Myth: Opera is bug free

I've heard the claim that Opera is magically bug free form a variety of sources. This is an odd claim given the fact that even an official Opera blog lists some known bugs. Take a look at the ones I highlighted:

Known issues

* [BUG 264975] Fixed display of smileys in mail and chat (almost fixed)
* [BUG 290358] Bookmarks cannot be selected from the Bookmarks menu
* [BUG 290355] Opera crashes when clicking bookmarks in Personal bar
* If you used the Brushed Metal skin in the previous release, Opera for OS X will crash on startup
* This build fails the Acid2 test
* [BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta, Flickr maps, Google reader may crash Opera
* Won't run correctly on Windows 95 or 98
* OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up
* POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the "Leave messages on server" option, existing messages on the server are not removed
* [BUG 287170] On OS X, UI thumbnails have black backgrounds when using native skins
* [BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins
* [BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences
* [BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken
* [BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work
* [BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action

If this is what they ADMIT, I wonder what they're keeping hidden? Opera's tiny user base means few security researchers are looking for vulnerabilities, so there's no telling what issues lurk under the hood.

Basically, if you run anything other than Windows 2000, X or Vista or you try to use any services from Google or Yahoo, your browser will crash and burn like the Hindenburg. For example, you can't use Blogger in Opera. Google's efforts to increase it's business presence are further frustrated when it comes to Opera users, as Opera is incompatible with Google Documents.