For anyone seeing this issue too, I found if you disable "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" under "Privacy & Security" settings it seems to fix it.
How do I raise this with the Opera team, I presumed that raising it on the forum would raise it with them but obviously not as no responses, I'm really disappointed that they expect their users to fix all the issues.

@burnout426
I tried this on another computer exactly as instructed, the Speed dial items were still not there, all my bookmarks are there just not the Speed dial.
To test if this method should work I did the following:-

• Closed Opera

• Deleted the bookmarks and bookmarks extra files

• Opened Opera then closed it (the bookmark files were recreated)

• Opened Opera again and added a new speed dial item

• Closed Opera

• Backed up the bookmarks and bookmarks extra files

• Deleted the bookmarks and bookmarks extra files

• Opened and closed Opera

• Restored the backup files overwriting the existing bookmarks and bookmarks extra files

• Opened Opera

The new Speed dial item was not there (it is in the bookmarks file when edited with Notepad)

It seems there must be something else that needs to be restored to recover the Speed dial Items

@burnout426
I try to keep addons to a minimum and the standard Speed dial works well except over the last few years it's become more of a pain with promoted, suggestions and news that have been added and now shopping. I always turn off everything on the Startpage settings but I just had a look and noticed two new settings, shopping and bookings, I have turned them off so hopefully I will not get the shopping back and lose my Speed dials on the next upgrade.

@burnout426
I try to keep addons to a minimum and the standard Speed dial works well except over the last few years it's become more of a pain with promoted, suggestions and news that have been added and now shopping. I always turn off everything on the Startpage settings but I just had a look and noticed two new settings, shopping and bookings, I have turned them off so hopefully I will not get the shopping back and lose my Speed dials on the next upgrade.

@burnout426
Thanks that worked, I think it must have been this latest feature where they are adding Amazon shopping to speed dial, I don't understand why the Opera keep adding third party URLs to my speed dial, I know what I want on speed dial and I don't need them adding additional things, this kind of thing makes me worry about privacy when using Opera.
Thanks again for your help

@burnout426
I tried this on another computer exactly as instructed, the Speed dial items were still not there, all my bookmarks are there just not the Speed dial.
To test if this method should work I did the following:-

• Closed Opera

• Deleted the bookmarks and bookmarks extra files

• Opened Opera then closed it (the bookmark files were recreated)

• Opened Opera again and added a new speed dial item

• Closed Opera

• Backed up the bookmarks and bookmarks extra files

• Deleted the bookmarks and bookmarks extra files

• Opened and closed Opera

• Restored the backup files overwriting the existing bookmarks and bookmarks extra files

• Opened Opera

The new Speed dial item was not there (it is in the bookmarks file when edited with Notepad)

It seems there must be something else that needs to be restored to recover the Speed dial Items

@burnout426
I put my computer to sleep on the evening of the 17th the Speed dial icons were there, woke it up the morning of the 18th the Speed dial icons were gone, the version is 64.0.3417.61 so it must have just updated but I don't know when.
Yes I use Opera Sync
No I don't use any third party utilities like CCleaner, these cause more issues than they solve.
The profile path is still correct
They were not under bookmarks or in the trash
I backup my computer weekly so I have the complete profile folder from last Sunday, I closed Opera and copied the Bookmarks and Bookmarks Extra files from my backup to the profile folder, opened Opera again but no Speed dial items were there, how do I restore these?

After being upgraded to this version I received a message on speed dial saying "we are temporarily showing all your extensions" or something like that, there were no extensions showing, I then noticed my speed dial items had been replaced with my latest Amazon purchases and a link to WorldofWarships, I had already deleted the Amazon purchases and said do not show again last week and I certainly didn't want a link to a game. How do I recover all my speed dial items?

I received a message on speed dial saying "we are temporarily showing all your extensions" or something like that, there were no extensions showing, I then noticed my speed dial items had been replaced with my latest Amazon purchases and a link to WorldofWarcraft, I had already deleted the Amazon purchases and said do not show again last week and I certainly didn't want a link to a game. How do I recover all my speed dial items?

Opera 53 scrollbars are so small (narrow) you can't see them, how do I change them back to how they were in Opera 52, if it's not possible how do I disable autoupdate

For anyone seeing this issue too, I found if you disable "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" under "Privacy & Security" settings it seems to fix it.
How do I raise this with the Opera team, I presumed that raising it on the forum would raise it with them but obviously not as no responses, I'm really disappointed that they expect their users to fix all the issues.

Most times when my PC wakes from Sleep I get the following error for about five minutes in Opera, if I switch to EDGE I can browse the internet, this just effects Opera.

Your connection was interrupted
A network change was detected.

I normally run with about 20 tabs open, I always close all apps before sleep, this has been happening for quite a while, I think it was worse with V49, and better with the last version but I'm seeing it constantly with this new version. I'm running the following

Version: 51.0.2830.40 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 10 64-bit (WoW64)

Any ideas, I'm getting to the point of switching browsers as Opera is becoming too much trouble