I rarely use Opera, but I just tried it and experienced the same issue on a relatively fast (quad-core i7 with 8GB RAM and Radeon 6750) computer. It's fine in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE, however. It's not that jerky for me, but still annoying, especially since it seems to happen on every page. Hopefully there's something they can do about that.
John

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