I bought a copy of Opera when it first came out. I used it for almost two decades. I played with every new feature - tabs, news reader, gestures, per-site cus

I bought a copy of Opera when it first came out. I used it for almost two decades. I played with every new feature - tabs, news reader, gestures, per-site customization, integrated web server, etc. Over the years I've collected tens of thousands of bookmarks. While the quality varied over the years it was always good until about 2009 when I finally had to give up on it. I could find no way to stop their integrated URL autocomplete function from causing the browser to freeze every time I hit a keystroke as it searches my huge history - a known issue they aren't ever going to solve. Obviously there are things I could have done to resolve that problem, but once they gave me a reason to switch I took a fresh look at the browser landscape and realized my needs today are better met by using a multiplicity of browsers (Chrome/Safari/Firefox).