Reviews of Opera (v12.50 - 32bit)

1. 
   Artem S. Tashkinov

   Reviewing 12.50.1583 Beta (Sep 6, 2012)

   No AdBlock or NoScript (don't tell me about Opera extensions - they are a joke)
2. 
   outofspace

   Reviewing 12.50.1546 Beta (Aug 11, 2012)

   This release is handling flash much better than previous one. But still Opera is "not responding" a lot.
3. 
   Blaxima

   Reviewing 12.50.1546 Beta (Aug 10, 2012)

   Flash issues have still not been addressed. They are present in ALL releases within the 12 branch, alpha, beta, RC, stable, all of em
   
   I also find Opera becomes unresponsive when trying to load certain pages.
   
   Perhaps this unstable direction is the reason that the founder resigned a few months back.
   
   On the bright side, the bookmark star crash that was again introduced with 12.50 has been fixed
4. 
   Zero-Point

   Reviewing 12.50.1538 Beta (Aug 6, 2012)

   "I know it's an early alpha but this new pattern of releasing broken major versions only to try and address them in a maintenance build soon after is not something I am enjoying having to deal with"
   
   How does this make any sense? You know it's an early alpha, but you are referring to broken major releases. Also, if you don't want to deal with potentially unstable alpha and beta releases, don't install them--use the final releases and don't worry about them
   
   The first 12.x Opera Next builds were very unstable for me although the 12.x final release has been working well. I haven't used the newer 12.50 Next builds much, but when I have, they've been OK.
5. 
   Blaxima

   Reviewing 12.50.1538 Beta (Aug 6, 2012)

   Here we go again. New version, new problems with things that used to work.
   
   All the 12.x releases have regressed with their flash performance. Flash videos smear down the page when scrolling.
   
   Sites that worked in 11.64 and 12.01 don't work here. Also be warned that the bookmark star(address bar) instant crash is back
   
   On the bright side, it does feel quite a bit snappier.
   
   I know it's an early alpha but this new pattern of releasing broken major versions only to try and address them in a maintenance build soon after is not something I am enjoying having to deal with
   
   @Zeropoint, major releases that became finals have been rather piss poor. 10, 10.5, 11, 11.5, 12 were major releases that in "stable" form were anything but. The maintenance releases that followed them corrected some things that should have been in the finals in the first place. This alpha is heading in the same direction of breaking things while adding new "buggy" features.
   
   Testing new things is fun but having things that worked before break is not very progressive. Most people who are testing Opera over at the blog are still using 11.64 as their main browser yet the Opera team is moving towards another major release in an already broken version

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