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Is it me... or is Opera dog slow?? Torbo mode? Are you kidding me?
I have to say I was very impressed with the feature set of Opera... enough to give it a go after running FF for years on my Mac. But lately, FF has become a big of a dog itself; locking up; etc. But some of the plug-ins available are awesome and I've become reliant on some of them. And Opera seemed to have 80% of the features I needed. And with Turbo BOOST, I thought I had a winner. (why wouldn't I always want to use "turbo" mode? even on fast connections?)I've got to say... this this loads pages so slow... sometimes not at all! It just sits and sits and sits. I don't get it. I really don't want to give up so easily and I'm hoping that there is just some stupid setting I've got wrong on my Mac or within Opera.
Any thoughts? I read that some other people are finding it slow... but it seems that it should be running at least on par with FF, no?
Thanks for allowing a rant. :-)
Any examples so anyone has a chance to find out what you're talking about? 
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Originally posted by lumsmore:
AAnd with Turbo BOOST, I thought I had a winner. (why wouldn't I always want to use "turbo" mode? even on fast connections?)
You are kidding, right? Turbo is for slow connections. If you are on a fast connection it can be slower than normal because pages have to do a round-trip through Opera's servers, and Opera's servers need to compress and package them before it's sent to the browser.
I've got to say... this this loads pages so slow... sometimes not at all! It just sits and sits and sits. I don't get it.
Yeah, you don't get it. Turbo is for slow connections.
Any thoughts? I read that some other people are finding it slow... but it seems that it should be running at least on par with FF, no?
Firefox doesn't even have Turbo, so the comparison seems a bit silly.
10.5 is slow on networking (a fix is in the pipeline! … ) but other than that, it should be really fast. 10.10 have never been exceptionally fast on Mac. But 10.5 seams to be the fastest browser on the platform on perceived performance and the fastest on benchmarks. (Though benchmarks is by no way an exact science and results vary.)
if i'm on a fast connection but i'm using other apps which are hogging the bandwidth such as transmission or jdownloader, will opera still assume i'm on a fast connection and threfore be useless to use opera turbo? it looks like turbo slowed things even more in this situation but maybe i accessed non cached webpages. i'd like to know your opinion on this. thanks.
straysoul: Opera will auto-detect whether you are on a slow connection or not and then enable Turbo. (Which may actually speed up things if you are using 90% on your bandwidth on downloading Linux distributions over BitTorrent. ;- )
You can disable Turbo by clicking the little arrow and selecting Configure Turbo. (Turn off automatic mode, for example.)
You can disable Turbo by clicking the little arrow and selecting Configure Turbo. (Turn off automatic mode, for example.)