@rudrick
Thank you, I'm well aware of that.
It was exactly what I was bringing (quite unnecessarily!) to Edwin's attention, just in case he wasn't aware.

@ravaner
36.0.2130.80 to be exact, you can download it here.
Use the setup file.

The forum still uses Markdown, but has buttons for formatting so that you don't have to read the Markdown guide first. Anything that can't be done in markdown (for example, underlining) won't work in the new forum.

That's good news!
Having to manually type code into your posts to get quite normal and common formatting options has always seemed to be a nonsense to me.
Very odd that Markdown can't do underlining, I would have thought that was a pretty basic formatting option.

I just updated to Java 8 on Opera 12.17.
I don't know which Opera version the OP was talking about, but I can confirm that it doesn't work on 12.17!
I'm still on Windows XP, and Java 8 still works fine in Internet Explorer 8 believe it of not, so why not in Opera 12?!
;_;

@burnout426
NTL used to be one of the two main cable companies in the United Kingdom (the other being Telewest).
They merged and were rebranded as Virgin Media quite a few years ago, but there must be many people still using their legacy e-mail addresses.

The new forum looks good!
It's great to finally have some quick and easy formatting buttons when you compose a post.
The list of available emoticons is IMO unnecessarily huge though.

Since I signed into the forum, I'm getting email(s) for everyone's posts. Is there a way to stop that?

Hover the mouse cursor on your avatar at the top right, and select "Profile" from the dropdown.
Then select "Edit preferences".
You should be able to change your e-mail notification settings there.
I only seem to get notifications from threads that I've "starred".

@nandishchothani
Did you ever ask Opera to save your password?
If so even though it may not now be offering it, you might be able to recover it.
Look here, the utilities are free.
The one for Chrome should work with current Opera versions, don't use the one that says it's for Opera as that is for the old Presto versions.
Good luck!

@amatczak Thanks, good to know it's being considered!

Go to your Opera profile folder (you can see where that is by looking at "About Opera" in the menu.
In that folder should be a file called "Bookmarks" (no extension) and a file called "Bookmarks.bak".
If "Bookmarks.bak" is a lot bigger than "Bookmarks", it probably still contains your lost bookmarks.
Copy "Bookmarks.bak" to the desktop, rename it "Bookmarks" (lose the extension) and copy it back to the profile folder, over-writing the existing file.
Good luck!
I've no idea why sync would lose your bookmarks BTW, but keep the version of the "Bookmarks" file that you have on the desktop somewhere as a backup in case it happens again!

My copy of Opera 36 on my old Windows XP machine will no longer log in, either to synchronise, or to post on these forums.
I'm just getting a permanent progress icon, or I get Re-captchas that don't work, or "Please try again. Alternatively, reset your password or create an Opera account."
Have I now been blocked?

@konstant213
The "no click to activate" is actually a patch rather than an extension, and may well not be needed now anyway.
You're welcome to have copies of the other two, YouTube Center and AdBlock.
How would you like me to get them to you?
Cheers, Dave.

@rfurmanski
Just tried again and it signed in instantly!
Thank you so much!
Cheers, Dave.

Anyone?

@leocg
Well that's annoying if it's true.
I can't see any reason for them to do that unless a change has been made to the sync system at the server end which has made it incompatible with Opera 36 for some reason.
Is there anyone else still using Opera 36 who can confirm if there really is a problem or whether it's just me?

I noticed the other day that my installation of Opera 36 on my old Windows XP machine had logged out from sync.
Now I can't get it to log in again, it just shows a progress rotating circle icon permanently.
Has anyone else noticed this, and is anyone else still logged into sync with this version?
I hope it hasn't been blocked because it's now deemed to be too old!

@blackbird71
LOL, yes I guess so, Josh has a style all his own!

I for one would not keep something as old as RealPlayer now though, when VLC is far more up to date, and works fine on my XP system.

@joshl
I have absolutely no idea what you mean!

@aam2018
I've been using it for ages on Firefox, and I've never thought that there was any problem with it.
It works well, especially on sites like Vimeo, Facebook and Instagram.

@joshl said in File types & Downloads:

So what do you think the problem is with those mp4 videos not synching properly? Lack of MPC updates? Windows drivers? Processor deficiency?
Sometimes I use Firefox to "open with", it opens in my MPC and doesn't synch, then I have to stop and close it, go to the 'temp downloads' folder and rename the mp4 to mpg and start it again - now it goes with my WMP and o'k.

Did you try installing VLC?