I barely even remember the non-gimmicky Opera. Seems like forever ago, they added a Bittorrent client to Opera, and I thought it was so incredibly dumb.
I actually used Opera for a while because of its built in mail and torrent integration, but I uninstalled it the moment they switched to Chromium and got rid of everything that made them unique. It beat the download manager (remember those?) I used at the time.
Their bandwidth saving proxy was quite good when I needed to use it on shitty 3G back in the day.
