[Opera-Linux] 64 bit Opera gets more and more unstable?

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

since there are no other than bleeding edge alpha versions for 64 bit
Linuxes, I've used the following versions since they were published:

opera_9.50-20071018.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb
opera_9.50-20071024.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb
opera_9.50-20071109.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb
opera_9.50-20071115.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb
opera_9.50-20071122.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb
opera_9.50-20071213.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb
opera_9.50-20071221.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb
opera_9.50-20080103.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb

All versions since December are quite unstable, but those before were
really fine.

At work (Debian stable 4.0, amd64 architecture) I still use the
20071122 version, because I need a stable web browser. My current
instance at work runs without problems and about 40 or 50 Tabs open
since more than two weeks without exiting or crashing (and probably
would have run for longer if there wasn't a kernel update and
therefore a reboot... ;-)

OTOH the current version on my laptop (Debian stable 4.0, amd64
architecture) crashed three times during one hour today. Also the
December versions crashed several times a day, usually in the context
menu or inside "Block Content", but the 20080103 version seems even
worse.

I really wonder why those snapshots become more and more unstable -- I
would have expected the opposite, especially since the 32 bit versions
of 9.50 are now in Beta stage for a while.

Anyone else experienced something similar?

		Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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