Thank you for your quick reply. Just noticed that google.com sidebar may be broken worse than before. I can only attribute that to Google taking you guys seriously and ensuring that Google.com isn't done till Opera doesnt work. 😉
Well I'm back on Opera Mobile 24 thanks to a situation beyond my control that resulted in me getting a new Galaxy s4 phone with Android 4.4. So I'm good with Opera Mobile 24 again. I don't know if ICS users are still having the same off-road display problems I had on my Exhilarate device though.
Ain't lagging, true is that more than 150MB RAM free is needed for current Opera Mobile or Chrome. Btw, Maxthon sucks running on ICS, same player format can be found on Dolphin browser being based on Fennec design.
With root access you can copy your Speed Dial (favorites.db) from the PC Opera profile manually to your phone (/data/data/com.opera.browser/app_opera/). I guess that even if you move the passwords file (Login Data) it won't work but you may try it. Only do that if you understand what you're doing.
Key popup set on no delay in keyboard settings can modify URL bar behavior. Current URL isn't shown when is corrected (i.e. gogle.com > google.com) before page loading (3g connection) even at reload. Browsers with similar behavior = none. NexusS running ICS with animation set on 0,5 if that counts. Beta2 does the same.