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@dirkkramm I've had a similar problem;
Opera updated to this new version automatically yesterday, which worked fine, but on shutting down the PC and re-booting for the second time (first this morning was OK) this new version lost all my saved tabs and previous session; just over 300 tabs split over 6 different workspaces.
Annoyingly, it also deleted all my history from all workspaces tabs etc.
Settings do still show to restore previous session on bootup.
The old trick of Control-Shift-T wouldn't restore anything, presumably as all the history had been deleted.
Fortunately, my speed dial shortcuts still worked, as I have several folder containing backups of the workspace tabs from a couple of weeks ago, so only lost current tabs completely.
Normally do a full backup of everything before updating, but this one happened in the background without asking.

Seriously unimpressed with the colour scheme for the new Speed Dial window "birds"
The picture/logo in each icon is tiny on white icon, with white writing on a pale and fading turquoise background.
The screen is almost illegible on my fully calibrated monitor.
There doesn't seem to be any way to change the base colour scheme in that window of either the background or font.
Also, panel of icons seems fixed at 6 columns, even on a wide screen in landscape format
Cheers
Bill
p.s. tried to upload a screenshot here, but that doesn't seem to work.
Exclamation mark & 1st bracket removed to show the error; that file is actually the screenshot
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Opera updated to this new version automatically yesterday, which worked fine, but on shutting down the PC and re-booting for the second time (first this morning was OK) this new version lost all my saved tabs and previous session; just over 300 tabs split over 6 different workspaces.
Annoyingly, it also deleted all my history from all workspaces tabs etc.
Settings do still show to restore previous session on bootup.
The old trick of Control-Shift-T wouldn't restore anything, presumably as all the history had been deleted.
Fortunately, my speed dial shortcuts still worked, as I have several folders containing backups of the workspace tabs from a couple of weeks ago, so only lost most recent tabs completely.
Normally do a full backup of everything before updating, but this one happened in the background without asking.

Well it's done it again.
Closed down normally this morning with about 250 tabs open split over 5 workspaces.
Restart this evening, all gone, and no history showing.
Restarted tabs from saved speed dial folders, went OK until restoring the final workspace, whereupon it crashed and locked up again, showing about 13GB memory in use via W10 task manager, with 0%CPU allocation. Now it's booted up and running, it shows 2.4GB in use.
Restarted PC a couple of times, and Opera eventually booted OK with the restored tabs from the older session stored in speed dial folder(s)
It looks like one needs to back up all working tabs before shutting down every time now.
(Save all tabs as a speed dial folder; N.B. you need to do this for each workspace.)

This post is "for your Information", rather than seeking help;

For the third time now I've experienced, out of the blue, "Opera not responding" a couple of seconds after opening.
Checking resources via Task Manager, shows High CPU & Memory usage and Very High Power.

This last time, I downloaded the latest version and upgraded, to no effect.

Correlation with my vague memories of the past, I think in each case, the cause has been the same.
Win10 64 bit has updated in the background, silently and without my knowledge, and has been sitting awaiting a re-start.
Even at this point, before the restart, Opera freezes, just giving the options to wait or close, (if indeed this popup appears at all; sometimes I need to use Task Manager to End Task). After the re-start, there is no improvement; and changing various Opera, or Windows, settings makes no difference.

I've now found that just allowing Opera to Wait, it eventually kicks back into life. The PC can be used with a different browser whilst you're waiting, and functions normally with other programs; albeit a little slower.

N.B. don't be impatient, I've had to leave the PC turned on, with Opera consuming lots of resources, for upwards of 3 hours, and once overnight. It does however eventually sort itself out.

Bill

@dougmail
I'm not telling you to do anything.

Mine's 16GB I7 @ 3.6GHz
For someone having the problem of Opera freezing during and after a W10 upgrade, it provides a solution, albeit a slow one.
Have you any better ideas for next time I have the problem??
Bill.

@AnthG don't know if you're still monitoring this thread.
When I had this problem, I just let Opera " wait for program to respond" rather than "end program"
Be patient, it can take several hours, or even overnight.