@operafanuk
It is a "windows" shortcut. It is designed to launch the "default" browser and open the link embedded. Alternatively, you can right-click on the desktop and New/Shortcut. Then go through the wizard dialog that appears. Paste the URL you want to save into the shortcut. Click finish and you have a shortcut. You can also select an application. You can rename the shortcut whatever you want. To edit it, just rightclick and select properties. Hope that helps.

@burnout426 By golly, you are right! I'm so used to ALT-F4, I haven't tried the menu exit in a long time. Thanks for the help.

I rather like it It feels more organized and the look is clean.

Try turning on off Opera Turbo. Especially if you are inside a company firewall. Opera Turbo is a proxy service.

Re: Wallpaper resets between sessions
My wallpaper (since the last update) no longer is remembered. I select an Opera animated wallpaper and it persists until I quit Opera and then its back to the default image. I"m running all of the latest windows updates as well for Windows 10. Is this a database issue or what? Thanks!

Version information
Version: 52.0.2871.40 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 10 64-bit
Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36 OPR/52.0.2871.40

Paths
Install: C:\Program Files\Opera
Profile: C:\Users\theuser\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Cache: C:\Users\theuser\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable

How do I stop the constant opera forum emails? I've clicked unsubscribe link in the emails and it goes to a form (already logged in) which h as "Access Denied" at the top of the form. Any ideas? I don't have time to read all of these emails.

@modemjunkie What's your slashdot id? 100?

@leocg You use the word profile which to me means like an account. This is all one person, but workspaces treats groups of tabs with a label. Why can't that apply to speed dial? A group of workspaces under one profile, a group of speed dials under one profile. It's all the same.

@nosferatu1922 Hopefully, it's a work in progress. I'm sure they have been thinking about other features and how they should be integrated, but got one thing done. For all they know no one will like the workspaces. (someone on the team is a linux desktop user).

@mryanmarkryan2 yeah so confirmed. To reproduce, open opera. Setup some tabs in various workspaces. Then open a new instance of opera. You should be able to alt-tab between them. Open a tab in instance 2. Now close instance 1, then close instance 2. Re-open opera. You will see only instance 2.

I think the workspaces are kind of limited in concept. I would have focused on Speed dial getting new functionality as far as saving tabs for the workspace. For example, the first row of speed dial (or a side row) would match the workspace. Close the session and the tabs for the workspace are saved there. Right-click and restore to restore them if they are not there. Speed dials are permanent, but tabs are not. I see plenty of flaws in my quick idea here, but that's the general idea. Basically, workspaces need to work correctly with other opera features.

@frederikathias I think i encountered this. I thought at the time I closed my session with multiple tabs in different workspaces when I still had another session (instance of opera) that was still open but didn't have those tabs opened. When I closed the last session, it remembers that setup.

@leocg Perhaps that is because the Speed Dial architecture hasn't been updated to match the concept of workspace? Hopefully it's something to tackle someday.

I rather like it It feels more organized and the look is clean.

I think it would also be cool if workspaces had unique speed dials. I have a hard time tracking which workspace I'm in. But if I had specific speed dials per workspace, then I could assign saved speed dials based on the workspace's purpose (maybe a specific project, or personal, etc). I don't think the speed dial is being leveraged as much as it could be. Opera invented this concept and it's still the best I've seen out there. It's also a big part of why I've stayed with Opera.

@leocg Thanks!