@genegold: I've just discovered that it automatic updated, so I can't escape this horrible version. What to do?

Did you others bug report it? Feel free to use my BR number, BS-70469, under the subject:
"Re: BS-70469 While opening new blank tab Opera instead restarts"

@renatob: Wish I knew. There was a forum topic about it, but the solution was complicated. There is a real need for an auto update off/on setting.

Is there a way to turn off the sound Opera makes on start up?

@burnout426 Thanks. So as I read your post, given the changes over time, the only thing needed now to account for my previously added syntax is renaming the autoupdate file. I do have zoom set for 80% (wish there were 5% options between 80 and 100).

@burnout426 Thanks.

@burnout426 Thanks. I see that there is a delete on close setting.

Thanks. Those don't seem to be it. Each file is different, but examples are not something I'd want to post on a public site. I've got IDM looking into it too. I just wondered if there's a Save As setting, like their used to be as I recall (accessible in Windows settings)

@renatob: Go a system restore. The problem is auto update is apt to occur sometime after. This is a real cluster f***

Probably not. The changelog shows last Chromium update on Sept 26, while this started with the Win 10 and O64 updates on Oct 8.

@burnout426 Thanks. I see that there is a delete on close setting.

A programmer fixing a website asked me if I have regular (not session) cookies set to be deleted automatically each time Opera closes. Not that I want to, but in looking for the answer to their question I couldn't find any setting like that, only something requiring user (manual) action. Is there one?

106.0.4998.19 -- https://www.foxsports.com/live/fox-digital#no_universal_links -- In Opera, returns "An error occurred. Please try again later [Error:403]" Works with IE. Turning off ad blocking doesn't solve it. This has gone on for some time. Even had a go around with Fox support about it.

I thought auto update was turned off. I don't want auto update and consider it intrusive and insulting. I want to update Opera when I'm ready to, not have someone else force it upon me unprepared.

@leocg Thanks.

https://www.psaudio.com/collections/all?mc_cid=b487da6ca0&mc_eid=UNIQID
Opera 105.0.4970.13, Win 10 Pro x64 desktop

This page is supposed to show regular and sale prices, as it does with other browsers. It's not doing so with Opera, even logged in, because it sees me as outside the U.S. Further evidence of this is that when I open any of the items, there's a "This product is only available through a dealer in your area." The company doesn't use dealers in the U.S., only elsewhere. I've deleted cache, history, etc., i.e., everything but cookies. Is there anywhere to delete cookies for one site only? The result of doing so generally is a PITA.

In moving around SD thumbnails, occasionally I end up with a couple in an unintended folder. Is there a way to extract the separate thumbnails, short of "opening all" and recreating the individual items?

@burnout426 Programs don't ordinarily say they are creating a restore point during install.

In Win 10, when I open System Restore and consider which restore point to use, the affected programs list doesn’t include Opera, even when there have been multiple updates, as there were a couple of days ago. Why? Updates for FF and Edge show. And back with Opera 102, when an update messed with extensions, Opera was there and System Restore was able to go back to the previous version. No more?

How do we get rid of the Halloween(?) pot at the top of the SD, wasting space?