Well, I'd be happy to swap issues with you, because I DO have the "delay loading of background tabs" selected, but they all load, which is NOT what I want at all, as it slows down opening & closing Opera, and runs up my RAM & CPU Usage big time! Maybe the key is to select the opposite of what we want in the preferences, maybe if I not select it, the background tabs won't open, and vice versa. But it is quite odd that we are both experiencing Opera not doing what we've selected, really odd...

@leocg Do you honestly think this kind of response is rational, or even respectful of those posting here? When carmakers do a recall, because a flaw in one system may cause fatal occurrences, it is Never about "all" or "most" of the cars being deathtraps, so denying bugs exist in Opera because it doesn't show itself in your computer, or the developers, is like being one of the blind men and the elephant. It doesn't affect me, so it must not be affecting everyone... You don't think it's at all reasonable to believe that if all other browsers work normally, but Opera, in a good number of cases, & you know only a tiny percentage of people take the time and effort to post in this forum (which is not known as a very realistic pathway to foment positive changes, but only to vent, or find workarounds. You can count on thousands of others simply throwing up their hands and moving off Opera, back to a more reliable browser. To make extrapolations based on the number of those complaining here is quite unscientific...

It would be nice if there was an icon in the toolbar we can easily use to zoom in or out, and if the gauge that shows the percentage was onscreen longer than two seconds, when we hit the zoom in or out option in the drop-down window . Why can't this be in the toolbar, as it is in all other browsers?

I get this same notice when trying to play videos on some of the major network sites ABC, CBS, etc. which work fine with other browsers, so why can't Opera play them?

@leocg I see it once I reduce or enlarge the page, so I don't know why they don't just have it there all the time? What's the point of it, if you still have use the View menu first? It makes no sense this way, plus, when I click on the icon, the window that opens disappears in about a second or two, usually before I can even click on up or down! Plus, even with the icon, it still involves an extra step no other browser requires. I'm so used to having a zoom in or out icon in the toolbar, that having to first open another menu is just wasted added actions...

But thanks for letting me know about the little icon..

@leocg That doesn't work! I can't log in to the site, nor can I change my password in Opera's saved passwords, which is ridiculous! Why can't we manually change it? When I put in the right one on the site, Opera keeps reverting it to the one it has saved, which is not the correct one! And while it shows the site, there's also an Opera window saying the site can't be accessed! Or at least it's half an Opera window, as it's cut in half!

Opera is lately driving me crazy with how many websites it just won't work with, sometimes it's the VPN feature that prevents it from functioning, but others, it's Opera itself, especially video streaming sites, like HULU, and some major network stations. Why is it so incompatible with so many sites???

@NewWorldMan Yeah, I see that, but it's a race of reflexes to get to the numbers to try and make the zoom more or less!!

@leocg So, ignore my issue completely because one sentence was capitalized? Good grief...

Every time I open Opera, I must sit and wait five or ten minutes, as it slowly opens all previously open tabs, in every window. This not only takes forever, but uses up nearly eleven Gigs of RAM!! This is so absurd a way of doing things, that I cannot believe the developers continue this ridiculous protocol! Why don't they fix this, as it definitely is a huge drawback to my using Opera, despite liking many other aspects of the browser?

@leocg You've obviously missed my point. Yes, I know all about those options. However, not all browsers choose to open every tab, but for the top one in each window, upon relaunching, thus saving many Gigs of RAM, and allowing the user to decide if and when to open any of those tabs. So my question is why doesn't Opera go this time & energy-saving route, instead of the pointless one of having to open every single one?

@stevenjcee Well, I re-installed the most updated Catalina, to see if it might fix a few bugs. Even tried opening Opera again (ver.75), but once again, within five minutes, it ran up about 100% of CPU Usage, and became "non-responsive" requiring a force quit!

What is happening??? I've got plenty of RAM, a very fast connection, fresh OS, every other browser works just fine, all except Opera, which I used to use, and would like to get back to using, but it has been impossible to do. Does anyone have the slightest clue as to what is going on, and/or what I can try to see if it might work once again?

@stevenjcee Just downloaded yet another new, updated version, from the website. Installed it, looked good, but then a few minutes later it ran up CPU to 100% and showed "Opera not responding", so as usual, I had to force quit it. Why is this happening no matter how many times I install new updated versions?

@blackdrago Wow, this is really sad. You shouldn't have to jump through all those hoops just to open a browser! And I don't know what to do, oddly enough, it seems to work ok on my 10-year old Macbook Pro, running High Sierra, but on my much newer iMac, running Catalina, with 64 Gigs of RAM, it's a total no-go. Soon as I open it, it will run for less than five minutes, then crash, over & over, it just won't stay open and work.... smh

@illiniguy Thanks, but I'm not yet there, I'm using Catalina. But this has been happening, even when I was on Mojave... My laptop is on High Sierra, and it works ok on that, and it's over five years older than my iMac, which where I'm having all the problems...

Yet again, I updated, now to version 75, and yet when I open it, it's not but a couple minutes before it becomes unresponsive, running up 100% CPU Usage, and freezing. So I have to force quit it.

What is going on? Why would it just not work, at all? I've used Opera for years, but then beginning with the last several updated versions, I try, and nothing. This is so frustrating, and I can't figure out why in the world it just won't work.

Is there something that could be on my computer that is causing it to not work? I have no idea what it can be, and if someone knows I'd sure love to hear some ideas. Thank you

Well, three months later, and a new update, so I tried again, this time with Version 73. It opened nicely but within two or three minutes it froze, Activity Monitor showed once again, it "was not responding" and had run up 100% of my CPU. What is the deal? Why can't Opera work? I'm on an iMac with 64 Gigs of RAM, running 10.14.6, and Opera will not work at all!

I'm still on Mojave, tried to use the latest update of Opera, a few windows opened, all Opera ones, then within a couple minutes it all froze, ran up 100% of CPU usage, and I had to force quit it to close. This has what I've been dealing with for the past few upgraded versions. No matter what I do, I can't get it to just work! No problems like this with any other browser I use, just Opera. So frustrating, as I would like to use it, but it's become completely dsyfunctional.

@operaoperandi I haven't, and I don't recall seeing anyone saying "It must affect all Opera users", so your response is both unhelpful, and complete hyperbole. What's the use of a user forum, if everyone is simply told, their problem has nothing to do with Opera, and has to be due to something they're doing wrong?
And no, people who have problems don't all come here and post, so because you may only see a few with the same issue, that in no way means it's not widespread, only that a few still bother to come here and post.

There's plenty other sites around that will help people with issues about any browser, & I've often found better assistance just asking my question as a search, than using Apple's user forum, or other specific product ones. So, there may be thousands of others with the same issues, or more likely, they've just moved on to another browser.

@leocg Do you honestly think this kind of response is rational, or even respectful of those posting here? When carmakers do a recall, because a flaw in one system may cause fatal occurrences, it is Never about "all" or "most" of the cars being deathtraps, so denying bugs exist in Opera because it doesn't show itself in your computer, or the developers, is like being one of the blind men and the elephant. It doesn't affect me, so it must not be affecting everyone... You don't think it's at all reasonable to believe that if all other browsers work normally, but Opera, in a good number of cases, & you know only a tiny percentage of people take the time and effort to post in this forum (which is not known as a very realistic pathway to foment positive changes, but only to vent, or find workarounds. You can count on thousands of others simply throwing up their hands and moving off Opera, back to a more reliable browser. To make extrapolations based on the number of those complaining here is quite unscientific...

Tried opening it one more time, with nothing really open, I couldn't get it to work for even five minutes, before it became non-responsive again. I've never had a browser perform this pathetically in 30 years of using computers.... Do the developers really not see something isn't working?