So I’ve been a long time Opera user, but lately some bugs have really started to agitate me and are killing my user experience.

The first bug is Opera is unable to open certain long URL’s from the commandline, approximately if the URL is 86 characters or longer. This was fixed awhile ago in the Windows version of Opera, but it seems it never got corrected in the Linux builds. This causes me to be greatly annoyed as applications can no longer pass long URLs to Opera to be opened. Most notably in my case is links inside my email client. I click those links expecting Opera to happily open them, but all I get is no response. Manually copying and pasting links into Opera from email is a royal pain and has tempted me to try Chromium a bit more full time. I submitted a bug report about it to Opera but we will see if that changes anything. If it doesn’t get fixed soon I’ll have to switch to just maintain my sanity of clicking URLs.

The second bug is flash freezes all the time in Opera. This is incredibly annoying when I’m watching something on Hulu. The show will be playing fine and then suddenly the video will freeze, but the sound will keep playing. This doesn’t seem to occur in other browsers such as chromium or arora. Based on that, I’d assume its an Opera bug but I can’t be sure. Either way it’s quite annoying. I can’t tell if it was a recent Opera update or flash update that introduced this behavior though.

Hoping the next Opera beta/rc fixes at the least my url length problem