Opera 9.51 =.="...lags?

I just download Opera 9.51 because i heard it's a really good web browser but....why does it lag a bit when i use it i mean, sometimes it's even slower than IE7.

Are there any optimizations i can make to make it faster?

If not can anybody help me troubleshoot the problem?

 

Do you mean slow page loading? I haven't been experiencing lag in Opera, so I'm not really sure.

 

yea you could say that

 

Have you tried clearing cookies, cache? How much memory is it taking up in task manager?

 

omg...102,568. ._.

 

Reboot & defrag. It appears that it now uses 100-150MB now :O

 

on average how much MB does it use? btw what do u mean by defrag =.=?
U mean defragging my C and D drives? ...why do i need to do that for a web browser???

and i already did do it just a few hours ago >.> .

What else can i do ><.

Also could this have anything do to with the number of programs i have in my computer????? i've got a lot but not that many to cause lagging problems...

 

Could be that you have a crapware which is running alongside Opera and using somebandwidth.

Now if you say that there is none and your system is clean, and still you find that IE7 is faster than Opera, then you're lying.

 

I'd hate to say this, but try using Firefox 3 to see if it's the crapware on your computer. - if you're still "lagging" (slow page loading?) then you've got the crapware, if you're not.. well let's say that's just highly improbable as Opera is faster than Firefox (although only by a miniscule amount - you wont really notice)

I've got 13 tabs open,a few from youtube, a few devart, cnn, a few notebook review, another forum, gmail, gamerenders, goal.com, and I'm at 140mb

 

Perhaps a firewall doesn't have exceptions set properly for Opera? I've never had it be slower than IE7. Memory use (assuming that's in KB ) seems about right, assuming this isn't immediately after startup. It uses a bit of memory, but 100 MB isn't that bad. If it were 300 MB then there might be reason to be concerned...even then if it was after all day without restarting the browser once it wouldn't be out of line.

The other thing to do is check the cache settings in Tools-->Properties-->Advanced-->History. Storing less disk cache (default is 20 MB, will be fastest with 0) and fewer addresses will result in slightly better performance.

It is possible that you frequent a site that just works better with IE than any other browser no matter what. I've never seen Opera run slower on a site than IE, but I have seen IE6 outperform FF3. So it's possible that it's just one or two particular sites.