thanks for the useful and quick replies!
ok, that cylcing through tabs with 1 and 2 is nice. also the new way of tab previews is nicely done. although not as good to get an overview with many opened tabs.
i just had a look at the keyboard customisation in 12.17: there wasnt a thing you couldnt customize in your own way! i am just realizing now.
ok, ad blocker isnt a biggi, didnt go into extensions so far (didnt need to)...
@lando242: you are certainly right with opera 12 beeing old and having probs with quite some pages, it is kind of annoying to use IE in order to do my online banking and some other stuff, but i learned to live with it.
I am just hoping that maybe the next opera version will be a bit more towards the heavy user again, i. e. giving more shortcut customization options back to the user...
anyhow, opera still rocks, for me its gonna be 12.17 for some more days, month, who knows...
good day everybody!

also no build in ad blocker? i am out, back to 12.17

Hi,
sorry to bother, maybe its just me but I feel like I just lost an old friend: my old opera.
two major things bugging me with new version:
keyboard shortcut behavior: i loved to switch between the last used 2-5 tabs by holding Ctrl and pressing tab 2-5 times.... pls dont tell me that thats not possible anymore! just switching between active and last active tab? buhhh!

2nd: no thumbnails of opened tabs anymore? step back, honestly!

pls tell me that i am all wrong and how to get this work, and if i am right: which old version is still having that? where can i get that version (in operas old version archive i dont find anything)

sad greetings, ex opera fanboy