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Turbo causes slow speed
Like some others, I have been bothered by the VERY slow speed in which some web pages would load in the latest versions of Opera, even some simple (apparently) pages like websudoku.com. I solved the problem temporarily by going back to Opera 10.0. But then I wondered why my laptop didn't seem to be bothered at all by the problem. I noticed it had Turbo set to the "off" position, but when I turned it "on," it started developing the same slow loading problem, but when I turned Turbo off, everything was fine again.So I again downloaded Opera 10.53 for my desktop (both using Windows XP/3), turned off Turbo and found the slow web page download problem had been fixed.
Yay. Now I don't have to use Firefox or SeaMonkey, although I have heard there is another browser. But I thought Turbo was supposed to help. I had even set it to Automatic, letting it decide when to turn on or off.
Larry Blake
See if the solution offered in this post helps.
Originally posted by choope:
Check to see if "Enable HTTP 1.1 for proxy" in enabled. Preferences > Network > Proxy Servers. Opera Turbo and accelerators provided by an ISP use a proxy.
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First: thank you, Pesala.
After I posted about Turbo, I realized that there were some posts in the forum about slow speed at https sites. So I checked my bank's web site, which has been acting weird recently. It's a two-stage entry system: user name on the first page, then password on the second. When I submitted my user name, the second page would take so long to load that I just hit "stop." But when I did that, the page loaded. So it's not a serious problem; I just have to remember to hit "stop" to start the thing.
So when I checked the "Enable HTTP 1.1 for proxy" box, the financial web site moved more quickly; but when I tried to load websudoku.com with Turbo "on," it still took a very long time to load. I think I will leave Turbo in the "off" position unless I have a problem at some financial sites.
By the way, after my initial post, I looked further in the forum and someone (Tamil) had recommended using NTLM Authorization Proxy Server, and setting the http, https and ftp at 127.0.0.1 and the port to 5865. I'm a little reluctant to do that, because I'm not sure what would be happening. Could I just enter the http, https and ftp figures?
For that matter, I don't really know what a proxy is, except that it appears to be a route, with a bunch of red lights, between my computer and the Internet.
Larry
After I posted about Turbo, I realized that there were some posts in the forum about slow speed at https sites. So I checked my bank's web site, which has been acting weird recently. It's a two-stage entry system: user name on the first page, then password on the second. When I submitted my user name, the second page would take so long to load that I just hit "stop." But when I did that, the page loaded. So it's not a serious problem; I just have to remember to hit "stop" to start the thing.
So when I checked the "Enable HTTP 1.1 for proxy" box, the financial web site moved more quickly; but when I tried to load websudoku.com with Turbo "on," it still took a very long time to load. I think I will leave Turbo in the "off" position unless I have a problem at some financial sites.
By the way, after my initial post, I looked further in the forum and someone (Tamil) had recommended using NTLM Authorization Proxy Server, and setting the http, https and ftp at 127.0.0.1 and the port to 5865. I'm a little reluctant to do that, because I'm not sure what would be happening. Could I just enter the http, https and ftp figures?
For that matter, I don't really know what a proxy is, except that it appears to be a route, with a bunch of red lights, between my computer and the Internet.
Larry