Can confirm this, it's really annoying since "Delay loading of background tabs" is one of the best features I haven't found in other Chromium browsers like Vivaldi yet. I really hope that it will be fixed soon.

I'm also interested in sorting feature: alphabetically, by date and folders first would be great.

Ok, thanks. Actually, it is a very good idea.

@idrin
Will it be changed again or is the flag the only workaround for now?

Thanks for the advice, I still think that all Opera users would appreciate the new background loading as default setting and an advanced setting for lazy loading.

No it's not the same if it's off but background tabs used not to load at all before 41.

I see that it's just delayed and not loaded when needed (lazy loading) but I think that the new setting "Delay loading of background tabs" should be default (who needs to load all tabs at the same time anyway?) and replace it with "Don't load background tabs until used" instead.

I have many tabs pinned that I don't need every time when I start Opera so I really liked the old way of loading and speed dial / bookmarks don't replace that.

I'm also interested in sorting feature: alphabetically, by date and folders first would be great.

Can confirm this, it's really annoying since "Delay loading of background tabs" is one of the best features I haven't found in other Chromium browsers like Vivaldi yet. I really hope that it will be fixed soon.