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A version of the Opera browser has been working okay in a Debian Jessie system for about 9 months. Suddenly certain features no longer work :-

(1) Can't open attachments in emails, especially PDF attachments.

(2) Can't use ALT-P to clear cache/cookies

Can anyone explain why this has happened, please.

The version of Opera being used is

opera-stable_64.0.3417.73_amd64.deb

Is there an HTML problem now with this version ?

Does the Opera version need to be updated ?

If so, which version is suitable for Debian Jessie ?

Everything is rather out of date!

You won't get any updates from Debian, as Jessie ( ceased to be supported in July. The current version is Buster (10). You can't update directly from 8 to 10 — you'd have to update from 8 to 9 and then 9 to 10, so it's probably safer to download 10 and re-install.

As for Opera, the current version is 71. You could un-install your version and get the latest directly from Opera, but how happy that version would be with your old OS I don't know.