Glad it's fixed, Bob, but I'd like to echo Grishka's comment that such problems can be due to bad programming. I installed Opera on an older Mac my daughter passed on to me a few months back. It did exactly what Bob was talking about - type something and it took a few seconds to appear onscreen. The same release of Opera had worked fine on my old PC (before it gave up the ghost) and Safari and Firefox both worked fine on the Mac, so it was definitely a case of Opera's programmers not adequately testing their product on all platforms. A subsequent Opera update fixed the problem... just before that Mac also went to the computer graveyard.