I've been using Opera for something like 15 years - it was brilliant. 12.6 is struggling with some websites, so somehthing needed doing. Maybe this new one will be good one day, but it is totally unusable for what I need it now! Have Opera panicked and brought this out before it was ready - it's like a beta release, and will ruin Opera's reputation if it isn't fixed QUICK.

Features that are missing or screwed up include:

1. not able to search for words on a page any more
2. view source does not export it to a text editor (I can't use Opera as a development tool if it won't do that, it's no good having to view source in an Opera tab and then copy and paste - take about 5 times a long and then I have to save the damn thing before I can check it with CSE HTML Validator
3. the ad blocker built into the old Opera was far better than having to use Adblock
4. old Opera had a brilliant password manager - Last Pass is all very well, but a pain in the a..e to use
5. customizable notes in old Opera - where's that gone?
6. Speed Dial - can't get more than 6 columns - it shows up to 9 in the selector, but stops at 6 in real life!
7. Help is now crap - it just seems to go for pages about bookmarks whatever I search for - what's that all about?

Come on Opera, get your act together or I will (reluctantly) have to try and find a usable browser elsewhere if v12 becomes unusable.

I've downloaded and installed Opera 20 (was that stupid of me?) and am trying to get my head round it, but the help pages are worse than useless! I did a search to see how I alter the number of columns in Speed Dial - the page it gives doesn't mention Speed Dial!
I tried to find out how the password manager works - does it still protect my passwords under a master password? I don't know because a search for "password" gets a page about bookmarks. Can I import my passwords from Opera 12.6? I don't know because the help, if it does say won't let me find the answer!
Maybe I'm being particularly obtuse, but so far I am not impressed with this new version.

Opera Version 12.16 - Google webmaster tools dashboard will not load if Opera is identified as Opera. Need to identify as Firefox (or maybe another browser) to be able to load it. This is a new development. Any one got any advice besides upgrading to Opera 15, which I don't want to sdo until I see better reports of it?