Some genius at Opera decided it would be a good idea to replace the bright Yellow and Green colours used to highlight strings when using inline find (in the Beta versions) to one of the Windows System colours for the final version of Opera 9.0.  It has essentially turned one of the most useful features into a useless feature because the shade of colour for the highlighting no longer serves its purpose of clearly identifying the matched words.  Strangely the community of Opera users voiced their opinions about the change when it was introduced in one of the weeklies but without effect.

Anyway.  I'm posting this to let you know about a practical and useful alternative called The Ultimate Highlight JS. It will highlight any matching words (i.e. 'Hello' and 'World') you search, unlike inline find which will only match the whole string (i.e. 'Hello World').  It not only highlight these words, but also tells you how many times they appear on the page.

And better still, The Ultimate Highlight JS will automatically highlight the keywords used to find a page after a Google search.

So whilst I would prefer Opera changed their highlight colours back to Yellow and Green, I can make do with The Ultimate Highlight JS until they do.