Closing Opera takes very long time

Closing Opera takes very long time

Hi,
I was wondering why my Opera browser takes so much time to close. When my computer is on the whole week with Opera running (+/- 15 tabs open) and I close Opera at the end of the week, the window is gone pretty quickly, but the process keeps on running. It takes a few minutes before the process is gone as well. There is almost no CPU or disk usage by Opera in that time, so why does is take so long to close? When I shutdown my pc I always have to wait a few minutes on Opera to close normally or kill the process. I have had this 'problem' with version 9 up until 10.51 on XP, Vista and Win7. Maybe even before version 9 but I can't remember anymore. Does recognize this?

Originally posted by wengweng:

I was wondering why my Opera browser takes so much time to close.

I think you answered your own question.

Originally posted by wengweng:

When my computer is on the whole week with Opera running

Try closing Opera and switching off your computer at least once or twice in 24 hours.

Take a look at your Opera cache directory and see how big it is at the end of the week. (This does not match the cache limit set in Preferences). I suspect that deleting several thousand temporary files is taking some time.

Take a look at what is currently the next thread in this forum

Originally posted by wengweng:

so why does is take so long to close?

As Pesala already guessed, it's because Opera is very slow to clear big cache that has accumulated running Opera for long time. Check this post. Don't kill the process, let it do its work.

Originally posted by Pesala:

Try closing Opera and switching off your computer at least once or twice in 24 hours.

I'm sorry but IMHO that's just ridiculous Pesala. If you mean restarting. I'm running WinXP SP3 and I restart my OS maybe 1-3 times per month (1 restart is always Win updates) and I don't have any problems whatsoever. When I don't use computer, I hibernate (and this is not a laptop BTW). Restarting Opera more frequently, let's say 1-2 times per week, on the other hand might be wise if you do a lot of surfing. I usually restart Opera when running it has reached a peak where it has started to use excessive RAM and/or resources in general so that you start to notice slowdowns and such. Opera has trouble freeing resources unless restarted, check this post I made recently. Still, Opera is far the best browser when it comes to "superusing" a browser. IIRC that was the number 1 reason I started to use Opera back in.. in.. can't remember, stick & stone age. It's just that it doesn't do magic for us that push the envelope to the max.

Originally posted by natural-kutkaa:

I'm sorry but IMHO that's just ridiculous

What's ridiculous is burning electricity when you're not even using your PC, and don't give me that BS about wear and tear on the components from heating and cooling. I am talking about switching off and on once or twice a day when you go for lunch or go to bed, not every time you go to make coffee.

Give the hardware a break to let it cool off, and cut the constant hum of background noise from the cooling fan. Restarting Opera from time to time also clears your recently closed windows list so that it fits on the screen.

Originally posted by Pesala:

What's ridiculous is burning electricity when you're not even using your PC

Originally posted by Pesala:

I am talking about switching off and on once or twice a day when you go for lunch or go to bed, not every time you go to make coffee.

Maybe you don't know what hibernating actually means. Check it out before bursting out like that. Just like I said, I do it when I'm away from computer for a longer period, e.g. making/eating lunch, watching a movie, whatever.

Originally posted by Pesala:

and don't give me that BS about wear and tear on the components from heating and cooling

What do you mean?! It seems that you're really confused and don't understand what I wrote.

Edit: toned down a bit.

Originally posted by natural-kutkaa:

Edit: toned down a bit.

That's better. Maybe you should read my posts before blurting out that what I wrote was ridiculous. I said nothing about hibernating. I just said that it is ridiculous to leave the computer on consuming power when its not in use, based on the OP's first post.

Originally posted by wengweng:

When my computer is on the whole week with Opera running

Originally posted by Pesala:

I just said that it is ridiculous to leave the computer on consuming power when its not in use

This is stupid. No you didn't! Here's your first answer:

Originally posted by Pesala:

Originally posted by wengweng:

I was wondering why my Opera browser takes so much time to close.

I think you answered your own question.

Originally posted by wengweng:

When my computer is on the whole week with Opera running

Try closing Opera and switching off your computer at least once or twice in 24 hours.

You clearly say that the OP "answered [his/her] own question" of "why my Opera browser takes so much time to close" with "my computer is on the whole week with Opera running", i.e. you indicate that the computer/OS running time is partly the culprit and your solution/advice is to "Try closing Opera and switching off* your computer at least once or twice in 24 hours", to which I answered that it's ridiculous and presented my own experiences that challenges your advice. You brought the "burning electricity" issue later on to the debate.

* "Switching off" means powering down your computer. Hibernate/Suspend/Log Off actions are totally different things.

But enough with this. The OP has been answered properly already. I've no desire to continue this OT after this. You can post if you feel the need to answer this but I'm done. I'm sorry that this went this way.