Like sgunhouse, I am a bit confused by all these. It is my understanding that the desktop has opera 23 as stable version. Shouldn't it be same for other platforms ? Or there is a parallel development going on and android following a slower speed ?

Secondly, please put download link from opera server in the main page (where is only shows google play option).

What makes the video ads start automatically is auto-play, not auto-fullscreen.
Auto-fullscreen can still exist when you willingly press a video's play button.

Perhaps we talking about(agreeing too) the same thing but differently. I understand that if I click a play button of a video and then the video automatically starts full-screen is not a bad thing. This has its merit. But as the site loads, a nonsense video is set to auto-play, then auto-full screen is a serious problem. My problem is with the second scenario where auto-play videos starts auto-full screen.
So opera should not show an auto-play video full screen. Only show full screen if I click the video to play. I understand setting auto-play to videos is website developer's call but opera can help users to avoid this annoyance. Specifically, not allowing auto full screen on top of auto-play.

Pew,
If a website has embedded video, like even a small ad video, then it starts playing it full screen. This is definitely not desired. Pls revisit this. We don't need embedded videos to play in full screen automatically.
Pff, auto-fullscreen is very convenient.
They'd still waste bandwidth and play sound regardless. The problem is in auto-play, not in auto-fullscreen.

Auto full screen is definitely not convenient when you are not interested in the video but just checking the webpage. For example, this website bangla.bdnews24.com/. This has ad videos on the right side and when they play full screen, the entire site is not usable anymore. I simply don't understand why a video need to play full screen without user wanting to do so. A website is not all about videos and it has other contents. Why suddenly one content, like a video, need to take control of the entire screen.

@operafan2006
Are you using Max-test product?

I don't know what are you talking about. Could you please clarify

tenchi71, we don't autoplay videos, that is controlled by the sites. We try to avoid letting videos to autoplay when the tab is in background, apparently there is some case on the site you visit that we don't catch properly, could you provide us the address to it?
The automatic full screen, is something we have added for convenience. We are aware of some problems connected with it -- and I really understand your frustration if it auto-starts in full screen from a background tab. That is definitely not intended behavior!

Pew,
If a website has embedded video, like even a small ad video, then it starts playing it full screen. This is definitely not desired. Pls revisit this. We don't need embedded videos to play in full screen automatically.

http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/android/
you can sideload from here.
the version under 2200 is the latest right now.

Thanks. i don't know why this option of downloading from opera directly is not shown in the main page anymore? Not everyone like to use google play!

How to download opera for android tablet without google play? I could do it directly from main opera page until v19 but don't see anything now.