guys seem to be having. I resolved the slowness issue by increasing HD and memory caches to maximum (I think the default setting is too low). Certainly for the sites I use the latest Opera version is as quick as the latest Firefox, though I don't visit a huge number of websites. Things like Facebook and Gmail work perfectly for me using a crappy Vista Home Basic netbook, though I read all my gmail and other email through Opera's own facility in any case. Perhaps most important of all, Opera's superior font rendering means it is the only browser that doesn't give me a headache after a certain period of time.

Originally posted by rodcorkin:

I don't understand the complications you guys seem to be having. I resolved the slowness issue by increasing HD and memory caches to maximum (I think the default setting is too low). Certainly for the sites I use the latest Opera version is as quick as the latest Firefox, though I don't visit a huge number of websites. Things like Facebook and Gmail work perfectly for me using a crappy Vista Home Basic netbook, though I read all my gmail and other email through Opera's own facility in any case. Perhaps most important of all, Opera's superior font rendering means it is the only browser that doesn't give me a headache after a certain period of time.

The problem doesn't occur in windows, but in linux. Yet I won't blame linux, because everything esle runs just perfectly fine, as Google Chrome.

I have changed everything I know to change. The problem is consistant with the past 3-5 Opera upgrades. Chrome doesn't do it, IE doesn't do it, etc. If I have FB up and go to another tab, when I click back to FB I can't do anything until the page updates. It'll jump up and down until it has refreshed completely.

Disabling Javascript will hose FB and no telling what other sites. I've gone from the highest to lowest cache with no improvements at all.

Opera will rack up some serious RAM issues if you don't close it down and open it on occasion. I've seen it as high as 700k usage. Chrome will have 9 or 10 instances of itself running and slow down too.

Opera is extremely slow on Facebook. Scrolling is very unsmooth and causes freezes for 5-10 seconds. Images, heavy scripts, DOM and AJAX requests are the main issues that slow down Opera. When will you fix it? Opera 12.12 is the slowest browser ever. I confirm it jumps up and down and so on.

As far as I use Opera, scrolling and interaction is slower while it still loads a page or its elements. If the website is long, AJAX requests and DOM updates are very slow. Try to explore your WHOLE wall or your friend's timeline on Facebook. Scroll down... still scroll down... Facebook loads new content with AJAX requests. Still scroll down and notice it's getting slower... much slower... very slow! More images, longer freezes!!!

Opera 12.12 64-bit tested on low-budget Lenovo laptop with AMD E CPU and 4 GB RAM.

Read topic Opera 12.12 sooo slow too.

What happened to the fastest browser in the World? Why it's the slowest browser now that eats all CPU/RAM?

Originally posted by webcm:

Opera is extremely slow on Facebook. Scrolling is very unsmooth and causes freezes for 5-10 seconds. Images, heavy scripts, DOM and AJAX requests are the main issues that slow down Opera. When will you fix it? Opera 12.12 is the slowest browser ever. I confirm it jumps up and down and so on.

As far as I use Opera, scrolling and interaction is slower while it still loads a page or its elements. If the website is long, AJAX requests and DOM updates are very slow. Try to explore your WHOLE wall or your friend's timeline on Facebook. Scroll down... still scroll down... Facebook loads new content with AJAX requests. Still scroll down and notice it's getting slower... much slower... very slow! More images, longer freezes!!!

Opera 12.12 64-bit tested on low-budget Lenovo laptop with AMD E CPU and 4 GB RAM.

Read topic Opera" target="_blank">http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1591862&t=1357049850]Opera 12.12 sooo slow too.

What happened to the fastest browser in the World? Why it's the slowest browser now that eats all CPU/RAM?

Yeah, exactly that! Yet I run i7 3770 with 16GB RAM and SSD gen3 disk. And Opera can freely use all memory it want, better to use free memory and actually work well with it than just try to keep it free for nothing.

Opera should really watch into this tread, lots of people reporting the same issue, and for a very long time. It must be something wich is caused for -some- users, but not all.

But I hope everybody here tries to report facebook as at least "minor annoyance" in Opera -> Help -> Report a site problem

I have the same problem on my Linux machine, Facebook is slow beyond imagination, every time I click to the page it starts to update the wall, and it sometime takes MINUTES to update it, and the browser kinda' hangs until then. It's totally unacceptable when all the other main browsers doing fine, Chrome, Firefox etc. Even Opera for Windows is okay, but on Linux, it's terrible in this aspect. I love to use Opera otherwise, it's my main browser for years, but I use Facebook a lot, and this problem really annoys the hell out of me...

Okay, my machine isn't too powerful, it's just an old Celeron 2.66GHz single core, with 1.5 GB RAM, and 512 MB of video card memory, but if this would be the problem, then all the other browsers and sites would be this sluggish. I use Kubuntu 12.04 btw. My cache settings of Opera are automatic for RAM, and 400 MB for the disk.

Also I've tried to turn off the whole auto-refresh nightmare of FB, by disabling automatic page redirection, but it doesn't really had any effect on how the page working.

i took the cue, about SEAMONKEY - damn good browser. none have speed-dial but so what? use bookmark toolbar. and enlarge, have to use cntrl+ Other than that, what's the advantage of opera anymore?

Funny thing is I was just flying round Facebook in Opera to test out the statements here with my underpowered desktop pc.
I also opened Chromium as well to overload things a bit. This is using Linux and Opera 12.12 (1707) with 1.5 gig of ram.
So can't see what the problem is here from sunny West Australia.

I guess I will install another DE when I come back home on the same system, to check if my problem with opera is with KDE only, or if it something on my system which may slow it down. Yet it is a problem which no other browsers has, but I dunno how to debug it so I could get any information about what is actually going on.

Originally posted by Toby1996:

I run a Windows 7 64-bit, Core 2 Quad at 2.GHz, everything runs good (I monitor my performance) and I'm currently only running 6 tabs In Opera (plus Spotify, Outlook, Skype and security), my CPU usage is averaging 2%, 1.4GB RAM in use (571,908MB is Opera) and Facebook is deathly slow at this current time.

Are you running Opera win32 on w7 64 bit? Be careful with the thunking issue since v12 as I find it slows down a lot of sites with plug-in esp. flash.
After I switch to Opera 64 on w7 64 the performance issue practically went away. And I have no issues with facebook. Of course , the new v12 64bit plug-in manager still has some rendering issues like fonts in say finance.yahoo.com but at least the stability is there.

Note that v11.x versions have no such issues because the plug-in codes is native to Opera unlike v12 which has an external process to run embedded plug-in.

My 2 cents.

Use Modern Scroll extensions. I don't know if it's mostly that or if its versions 12.13, but Facebook is lighning fast on my system

Originally posted by adetogni:

Hi, I'm using Opera since YEARS, it's still my preferred and loved browser. However, recently it seems that it has some issues in rendering some pages. It gets "stuck" and crawls when Facebook is opened

And with Gmail too!
It's some time I noticed several problems that Opera has with Gmail, and they persist even after I just upgraded to 12.13 version (I have Win 7 64 bits).
There are two kinds of problems:
1) PC overload: RAM used = 500 MB (total 4 GB); CPU used = 25%. Result: Opera incredibly slowed down.
2) Mail editing: writing emails is hindered, since there are wrong things with the GUI (particularly, it is not possible to use Ctrl+Z and it is difficult to select things as the 'To' recipients field and the body text).

Please do something, Facebook and Gmail are so widely used!

After 12.12, I went over to thunderbird. I really like M2, but now it came an error which made something hopeless, I guess it was some copy+paste problems. And also the worst thing, the marker got invisible, so never knew where I was starting to type.

I guess I will just get used to thunderbird instead, to lighten Opera a bit more. But I won't be surprised if I soon will migrate completelly to chrome either, getting tired of Opera not working 100% for all systems. And the worst part is that Opera doesn't seem to care at all.

I've been an Opera user since version 5, I even paid for that browser at the time. It was back then Opera actually was the fastest and smoothest browser. I would actually rather pay for Opera Desktop Browser to get it well functioning, instead of ad-based through search engines and being careless for the browser.

(For those of you that enabled HWAccel, it sucks, disable it and more things will run smooth, like HTML5-videoes. Must be done via opera:config)

Originally posted by oleoleole:

After 12.12, I went over to thunderbird. I really like M2, but now it came an error which made something hopeless

Do you have such problems with v11.64?

Originally posted by TommyVee:

And with Gmail too!
It's some time I noticed several problems that Opera has with Gmail, and they persist even after I just upgraded to 12.13 version (I have Win 7 64 bits).

Are you on Opera 32 or 64 bits?

Originally posted by Ride wind:

Originally posted by oleoleole:

After 12.12, I went over to thunderbird. I really like M2, but now it came an error which made something hopeless

Do you have such problems with v11.64?

No, and I didn't have it in 12.11 either.

Since a few days it has become even slower. I might as well use Chrome but the UI is holding me back. Because goddamn, this is unbelievable. It's been slow for what, 2 years? Get your shit together Opera. You used to be the fastest.

I've been using Opera for something like 8 years, and indeed, it used to be the fastest. Recently browsing became unbearably slow, especially on Facebook, which was sometimes impossible to browse. Today I tried Chrome, and it was like "a-haa, this is what it feels like when sites load immediately" - sadly can't go back to Opera before a faster version is released.

A lot of websites these days render like dogs, even on fast computers. There's so much back end tracking stuff going on.

Originally posted by Kerelberel:

Since a few days it has become even slower. I might as well use Chrome but the UI is holding me back. Because goddamn, this is unbelievable. It's been slow for what, 2 years? Get your shit together Opera. You used to be the fastest.

Same here. I've always had Chrome as my "backup" for those few sites that don't place nice with Opera, but adding Facebook to that list was freakin' heartbreaking. When I saw how smooth and well-rendered Facebook and other script heavy social sites like G+ and Twitter work on Chrome, it really gave me a case of depression!

I understand fully that some sites will crawl on my decade-old PC running XP, and I accept that. But I don't accept lightning fast performance in one or two browsers but not Opera. Opera is so fast in so many other ways that it's still my #1 choice, but between the poor social media performance and the choice to move to webkit, I'm not sure if Opera is where I want to be anymore. That's sad, since I've been a fan since the advertising days.

I am having the same problem with Facebook and Opera. For that matter Opera needs to be restarted every couple of days as the memory usage just gets far too large and slows down my entire computer. Goes up to around 4gigs, generall if it stays around 1 gig, its useable but after that it starts slowing down. Previously with Opera 11, i never had these issues...

Now I'm using Maxthon for Facebook, and other sites that slow down on Opera...

I use Opera only for forums, and other sites with a simple graphics request. What a pity!

PS. I'm on a PC with 6 core, 6 GB of Ram and Win7.

My FB experience, while not "perfect" is not horrible. I wonder if this is related to
"Use Spdy2"
and
"Use Spdy3"

I have both turned off because it's known to interfere with a smooth running of Gmail.

This is entirely a guess on my part and people are welcome to experiment