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Today I upgraded to Opera 10.5 from Google Chrome and I have two really important questions about it.

1) Is it normal for it to use SO MUCH RAM!!!!? Closing tabs doesn't help, but opening new ones add on to the usage. I can have just 4 tabs open and it goes up to the 300MB mark and I only have 1.5GB in my laptop, 596MB of it used by the graphics card so this really unacceptable. Is there a way to fix it?

2) Why does Google Reader feel so slow and unresponsive on it? It lags so bad when I just try scrolling through the page. I know Opera is known for being really smooth while scrolling through pages. There's also a white bar at the bottom of the page that I can get rid of. It blocks the "Next" and "Previous" buttons. The test between articles is also sort of intersecting each other and that just looks completely unattractive and that's something i'm not used with any web browser. I realize there's a built-in RSS reader, but it doesn't sync across multiple computers and is very late at updating.

Here are my specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate (x86), Intel Pentium M 1.86 GHz, 1.5GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon X600 (64MB dedicated, 596MB shared)

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Why not just stay with chrome if it works better for you? – micmcg Mar 10 '10 at 6:43
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Try comparing it with how much memory Chrome uses by adding up all the processes that it launches. – greye Mar 10 '10 at 7:45
You can set the built-in RSS reader to ping sites every hour if you were so inclined. – random♦ Mar 10 '10 at 9:32
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It is normal for Opera to use that much RAM all of the time, I don't know anyone with anything lower than the ~200MB mark. As for your google reader question, I'm not getting that issue at all. You may want to disable fit to width as you could accidentally press it and it can mess up page layouts.

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You should try 10.10 ... 10.50 still have some issues. I'm upgraded on 10.50 from 10.10 today too and faced bugs with RAM and CPU usage in Google Docs.

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Go to your Preferences > Advanced > History tab... Then set memory Cache to 100MB and Disk cache to 200MB

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