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Opera 10.53 and Mac Os X Tiger 10.4.11: unusable
Hello there:I'm having a real pain trying to use the new Opera 10.53 on my Mac with OS X Tiger 10.4.11.
The main issue, it takes minutes to let me add any text to the URL window, or, for example, the Google search box, or any other box where do you need to add text.
And, if I try to close a tab, another "freezing" moment, and the Activity Window (OS X application to monitoring the system activity) showing the "not responding" red message.
Any clue?
Best wishes, as always,
Federico (aka euskir)
> Opera 10.53 unusable on Mac OS 10.4.11, with PPC cpu
Yes, I tried the 10.53 version today and behavior was very sluggish -- slow to respond to almost any keyboard shortcut, slow to switch Tabs from keyboard, etc. I will revert to using 10.10, which was working fine. Also noted after a few hours, very high active memory use for Opera 10.53 (279 mb) in Activity Monitor, with just 5 tabs open. With older versions this would be <100 mb. Some major problems need to be debugged here, as I see Windows users also reporting out of control memory usage for these later versions.
Yes, I tried the 10.53 version today and behavior was very sluggish -- slow to respond to almost any keyboard shortcut, slow to switch Tabs from keyboard, etc. I will revert to using 10.10, which was working fine. Also noted after a few hours, very high active memory use for Opera 10.53 (279 mb) in Activity Monitor, with just 5 tabs open. With older versions this would be <100 mb. Some major problems need to be debugged here, as I see Windows users also reporting out of control memory usage for these later versions.
Hello there:
Exactly! All you're talking about it's happening to me too. Lucky me that Opera isn't my main browser, but sad because I was hoping a better performance from this new version.
We can return to the previous stable version, and wait for a new update with enough fixes to make it a serious browser.
Best wishes, as always,
Federico (aka euskir)
Exactly! All you're talking about it's happening to me too. Lucky me that Opera isn't my main browser, but sad because I was hoping a better performance from this new version.
We can return to the previous stable version, and wait for a new update with enough fixes to make it a serious browser.
Best wishes, as always,
Federico (aka euskir)
Originally posted by euskir:
my Mac with OS X Tiger 10.4.11.
Well there's your problem right there
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6. May 2010, 16:45:24 (edited)
using Snow Leopard, and works fine. Nice and fast. Must be that O 10.53 no longer accepts cookies and Java was disabled.
BTW I had to post this with Safari, as Opera would not let me login to My Opera. it's a cookie thing.
And wtf is up with changing the fonts on the Mac version. Suddenly pages (try the Drudge Report, and most likely any page with fixed fonts) look as if I am running with the Accessibility settings turned on. I can read the page from 100 feet!
BTW I had to post this with Safari, as Opera would not let me login to My Opera. it's a cookie thing.
And wtf is up with changing the fonts on the Mac version. Suddenly pages (try the Drudge Report, and most likely any page with fixed fonts) look as if I am running with the Accessibility settings turned on. I can read the page from 100 feet!
Rather than start a new thread I just want to add my experience of this as another OSX 10.4.11 user.
It won't launch. I've downloaded Opera 10.53 a few minutes ago, installed, and it won't launch. A quick bounce in the dock, then nothing. I've reverted back to Opera 10.10. I'm on a PPC G4 with more than enough RAM etc. Never had a problem with Opera before. There were no system changes between the old and new installation.
Is this a temporary bug or more significant end of compatibility?
It won't launch. I've downloaded Opera 10.53 a few minutes ago, installed, and it won't launch. A quick bounce in the dock, then nothing. I've reverted back to Opera 10.10. I'm on a PPC G4 with more than enough RAM etc. Never had a problem with Opera before. There were no system changes between the old and new installation.
Is this a temporary bug or more significant end of compatibility?
Hi Parkwell
I hope this is not the end, but 10.53 was not ready to be released on 10.4.11. It can't have been tested much?
Problem areas
Won't launch after installation. (Somehow that is ok on my system now after a restart or something)
Very sluggish text input / editing
Cookie handling faulty? I have problems with remaining logged in at some member pages. (tele2.no/minesider)
Odd crashes now and then.
Maybe I will test the next beta. It seems they are short of 10.4.11 testers...
Ingmar
I hope this is not the end, but 10.53 was not ready to be released on 10.4.11. It can't have been tested much?
Problem areas
Won't launch after installation. (Somehow that is ok on my system now after a restart or something)
Very sluggish text input / editing
Cookie handling faulty? I have problems with remaining logged in at some member pages. (tele2.no/minesider)
Odd crashes now and then.
Maybe I will test the next beta. It seems they are short of 10.4.11 testers...
Ingmar
7. May 2010, 08:18:58 (edited)
Now I'm really confused. Just opened up Opera and there was a little activity and it then welcomed me to Opera 10.53 ?! This is after I replaced it with 10.10 ?! I don't recall having any auto-updates setting or whatever but it seems to be working and installed. Will see how it goes.
EDIT: It's sluggish. I'm getting the 'wheel of death' a fair few times - for instance everytime I try to copy a web address in order to paste it elsewhere.
EDIT: It's sluggish. I'm getting the 'wheel of death' a fair few times - for instance everytime I try to copy a web address in order to paste it elsewhere.
Hello Parkwell & Brake:
Yes, that's exactly what's happening to me, well, not now, because I went back to 10.10, but you're talking about all the issues, specially the "Very sluggish text input / editing".
But in my case no problem to install or with the cookies.
Could it be a trouble the G4, more than the OS X version?
Best wishes, as always,
Federico (aka euskir)
Yes, that's exactly what's happening to me, well, not now, because I went back to 10.10, but you're talking about all the issues, specially the "Very sluggish text input / editing".
But in my case no problem to install or with the cookies.
Could it be a trouble the G4, more than the OS X version?
Best wishes, as always,
Federico (aka euskir)
10.53 is definitely crap.
the scroll accerlation is horrible, and why cant you simply deactivate this -.-
second the paneele butten in the top left corner is gone. Why?
And the stripe on the site to open it is btw shit using a second screen...
hope it get better soon
the scroll accerlation is horrible, and why cant you simply deactivate this -.-
second the paneele butten in the top left corner is gone. Why?
And the stripe on the site to open it is btw shit using a second screen...
hope it get better soon
Fixing Opera 10.53 'Not Working!' problem with 10.4.11 PPC
Fixed it like this!
Open the Opera Universal .DMG file and DO NOT DRAG THE OPERA PROGRAM TO THE 'APPLICATIONS' FOLDER instead DRAG IT TO YOUR 'DESKTOP'!
'Double click' on this to Run it, to prove that it works.
I then found that if I moved it to the 'Applications' folder it would not work, so place it in the 'Utilities' folder and then make an alias of it.
Move the alias to the 'Applications' folder now use the alias or the 'Dock' item and it should Run.
This would seem to suggest some permission problem with 10.53 for the Mac
Fixed it like this!
Open the Opera Universal .DMG file and DO NOT DRAG THE OPERA PROGRAM TO THE 'APPLICATIONS' FOLDER instead DRAG IT TO YOUR 'DESKTOP'!
'Double click' on this to Run it, to prove that it works.
I then found that if I moved it to the 'Applications' folder it would not work, so place it in the 'Utilities' folder and then make an alias of it.
Move the alias to the 'Applications' folder now use the alias or the 'Dock' item and it should Run.
This would seem to suggest some permission problem with 10.53 for the Mac
I have found a temporary solution at least until the folks at Opera fix this bug.
There's no need to install Opera into the utilities folder. The problem is that Opera 10.53 appears to freeze upon opening if you had more than one tab open when you shut down Opera the previous time. This problem persists when you upgrade to version 10.53 because the multiple tabs will also load the first time you open 10.53. I have found that despite looking frozen all the menu items work properly. If, at the time of opening Opera the first time you have multiple tabs open but cannot get the tabs to work simply go to the "windows" menu and use that to switch between tabs. Once you do this once the tab function unfreezes and everything works properly again.
There's no need to install Opera into the utilities folder. The problem is that Opera 10.53 appears to freeze upon opening if you had more than one tab open when you shut down Opera the previous time. This problem persists when you upgrade to version 10.53 because the multiple tabs will also load the first time you open 10.53. I have found that despite looking frozen all the menu items work properly. If, at the time of opening Opera the first time you have multiple tabs open but cannot get the tabs to work simply go to the "windows" menu and use that to switch between tabs. Once you do this once the tab function unfreezes and everything works properly again.
bawh. I'm doing permissions repair now. Chrome is nice and all, better than Safari, but still not as good as Opera.
Hello all,
I just found this topic today. I have a PPC G4 iBook running OS X 10.4.11. For me, I can't even get to the point where I can tell whether 10.53 is sluggish. It crashes immediately after I start it, each and every time. And when I tried to reinstall 10.10, I had the same problem as several posters above, where it would start 10.10 the first time, but then it would start 10.53 thereafter. I have not tried the workarounds of re-creating the alias in the Dock.
Are these crashes possibly related to the removal of Carbon support in favor of Cocoa that is in the 10.5x Opera line?
Has anyone tried the 10.6 alpha?
thanks,
shoover
I just found this topic today. I have a PPC G4 iBook running OS X 10.4.11. For me, I can't even get to the point where I can tell whether 10.53 is sluggish. It crashes immediately after I start it, each and every time. And when I tried to reinstall 10.10, I had the same problem as several posters above, where it would start 10.10 the first time, but then it would start 10.53 thereafter. I have not tried the workarounds of re-creating the alias in the Dock.
Are these crashes possibly related to the removal of Carbon support in favor of Cocoa that is in the 10.5x Opera line?
Has anyone tried the 10.6 alpha?
thanks,
shoover
Another poster figured out how to keep 10.53 from reinstalling itself.