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Today I experienced segfaults when I try starting opera (yeah it's unfree, closed-source, but better than firefox ; )

If you experience something like this:
zsh: segmentation fault opera

Then this might be interesting for you. Opera stopped working with new X libs (I had my dist-upgrade today, but this problem is not Debian specific) and starts coredumping.
The opera desktop team released a hotfix for this which works (at least for me).

You can grab it on: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/04/06/hotfix.
See http://bugs.debian.org/417816 for more information.

UPDATE:
There is a hotfix2 now. The Opera team writes "A few users reported some sideeffects". I don't know what sideeffect is exactly here but I noticed random crashes with the hotfix. I guess that's what they wanted to say
Get it on http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/04/07/hotfix-2

UPDATE: the hotfix2 also randomly crashes Another workaround should be to set the color depth in xorg.conf to 16 but that also sucks. From what I know so far is some kind of unicode issue. So yeah it's unfree, closed-source and you have to wait a bit for a fix

UPDATE: The issue should be fixed with: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/04/08/all-good-things