Is Opera ever going to release a version that doesn't depend on the deprecated gconf? I am stuck on 12.16 until it does (but looking harder at other browsers).

No, it doesn't help.

Security policies prohibit the installation of gconf on any of my machines - it is deprecated and unmaintained. I refuse to install gconf to run Opera or any other program.

Yet for some bizarre reason, Opera developers keep linking it in when building Opera, even though it does absolutely nothing as far as running Opera.

Have been using opera since 3.2, but am starting to look for alternatives.

Why? I am unable to run any version of Opera newer than 12.16.

Why? There is some strange dependency (yes, I have verified it by running ldd on the binaries) on gconf. Gconf is deprecated and unmaintained, and the security policy I am operating under no longer allows it to be installed on any system.

Virtually all of gnome has migrated to gsettings:

gsettings migration

I am wondering if there are any plans to remove the gconf dependency in the near future (if not, I am gone).