housekeeping question

I am looking for guidance to shorten Opera's startup time.
What is Opera doing before it appears on the screen?

Are there penalties for keeping mail view/period/forever?
Where could the barnacles be?
Thanks for any hints


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Thanks Rijk
I decided to start in on bookmarks which I don't use all that much
I was pleased to find that the mouse gesture works to expand all.
I found that there were rafts and rafts of bookmarks, cumulative sets of  
OPERA installed bookmarks - from every upgrade a full set!
Somehow they are nested, and this explains why I could not find bookmarks  
I KNEW I had. They are just a few levels down in the bookmarks tree. Yuk I  
say.
Still at work sifting & deleting.



On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:07:20 -0700, Rijk van Geijtenbeek  
<rijk@opera.invalid.removethis.com> wrote:

> Op Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:08:09 +0200 schreef Fritz Oppliger  
> <fritzatfritzopdotcom@where.ever>:
>
>> I am looking for guidance to shorten Opera's startup time.
>> What is Opera doing before it appears on the screen?
>>
>> Are there penalties for keeping mail view/period/forever?
>> Where could the barnacles be?
>> Thanks for any hints
>
> Opera is doing lots of things. Very large numbers of bookmarks or a  
> large history might have a bad influence. A large number of installed  
> fonts also used to be a problem, not sure if that is still the case in  
> 9.2. A large mail database also will mean a longer startup time. For  
> that reason, I personnally don't keep all rss feed and newsgroup  
> messages I receive, but periodically purge them. Just hiding them from  
> view wouldn't help.
>
> Before taking drastic steps, it might be good to know that for Opera 9.5  
> a lot of changes have been made to improve performance on all these  
> issues.
>



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Op Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:08:09 +0200 schreef Fritz Oppliger  
<fritzatfritzopdotcom@where.ever>:

> I am looking for guidance to shorten Opera's startup time.
> What is Opera doing before it appears on the screen?
>
> Are there penalties for keeping mail view/period/forever?
> Where could the barnacles be?
> Thanks for any hints

Opera is doing lots of things. Very large numbers of bookmarks or a large  
history might have a bad influence. A large number of installed fonts also  
used to be a problem, not sure if that is still the case in 9.2. A large  
mail database also will mean a longer startup time. For that reason, I  
personnally don't keep all rss feed and newsgroup messages I receive, but  
periodically purge them. Just hiding them from view wouldn't help.

Before taking drastic steps, it might be good to know that for Opera 9.5 a  
lot of changes have been made to improve performance on all these issues.

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                                                      Rijk van Geijtenbeek
                                    Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA
                                     Tweak: http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/

"The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users