I was using Opera before my hard drive crashed, my tech guy said Opera had a bug in it and screwed my fragile harddrive up. How that works I don't know.
Methinks someone was looking for an excuse because he had no clue about what was wrong, and doesn't like Opera (and, in reality, no one likes Opera). I find Opera to be insanely bloated. I'm not sure why, but whenever I open it up, I get the feeling "ugh, bloat". Then, I open up Chrome and think "ugh, too minimal, and I can't get rid of these bloody extension icons usably", and then I open up Firefox and think "ahhhh, just right -- minus the memory usage". Let's not even mention IE.
My only problem with the beta is that most of my add-on's aren't compatible with it at this point. :*