@weirdlopster i had a similar issue. Every time i start opera gx, it is freezing for a solid minute and taking 2 gb of ram for that solid minute. After hours of tinkering, i found that the history file was huge, like 500 mb. It seems to be compressed to hence the freezing. Once i deleted my history fully it stopped freezing on startup
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