After approaching Opera tech support about this issue and receiving no assistance for over a week, I've switched to Vivaldi. Vivaldi is now my default browser and MS Edge is the backup. I used Opera for years and would have gone on using it if they had, oh I don't know, given a shit?

@leocg: oh well that explains why you guys weren't helpful

@blackbird71 : well I did email tech support, hoping for them to assist me in figuring out the cause of the problem and solving it. But they didn't, so I installed a new (default) web browser, and am now moving through all my web-based activity much more quickly.

Oh absolutely, I used Opera for years with no complaints, though, tbh, it was always kind of slow. I knew I was browsing the web slowly, but I thought I needed either a better processor or more memory. I had no idea the problem was my browser.

But even then it was tolerable. Toward the end it became intolerable. And that's why I made the switch

@tech-halfwit that's my experience exactly, but what made it worse was them sending me an automated email that indicated that no Opera techie personnel were going to contact me about the problem I was having. I didn't go to tech support to inform them of the problem so they could solve it to benefit other Opera users. I did it for them to fix it so I could use my browser, and their unwillingness to do that is why I voted with my feet.

Now re Vivaldi: based on the research into browsers I did, the good ones all have a niche, and Vivaldi's is speed. Everything I do on line is moving so much faster since I dumped Opera. I mean Opera was never as fast as Vivaldi, but especially for those last few weeks. I was actually getting to bed late on weeknights because the websites I frequent every week were loading so slowly.

So anyway, good luck with it.

After approaching Opera tech support about this issue and receiving no assistance for over a week, I've switched to Vivaldi. Vivaldi is now my default browser and MS Edge is the backup. I used Opera for years and would have gone on using it if they had, oh I don't know, given a shit?

I reported a bug to Opera recently. The bug report is number BS-24048. Basically, as the subject header says, the browser is slowing down a lot and crashing. And what's worse is that when it crashes, it gives me a hard time signing back in (says I need to "contact the administrator" on my own home desktop PC, which, of course, doesn't have an admin). Then, when I finally get it back up and running, all my tabs are gone, even though I have the browser set to automatically reload all tabs.

Now having reported this, I'd hoped for some help with it. But I reported it three days ago and haven't heard a peep out of Opera tech support. So here I am, describing the same problem I described when I reported it Thu evening, in the hopes that someone, somewhere, will solve this for me, or help me solve it for myself. Does anyone here know what would cause a problem like this? Please respond if so.

Greetings,

I very recently rebooted Opera in order to install an update. I have Opera set to automatically restore all the windows and tabs I had open during the previous session every time I reboot. Except that it didn't do that this time. One window came up entirely, but the other one didn't restore at all.

Some of the tabs on that window were added months ago, and have remained there through repeated reboots. I manually re-added as many a I could remember, but that's not all of them. I there any way to go get them back without sorting through possibly months of history of tabs and windows I've opened?

Whenever I click a link to an email address that's in an email I'm reading, Microsoft Outlook opens, in spite of the fact that I'm already logged in to my Gmail account. How so I set Opera to assume that I mean to send the email with the same email server I'm already using? btw I'm using Win7, HP Pavilion.