How do i make opera faster?

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I'm using opera right now,and sometimes it begins lagging down,how do i increase performance?

http://operawiki.info/OperaPerformance

Also, use a big RAM cache and a smaller disk cache.

That doesn't do much,if anything,at this rate i'll go back to IE7 soon

why not firefox rather than IE7?

Firefox is really snappy when used on Linux (in the form of Swiftfox) when also using the FasterFox.
But in just standard version, Opera is the fastest of them all i think.

Thats even worse than opera,IT TAKES EVEN MORE EONS FOR IT TO START UP AND LOAD PAGES!! !! !

start up is likely due to your cache settings.

loading pages, slow?? it's instant for me on opera.
firefox there is a tweak out there to make it stream like 3 or 4 instances of the page at once and it'll likely decrease the load time of pages, unless of course you're on dial up. but since you seem biased just run IE7. It's your computer. And if you frequent the same sites it *should* be instant, because all websites should be saving that site to your box via cache.

As much as I hate IE# because of the constant vulnerabilities who cares if you only browse a few sites.
But let's say this much adaware, spyware etc is all created to help people with one browser. Want to take a guess which one has these problems?

I assume you're running windows.
What do you have for RAM? I mean if you have 128 megs of ram increase RAM cache means your system is just using virtual memory and it's not smart to increase memory cache in this situation.

Same if you run a ton of programs (let's say a MMO game) and then browse the net and expect instant performance. It's very hard to say what exactly your problem is, and give a simple "just do X Y Z" to fix your problem.

give a rundown of your isp, your RAM, your cpu and OS then it may be easier to cater to your situation.

I play music and browse the web.

Celeron 2.4GHz.
256MB RAM.
XP Home.

How do i effectively increase the speed of opera?

I really don't get this opera is faster. With tweaks there really isn't much in it. Anybody could make a simple browser that's fast that doesn’t make it any good. Although opera 'out of the box' may be faster for some things I had a look at a test site it showed that version to version it was getting slower. That because it was behind on a lot of things. I would say don't be fooled. Even if it was compliant that doesn't mean they join up the dots in a logical way. Opera 8 cause me no end of trouble on the development front. Opera appears to be optimised for Windows, so you might try something else if your not using Windows.

It is a matter of taste but I think the opera interface is terrible.

So in order to have a fast web browser,i have to use sh***y IE7 which randomly boots me off for NO REASON!! !! !

Bump-a-mia!

The earlier versions of Firefox were a lot faster than the current ones. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/0.7.html try that

More system ram will help opera and other programs run better. You say you have 256 megabytes of ram, that is too low, your compter is having to use the hard drive and that is much slower.

I'd go along with V111. XP is a memory hog, especially after you've been running it for a while, and have accumulated huge a huge registry and a bunch of pointless startup programs. Use Spybot - remove everything you are not absolute certain you want. I my case I left only AVG.

My rule for caches is - don't make them all that big at all. Work out roughly how much space you need for image data from the sites you frequent ALL the time, and round it up just a little. I'm using 50 Mbytes at this instant (silly - I should probably drop that to 10). SeaMonkey doesn't specify a memory cache. I'd make that zero. The OS should cache that for you (Linux does) - not a browser.

I've seen people with multi-Gigabyte caches. That slows a browser down!

I use Linux these days. With 512M RAM and a mere 1.7GHz P4 (and the ancient GeForce2). I managed to make it slow up just a little while I was browsing, playing music, with visualisation and mixing auto pilot Xaos alpha fractals while spinning my desktop cube to do this picture of my desktop. (Actually, it was just about unusable by then. )

I have 768 MB of ram and a mere 600 mhz cpu and have good results from Opera.

When I use my old laptop, occasionally, I'm down to a 266MiHz processor and 96Mbyte RAM. Still running old Mozilla on Debian/KDE3.3 + Apache. Must update it all someday - probably to something a little less demanding.