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Re: Firefox twice as fast as Opera

Subject: Re: Firefox twice as fast as Opera
From: "Timothy Daniels"
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:18:12 GMT
Newsgroups: opera.general
"FV" wrote:
Timothy Daniels schreef:
    That's interesting.  I wonder if it's because I've been using
Opera most of the time for the last 6 months and FireFox
virtually not at all.  Do browsers get "tired" with use?

It could be that you have a huge history of visited pages, typed-in addressed, followed links and a cache with tens of thousands of files which is slowing Opera down. You could try to remove these through Tools -> Delete private data (be careful with removing cookies and passwords as you could lose login data). Also, a huge blocked content list or a large set of site specific preferences could theoretically cause slowdowns in Opera, as can extensions for Firefox.

You can always create a separate clean installation for Opera to test if that works better; that way you can check if it's your specific installation and settings or a general Opera problem.

For the record: I empty my private data quite regularly and find Opera fast and responsive on the majority of sites.

Alternatively, you might try to adjust some settings in Opera:config to tweak the rendering speed. For example, you could try setting opera:config#UserPrefs|FirstUpdateDelay and opera:config#UserPrefs|UpdateDelay to 200 ms, or another value. This might work, but then again might also cause more 'unstable' and jumpy effects during page loading, depending on your network speed.


   I empty my private data after leaving each website.  The slowness
that I see is not only with updating, but also on every first rendering.
If I find the time, I might try re-installing Opera.  I recall that it seemed
to be much quicker when I first installed it about a year ago.

*TimDaniels*

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