Ties with Microsoft a smart move? The fanbois never cease to amaze me. Google is the maker of Android, a maker of Nexus tablets, a maker of the most visited page in the world and has pretty close ties with Chromium, which is what Opera is made of. Google controls nearly everything Opera exist in, it moves a finger - Opera is dead. Ah yes, Microsoft, what was Microsoft mobile market share again? 3%? And btw Google introduced Opera Turbo-like feature in Chrome this year. And btw Microsoft forces Bing on their mobile phones. Opera is crazy to get into this fight, because MS and Google will survive it, while Opera may not.

http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-disabling-google-default-search-engine-new-lumia

I wouldnt call leushino and lem729 spamming all the threads with defensive comments "love". It is pretty funny though how far the fanboism can go.

Exactly your problem isnt with html5, its with flash. Lets see

Flash didnt work before, "for many months"

You installed something from somewhere claiming to be "Adobe Flash"

Adobe page says there is no flash installed

suddenly other media (not flash) stopped working

The solution to that is to go start\control panel\programs and features and uninstall every Adobe browser plugin. Then reinstall them directly from the adobe page. Well it isnt a real solution, but it might work and doesnt cost anything.

The first video is encoded in h.264, the codec used in Blurays and high quality videos. Only Firefox and Chrome can play it, although i think Opera did want to add support for that someday maybe. Anyway this looks like a mess to me sorry. I would go to Control Panel and reinstall all Adobe stuff. Provided you didnt install a virus by an accident, there are alot of malware pages mimicking flash update screens

-What Opera version are you using?
-Are all 3 videos playable on this page http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html
-Does this page http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html say the latest flash version is installed?

resuming downloads is a server feature. Opera 12.16 can and does resume if the server supports resuming. In the downloads window there is a button above, its either "restart" or "resume".

Or do you mean automatically? That i dont know

Firefox.

Ah yes, the good old Win32s times, i remember running win95 games on Win3.11 hehe. Would be one hell of a task to make Opera 12.17 work on Win 3.11

What would prevent Opera 12.17 to install on Win95?

Waterfox 31(firefox 64bit) with these features(if i understood correctly)

http://i.imgur.com/3t2DX0K.jpg (Bookmarks were imported from Opera 12)