whenever i try to save one to the desktop opera forces me to try and use opera as a bit-torrent client which is very annoying.

Oh, and ******** around with ctrl+d was a bad thing, too, so I put that back in for paste and go. Much simpler than forcing myself to switch to ctrl+b after years of such a short, quick keystroke combo.

So switchers had trouble with new keystroke combos. *wah* What about folks who’d been using Opera since version X (for me it was ver 3–I missed the ‘96 rollout of ver 2)? Do football (soccer) players all change their rules any time an American football player wants to play a while?

*feh*

But no problem. It’s Opera. The whole family uses it, and it’s no trivial matter to have them all learn new keystrokes, so averting “support calls” from them was as simple as reinstating the keystroke combos they’ve grown used to in Preferences>Advanced>Shortcuts>Keybaoard Shortcuts.

After all, it is Opera, and has been seriously tweakable and customizable for years, so using the new, much easier interfaces of recent versions, much matured in Opera 9, it’s a snap to correct some of these stumbles *heh* by Opera developers.

Why, you ask? If I don’t know anything about computers, the I don’t know about “updates” so I’ll never update. That’s what happened with my uncle, I installed Firefox 1.0 and still was 1.0 when we were already on 1.5.

It’s not the users fault.

Which is unfortunate. I ran a small survey amongst my Opera-using friends, and nobody - absolutely nobody - understands this widget deal. I don’t plan on using widgets, nobody plans on using widgets.

There’s only one or two widgets so far that might prove to be somewhat useful, but generally, they suck, almost to the extent of Microsoft’s Clippy.

Wake me up the day Opera allows us to make something that integrates with the browser chrome, or at least gets local file access for UserCSS and UserJS. Right now, there is a number of online games with skin-packs, which are useless in Opera (but very useful for Fx/IE), and Opera is losing even that niche. Everyone I know is pissed with the lack of extending Opera.

Don’t get me wrong - Opera is still my greatest and only browser love, but it’s NEVER going to gain more attention with such a closed nature. The time they spent on coding widget support, something extremely few people will use, could have been better utilized on actually opening Opera, at least for the multitude of web developers out there. A built-in Web Developer’s toolbar, error consoles that don’t suck (why not a panel, or a tab?!), a JS debugger… That would have been much more useful than an insanely stupid widget system. For god’s sake, even NTLM support and an auto-updater would have pushed Opera ahead a lot.

I think Opera was kind of forced into adding support for widgets as a result of Firefox’s hugely popular extensions.

Er, widgets have got nothing to do with extensions. Widgets are the Opera Platform running on a desktop platform.

Widgets were added to Opera Mobile first, remember? As an important part of Opera’s business model?

Again, it’s got nothing to do with extensions what so ever.

‘Find on Page’ highlights matches on page
When you search for a keyword on a page, the matches will be highlighted, a feature which has been available in Firefox for sometime already.

I may be mistaken since the computer at home (with Opera 8x) is busted, but hasn’t Opera done this highlighting thing for years? I could swear I did it on my computer 3 years ago (before 8.0 even came out).

But, one important feature missing is notifying the user that they have reached the end of the page. It has happened many times where I was searching for a term and continued searching, not knowing that I had already looped around to the beginning of the page a number of times.
I think that this feature comes standard with any other application/browser, and should be added to Merlin

Actually I’m finding that there are FEW programs that tell you that the search has reached the end of the page. But it is a good suggestion. I wish the programs that I use did it.

*Why limit standards compliance to browsers?

one important feature missing is notifying the user that they have reached the end of the page

Yes, yes, yes!
The lack of this feature in Opera annoys me almost daily (usually tens of times per day). One now has to look at the scrollbar before and after each press on F3 to see if it has wrapped. Why won’t the people at Opera understand the obvious fact that people usually don’t memorize the context of each search hit and the look at the match and not the scrollbar.
(It’s like the menus on Nokia’s PoS mobile phone UIs, where you always go 2-3 times through each menu before you realize that you’re looping. The people at Nokia ar so utterly clueless that they don’t understand that when people look for something they don’t pay attention to stuff that does not match what they’re looking for, including scrollbars and line numbers.)