ok after seeing an opera employee (ruario) replying on this thread (read: actually giving a damn about linux users) i just had to sign up for some feedback (I dont expect it will make any difference but whatever). I've been using opera from the early 00's in both work & home and suggested it to a lot of people while working in IT. I didn't like the chrome-ization so i managed to stick with the 12.16 version all this time. Following some recent breaks (youtube comments section for example) the moment to move away from opera has, unfortunately, come. Not having a stable update for the linux platform for so long (64bit-only betas are useless for me) is really insulting and i guess that post from last year in ycombinator, about how the linux platform & devs were dealt internally in the company, was true. So, thanks for all the fish and good luck (for the desktop environment, you'll certainly need it)