It didn't work for me -- I got into being a power user (or so it said) but there is no option to hide anything. Is this Apple software? No options and no choices? I have had nothing but problems setting this up. I have spent hours and it is still not ready to use!!

I am located in China. I use a VPN but in spite of my IP being out of the US, I can only access the Hong Kong version of Google. In Firefox or IE, I get Google.com but in Opera, only Google.com.hk.

I installed Opera and it seemed good but I was running my VPN at that moment. Then with the VPN disabled, it redefined itself into Chinese, changing everything including the speed dial sites. I fought it for a couple of hours, looking for any options to change it back to what it was. I ended up uninstalling it out of frustration. I decided to give it another try and figured I would start by seeing if I could find the answer to that problem. I will follow the advice posted here and hopefully that will get me going. My post is mainly to agree with the other "lost user". Why should the software automatically decide what the user wants? That is something I see more and more and I have no respect for programmers who think we are really so stupid we cannot decide for ourselves. I expect that Opera has lost MANY users because not only is this a problem, but there is nothing I could find on the web besides a FAQ. I had to search for Opera forums to find this one!!