@leocg
The opera://settings/system showed that hardware acceleration was turned off. I enabled it and, Voila! cpu went down to 2%.
Many thanks to the replies. I couldn't've done it alone.

@leocg This link, https://www.opera.com//download is not found.

@burnout426
Oh, the infamous double // tricked me once again!

Opera for windows 64bit 8 GB ram, 4x I5 processors. Nothing running in background.
eg, bring up MLB.com and click on Gameday to follow along. When a highlite is presented as a 30 second clip, it never plays to completion without halting after about 10 seconds or so.

I'm tired of looking at replays of X sports replays that cannot finish the movie without hanging up multiple times. Is there a problem with buffering in Opera?

Well, I finally solved my missing passwords problem. It seems that my Opera version was out of date even tho it said it was the latest(for my Windows 7) OS.
While browsing another posting, there was a new link to download for W7. After download and install, ver 95.0.4635.90,
my password save manager now works.
I am a happy camper.

@burnout426
Oh, the infamous double // tricked me once again!

@leocg This link, https://www.opera.com//download is not found.

@burnout426 Thank you for the lengthy reply.
First, I had no control over what version is installed on my system. As I reported above, going to the settings/help/about opera it reports back: "Version:85.0.4341.75
Opera is up to date".
I have always let opera auto update so I never got opera from any other source. My version of opera claims that it is up to date at ver 85.
Your solution is rather lengthy and prone to errors on my part. Where you state i am to click on the 3 dots to the right of the passwords won't work because there aren't 3 dots because it doesn't show any passwords.
It's interesting you say to export my passwords. I had no idea there was an export function. Doing that will help a lot because this whole endeavor was so that I could replicate my passwords from my main machine.
Now I will try the export from that machine. Both of my machines are basically for engineering work and browsing. no social media, etc.

From Opera help about
Version:85.0.4341.75
Opera is up to date

@leocg I gave my version right up front on the 1st post.
opera Version:85.0.4341.75

@leocg Site cannot be reached.

This site can’t be reached
The webpage at chrome://password-manager/passwords might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

ERR_INVALID_URL

I have been a user on Opera for over 20 years. Of course I have logged on and used the password manager all that time.

I just now logged off this forum and logged back on automatically. i have about 30+ tabs open and there are other sites that I;m logged on to.
But, I will say it again-I cannot see my passwords, with sites, in the settings under passwords. Obviously the passwords are there, just that I cannot view them.