Opera slow down

[Gary Hodges]

On 1/11/06, paul cooke <paul.cooke100 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 22:40, Gary Hodges wrote:
> > Kubuntu 5.10
> > Opera 8.51 Build 1462
> >
> > I use(d) the following sources.list entry to install and keep opera
> > updated.
> >
> > ## Opera repository
> > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ unstable non-free
> >
>
> thanks for that... :)
>
> > Lately after Opera has been run and used for a bit, it slows down a
> > lot.  For example, scrolling through a bunch of posts on slashdot is,
> > well, I wouldn't call it glacial, but it is certainly blocky.  If I
> > kill the Opera session and start a new one and go directly back to the
> > "slow" page, scrolling is snappy.  I thought I'd toss this out here
> > before looking for an Opera group.
>
> hadn't personally noticed that... I'm notorious for remaing logged in for days
> with the same Opera and Firefox sessions running... I've had Opera 8.01 up
> and going for some 4 days continuously and never noticed anything.
>
> my current opera session is about 20 hours old and has some 38 open tabs... no
> problems at all with it.

Thanks for the response.  Your experience is how mine used to be. 
I've used Firefox all day today as Opera just became too much of a
PITA (due to slowness) for me.