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Tab loads constantly
First post. Installed and running latest version, but there is a problem w/one site, http://navy.togetherweserved.com/. AFTER I sign in, the page is like the battery bunny, it keeps loading, loading, loading, you get the idea. If I'm not signed in, its normal. I leave my tabs all signed in and have to refresh the session on starting a browsing session. This arrow constantly turning is not only annoying, but very distracting. Suggestions from anyone?Hey, hey, hey, and that one makes my day! Thank you very much. Only con that I can see is you have to do that every time you load the page. Shutting down the browser negates the action, thus causing the repeating action. Any way to make it permanent for that site? Thanks so much for the tip!
Your first post, so welcome to the Opera forums! 
Since I can't sign in, I can't check this, but you might try editing your Site Preferences to have Opera Identify (or Mask) as Firefox (or IE):
Tools > Quick Preferences (or F12) > Edit Site Preferences > Network > Browser identification > Identify/Mask as FF/IE
(simply refresh the page after making a change, and try all 4 options if necessary)
If that works, keep it in mind for other sites that seem to misbehave. Servers don't always send the proper code (especially JavaScript) to Opera, and sometimes this will get the server to send code that works properly.
Since I can't sign in, I can't check this, but you might try editing your Site Preferences to have Opera Identify (or Mask) as Firefox (or IE):
Tools > Quick Preferences (or F12) > Edit Site Preferences > Network > Browser identification > Identify/Mask as FF/IE
(simply refresh the page after making a change, and try all 4 options if necessary)
If that works, keep it in mind for other sites that seem to misbehave. Servers don't always send the proper code (especially JavaScript) to Opera, and sometimes this will get the server to send code that works properly.
Normally it should retain the setting for that site until you change it. You didn't mention your OS, your Opera version, or whether there is anything unusual about your installation, but I suppose you could be set up in a way that the change is in RAM for that session, but not written to the override.ini file in your profile. But normally it is written to the file as soon as you make the change.
Vista and Win7 do some things with UAC/permissions that I only partly understand (since I'm still running WinXP and can't experiment with it), but if you're running in a limited user account or the override.ini file has somehow been tagged with a Read-only attribute, or is in a folder you don't have permissions for, your site-preference change might not get written to the override.ini file.
You could find the file in your profile folder (path should be here: opera:config#UserPrefs|OverridesFile) and make a site-preference change on the same site and see if the TimeDate stamp on the file changes. Or if you open the file in a text editor, you should easily be able to find the UserAgent line for that site and see if the number changes (1=Opera, 2=Identify as FF, etc) when you reopen the file after making a change. (Don't try to manually edit the file while Opera is running, as Opera will overwrite your changes on the fly with your next change or upon Exit.)
Portable (USB) Opera installations also have a few limitations, but at the moment I don't recall this being one of them. Another possibility might be some corruption in your Opera profile that is interfering somehow, which we can check out if none of the above pans out. Might be something else I'm overlooking or forgetting right now, but check the above and if you don't figure it out, post back with results, OS, Opera version, profile path, etc.
Vista and Win7 do some things with UAC/permissions that I only partly understand (since I'm still running WinXP and can't experiment with it), but if you're running in a limited user account or the override.ini file has somehow been tagged with a Read-only attribute, or is in a folder you don't have permissions for, your site-preference change might not get written to the override.ini file.
You could find the file in your profile folder (path should be here: opera:config#UserPrefs|OverridesFile) and make a site-preference change on the same site and see if the TimeDate stamp on the file changes. Or if you open the file in a text editor, you should easily be able to find the UserAgent line for that site and see if the number changes (1=Opera, 2=Identify as FF, etc) when you reopen the file after making a change. (Don't try to manually edit the file while Opera is running, as Opera will overwrite your changes on the fly with your next change or upon Exit.)
Portable (USB) Opera installations also have a few limitations, but at the moment I don't recall this being one of them. Another possibility might be some corruption in your Opera profile that is interfering somehow, which we can check out if none of the above pans out. Might be something else I'm overlooking or forgetting right now, but check the above and if you don't figure it out, post back with results, OS, Opera version, profile path, etc.