Version 8.50 of Opera is out and is totally free. No more ads, no more registration fee, no one-off deals like the birthday deal a little while back, the best web browser is now totally free.
If you really want to pay for it, consider sending me some money because as a registered user of Opera since version 3 I’ve helped to pay for all the development that has led to this point. 
[...] id continue to fall. On the SFSFW site it fell from 77% to 67%. This is also the year that Opera became totally free. I also finally got around to learning a bit of XSLT which I’ve been meaning [...]