protection even w/o toolbar: opera?

Hello: I think I know the answer but I just want to verify my thoughts by those w/ expertise here (the whole f fox thing has me confused about what I thought).

I want to use the newest opera browser 33, I realize Norton toolbar is not compatible but that doesn't mean Im not protected whilst online correct?

I will however have to manually put in my passwords (not allowing opera to save them of course) is it safe to be doing that w/ out use of the identity pw manager using just one master pw?

Thank you so much for your help...I actually run newest cnss on win 7 up to date.

Note: why I want to run opera, if you are curious: I hate chrome, have problems w/ it, I cant upgrade to win 10 on my pc's per mfg, and amazon is saying it will play better w/ various options and opera is the best one for me and it works very well. (html5 or something).