For example, a random thumbnail link on a Youtube channel will not appear, with just a white space in its place.

Or, at a local newspaper, some of the buttons to control display of the PDF edition, or parts of a banner ad, disappear in the same way.

Minimizing, then restoring, the tab remedies the problem, but of course it shouldn't be occurring in the first place.

I have absolutely followed all the steps to which you referred in your introductory posts, and this is strictly an Opera situation.

The monitor is a Dell 2009W analog, and I am quite aware that the company discontinued it, yet there are still plenty of them out there.

The options in the basic browser are limited to continental ones (Americas, Europe, Asia)
Do any of the addons available allow more specific settings? Say, a specific country? Or even a specific location, even in the US? You've probably heard of sites geolimited to a radius from a city.

@donq Solved. Thank you.

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/sean-casey-was-once-thrown-out-at-first-base--from-left-field/c-77879462 is from 2014, which obviously is since the initial release of Opera.
It has at least three animated GIFs, which fail to load.
If I right-click on any of them, and select open image in new tab, they load normally.
What to I need to do to make the GIFs load in the page?

Version:86.0.4363.50
System:Windows 10 64-bit

The options in the basic browser are limited to continental ones (Americas, Europe, Asia)
Do any of the addons available allow more specific settings? Say, a specific country? Or even a specific location, even in the US? You've probably heard of sites geolimited to a radius from a city.

@donq As of this morning it had cleared up, but I'll continue to monitor it. Hardware acceleration always puzzled me, sometimes it helps and sometimes it hurts.

For example, a random thumbnail link on a Youtube channel will not appear, with just a white space in its place.

Or, at a local newspaper, some of the buttons to control display of the PDF edition, or parts of a banner ad, disappear in the same way.

Minimizing, then restoring, the tab remedies the problem, but of course it shouldn't be occurring in the first place.

I have absolutely followed all the steps to which you referred in your introductory posts, and this is strictly an Opera situation.

The monitor is a Dell 2009W analog, and I am quite aware that the company discontinued it, yet there are still plenty of them out there.

Is it an Opera thing, or a Windows (10) thing, that the taskbar button colour is a deep orange? Thanks.

It doesn't happen immediately I open Opera, but every time I open it in the last 3 or 4 days, the pop-down appears saying extensions need to be updated. Is this a bug, or are their actually updates being sent multiple times?

@naheed I understand. I will pursue this issue through the feedback function for requesting new features.

I have followed the post's instructions, but would like to know how to convert the number noted for the zoom factor (an extremely-long decimal number) into a factor I am more familiar with from other browsers.

When I used other browsers prior to Opera, I was able to tweak settings to allow zoom levels that weren't standard to them. Lately I've found that an 85% level is easier to read than the standard 80 or 90%. What would / could I do to allow an 85% level to be selected?

Windows10 Pro ver. 2004 (OS build 19041.572)

Opera 71.0.3770.271

Thanks.