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.

I've gone into Control Panel, Default Programs in Win7 and changed all the browser related extensions to point to the right one. That one is also the default browser. Yet still it opens the wrong one. Is there some place I can control this? Can I do it in the old Opera 12 browser somewhere or do I need to edit an ini file?

Good to hear, thanks.

Set up my Gmail account (both IMAP and POP to be sure) and couldn't log int o either. They said I was logging in from "suspicious app". I'm on the same IP address as I always am!!! It sure would be great to be able to turn off all the security worries on accounts you couldn't care less about. The internet is so hyper sensitive about irrelevant things and ignores what's really important. So I'm told to get more info here at this page:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?p=lsa_blocked&hl=en&visit_id=637108283264259460-2811866059&rd=1
So I changed the setting to allow less secure apps. Still doesn't work.
I regret every time I venture into Google's world. (Except for Flights and Maps. There they rule.)

@leocg Thank you. Not sure how I could have possibly missed that. But you'd think they would have a right click/delete option like everyone else uses. Its an industry standard.

@leocg You mean Menu, News? Nothing there. I can't even delete it.

This seems bizarre. I added a feed and can't edit the title. I can't even delete the feed. I don't even know if it is a feed or a one type thing. How can they design something so unfinished? Back to Opera Mail. At least there you can control things. It may be a little archaic but boy does it work. When will they update it and bring it back? We miss it!

@esebm I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this problem or is it just me in Canada? Of course there are other VPN's. I'm curious about this one, hence my post here. And I never trusted my Uncle Bob.

@k1llua It sure looked like it worked on your example but it didn't work for me. I'll try it on other pages though in case there was something on that page that blocked it. On further messing with this I found that I need to put a space before and after the search term. This seemed to work 100%. Interestingly though it doesn't work with a text program in Windows. I'm trying Jarte. Much like Wordpad. Another strange thing with Control_F is sometimes it doesn't highlight the word. This occurs in many programs. Not often but just occasionally.

@preachjohn I asked you to explain a couple things. One was if you were disabling the extension and if so, why. Let's start with that. Is it a yes or a no?

@leocg Most sites don't have a language option! On Google Maps I set the destination to Canada. Doesn't make a difference. I set the language to English and its still in some foreign language! That's Google. Imagine what most websites do? Its insane. Why can't Opera set English as the language for when we select Americas? Why would they select a language in Europe for the Americas? Makes no sense.