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????

@burnout426 That worked. Thank you very much. The background color is the background Windows color (if its been changed from white). I wonder how to control it though (independently). Not many people want the glare of a white background but you have to be very careful because your non-bold fonts get very low in contrast with a gray background. Even a very light gray works well though.

@sgunhouse I looked in
operaprefs_default.ini
but all I see is this:
Opera Preferences version 2.1
; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding

[System]
Multi User=0

[User Prefs]
Language Files Directory={Resources}locale\en
Language File={Resources}locale\en\en.lng

I just did a reinstall of my Win7 and now my message list is alternating from grey to white. How to get rid of this? I see nothing in Opera Mail Preferences.

I was wondering if they are stored in some file that someone could see by opening with a text editor or some other program or are they encrypted by default?

@donq You do raise some good points!

@leocg Why not just update the existing one to modern standards? Is that not possible? Having an email program would encourage more people to adapt both in their lives. I think that's the point of these companies....to expand. Everyone's doing it. Anyway obviously they view the idea is untenable. Maybe in the future though. We need to encourage people to move away from the severe limitations of webmail. Its the communication mode of cave men. Really dumb cave men.

It was so well laid out, so well organized. I still use it though I need to find an updated replacement. Tried Thunderbird but really didn't like the way it was organized though it feels right to use something from a non-profit when it comes to something as important as email where you don't want people seeking financial gain by extracting information from you and selling it. You just don't want that bias. It also has to be free to be private. Of course one can pay with a prepaid credit card bought with cash but its a hassle.

@sgunhouse Thank you....makes sense. Do most email programs (Thunderbird or Outlook for instance as being probably the most popular) offer encryption now? It would be nice for the receiver to just enter a password instead of needing to use the same encryption program to decrypt as it was originally encrypted in.

Can I encrypt an outgoing email in Opera Mail 1.0? Either by Opera or something like 7zip?
And if so, does the receiver have to use the same program I used to unencrypt it?
I've never encrypted an email message before, just attachments.

I should be able to filter by subject word or sender (this is a waste of time now of course as they send from constantly newly generated email addresses). It seems the utterly brilliant designers of this program have not heard of something called Spam, the most hated aspect of the internet. They decided to ignore it. Yes I know there's a spam filter but we all know these are useless and capture tons of legit mail. Probably designed by the same brilliant people that designed this email program. Everything else about this program is great. Its efficient, clearly laid out, it just works so well. I've delayed changing it for years even though I know I need to change as it hasn't been updated for such a long time. Still....we've had spam since the very beginning of the internet. I will never understand illogical aspects of tech like this. Its like so many people that write code are living in an alternate universe. A really dumb one. The first aspect people should learn in software school is Logic. How to step back and look at the big picture. Then design around those parameters.