@leocg i do not have two instances of gmail or youtube open. i have each of them open and logging into a different account on one forces a reload and auto log in on the other.

i use gx and air, and im having this issue on both. i have three gmail accounts, one that is only for youtube, one that is functionally a personal account, and one that handles my more professional things like mails from doctors offices and my uni and things of that nature. i have my personal account set as my default, a bookmark to my youtube home page that is logged into that account, and another that is my email inbox logged into my professional account.

recently, when i open or change between tabs of any google service, opera force reloads and logs me into whichever account has most recently been signed into. e.g. i had my professional inbox open, i opened a new tab using my bookmark to search something on youtube, but it opened the wrong account. i switched to the correct account on youtube and when i went back to my inbox tab, opera force reloaded the page and logged me into my youtube email.

TL;DR it seems that opera will not let me have more than one tab of any google service open, unless i want to switch accounts every time i change tabs, to the point that it is over-riding my bookmarks.

is there anything that can fix this? it has become so annoying i am considering dropping opera altogether if there is nothing to be done.