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Opera 11.52 is consuming 25% CPU at idle with 30 tabs open in 4 windows (Windows XP)

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8. November 2011, 17:18:59

qams

Posts: 9

Opera 11.52 is consuming 25% CPU at idle with 30 tabs open in 4 windows (Windows XP)

Opera 11.52 is consuming 25% CPU at idle with 30 tabs open in 4 windows (Config: Windows XP in a Core2 Duo System, 2GB RAM)
And there is no option to disable CPU usage like Stop All or Disable all (I am not using any flash contents)
When I use firefox, it is working fine upto 100+ tabs with only 1-2% CPU usage at idle.

If I restore hibernated Windows XP, then again it takes very long to become normal opera with 30 tabs

17. November 2011, 22:49:02

iemanddos

Posts: 59

This seems normal. I cant get it to leave 50% when 30 tabs are open. (without ads)
Depending on the type of site you've opened, this could be less or more.

Many sites have active refresh and scripts, which keep your browser busy.

30 is a huge amount of tabs though.

You could try disabling extensions and unity?

20. November 2011, 19:48:26

geomorillo

Banned user

Youre wrong this is not normal i have 20 tabs opened with flash adds, facebook, twitter etc not even 3% of cpu used something is wrong with your opera or maybe an addon is the problem reinstall clean cache, disable java etc etc

20. November 2011, 19:50:47

geomorillo

Banned user

i got this problem resolved when i realized it was another program the culprit, have an hp notebook(comes with hp's bundled software)

21. November 2011, 17:58:15

qams

Posts: 9

Yes, it seems to be an issue with some sites but what if we are offline no internet, browser should detact the offline mode and should disable the scipts adds etc...
basically offline mode is for reference and reading purpose only.

So the real situation & recommendation is
Browser should detact the offline mode and reduce the CPU usage, rest opera engineers will do. we don't need to discuss more IMHO.

21. November 2011, 19:27:49

robin2660

Posts: 12

Wow. You guys got it good. How about my old system with AMD Athlon 64 processor running at 2.4GHz and 1GB of memory? It's the reason I'm running Opera since it seems to be the least resource intensive browser on the market.

3. December 2011, 15:33:04

tosnic

Posts: 4

Hi ho
I have a very similar problem with Opera on two different machines (winXP):
Sometimes Opera starts consuming all power of one core (in the DualCore PC) or the whole CPU (SingleCore Notebook). It seems that this has nothing to do with "many open tabs" or "crazy moving ads", because Opera even conusmes all CPU with every tab closed, even mail.
In addition to that, Opera just freaked me out by occupying over 1.6GB of RAM. While I write these lines, it uses only 180MB of RAM, with the same tabs open as before.
Here is a screenshot of the problem-situation:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/operacrazy.jpg/
take note of the taskmanager

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