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 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.

@sgunhouse I should have mentioned what it does say in the File extensions column.
htm,html,shtml
mim,mime,mht,mhtml,mbs
htm,html,shtml

htm,html,shtml
xht,xhtm,xhtml
htm,html,shtml

@sgunhouse Yeah, that was it. Didn't see it. When I search for htm or html I get 7. As they just appeared I thought it odd they wouldn't be opened by Opera as we just cleared the option to hide those that are opened by Opera. Anyways they are all set to open by Opera.

Any suggestions?

I do hope you all realize this is about Opera 12.8, not the Chrome Opera.
@sgunhouse When I go to Preferences > Advanced > Downloads I have a box with 2 columns: MIME type & File Extension(s)
Neither has text/html.
What I don't understand is why wouldn't Opera just open a HTML document if one is using Control_O to open it? You're in the program. What else would it possibly use to open it? You've told it to open a program. Its like using VLC to open a mp3 file by opening VLC first then using Control_O to open that file. I've never had this happen before.

Anyway I thought I'd better just re-install it. It was working fine yesterday but now I can't go to any URL. Something must have gotten corrupted.
Sorry for not being more clear in my original post.

I can open HTML documents though. Just no URL's entered on the Address Bar or if I click on a bookmark.

I should mention my default browser (Firefox) is working fine.

When I go to any URL I get this popup.
"No registered application for this extension"
What caused this? It was working fine the last time I used it.

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.