@hisnibs I was just about to report the same problem. Scrolling through the last week of my history, I can see that the date changes from "yesterday" to "today" at 4 pm instead of midnight. That is, it's firing 16 hours too late instead of 8 hours too soon. I suspect the date rollover is hard-coded to Greenwich Mean Time, because I'm eight hours west, in California. I doubt that there is currently a fix for this, and hopefully a future version of Opera will allow us to set a local time zone.

Assuming you use the search box to reduce the number of history links displayed, the incorrect date probably won't prevent you from finding that interesting article you started reading last Tuesday.

On the Downloads page, the font periodically changes itself for no apparent reason.

@leocg I'm hoping you'll have a similar answer for the following extensions. I never noticed them in my list prior to yesterday, and it looks like none of them can be removed:

Aliexpress observer
Amazon promotion
Background worker
Bookmarks
Chromium PDF Viewer
CryptoTokenExtension
Google Hangouts
News feed handler
Onboarding popup
Opera Crypto Wallet
Rich Hints Agent
Stormcrow
Video handler

On the other hand, if there's an extension that should not be on that list, I'll take that as a sign to uninstall and reinstall.

@leocg Thanks so much for the quick reply

I noticed this strange behavior recently. If I type a phone number into the URL bar in 999-999-9999 format in Chrome or EDGE, the browser understands that I'm searching for lookup information on the party that owns that phone number. (I sometimes let incoming calls roll over to voicemail and then do a search to see if the caller is someone I actually want to talk to.) If I enter that number in Opera, the number is simply copied to my clipboard and no search results page is launched. That's today's behavior. When I tried to do the same thing about a month ago, Opera thought I was trying to use it as a calculator, and it displayed an amount equal to the first three digits minus the next three digits mins the final four digits. The workaround in Opera seems to be to precede the phone number with text, e.g., Phone 415-555-1212.

Has anyone else noticed this? I think it's a recent occurrence, because I've been doing similar lookups without a problem for at least five years.

By the way, I'm running Opera Version 86.0.4363.59 on Windows 10.

@burnout426 Sincere thanks for the thorough answer and the link that shows the syntax. Hoping to get this to work in the next few days.

@burnout426 Sincere thanks for the thorough answer and the link that shows the syntax. Hoping to get this to work in the next few days.

I normally launch Opera and then do a Ctrl-Shift-N to launch a private browsing session. From an external program that I wrote in FoxPro, I can launch a tab in the first session by using the following command, where variable lcUrl contains the link to be launched:

RUN START "C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe" &lcUrl

(The syntax is probably different in other programming languages. RUN START tells FoxPro to execute a DOS Shell command.)

The command always launches the URL in a new tab on my first Opera session, and there are some links that I would prefer to launch in the second session. Is there an additional switch I can add to tell Opera that I want the page to open up in the second session?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

New problem. I added a password, and now the product won't accept it. Hoping that can be fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling. I have a feeling that even if that works, I will once again lose my entire list of blocked sites.

I noticed this strange behavior recently. If I type a phone number into the URL bar in 999-999-9999 format in Chrome or EDGE, the browser understands that I'm searching for lookup information on the party that owns that phone number. (I sometimes let incoming calls roll over to voicemail and then do a search to see if the caller is someone I actually want to talk to.) If I enter that number in Opera, the number is simply copied to my clipboard and no search results page is launched. That's today's behavior. When I tried to do the same thing about a month ago, Opera thought I was trying to use it as a calculator, and it displayed an amount equal to the first three digits minus the next three digits mins the final four digits. The workaround in Opera seems to be to precede the phone number with text, e.g., Phone 415-555-1212.

Has anyone else noticed this? I think it's a recent occurrence, because I've been doing similar lookups without a problem for at least five years.

By the way, I'm running Opera Version 86.0.4363.59 on Windows 10.

@purpledonkey I agree that installing and blocking are easy. However, the product continues to lose my entire blocked list every now and then, and it has now become impossible for me to un-block a site even if I remove every instance of that site from my blocked list. I would have to say that saving a few seconds on setup doesn't really compensate for software bugs that the vendor doesn't seem to want to fix.

@jasonbegaming No, I just try not to get too bent out of shape when it happens. More recently, I have run across sites that I can't remove from the blocked list. Equally annoying, but nothing to lose sleep over.

@mrsomewhere How odd. Mine stays hidden permanently.

@mrsomewhere If you're only worried about the Amazon extension pushing others down, just right-click on the green icon and select Hide Amazon.

@leocg Thanks so much for the quick reply

@leocg I'm hoping you'll have a similar answer for the following extensions. I never noticed them in my list prior to yesterday, and it looks like none of them can be removed:

Aliexpress observer
Amazon promotion
Background worker
Bookmarks
Chromium PDF Viewer
CryptoTokenExtension
Google Hangouts
News feed handler
Onboarding popup
Opera Crypto Wallet
Rich Hints Agent
Stormcrow
Video handler

On the other hand, if there's an extension that should not be on that list, I'll take that as a sign to uninstall and reinstall.