I'm using Opera 12 (later versions are based on Chrome) and it has been marvellous for keeping a bunch of tabs in place (21 at the moment) without using lots of memory.
For the last couple of days, I've suddenly hit memory problems with Opera, with it going up to 1.5gb or more instead of the expected few hundred k. Also, it has started opening tabs on top of but smaller than the previous tabbed screen.
Has anyone else seen this, or is there some button that I've pushed that has broken it?
I'm on 12.15, heavily modified, and it doesn't seem to eat too much RAM - although Flash has an effect. I can't think of anything that would do this, unless the cache settings are borked. I use the stand-alone setup, so every so often the whole folder is copied to E:-drive and can be put back on D: if needed. The Bookmarks, Cookies etc. files are easy enough to copy alone, so if anything does go wrong they can be hooked out, the rest ditched and the back-up re-instated.
I have 16 tabs open in IE ATM, it is using 525M of RAM.
Thanks for the replies. I've hit "Delete Private Data", which deletes the cache amongst other things and it seems back to normal with no nested sites. The Opera.exe process is using 588mb of RAM with 18 tabs open, but it does seem to be creeping up steadily.
I stopped using Opera when the removed the Home button. Has it been put back yet?
I've got a Home button my (opera 12.16) toolbar - you can customise the toolbar to show whichever buttons you want (or not)
I am downloading tons of charts daily in Firefox and have to manually delete the downloads folder all the damned time to stop it stultifying.
There used to be a service I could click on in preferences to do that automagically, or was that Opera?
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I'm up to Opera 18 and it I don't think that has any way of customizing the toolbar. It has back / forward / refresh and a start page button that takes you to the speed dial page with a google search bar.
Doesn't seem to be any way of adding a home page but I would welcome being proved wrong.
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You are right, there aren't the customisation options in the later versions of Opera.
When they changed last year from using Presto to webkit and then Blink/Chromium I think they rewrote the whole thing and it lost lots of features, one being the customizations like the toolbar buttons available.
There may be extensions available to help with this I don't know, or go back to 12.16
I was an early Opera user, I even paid for it way back in the late 90's version 3.something But somehow it seemed it lose it's way for me (it was the lack of built in spellchecker for a long time that did it for me I think.
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I've now given it time after "Deleting Private Data" and it seems just about OK. The memory usage is much higher that I remember, though, and seems to waver between 500 and 700 megs, which is about twice what I see for Firefox when it is running normally with a good few tabs.
I tried Opera 15, but it did nothing that I wanted, so I went back to this 12.16. Before I hit this memory problem its great advantage was that memory use didn't creep up. Firefox remains terrible for that.
I suppose the next step is to reinstall and see if that brings the positives back.
I really don't care that Firefox is currently using about 1.3 GB (15 tabs right now - many more earlier). Got plenty still available...
On 12 it's right click on empty area of toolbar and select 'customize' on mine. I didn't know about newer releases (I thought I was on auto update) but if they've gone the way of Chrome with a minimalist interface that leaves you unable to find anything then I'll stay where I am.
I've been an Opera user since around v.3 (when you had to pay for it). I downloaded and installed v.18 on my laptop over lunchtime. It looks like you're right (apologies for harbouring doubts).
Another case of Hutber's law ("improvement means deterioration": founded on the cynical observation that a stated improvement actually hides a deterioration) I fear. As a commentator in the Opera forum observed, how can the maker of a browser with a minimal market share think it a good idea to do away with bookmarks? Yes, there's something else instead but I lost the will to live at that point.
Not everyone loves Microsoft :) but from the mid-1990s they gave us a regime where you could install and start using almost any program without needing a manual - File, New, type stuff, hit the print button to print, hit the floppy disk icon to save and so on. We seem - bizarrely - to be moving into an era where making programs unfathomable is seen to be a cool idea. Or me having passed 60 is starting to tell!
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I didn't know about newer releases (I thought I was on auto update)
I can identify with that. My phone updated it's CCTV camera viewing app sometime recently and it stopped working. Took me 2 hours of buggering about to get back to the original app which had been renamed. The new all singing dancing app which I tried was a disaster. As has been said so often if it aint broke don't fix it! They not only broke the Android version, but also the iphone version-----a real success not. My computers don't have auto update and they are stable, her computers do have auto update and are a continuous source of unwanted maintenance work for me.
I think where printers are concerned, you are engaged in wishful thinking. I've never had a MS machine with a networked printer which stayed working for more than a couple of months. There was a thread on The Register recently complaining about just this fact. Only my Linux machines and her ipad print reliably. Re-installing printers is one of my many unwanted time wasting hobbies.
I've been using a networked printer for years. My current one has been running for, probably, 4 years. I've never had any problems. Win on Win
7, but I used XP before that.In message , charles writes
Ditto, multiple machines here, some running for a few years, once setup there has been no problems.
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