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90% CPUs: Long intermittent periods
Looking at Windows Taskmaster right now, Opera is using 90% of the CPUs. It freezes for infuriating periods of time. Have to wait for typing to catch up. Anyone have any experience with this?Using Opera 11.60 but it did it with earlier versions as well. Win 7 home 32 bit; ASUS P4P800 Deluxe E, Intel 3.2mhz, 3.4 GB RAM. Seven tabs open. One other program OPEN--Zoot. Now it's not responding at all but back again. I have run an A/V scan, Avast, recently.
I experience the same here - very slow loading pages and unresponsive.
I have about 20 tabs opened as usual - when I start the browser it takes up about 500MB of RAM.
The RAM usage only grows while working - never goes down, the processor usage goes up and at one point it is always above 50%
no matter what I do.
Before this version Opera took about half the RAM of FF with maybe twice as many tabs opened.
Didn't have such problems with the versions below 11.60. Now Opera behaves exactly like FF.
Only it doesn't crash like FF but I have to restart it in order to work..
I have about 20 tabs opened as usual - when I start the browser it takes up about 500MB of RAM.
The RAM usage only grows while working - never goes down, the processor usage goes up and at one point it is always above 50%
no matter what I do.
Before this version Opera took about half the RAM of FF with maybe twice as many tabs opened.
Didn't have such problems with the versions below 11.60. Now Opera behaves exactly like FF.
Only it doesn't crash like FF but I have to restart it in order to work..
Opera has been my favourite browser for many years, but the newer versions causing more and more problems to me. I use the same ~20 web pages when starting Opera and version 11.6 is gradually reaching >80% CPU load which is never reducing by itself. After checking my mails I need to start Chrome or Firefox instead of Opera because of this. The reaction times when clicking on hot links are also longer, sometimes it seems to freeze, but later it recovers. So this release is not really usable for me. I'm afraid that downgrading to 11.5 would affect my mails as some forum entries referred to it. I hope that some workaround will be published soon. 
The same here, Opera was perfect, but now it freezes a lot (after some hours of usage), very annoying, and ram usage becomes crazy. It's like with the version 8 which had problems with the flash player, at that time I had to return to firefox. Now I will go to firefox again. Now waiting for a new version 12, with no memory leak ...
My Opera on both my PCs loads the cpu too much. It's been like that for over a month and setting the memory cache to 20mb doesn't help. I've been using Opera for a long time but I guess I'll have to switch to Chrome until it's fixed.
22. December 2011, 20:01:16 (edited)
add me to the club. On two desktops and 4 laptops 11.6 is infernal slow. right now my typing is ten words behind. Then zing it catches up. Plus getting lot of "remote server connection closed"" errors and crashes. It just took almost 30 secs to refresh this screen so I could edit. Live streaming is a pain to. The whole thing shuts down when going in or out with he screensaver. And never ever is there any reason found. Its always something that has NEVER happened before.. It acts like its loading in a new brain every tine you do something different. 11.5 was way better than this
I would try the following:
Try to reset Opera to the factory default settings by renaming operaprefs.ini and a restart of Opera. Opera should then create a new operaprefs.ini with default settings. If that doesn't work you can replace that file with the old one.
The operaprefs.ini is typical here:
C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini
Check opera:about for the exact path on your system.
You could try a clean install.
1. Backup all your needed stuff.
How do I back up my Opera files?
opera:about - Here you can see which paths your current install of Opera uses.
2. Uninstall Opera
3. Delete all files the uninstaller might left. Check the paths Opera had used (opera:about).
Typical paths would be:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Opera
C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera
4. You could also run CCleaner to clean your registry.
5. Download the latest Opera installer and install it.
6. Integrate your backup by copying the files/folders from your backup in your current install.
Try to reset Opera to the factory default settings by renaming operaprefs.ini and a restart of Opera. Opera should then create a new operaprefs.ini with default settings. If that doesn't work you can replace that file with the old one.
The operaprefs.ini is typical here:
C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini
Check opera:about for the exact path on your system.
You could try a clean install.
1. Backup all your needed stuff.
How do I back up my Opera files?
opera:about - Here you can see which paths your current install of Opera uses.
2. Uninstall Opera
3. Delete all files the uninstaller might left. Check the paths Opera had used (opera:about).
Typical paths would be:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Opera
C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera
4. You could also run CCleaner to clean your registry.
5. Download the latest Opera installer and install it.
6. Integrate your backup by copying the files/folders from your backup in your current install.
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