I Crashed Opera
Opera the browser that doesn’t have the memory leaks of Firefox. Well I’ve managed to crash it. I was curious just how much stress this browser can take so a few days ago I went through about 30 pages on Digg.com and opened up the links that interested me. I was quite behind in my digging if you will, and this time instead of using Firefox I used Opera. I am trying to give Opera a fair chance in my browsing experience to help learn more about it. Well this browser has failed me. I had probably 100 tabs open in 3 separate windows and went to bed. The next morning I awoke to find Opera memory usage well over 1.2gigs! I was at that point using my page file and my computer was running like ass. I just went into the task manager in windows and killed the Opera process. I can do this in Firefox and re-launch, my session is saved due to Session Saver and I am able to go about my business. Not with Opera I opened it back up and …NOTHING! I was so pissed two days of work down the shitter. I had research on future blog articles among other very important windows open and it was all gone. So I am currently back tracking through over fifty pages on Digg to try to recover the lost work. I hate Opera at this point in history. Probably in a few decades I won’t hate it so much. Someone please give me a reason to try it again? For the record I also must say I put Firefox through this endless abuse of tons of windows open day in day out, sure it has memory leaks but I’ve never had an issue like this before. End Rant.
That’s really strange I’ve never had the problem that Opera didn’t reopen my session when I killed the process, did you configure Opera to open everything where you left?
I have a german Opera installation so I can’t give you the exact name, but it’s the first option in the first preferences tab.
The only glitch I encountered so far is that the digg homepage is taking quite a while to load, but that could be because I live in Germany and in the 8.54 release I couldn’t open 20 or more digg pages at once because it crashed Opera. So far I haven’t had the problem with the new 9.0 release.
Where there any heavy flash application in the tabs you opened? That could be a reason for Opera to crash some times.
Best regards,
Patrick
I’ve never had that problem either and sometimes I will have 200+ tabs open and they will stay open for days at a time. Even when I kill the process I don’t have any problem getting back to my session. It could be a problem in your ‘prefrences’. Should be in Prefrences - General - Startup and pick ‘Continue from last time’.
Also when Opera crashes or you kill the process/restart your computer Opera should bring up a ‘Welcome To Opera’ menu for you to pick what session you want to have opened. You can pick the session that was open when Opera was closed, a saved session, a blank page, or your home page. The whole point of this menu is so you can decide if you want the crashed session to open again. Sometimes you arn’t going to want that session open again because it could be a problem with one of the web pages in your session that is causing the problem.
I took a screenshot of this menu
http://myweb.cableone.net/theyowans/oprea.JPG
Yea I had that box pop-up and my only two options were Blank Page or Home Page. That’s why I thought it was so weird. I was rather annoyed I’m sure in a few days I’ll give Opera another spin. Thanks for all the feedback in this matter!
Yeah, maybe you sould try saving your sessions by doing
File - Sessions - Save This Session and then you can load that session again at Welcome menu or by going to File - Sessions then click the session you want to load. I do taht from time to time so I don’t have to worry about closing a window and not being able to get back to it.
John…I feel dumb now, as I never thought about that. That is actually a cool feature now that I think about it. Thanks man!
“I hate Opera at this point in history. Probably in a few decades I won’t hate it so much.”
Well I hope you can stop hating it now.
lol, glad I could help. Yeah, I have a session saved for keeping track of the weather, so every time I think there’s going to be a storm I just open that session and it will open that session (while keeping my current session open). I have the radar local weather reports, and a few other pages in that session. It’s a lot faster than going through bookmarks. It’s almost like a multi-paged bookmark if you think about it.
yea me too. I will have some fun when I get off work tonight to see if I can start to like Opera again.
You will have to let me know how it goes.
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