Opera - slow startup and massive memory usage

bandana163

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Jul 2, 2003
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A few days ago, Opera began starting up abnormally slowly and consuming about 210 MB memory after startup.
It takes a good 30 seconds to start, the memory usage slowly rises and the CPU load is at ~50%.
After that, I have no problems at all, memory usage goes back to normal, etc.
My second problem is that I must close Opera in the process manager, or it won't shut down :confused:.
What could cause this slowdown at start?

I've tried installing the newest version (I had 7.54 before), but it didn't help. I thought that the memory cache might be the culprit, but it isn't. I can turn off memory caching but the problem persists.
Opera used to initialize in a matter of seconds...
Other browsers (Firefox, IE) don't have this problem.
I've swept my system with Ad-aware+NAV+SpySweeper+Spybot, so I don't think that it's a trojan/malware I'm dealing with here.

Does anyone have an idea what my problem might be? Have you encountered this problem before?
 

bandana163

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Thank you for the quick responses.
It was caused by a few corrupted files. Reinstall didn't help because those files were never deleted after uninstall.
Now it loads instantly :)