Opera would find a lot more users posting their avatar pic if they didn't have to get involved with one more internet service company, in this cast it's Gravatar. Why - because people just tend to be distrustful when they find themselves being required to get involved like this for no apparent reason.

Yes, I great idea.

Yes, I great idea.

Ads popping out the right side even though I have ads set to be blocked.
Is this something Opera is doing or could I have a virus?

@leocg I am referring to this one:
"Launch Opera web browser and type opera://flags in addressbar and press Enter. ...
Now click inside "Search flags" text box and type weather. ..."

I enabled & saved the weather flag and could see it in the upper left but it doesn't stay?

Clicking on "Jalopnik" news feed takes me to a blank page . . . but if I copy and past the address into IE, Firefox or Chrome - no problem??

Regarding alobpreis' suggestions:

• Disabling extensions and the problem still occurs.
• Going to the blog using "in private window" mode and the problem doesn't occur.
• I know where to find developer options in the menu but don't know anything about what I am seeing.

It would seem that somehow the Opera browser in this machine thinks it's in India and there should be a setting or a work around.

(????)

Here is a little more information.
This problem only happens with Opera and only one computer, not my second computer. It does not happen with Internet Explorer and not just with my blog. I can type, paste or click on a blog link and the blog comes up but the extension in the address window is changed from dot com to dot in.

When I type my blog address into the opera browser window the correct blog comes up but the address extension is changed from .com to .in. I am in the USA no India.
Any ideas why this is happening?

Abrir la barra de tareas y propiedades del menú Inicio , haga clic en el botón Inicio , en Panel de control, en Apariencia y personalización y, a continuación, hacer clic en la barra de tareas y menú Inicio .
Desactive la casilla de verificación Bloquear la barra de tareas .
Seleccione la opción Ocultar automáticamente la casilla de verificación barra de tareas . La barra de tareas está oculta a la vista .

Yes, I think something bad snuck into my machine.
The reason I wanted to change the search engine is because it was only doing it with Opera and only Google. I did a system restore which seemed to fix the problem then saw Donq's message and ran ADWCleaner which was good advice.
Now I'll see what happens.