thats sad what u writing and there is now hope , for useful opera...new engine, new architecture, the forcecomming changes i understand , time is unbeatin, but the browser should be as easy and as fast in use as can be..and now one tell me that the sidebar(left panel) or every mouse gestures have slow down the use of opera.

Im a user of opera for about 5 years, every new version, has some adventage and disadvantages...but this 26 version is so so terrible ... first of all...ther is no side bar, which helps, and speed up the usage of browser...for example, moving between bookmarsk and history, deleting the history and etc., second of all..the mouse gestures has been change, you cant open the new tab by moving down and up...those are the fundamentals of opera, and should be allways inculded in new versions....and now i discover that flah player dosent work , and u need to download a different kind of flash..., while the competition players works on html5....the 27..should be better--back the gestures, and sidebar, please !!!