Opera 10.53 performance issues

Opera 10.53 performance issues

I created this topic since comments regarding these problems are scattered over other threads.

So, 10.53 is supposed to be much faster than 10.10 with the new improvements, even a benchmark was released to support this, but somehow I´ve been reading more reports from MAC users complaining about the lack of speed than users celebrating the speed bump that happened on windows machines.

The system I´m running opera 10.53 is a PPC MAC running OS X tiger.11.

In terms of speed: Safari 4 is faster than Opera 10.10 which is faster than 10.53.

The latest version of Opera is really slow here, I´ve got input delays everywhere and lots of beachballing, it works but the performance is terrible.

Looking for input from other users,

metallizer

Same OS here; I've stopped using 10.53 completely and am back to 10.10. The 10.53 interface is incredibly sluggish. If I am looking at a web page then go to email it sits for a while while it "thinks" about it (no beach ball, though). Then, if I click on CONTACTS to look at my email list it thinks about it again. It seems to be very thoughtful. :-)

10.53 uses over the time too much memory, over 1 gig on a machine where there is 2 gigs memory! And this is like 10 tabs open! mac 10.6.3

edit: almost forgot, when doing daily restart for opera (because that memory usage causes sluggish response) it needs to be force closed because opera stops responding when trying to quit it.

Good idea, this thread.
I've also mentionned here and there that Opera 10.53 sends up lots of beachballs.

It's not so much a memory issue on my G5 with latest Tiger (10.4.11).
Rather a case of hogging CPU.

Launching Opera, initiating typing on the web (forms, forums, dictionaries…) maxes processor use and causes near freeze. Same when typing messages in M2, slow start, various seconds delay before what has been typed appears.

Also, keyboard commands do not respond - beachballs and delay to open tabs, shut a window, copy-paste, etc…

Activity Moonitor show processor chock a block and red message "Opera is not responding" for several seconds for all of the above.
Definitely poor performance.

I've experienced the same problems on 10.6.3. Hopefully, this will be gone in the next release - latest development build is much faster (still buggy though).

Same here, any version after 10.10 is unusable on Mac PPC

Where can I download Opera 10.10? I hate this new 10.53 (I have a PPC G5 with OS 10.4.11).

I've reported on my issues elsewhere, which corroborate findings that others complaned about. Lots of beachballing, esp. when entering text. Entering the master password alone (when launching the app, if it's configured so) would take more than 30s for all 8 characters to register. Idem for entering an URL in the toolbar field. This is on adual 1.8Ghz G5 Powermac running 10.4.11 and with 1Gb of RAM. Doing nothing else. I'd see more than 75% of CPU activity on both CPUs. I'm attaching a SHARK recording of the URL entry (www.gmail.com).
Opera1053@G5osx10411-URLentry.mshark

I'd seen this with 10.52; before trying 10.53 I remove the Opera caches in ~/Library/Caches . That didn't change anything for me.

Then I tried to delete ~/Library/{Application\ Support/Opera,Preferences/Opera\ Preferences} . Lo and behold, things looked normal, or much more so. I'd had the hunch that the bballing was related to the history thingy that pops down when entering an URL in the toolbar. So I restored my bookmark.adr file (whic is over 540Kb). Back to the bballing. I'm currently typing this in 10.53, with my restored preferences, but without the huge bookmarks file.. It's almost usable (but annoyingly just-not-so). Text entry here still feels like a very slow 300 baud dialup line.
In short, it looks like Opera uses some very expensive (on PPC) text search routines, both to lookup matching entries in the bookmarks file, and possibly to spellcheck.

A second SHARK sample, obtained via a different method, also for URL entry:
Opera1053@G5osx10411-URLentry2.mshark

As soon as 10.5.x started rolling out, I've had nothing but issues and stability problems with all 10.5 Revs. I immediately rolled back to 10.10. I can't stand 10.5 at all. I noted it was auto scrolling, it was super slow, it flashed white screens on certain sites and the mail client was riddled with bugs to where, I was losing new emails that I was typing- they would just vanish into thin air- gone.

I am testing FF out today in fact along with their email client- T-Bird. I already dislike FF's interface and lack of configuration along with a few other issues and sure hope that Opera gives us a solid working browser vs. what they've put out so far (regarding 10.5 Revs).

CM

previous versions of Opera for Mac are at http://www.opera.com/download/?os=mac&list=all

oddly enough this page can be reached via "advanced Options" on the download Opera page

PPC G4 OS X 10.4.11 - Opera 10.10

It would be nice if the Opera development people would step in and say something about these issues, but they never do, do they?