Determine which Opera tab uses 100% CPU?

Sometimes a tab gets stuck at using all CPU time it can get. I know theres a way to check which one for Chrome or Firefox -- is there a native method and/or extension to do this in Opera? Checking pages one by one in another browser is not a solution. Firstly, I can get the same effect selectively closing and opening tabs, secondly, my workflow includes having 25+ tabs, and when I realize that Opera slows down whole OS, it's a pain to check one-by-one. Last but not least, often it's not some flash-heavy or obviously CPU-consuming page causing it.

triazotan

Posted 2011-06-08T09:56:56.010

Reputation: 420

There's a way to check this in Firefox??? How is that? From time to time my FF uses crazy resources, and I'd LOVE to be able to tell what tab is killing it! Please tell... pretty please with sugar! – eidylon – 2011-09-01T21:11:58.020

No idea how to do it in either Opera or Firefox. My problem is not consuming CPU as it's limited to one core, but the browser getting very non-responsive. My "preferred" solution is "close all". That's one of the reasons why I'm slowly switching to Google Chrome which has a task manager. – maaartinus – 2011-09-03T22:40:59.663

Sorry to raise hopes, apparently my statement was wrong. I thought there's a firefox plugin for that, but it seems I've been misguided by an answer to this question: http://superuser.com/questions/263605/how-to-findout-which-firefox-tab-is-using-most-cpu-or-memory (I didn't notice that the screenshot actually depicts Chrome...)

– triazotan – 2011-09-05T09:06:36.140

1The reason you can see the tabs separately in Chrome is because it uses a separate process for every tab. Firefox and Opera do not. – cmorse – 2012-01-04T15:18:49.577

Answers

It seems that the answer is available at last! So I have no second thoughts about answering my own question ;)

To the point: development snapshot of Opera 12 (12.00-1359) introduced the opera:cpu tab. Opera 12 hit the virtual shelves on June 14, 2012, so problem is solved. It's not very detailed, but completely sufficient for answering my initial question. Looks like this:

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triazotan

Posted 2011-06-08T09:56:56.010

Reputation: 420

1Unfortunately does not work with new versions – Fabien Sa – 2018-03-01T11:13:57.830

Nowadays, Opera uses the Chrome engine, so just press Shift-Esc to see the CPU usage of each tab.

forliberty

Posted 2011-06-08T09:56:56.010

Reputation: 21

Does nothing in Opera 57.0.3098.116 under Mac OS X 10.11.6 64-bit – devon – 2019-01-20T15:15:38.037

You can split your tabs into multiple browsers to see them separately in the task manager, then you can see how much of your memory is eaten by each instance of browser.

rajat

Posted 2011-06-08T09:56:56.010

Reputation: 9

2Sorry, but this is so much not answering my original question... – triazotan – 2012-06-18T11:36:25.380