I see this problem with many browsers. I'll open a bunch of tabs in the background and wait ample time for them to load. When I go to them I get a blank screen for a few seconds then it loads quickly. A few years ago this never happened. It loaded and waited there for you. Nowadays it looks like it needs to refresh itself just before you view it. This is hugely time wasting and is only useful for a site that is constantly changing by the second which almost none do. We're not all hyper stock traders. Is there a solution for this idiocy? Whoever implemented this must be living on another planet. There must be a solution out there.

@donq Actually its called the "gear wheel" I think. I could not believe how comprehensive the options were on the next page! Wow. They still should do it like everyone else. Many people would miss that. When you're in a forum there should be a search box for that particular forum. Then if there are no results they can show results from outside that forum.

Anyways, thank you for your patience and knowledge. And hopefully it will help others on there.

@jeezara But EM Client is so restrictive. I think it only allows 1 account! If you only have 1 account you might as well use webmail. What about older Outlook? What are the downsides to that? Like from 2003. I've got a copy. But I wonder about security when using older email programs. Of course Opera Mail has been dead for years.

I am perplexed. Sometimes audio notifications work and sometimes not. All other programs seem to activate audio notifications fine. With Opera Mail its intermittent. I have no idea what to check. I use the Win7 Volume Mixer at C:\Windows\System32\SndVol.exe to be able to adjust individual volume levels for each application. Very handy. Also it tells me if I'm going to get any notifications from Opera Mail. If its absent there ain't goin' to be any notifications for me! I haven't tried restarting Opera Mail at different intervals upon startup (would it help if it was the first thing started or could another program block these notifications from getting through to Win7?). Tis a mystery! Any suggestions would be most appreciated. I love Opera Mail. its relatively lean, very easy to use, very predictable but audio notifications are very important to my work and allow me to be much more untethered to the computer, as they are to most anyone using computers.

So I download the latest Chromium Opera to try the built in VPN. It works fine for a while but now it won't go anywhere. It won't even open this website! I can navigate in other browsers fine. What to check? Its like suddenly it put up a firewall and blocked everything. ???

@burnout426 Nope. Hence my reason for posting here. I always look for file associations first. Now I just open the torrent program and load it manually. Seems to work. Utorrent was so effortless but it just takes up so much resources with their add-on ieutorrent.exe program (think that's what it was). Used up 50% of my CPU!

@burnout426 Thank you. That is very good advice. When in doubt, check the registry!

Good to hear, thanks.

"Press F11 to exit full screen mode" Thanks. As if we didn't know this.
This moronic notification pops up interfering with our ability to read the page for a few seconds. Is there any way of getting rid of this thing? As if we don't know we're in Fullscreen when there is no Menu or Address bar there. Brilliant. Who thinks of this stuff and why are they paid to work?
Surely there is a way of ridding ourselves of this abomination.

Is there really no edit option on this page? Really? What forum doesn't allow you to edit previous posts????

@bexik What's important is that other Chrome based browsers offer it now. What Opera did before (a popup in the center of the screen) was way better of course. If they could bring that back all the better.

Opera 12 was the ultimate browser in terms of configurability which drew millions to use it. What they should do is bring back as much as possible while still staying on the Chrome platform as that is what they've chosen. Of course we can also dream for world peace.

@leocg Well Firefox "breaks the idea" and it works great. So there! A feature is to be used however we want. Your statement makes no sense. is it "hard" on the browser if its used more? If I had my way FullScreen would be the default!

@leocg I'd say if Alt_D works in FullScreen that is one excellent design. That saves me hitting F11 all day long. Firefox nailed it. Chrome failed.

@leocg Well its a stupid design that should never have been approved. It hugely restricts your navigation ability. And wastes our time. Especially with so many websites using space wasting tool bars and banners on the top. We're almost always using widescreen monitors after all. Vertical space is always at a premium. Firefox understands. Chrome doesn't. Boo Chrome.

@leocg Well I do wonder how CCleaner, Brave and Vivaldi all do it. It can't be so difficult. Opera must have been taken over by some real dweebs to leave this out and so many other things that worked so well in Opera 12. If they had to rebuild it why on earth not build it on the Firefox platform that already has proven itself so well? Instead they choose the most clamped down, controlled browser platform on the planet.

@rh99 I do wonder what Google was thinking when they messed up FullScreen. Especially that idiotic X that sits up on our screen in the way. What planet do those people inhabit? Surely its far from Earth and common sense.

@burnout426 Yeah I think its a lot faster to just hit F11.

@leocg If I could edit the op I would but I can't. At least they can see it in my reply for clarification.

@leocg The problem is if I'm in FullScreen I have to exit every single time I want to enter a URL. That could be hundreds of times a day! In Firefox you just type Alt_D and it works. No need to exit FullScreen. So maybe an extension allows this to work as Google has decided to sabotage this browser as best they can. In Opera 12 it worked even better (what a shock!). A popup appeared right in the center of the FullScreen for you to enter the URL when you typed Alt_D. That was perfect. Just like so many things about Opera 12.

Is there any way of making Alt_D work when in FullScreen?

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet. Why can't we have some of the logic of Firefox here?