Sometimes a tab loads, but then the circle next to its name will continue spinning & spinning, as if still trying to load. Trying to end it, by clicking on the X in the toolbar, often has zero effect. So why doesn't this stop it, why doesn't it stop, once loaded in the first place, and is there any other workaround to stop this incessant spinning?

@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?

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?

I just rebooted my computer, and opened Speed Dial, and some of my usual icons are gone, replaced by a bunch of websites I've visited, but never added. And then I see many have one website as the title, yet another as the address, it's totally weird, it's like someone overturned a jig saw puzzle and everything's completely helter skelter! How the hell do I sort this out, and I don't feel like going into each one, fixing them, reinserting the ones that vanished, only to have the same thing happen again!

What in the world could have caused this? And is there any way to fix it, so that it won't keep happening?

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

@leocg I've always had it enabled in settings, but it was only showing up once I manually turned it on, by going to settings. But now it seems to have corrected itself, as it is remaining in the toolbar...

@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 Well maybe I'd be less prone to "shout" if Opera simply worked as it is supposed to. Not losing all my open windows and tabs, when I updated, or taking forever to close, to the point, the windows are all shut but it still sits "unresponsive" and I must force quit it, almost all the time... and it won't play streaming video from some sites, like HULU....

@stevencee Well, I just quit Opera, sat back as it normally takes 5 or 10 minutes to close, if it even will. But this time, it sat there a while, then many of the windows closed, and a minute later it just popped back open on its own!! And then I put the VPN on, and at least now sites will open.... definitely a buggy Opera at the moment.