In previous versions of opera, I often did the following: go to the address bar, type "www.red", and then the address would be completed to a subreddit I often visit (so I get a completion of the form www.reddit.com/r/...). I would see that, press enter and go to the subreddit.

But recently, there is a quite jarring behavior. I type "www.red", and the address is still completed to the subreddit. But below the address bar, there is a "suggestion" for a promoted website. And when I press enter, I go to that site instead of the subreddit.

This screenshot shows the situation:

I get that they need to promote things to make a living and I'm OK with that, but isn't this a bug, in the sense that pressing enter should take me to the address in the address bar? Is there any way to disable this behavior?

If the promoted website appeared in the URL bar then I wouldn't prese enter, but it's a bit shady for me to be looking at the URL bar, see the correct website I want to visit there, press enter and be taken somewhere else. I hope it can be disabled or they fix it.

I've had this issue since like forever (since Opera adopted the Chrome engine IIRC). It affects all my computers (4 of them, with different monitor resolutions so probably that's not the deciding factor) so I thought it would be obvious and known, and never bothered to search for it until now. I just learned to use a different browser to view PDF's, or download them and open them with Adobe.

By the way, it's not a beta issue, currently I'm experiencing it in 40.0.2308.62 Stable for W64 - but I've experienced it in pretty much every version.

In which case, there would be no end of further complaints of Opera being a Chrome-clone. It seems Opera developers just can't win... if they try to create anew, they're "hungry" - if they try to copy, they're "cloners".

They can win. If they copied the features from Opera 12, instead of from Chrome, they would make the user base happy.

Option for a classic menu bar. Bring back the option to have a common (MDI) close button for all tabs, and the option to "click tab to minimize".

I use it and feel perfectly safe. I don't think it's a security risk while security patching for it is officially supported. No security patches have appeared lately, but that's likely to be because most hackers won't bother to make an exploit for a browser that is no longer going to be updated.

The problem is that javascript-heavy sites like Google and Facebook get buggier and buggier, slower and slower, as the browser is no longer updating to keep up with their changes.

For syncing notes between computers, if you're OK with a standalone and not in-browser application, try Evernote. It's great.

I find the idea ridiculous that some claim their "work" is hampered because they cannot stack tabs. Evidently they have dozens
and dozens of tabs open at one time and therefore need to stack them. Seriously? How on earth did you function back in the
90's when there were no tabs at all? And when tabs first appeared the ability to stack them was not present. How did you
manage then?

What kind of argument is that? In the 90's we also managed with 16 MB or RAM, 14-inch CRT monitors, MS-DOS and 56 Kbps connections. That doesn't mean we want to go back to that. Progress is supposed to improve things, not the other way round.

By the way, I don't really care much about tab stacking, but I understand that each user has their pet features that they need for an efficient workflow. In my case, those (tab-related) features are:

• Vertical tabs
• Option to have common (MDI) close button for all tabs
• Click on tab to minimize

Yes, of course it's a huge plus, but I count that as a consequence of O12 not having been maintained (except for security updates) for a year, not as a problem with O12 itself. When O12 was maintained I could open all the sites fine.

Anyway, if we don't take that into consideration... I would say that I prefer the new Opera for Facebook and Gmail, but I very much prefer O12 for the rest of the sites I visit.

Personally, after almost a year, I haven't adapted and I don't think I ever will. O12 is still my primary browser, although I always have the latest Opera Developer installed which I sometimes use for Facebook and Gmail (unusable in O12).

I still miss the standard menu bar, the bookmarks menu, the download dialog and manager, the MDI common close tab button, the tab behavior "click on tab to minimize" which allows one to go back to the last tab, etc.

I keep using the latest Opera as a secondary browser out of a mix of nostalgia and self-deception, but it's not really even my second favorite browser, I prefer Firefox. Although I also must say I prefer the new Opera to Chrome (for things like native mouse gestures). My ranking would be something like O12 > Firefox > IE tied with new Opera > Chrome.

BTW, so you see I'm not all negative, the feature that appeared very recently in the new Opera by which the tab preview when hovering over a tab is big and readable instead of just a thumbnail, is really cool and useful. But sadly it's the only advantage I can find in the new Opera, and it is far from outweighing all the missing things.

I'm also waiting for the Otter browser to develop. The latest betas are already rather functional and stable. Once mouse gestures are added, it'll probably become my primary browser.

Menu bar was removed.
And? There's no point on having one.

Will you guys please stop lecturing users on what they should want/need? You don't find a menu bar useful, that's fine. But many of us do (as shown by the fact that this complaint has arisen lots of times). Dismissing other users' requests as irrelevant is disrespectful to say the least.

I have the same problem. I now run Firefox alongside Opera 12.17. Firefox for Facebook and Gmail (which lag in Opera), and Opera for the rest.