I feel your inconvenience tonvh. Safari, though for me, is still the memory hog it's always been and with a 2014 Mac Mini with Apple's forced RAM (non user upgradeable) I find myself relying on Firefox for less RAM usage and much more control than either Safari and Opera.
Apparently, with the near demise of Opera they've gotten help and it's come in the forms of less control for desktop users and less control over privacy. Choose your poison, like politicians.

Yes, I'd like to know this too. I think that was default back in iterations of Opera 12 and before.

Better late than never. stefl it Is Preferences, not Settings as Macs don't, as you know, have anything called Settings.
Glad you found it.

Sorry, I meant Power User instead of Super User.

I don't need the Home button but I sure don't like the lack of Preferences customization. I guess this is for the people that just use hand held gadgets and don't know or care about being able to control their machines. "Put that camera/tablet/smart phone on Easy and forget it. We'll take care of your needs, but not your wants since you don't know what you want since you never knew there was a difference." seems to be the way of the computer programs and programming these days. Wow! I can't even block Content anymore nor can I block cookies from Facebook or Google. I have them blocked but they sure showed up in my cookies, just like Safari's lack of being able to truly block cookies. Firefox will block Google and any site's cookies I tell it to. Hmm.... this is important to privacy and it seems Opera is dropping the ball like Apple. Tsk, tsk Opera for taking all this control away from us users that know about privacy and what we want on a browser. Well I'm not loyal to anyone but my family now since no businesses seem to be loyal to customers, just the bottom line.

Not sure why that was eliminated but it was very helpful on sketchy sites or just plain unknown and untrusted sites. Some of them will freeze a machine with all the Flash, Java and Java Script on them and some will just freeze that particular window. So now I just have to risk opening one of those in a new tab instead and risk losing any other tabs until I open Opera again. And then if I want to restart from where I left off, as I do most, that bad site will be there again. Bad call in my opinion.
Sure wish they would bring that back. I can do it in Safari and Firefox. But I don't like Safari for all the memory it hogs and the lack of privacy. And I've always preferred Opera over Firefox until all these conveniences that were in iterations of 12 were deleted. I can open image in new tab or window in Arora, but can only open image in new window in Sunrise, but these are lesser browsers at this moment. Hopefully they will grow and improve their lot in short time.
Please reinstall that option. Or tell me why you can't or won't.

That's too bad they took away the ability to rearrange the tool/button bar. I see we no longer have Fast Forward or Fast Backward either.
At least they left the Mouse Rocker ability since I use that often. Better than Mouse Gestures for me.
Thanks for the info avl. A lot has changed from versions of 12 that I still use on older machines.

I don't get a white window when hovering over an image. I get a zoomed version of the image. That too is annoying as it keeps one from seeing what's next to and or under the enlarged preview. But it also allows one to save the enlarged image, if that's what you want, from the preview instead of opening the image. Still would be better if I knew where there was a Preference to stop it when I want to. Makes it hard to scroll through images at thumbnail size. tcebob's avatar does this on my machine running 10.10.1 .

Thanks to you both.
I see that this has been asked more than a couple times, but my thread title and alternative wording came up with nothing in Opera's Forum search or a web search, as I see the same from at least one other person from one of g00g00's links.

I finally figured it out with reading a couple of the links, confirming that "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a" meant the arrow keys, since that is what I assumed you all meant, and finally getting past the Windows speak of Settings Window when Macs, even with Opera, use the word Preferences instead of Settings. So I was having a hard time finding the Settings page. And when that comes up, via whichever route you take (Opera > pull down contextual menu > Preferences or typing in the URL (address) bar, opera:config or opera:settings and clicking Enter, the opaque white Preferences window comes down, totally obscuring the Search box (so not necessary to mention clicking outside the Search Box as one has no where else to click, I finally enabled Super User and got rid of the google search bar, thank you.

My apologies if you think I'm a bit too picky on wording, but this is how we communicate well. And not all on here are used to the interchanging use of Windows and Mac specific languages and commands.

rafaeljvieira's post in this link below, was the one that spelled it out best even though he did use capital BA instead of small case b>a .
http://forums.opera.com/topic/4445/how-do-i-remove-the-google-search-bar-from-the-speed-dial

Again,
Thank you for your time and efforts and maybe this post will come up for the next person looking for the same answer.

I'm using an early '09 MacBook, in addition to two Mac Minis. MacBook has Leopard 10.5.8 and whatever Opera version it is stuck with and no problems. One Mac Mini has Snow Leopard 10.6.8, no problems with whatever Opera version it's stuck with. Occasional freeze, but I get that on any browser and have to restart. And a brand new sucky mid grade Mac Mini and just accidentally upgraded to Opera 28 before reading about problems. Really no working problems with it yet, but we'll see. Been using Opera since 2003 or 2004.
Seems to me that attacks would be aimed at newer versions since most people don't stick with older machines and browsers like I do. Maybe.