Don't go changing people's stuff!

Point to note: When I do an upgrade, I will not change people's stuff.
I just upgraded from Opera 9.[something or other] to 9.52 and my whole theme was trashed. Buttons I had deleted were added back in (like that stupid new page button on the tab bar, isn't that what mouse gestures are for??), even bars I had disabled popped back up, not to mention the entire flipping skin changed to some ugly dark grey tabs and stars and such. Take note, go look back up top, THIS WAS A POINT UPGRADE. Not a major version. I don't even think it was a minor version upgrade, I'm pretty sure I was on 9.5 already, though I don't think I quite understand thier version numbering. Either way, this shouldn't have been ANYWHERE NEAR this traumatic.

Yes, it only took 10 minutes or so to get it mostly straightened out. I think. That's not the point. An app like Opera HAS to pride itself on customization (or why bother ditching IE in the first place? Okay okay, Firefox then) but when every upgrade (they've done this before a couple times) trashes those customizations, which were probably made long enough ago that you've forgotten exactly what you did in the first place, then what's the bloody point? And don't mistake, you CAN'T let your browser goout of date for very long. People keep trying to add crud to the HTML spec so you can't trust that new content will work properly unless you're up to date.

So in short, Opera, Don't Do That. It's BAD (tm). No cookie.

PS, I still think the Opera browser is the absolute best available, it's just thier update procedures that need some work. And a few relatively minor compatibility niggles that I rarely run in to. MUCH better than when I first started using it, BACK IN THE LAST CENTURY when it was still trial-ware and streamed ads to my browser window. So, yeah, not switching to anything else, but damn that's aggravating.