"If you want to save a session, right click on one of the tabs of the session, and choose, save tabs as speed dial folder. Or download and install a Chrome app, like Session Buddy. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko?hl=en "

A great help for me would be to tell me how to find these things. What did I do wrong in my search? What could I have entered into google to find tat myself?

" Opera is keeping you in a job."

No, it isn't. I am a teacher, I have better things to do than this, Please think of the general users.

" You can adjust."

Yes, I can, but you didn't read what I wrote: what you change you will only change again. What you think is great will be abandoned and something new will come along.

" don't be frozen into the status quo by a few strident voices"

You are not listening: I don't have the time. I have a full time job. To you and me technology is interesting and exciting and I love change - at home, in my own time that is what I do. I am surrounded by technology at home. But at work I am paid to do a job. Opera is a tool to do that job, not an end in itself.

"The path to excellence is not a majority vote." So, you aren't going to listen to the users? Another nail in the coffin.

I will give an example of what should be easy: save a session.

I look up "opera save session", the advice from opera.help.com says:

"Go to Opera > Preferences > General "

But I don't have preferences under opera! The advice is bogus (yeah, I'm sure you all know where to find it, but think about the ordinary user). I google for "opera preferences", answer:

"Opera's preference dialog holds a great number of useful settings; the most essential ones are found under "General", "Forms", "Search", and "Web pages"."

But I can't find "general", where is it?

I search for "Opera Preferences" but get nothing. So now I search again and find this:

"Access the preferences by going to Settings > Preferences"

I go to setting but there are no "preferences"

I search again for "opera preferences", this time I find this: "pressing Ctrl+F12", which yields nothing.

I go to opera help and type ' save session '. It says "No results matches...did you mean save session" and rather than go into an infinite loop, I abandon.

Please think of the user.

What you think is great now, you will abandon in the future because you have thought of something else. That is why opera menus, etc, keep changing.

Every time you change, people have to re-learn. We don't have time to re-learn. We do full time jobs, but also have to re-learn Windows, we have to relearn word, excel, etc. It all takes time and when we learn it, somebody changes it again.

Please remember: Not everybody is tech savvy. I am, but I have to teach people how to use this technology. They come to me as say "I can't find X", then I have to find X and it takes me tome then I teach them.

Please remember three things:

1. What you think is great now, you will abandon in the future because you have thought of something else. So, is it really great? That is why opera menus, etc, keep changing, so don't make unnecessary changes.

2. When Microsoft keep changing, they are ridiculed. When opera keeps changing, some people think it is somehow cool. No, it is not cool when you want to do something simple but have to hunt through manuals to do it.

3. If you do make a change, make it EASY for people to find the option they used to have. (See point 1: you put made the original design because it was good; if it was good, people use it, then you take it away).

Do I sound frustrated? Yes, I am. I have had a hell of a week teaching people to use product they used to know how to use. Net result: they can now do the same things they used to do. What a waste of time and effort.

Pleased listen to the users.

Thanks for the replies on this - I've started to use Opera 21 - but it will take a while.

Opera was my main and favourite browser, but it is becoming unusable for me. Many websites will not work with it, and when I tell the websites Opera does not work, they simply say "you should use Chrome" or "what's Opera?".

I don't have a choice, sometimes. I HAVE to use Moonfruit ("Don't use Opera"), I HAVE to use btinternet/btmail ("Does not support your browser"), I CHOOSE to read the Independent, but can not login under Opera, I HAVE to use other website which simply do not work under Opera.

I am very frustrated and if anyone can give me a way around this, I will use opera, but otherwise I have to say good bye.