Considering that Opera is one of the biggest groups involved with the HTML5 definition, and that HTML5 as an official definition does not actually exist .. your opinion really doesn't make much sense here.

You're trying to develop things that are in total danger of being totally different by the time HTML5 is completed.

oh.. my tabs haven't been on the top since i got a widescreen display. Since the tab bar is part of the title bar, you can't hide it, I guess. But it's only that way when maximized .. which is also something that I always do.. hmm.

I'd bug report that, can't enable that option if tabs are set to top.

Do you have something weird running in UserJavascript perhaps?

You're right, Link is not supposed to randomly overwrite bookmarks, it should be duplicating them. I think there may have been some bugs going through some of the snapshots between 10.10 and 10.60, as somewhere during that time, I have about 30 bookmarks that have just -disappeared- from both the Opera Link page, and my Bookmarks menu .. however, they still show up when in auto-fill when I start to type their addresses into the address bar. That may be worth doing some bug reports on!!!!

MSN/Hotmail email is working perfectly for me.

I wonder if you have the Turbo thing enabled on it, and it's trying to load it through a proxy, taking some time to get a connection to that. I use Turbo on my netbook frequently, since I'm often on terrible wireless links, but I've never really used it on desktop .. though sometimes it has tried to turn it on because my connection was farked up or something.

It could also be some kind of DNS thing .. or it could be some kind of an Opera bug. :P

To all the rest of us, "open source" is only useful if we are actually wanting to do something with the source. Do you actively participate in the development of every single open source thing you use?

I also use Opera on my 166Mhz email server, if I happen to be logged into it and absolutely needing to do something on the web.

There was an upgrade to the Opera version about a year ago, i think, but yes, it does not get updated very regularly. That might be at least partially because it doesn't need to be.

I found a User Javascript somewhere the other day that allows you to operate Wave -- which currently runs like molasses uphill in a cold michigan winter in Chrome -- reasonably properly in Opera .. and it's STUPIDLY FAST.

http://my.opera.com/sitepatching/blog/2010/02/05/ready-to-wave

- Treestyle tabs - either open the Sidebar, and use the "Windows" sidebar panel, or drag your tab bar to the left or right side.

- Small menu - default in Opera now, has been available since Opera 8 or 9, possibly earlier.

- Stop/Reload has been a single button since Opera 7, I think, maybe 8. I'd always configured the stop button to not be there anyway, prior, because .. really.. who needs it?

- Scrapbook: what?

- Greasemonkey - based on Opera's "UserJavascript" feature, which existed LONG before Greasemonkey.

- Downthemall - no idea, can't see wanting to use it, ever.

Firefox without any extensions is a pile of poop. Firefox with extensions is an overly bloated Frankenbrowser looking pile of poop.

Those who run "noscript" are seriously missing out on a lot of the Internet.

sites should not display identically on every browser, but every browser should adhere to the documented standard.

Right click Tab Bar, click Customize, select "Only display when needed", same place as it's always been.

I think you should completely uninstall your current Opera installation, remove all traces of it, and then install and try again. The Mouse gesture problem was fixed backed in 9.5 or 9.6 .. i can't speak for autoscroll, because I don't know what it is .. You can't really complain about Opera Link doing exactly what it's supposed to do, can you? Well, you did, but your complaint doesn't make much sense. You should probably either disable Link, or login to your Opera Link account, and edit the bookmarks there. Maybe your old PCs are in use somewhere, and are still updating the Opera Link, and you should get a new MyOpera account for your current browsers.

I've not had the "cursor in text boxes" problem on Windows, only on Linux, and it appears to be fixed for the most part in 10.60. Hotmail appears to work ok for me, although i have nothing but about 82,000 spams in an email box that i got back in 1998, and have never once used.

Sounds like local problems, I find myself utterly amazed at how fast pages are loading in 10.60.