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.

I have the same problem, but I don't get that error message, as I am still connected, but NO PAGES WILL OPEN WHEN VPN IS ON....

Well, I'm on a Mac, and it was always in the toolbar before this most current update! Whether it was off or on, and why would it disappear if it's not on? That makes no sense, as we'd have to open preferences and set it again every time we want to turn it on, when before it could all be done without opening anything else... Opera sure has made some counter-intuitive changes, changes which slow down using it, with all these extra steps, I don't get it.

@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..