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From Opera Watch:

Once you've been tagged by someone, share your list (on your blog) of 5 things you'd like to see in Opera, and then tag up to 5 other people who will then post their own lists and tag up to 5 more people. Feel free to list the things you'd like to see in Opera on the desktop, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, and/or Opera on the Nintendo Wii.

Lawmune tagged me, sooooo here I go! My list, in no particular order:

1. Auto-deletion of RSS feed articles older than "x" number of days, where "x" is set by the user. RSS feeds are really a part of M2, Opera's mail client. As such, feed articles work pretty much just like mail items. If you don't manually clean out your inbox once in a while, you end up with too much mail to manage. I don't want to have to go back and manually clean out really old articles. One other RSS feature I'd like to see is auto-discovery of feeds on a web site. Currently, I use this UserJS to find feeds in a page, but it's kind of ugly. No offense to shoust, the author. I just recently found out I can do an import/export of RSS feeds from Opera. Previously, to copy over RSS feeds, I had to backup the entire mail folder in my profile directory. File --> Import and export --> Export newsfeed list is much easier!
2. Integrated auto-update. This would be much like the way Firefox updates itself. Patching a few files downloaded directly from the update manager is a much better way of upgrading than Opera's current method, which takes you to opera.com/download and forces you to download the entire browser exe file. Granted, Opera's setup exe is much smaller than Firefox's, but it is still more of a pain than patching specific files through an update manager.
3. Simplified backup procedure. This is probably the most important feature request. A nice, clean way to back up the user's profile is needed. It should be similar to backing up bookmarks and feeds (see above). Currently, I have to manually back up my entire profile directory when I format Windows, install a new major release of Opera, or if I decide to install Opera on another computer and use the same settings. My suggestion would be to make it just like how feeds are backed up: File --> Import and export --> Export Opera preferences. From there, a list of items would pop up and the user can choose what kind of stuff to back up: skins, current toolbar layout, bookmarks, cookies, custom mouse gestures, etc. It would also back up all specific preferences set in Tools --> Preferences and in opera:config.
4. Overhaul the bookmarks system. A lot of people disagree with me, but I'd like to able to right-click bookmarks, rename them, and get to the properties screen. Currently, I can rename a bookmark or update its address two different ways: 1) Click Bookmarks --> Manage bookmarks, find the bookmark in the appropriate directory, right-click that bookmark, and go to properties. 2) I can open the bookmarks panel (on the left), find the bookmark in the appropriate directory, and right-click that bookmark. For a lot of people, option 2 is not difficult because they use the bookmarks panel as their primary way of accessing bookmarks. I do not. I have all my bookmarks filed into 10 main folders, all of which I have shown on my Personal Bar. (In Firefox, this is the same thing as the Bookmarks Toolbar. In Internet Explorer, it's called the Links folder.) I suppose that specifically, I am asking to be able to right-click bookmarks from the Personal Bar, which is not currently possible.
5. Overhaul the IRC client. IRC works fine in Opera, but it leaves much to be desired. While I recognize that it's not really competing with a more robust client like mIRC, there are a lot of small things that could be better. Nick highlighting and auto-logging are two of the more commonly requested features. A more complete wishlist can be found here.

Those are the big 5 I came up with. There are lots of other smaller items, such as "lock tab and url," "delete private data on exit," and "re-enabling the 'right-click - detach' menu for tabs in Windows." But those are not so big that they should fall into my top 5 issues. Now, without further ado, I hereby tag Kilu, G-off, H82typ, Nerak, and Michelle.