To ALL:

Thanks to everyone for suggestions, thoughts and attempts to stop this annoying " feature ". The optimist in me wanted to believe that each suggestion resolved the problem. Then I would hear that sound signifying that the O icon would appear in the upper notification bar.

Now " cubot " directed me to a place I had not seen in the past. In it there was that little toggle switch in the upper right hand corner and it was indeed in the ON position. When I clicked it off I immediately got a message:

OPERA MINI HAS STOPPED WORKING. So I opened it again and when I returned to that some spot the toggle was off.

So once again that optimist in me want to believe that THIS FINALLY will turn that annoying news flash off.

While it was running my battery life was less. I'm looking forward to perhaps experiencing a return to the way things were.

Thanks to ALL and I'm hoping that cubot has the FINAL right solution.

I noticed in this thread that it is suggested and recommended that we know the version number in order to ? ( what ) to make it easier to answer questions?

Although I have read in other computer help forums that the experts would like as much information as possible. I wonder if there is a way that can be recommended to do that accurately given the reality of programs " updating " to a point of annoyance ( speaking for myself ). And in that process of allowing updates to simply occur whenever the company/developer thinks it's necessary to do many things happen and not all of them are good; although if anyone else has noticed the messages we get are always about " security holes ". Well, at the end of the proverbial day what does a user do? keep a log book next to their computer writing down every version number?

To help illustrate what I'm attempting to say is this which was copied from Wiki and are only snip-its from one year ( 2014 )

Opera 22 was released on June 3, 2014, based on Chromium 35. Support for high DPI
Opera 23 was released on July 22, 2014, based on Chromium 36. A heart menu was added to the address bar
Opera 24 was released on September 2, 2014, based on Chromium 37.
Opera 25 was released on October 15, 2014, based on Chromium 38.
Opera 26 was released on December 3, 2014, based on Chromium 39.

Each year is similar to this history. What Wiki does not show is this which is my current version

43.0.2442.1144 This is typical of the version numbers as I recall. What part would you like us to remember?

Isn't there a part of these requests which are unreasonable to ask a customer/user to remember?

It's also interesting that other companies will announce that " this call my be recorded for training purposes " but if the customer announces that THEY are recording the call the customer service person announces that the call needs to end if it is recorded.

I only mention this because in a world that many people think has gone mad the changes ( updates ) happen so fast that few people recall when this, that, or the other thing happened while we are asked to remember which version we were using when the incident happened that we are trying to get answers for.

So I'm being serious when I ask: " How much are we as user expected to remember "

Finally I wonder why the original author started this post with " To the moderators with love " I ask because I wonder if some people are worried that some action will be taken against them because someone doesn't like the question. Maybe that's a stretch but I know I find myself second guessing myself a lot when I need to confront an issue. Like today I'm facing the director of the VA hospital to ask her how it's okay to put off being seen at the hospital for 6 months when the bone was broken today.

During that time I did all of my " blogging " and communicating with my Opera community on a desktop computer running windows 98. I still have that computer and if I recall there were a few pages that I saved by downloading them so at least I'll have a few copies of what were ( IMHO ) excellent prose written by a my Opera pals. Perhaps I'll have a way of finding them again.

Although my current Opera name is similar to my name back then it's a real disappointment that any company can and does purge those accounts. With "the cloud" storage these days it doesn't seem to me that those accounts needed to be discarded. Just my two cents.

I Just noticed your replies after asking in a new post in " The Lounge " how I could find my posts.

In any event I am still stuck maybe because of the way the " news " pop's up. I NEVER found any of these annoying pop-ups or whatever they might be called and I wondered how they became part of the default when I downloaded the browser. After reading you replies I picked up my phone and when the screen lit up one of those ads popped up also. So I tap on it and it opens that browser and on the left side I did not see nor was there an option for " ADVANCED ".

Clicking the three bars opened up a large menu which is now gone and I can not be sure that simply opening the Opera browser offers me the same choices. I need to wait for one of them to pop up again to see if I can find this:
" Last setting in the News category is "News and promotion notifications". Set it to off and you'll never see them again. "

I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks again!

I'm pretty sure I post at least on question after I joined the Opera community. But I didn't write down which subtitle I posted in. So 1 Isn't there a way to find my posts by name? and 2 If I have an idea what the question was but don't remember exactly the words I used I can't seem to find them.

One question was about Opera back around 2006 or before. I had a user name and posted in what might have been blogs but it seems that Opera may have tossed all of those old account because I can't find them and wouldn't know how to search for them in this new form.

The other question has to do with these annoying pop-up adds on my Android phone which is using Opera Mini. How do I turn those annoying news flashes off?

If this is not the best place for these questions will someone point me in the right direction? Thanks

I would like to disable the setting or feature that results in an O to pop-up on my phone 24/7 making a noise to notify me that something new has come in. I do not want to in-install Opera-Mini but if I can not find a way to disable these notifications sadly I will need to uninstall the browser that I like best! I just do not like nor want these notifications.

Thanks for your help with this issue!