Speeding up Opera

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Speeding up Opera

Postby James » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 3:43 pm

Hi Edward and all

I've tried some of the tweaking for Opera to speed up the loading of pages. Currently my Redraw is after 2 seconds. My Memory Cache is set at 40 MB and Disk at 5 MB. I have the Check Documents at 5 hours and Check Images at 24 hours. Under Network I have the Max. connections to server at 8 and the Max. total connections to 64. For Cookies I accept ALL.

My computer:

Win XP SP2
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
2.20 GHz, 448 MB of RAM

Any suggestions to speed things up would be appreciated.

Thanks.
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Postby Edward » Sun 08 Jul, 2007 5:32 pm

I'm giving up on it. I cannot get the footers to print when printing a web page with the Linux version. And, the Windows version does not even launch after it's installed.

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Postby James » Sun 08 Jul, 2007 5:38 pm

That's not what I wanted to hear, Edward. But I can imagine your frustration. I'm frustrated myself. I have pages that will not render properly and I'm tired of messing about with the settings of Opera to speed things up. I'll never really entirely throw in the towel, since I've been with it from version 5, but I've a feeling I'm going to head back to FF and Seamonkey. Anyway, thanks for your input.
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Postby Fulvio » Sun 08 Jul, 2007 9:38 pm

I believe that the remember sites is 0 by default. I never paid much attention to Opera, lately, although I believe that I had a v.4 which I bought, many years ago.
If you have broadband, it is not necessary to have a Cache of 40 MB.
Granted that I have kept Opera very trim, in comparison to Firefox, but it weighs in at 36 MB, at the start, but nearly 85 MB after I do something, versus 58MB of this FF3.0a6, and over 77MB of FF2.0.0.4. They are all the same
I don't see any reason to speed up something which is incredibly fast, already.
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Postby James » Sun 08 Jul, 2007 11:11 pm

Well... for me, it's not incredibly fast. That's why I am looking for ways to tweak it to bring it up to speed. I'll turn the history cache OFF since I agree with you about not needing a cache of 40 MB.

There are things about Opera that I love and other things that I don't love... sort of a love/hate relationship. I'll keep it as I always have... but it won't be my default browser.
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Postby Fulvio » Mon 09 Jul, 2007 11:31 am

James,
you have a point or two. I remember that when we bought a Geo Prism in the late 1980's I read a revue in Comsumer Reports, that "it gave illusion of speed.
Opera is like that. It is, usually, a lot faster in loading some pages, but not so fast with others ( as I found out after replying to you). I have not spent much time with it, so you are an expert, as far as Opera goes. Let us know if you figure something out.
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Postby James » Mon 09 Jul, 2007 12:37 pm

One thing I discovered was that I had my Kerio firewall configured to block ads. I decided to configure Opera to do this rather than the firewall. It requires downloading the ad-blocking filter set P and then editing the user css file. After doing this, I turned the Kerio firewall ad-blocking off and things have been sped up a bit. I like the analogy you gave, Fulvio... the illusion of speed with the Geo Prism.

Oh well... Opera has its strong and weak points. The mail portion is a sort of love-hate relationship as well. I love the idea of a single data base with a variety of views as opposed to separate boxes (i.e. Inbox, Outbox, Church, Family, Groups...etc). But I don't care for the idea that I cannot sent html but only receive such. Granted, I don't do this often, but I'd like the option to turn it on or off which Opera does not give.

Also, my bank site does not currently recognize Opera so I have to jump over to FF. I have a FF button on my Opera toolbar to make that jump easier and more convenient.
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Postby Fulvio » Mon 09 Jul, 2007 8:10 pm

Funny that you mentioned your bank. I paid my bill with the citi card using Opera, yesterday.
It behaved as well as Firefox does.
I dislike mail, precisely because it brings everything in one lump. That's why I set up only one account in Opera. I don't bother with ad blocking. As long as popups are blocked, I am satisfied.
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Postby Edward » Tue 10 Jul, 2007 12:29 pm

James wrote:That's not what I wanted to hear, Edward. But I can imagine your frustration. I'm frustrated myself. I have pages that will not render properly and I'm tired of messing about with the settings of Opera to speed things up. I'll never really entirely throw in the towel, since I've been with it from version 5, but I've a feeling I'm going to head back to FF and Seamonkey. Anyway, thanks for your input.


The Windows version had "issues" when I tried to uninstall it. The uninstaller froze half way through the process, I rebooted into safe mode, only to learn that it would not uninstall either because Windows Installer does not run in Safe Mode.

I then tried a second time to uninstall it and it finally took.

Don't know what to tell you. There has to be a reason why the Linux version will not print the footers on an HP printer, everything else prints perfectly...and a reason why the Windows version doesn't launch after installation. Unfortunately, no one at Opera can provide answers to these issues.
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