I never thought I would say this, but DO NOT UPGRADE TO OPERA 9.5.x of any version or flavor.
Opera PTB and Dev Team, I have one thing to say to you: It is dangerous to buy into your own legend and think you know better than your users what they want. When you buy into your own legend you may find that it is simply a figment of your imagination — i.e., that you are a legend in your own mind and nowhere else.
If I wanted a dumbed down browser for the masses, there are two that pop to mind (Firefox for the wanna-be-geeks, and IE for the typical apathetic mass user). Why did you have to ruin Opera for the rest of us????
I have been a faithful user of Opera since its inception, yes I even paid for each new version. But 9.5.x is beyond the pale. For the same reason I feel almost violent when I think about Firefox and its development team (notice the all lower case letters), I am now feeling ill thinking of how badly Opera has mangled a beautiful, clean product.
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