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Opera Alphas

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Opera software is ordinarily quite stable. Released versions are rock-solid, running for weeks---even months---at a time. Betas are also usually very good and even Alphas (for those of us in the testing program) are quite stable. Sometimes, however, we testers get saddled with a very bad version. A recent build has the tendency to crash completely on its own: Look away for a few minutes and, instead of your browser window with many tabs, the crash dialog is on-screen, waiting for a report. Here is a recent report I submitted, out of frustration, after Opera crashed for about the tenth time that day: <bq>Opera crashed seemingly because I'd stopped paying attention to it for five minutes. The AI module needs work: It's at the level of a five-year-old right now.</bq> <n>This article submitted from the attention-seeking version of Opera.</n>