Yes... Opera sucks now. I just did a search for "new opera versions suck" and found this thread. I understand that this might not be the proper forum, but I also want to vent with the OP.
I've been limping by with Opera 12.16 on my old laptop for a while, waiting for these new Chrome versions (15, 17, 18, now 19?) to stop sucking. I just installed 18 on my new laptop... Nope, still sucks. I've been using Opera for 8 years now and it looks like it is finally going to fail me. Really, Opera link doesn't even work? They've made it even more annoying to search with something besides Google? Bahh..
Maybe part of the Opera Dev team could pick back up where they left off with the Opera 12 platform and just keep fine tuning that engine.