I've used it now for a couple of days and it's a definite improvement over 7.23. The new default theme is more pleasing to the eye and the side panel is less intrusive. Still, there is too much clutter and and too many redundecies in the default GUI. I spent the first 15 minutes cleaning it up and giving it a more "Firefox-like" appearance!
It is very customizable and you can change almost anything (although it takes quite a lot of investigating to figure out how).
The speed and stability are very good on my system. Opera 7.23 would give me problems with it's "heuristics" controlled pipelining (it would hang on sites with too many unconnected graphics and text boxes). Netscape would occaisionaly do this as well, but it was easy to turn off pipelining if necessary. Also, Opera 7.23 would frequently "hang" in system memory after I exited the program. I wouldn't discover it until shutting down Windows when the "Opera.exe Closing" dialog box would appear. So far 7.50 hasn't done this.
I haven't checked out the M2 mail client yet, although I've heard they made many improvements to what was for me a very strange, uninuitive program. I'll give it a try and report back.
All in all and great effort from Opera!
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