[citation][nom]amigafan[/nom]I heard if Facebook takes it over it will be called Fapera xD[/citation]
I really like Opera's User Interface, although I still think it needs a lot of work in being more intuitive. I have thousands upon thousands of favourites I saved from IE 6 to 8 and this is hell trying to organise it all in Opera. It needs to be more intuitive.
The other bug bear is Opera's memory footprint. If you have a lot of web pages stored in the Speed Dial, then when Opera starts it eats your RAM like nobody's business. Opera was one of the principle reasons I had to upgrade my machine and still, it continues to gobble.
Another problem is that when you transfer your Speed Dial, if you have lots you can practically resign your PC to being non-usable for a considerable amount of time, since the first thing it does is validates every single web page. I have 100 or more of these pages and when Opera tries to update it often falls flat on it's face.
Despite these hurdles I like how 'snappy' Opera is, and how many features it has. However I am in no way inclined to use this software if Facebook is behind it.. if FB wants it why not simply license it from Opera? I think that if FB does buy Opera out then we'll see a repeat of what happened to Facebook and You Tube: take a reasonable, simple idea and basically make is so stupidly over-bearing and ad-savy, it gets dumped. I'd hate that to happen to Opera.
I also have concerns about general privacy and security, and I simply don't want any kind of embedded code running I don't know about. I do not feel comfortable with the information being stored, processed and possibly sold to third-party entities.
Facebook is too commercialized to do any good with this application, I hope I'm wrong. But if FB owns this software I stop using it.