Bump with hope that's not the case!

And how do I remove it?

How do I remove this?

And I did the OPERA_AUTOUPDATE_DISABLED addition to environment variables in order to stop these auto updates but can I check something to be certain it will stop them? I hate dealing with all this crap every update.

I haven't seen this behavior happen again, although one of the windows had a different bug where the opaque backing along the top became entirely transparent and the minimize button wasn't working. This was kind of annoying when you were working in a second window and could see tabs from the other window so clearly they looked to be part of the window you were working with.

As for "Continue where I left off", since you need to close each window one at a time in order to restart Opera I lose all tabs except for the last window I closed.

I haven't seen any graphicsl issues outside of Opera so I doubt it's bad ram/a driver issue, I have enough disc space and a virus scan found no results.

Now I did just update flash, which I hadn't installed yet for Opera (If it requires it's own flavour) so the youtube videos I was using must have been using html5? Since that thread mentions older flash especially hopefully that does the trick.

No hibernate no sleep. using addons like adblock, ghostery. If the problem repeats I don't think I'd like to continue using the browser without those addons.

Restarting works, same as closing down the browser and opening fresh but I'd like to keep those tabs open and not lose them all the time.

I usually leave my computer on 24/7 and so I've had 2 opera windows open for more than 24 hours now. When I turned on my monitor I was still open to one of the opera windows and so clicked one of the tabs to switch. The title shown for the window in the taskbar switched but no change visually in the browser. I switch to my other browser window assuming that was just being slow loading or something and found it to be completely black. When I switched back to the first window it too was not completely black. Using ctrl+ tab or clicking along the top still changed tabs and youtube even still plays if you click where the player should be in that tab.

I opened a new window to make this post and it is working now, but the other opera window is still completely black.

Is this a common failing of Opera? How can I avoid it?

I did not see the setting under Settings/Browser/User Interface since none of the guides told me about that, I guess they were all outdated. Doing that and following this: https://forums.opera.com/post/37721 worked for me, but what a mess in looking for this information online!

Thanks for the help lem729 and leocg

I am trying to switch to Opera but the lack of bookmarks makes it incredibly difficult, googling around I found out about going to Opera://flags and searching for and enabling the quick bar/bookmarks bar there but after restarting opera it still will not show. All the guides on how to do that are out of date and refer to a bookmarks toolbar under settings or from the opera drop down in the top left.

Even the More Tools -> Bookmark importer button has been greyed out!

What does opera have against bookmarks?

Is it possible to remove the deadspace pixels above a tab and instead extend tab height up to the top? It makes navigating tabs so much harder, I don't have the best motor control so sweeping up into the width of a tab and clicking is much easier than getting the narrow height just below the top.

Also would there be an addon that already does this? I didn't find one but may have been searching with the wrong terms.