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.

@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????

Iplocation.net says the VPN is in Singapore. The search engine says Sweden. Why the discrepancy?

And why does Opera give you options for different areas but they all are actually from Sweden?

OK thanks. So there's no way of getting to an address with a keyboard shortcut like normal? If you are doing this many times a day it halves the workload!

Most every browser uses the same keyboard shortcut for going "Home". Usually you activate the Home button, set the page, then you can disable so it doesn't clutter your screen. But I can't see that option anywhere in Settings. Can't find anything relevant in Keyboard Shortcuts either. Didn't see any manual way of adding it.

@leocg That FAQ was wrong. On my About Opera page it doesn't mention the location. This is what it says on mine:

Version:77.0.4054.172
Opera is up to date
Update stream:Stable
System:Windows 7 64-bit
Rate Opera
Opera help

But no worries. For others that want to do this just note your version number in Help, About Opera, then look for that folder in your Program Files, Opera folder. Inside that folder you'll see opera_autoupdate.exe and that's what you rename to stop it from updating automatically apparently.

Now can I update it manually somehow or do I have to rename this back to the original name to get it updated? This is one convoluted design choice they made!

And is there any way of stopping this? It keeps on putting a shortcut in my Start Menu. Any way of stopping this? I see nothing in Services.msc or msconfig to control this and there seems to be no setting in Opera that controls this. For a browser known for user control this is a very strange feature.

@burnout426 I don't use a phone now so I can't use 2 step verification. I could try to use a pseudo VOIP number but Google doesn't except that for Google Voice so I doubt they would accept it for this. Texts just don't arrive.
I checked my settings. I'm using the same password as I use on the web where I sign in no problem. This is the exact message I get.
"The server responded: 535-5.7.8
Username and Password not accepted.
Learn more at 535 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentialsl5sm6100390pff.20 - gsmtp"
That Help page was useless.
I've turned on IMAP on the account.
I should try it with another email program I suppose but I want to use Opera Mail for a while longer. I know its old but its very good. I've tried every single authentication method offered and the server ports are correct. All my other accounts are working great.

@leocg Fair enough. Thanks for the update. Hopefully someone here will reply using Gmail on Opera Mail and let me now how they are managing to do that. 'Tis a mystery!

Is there really no way of editing a question once posted? What is the point of this restriction? So often we want to reword something later for clarity or to explain something better. I notice more and more forums are adapting this very restrictive action. So after posting this I notice there is an Edit option but obviously that goes away after a while. Nice to type with a ticking clock over your head. I thought Opera was about freedom.

I cannot get it to work. I've checked the server settings but the Authentication options may be off. Wondering what you're using.

I don't use Received often - just Unread as Opera Mail has never been able to tell when I've read anything or not. It works fine. But lately I've noticed this odd thing happening: Some, just a few, Sent messages seem to appear at times in the Received folder. Doesn't seem to be related to the recipient. I remember Gmail recipients showed up as double messages in some areas of Opera. Apparently a Gmail IMAP glitch.