Well, i hope someone in here uses Opera as their browser hehe.
Well the problem is this, sometimes when im browsing and open dont know, 3 or more tabs, my opera just hangs and freezes. Screen turns white and theres no way to close it other than right-click close several times until it shows an error dialogue asking to terminate program.
I use Opera all of the time for browsing and e-mail, and don’t have that problem. Which version are you using? Versions from 9.0 and before 9.5 had memory issues in some cases when used via VNC, but if you aren’t doing anything like that with multiple machines or virtual machines, my only suggestion would be that you try another video driver, if one is available for your video hardware.
we have had exactly the same problem as you, with Opera; and we have progressively allowed YaST to upgrade; and so like you we are up to 9.62; as upgrades become available; it just seems much less stable than firefox when you go loading up the tabs; we have taken to regarding it as a curious foible; and use the “kill” icon to shut it down; but some background processes continue; and opening it again seems to leave a weakened product; that is only cleansed by closing the computer down for the night
I was just checking my ATI graphics driver and tired to install 8.10
This is what it says on the log:
[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
ATI module generator V 2.0
initializing…
kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete
file: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme.
Opera can hang for around 30sec and not respond, if you then click the X KDE/Gnome will report Opera not responding and if you want to terminate it.
It seems to be related to operapluginwrapper (you can see it use a lot of cpu power) which runs Flash stuff I think, if the operapluginwrapper does not respond for 30sec then opera will ignore it and continue to work. Something operapluginwrapper will be killed other times you can see it running without parent using up 50% cpu
well that is in my pc anyways… if it happens its with flash pages
that could well be it; when we load up several tabs; with flash content; it “seizes up” as one right clicks on a further website, and selects “open in new tab”: it spits the dummy and seizes at that moment;