!@#$%^&* Opera

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The site: http://marketwatch.com/

I have a disk cache of 50 MB set. I opened a page
at the above site to read at a later time.

Little did I know that Opera would just keep
downloading small binary files from the above site.

The files had URIs that looked like this:

http://beta.api.marketwatch.com/api/livesuite/pickup.asmx?33C7CF00772EDC697FFE25958B62B3CE97D4C235DDB4A38A001D918DF3E5928CC2BBECB7A546659000743BCF5C0DF62B85F775924EC1D034792BC273FDC0EFBB7D31185D07072B03665FC651E083703F30E6454B77AE1DD926B2B9BD6C2E69D78F084BD8667EC665A70FD4A1806F9412338EDBC729552793B22F5A4CCBCF0CB51BAC78C7&cb=_ls_cb217

Opera downloaded these files continuosly, and
eventually ended up filling up the entire
partition, with the cache growing to hundreds of
megabytes (well above my 50 MB limit), consisting
of hundreds of thousands of files in the cache4
directory.

For those who don't know, Opera acts very badly
with a full disk, erasing and destroying various
configuration files. I managed to restore my
mail settings from a backup, but I completely
lost my session (the windows I had open). I don't
understand why Opera can't handle this better. It
should keep the old session as a backup, and not
delete it before writing the new one. It seems
that older versions of Opera actually did create
backup files (I don't know what triggered that
event, though), but the 9.50 series apparently
does not.