Most Desired Features That Need To Come Back

[Deleted User]

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For me sync is the thing I'm missing most. At first I felt a bit miffed not to have bookmarks, but I found the "Simple Bookmarks" extension and that's doing everything I need. I actually have found myself using Stash more and more.

However as I use multiple machines having my tabs and bookmark bar synced between them would be excellent.

A Linux version would be welcome also.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

... I'm totally not appreciating Opera's leadership inability to admit that one of their managers (who probably never uses Opera himself and has very little knowledge of IT) made a mistake.
So now just for the sake that his ego doesn't get messed, we all have to put up with this c#ap of the product? Other Opera's employees are simply afraid (with a good reason) to say to their boss that his idea is pure s#it.
When is this man finally going to step back and admit that it's time to close down his "genial project"?

And who, specifically, might that all-powerful manager be? In other words, you're purely guessing, based on your own pet theories, right? Because what you're claiming is at odds with what Opera itself and its developers have actually said about how the decision to change to Blink came about.

[ani-m]

ani-m last edited by

Came to Opera from Firefox. So far it's okay. There is one GLARING omission that I use all the time in Firefox: PRINT PREVIEW. They also had a great add-on, Print Edit, that lets you edit out the extraneous junk like ads and such that you don't want to waste your ink on. It looks like older versions of Opera had print preview? But from what I've read here, the older versions have quite a few problems now?

As for Bookmarks, I use them, quite a lot and definitely would want to organize them into folders. As I'm new to Opera, I can't say if the features in 20 will meet this need or not.

[bmbillings]

bmbillings last edited by

Coming back to opera after the firefox fiasco. Originally switched from Opera because key sites I needed for work would often not render. On the regular version still had problems but using the "Opera Next" version 21 the one site I still need to access that wasn't working now is functional! That is great but what a shock with so many of the old features missing. Hopefully they can be rebuilt fairly quickly.

My highest priority for returning features would be to get the Sync working. Hopefully to the point that Extensions, Speed Dial, Bookmarks, Settings, Passwords, and History can sync. It would also be nice if the Extension settings could sync.

Another thing I would like would be the ability to add functional Icons to the top bar (Print, Print preview, Screen capture, Zoom) I am sure that others have other features they would like to do that with as well.

Drag and drop onto the speed dial rather than it sometimes doing drag and open would be nice.

I would also like more tab options but I anticipate that they are already working on that.

Brian

[zzpat]

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I'm reasonably new to Opera but Speed Dial is getting slower and slower as I add more sites. I can easily see it bogging down my entire system as my favs (or bookmarks) increase.

Since I don't know what was in previous versions it's hard to contrast or compare, but what I'm finding is that Opera is reasonably fast, crashes often, sometimes loads video, sometimes not. Sometimes does what I want, sometimes not. I can click on a link and it'll do nothing. I've never had a browser do that before. There aren't tons of problems but it's clearly not top of the line.

Firefox and Chrome are far more stable. Google loads in silly Google pictures on its opening page which bog down my system. I don't want those pics but I want the search engine.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Don't add all bookmarks to the Speed Dial — use the Bookmarks Bar.

Use Speed Dial only for those sites that you visit daily and for which you need instant access. Twenty-five or thirty-six is plenty of speed dials slots. Much more than that and it starts to become slow dial.

[Deleted User]

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You can use Stash as bookmarks.

[lem729]

lem729 last edited by

You can drag and drop bookmarks from the personal toolbar to the speed dial, and vice versa.

[Deleted User]

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I think the key in keeping the Speed Dial "speedy" has been addressed by Pesala (check his post). Enabling the Quick Address Bar via the settings and then dragging and dropping your bookmarked sites onto that bar will allow you to store hundreds of bookmarked sites "if" you arrange them in folders on that bar. In addition, you can nest folders within those main folders to allow for even more stored bookmarks properly categorized.

[lonewolf427]

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I'm an Opera user since I switched from Netscape Navigator (remember this one?). Since v15, I used 12.16 exclusively, with sometimes Chrome as backup. Today I decided to try out the new version, and hooray, extensions are back.
But many great things are missing, or impossible to find:
-the new config is a joke (or the real config menu is really, really well hidden), for example no option to disable speeddial?!?
-after looking through this thread, I didn't even bother to import my several hundred bookmarks.
-no tab groups? Easily one of the Opera features I used the most, and SO practical! Gone, but why..?? Gamebreaker right there.

-it also had some problems with the "back" button, used in my eMail account, if reading a Mail, and clicking "back", it brought me not into the inbox (what I want and the old browser effortlessly did), but straight onto the homepage

I have now downloaded 12.14 again and will use it together with Chrome (which btw removed the speed dial as default setting) for the few sites that give the old Opera problems.
Opera20 is a step into the right direction, but it definitely lacks many good features.

[Deleted User]

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Opera 12.16 was the best browser there was. Opera 20 is quite the opposite. I will use Firefox until Opera goes back to a good browser.

[Deleted User]

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Opera 12.16 was the best browser there was. Opera 20 is quite the opposite. I will use Firefox until Opera goes back to a good browser.

Yes, you've told us now in several threads. Enjoy Firefox.

[hackneymartian]

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@linuxmint

"In Opera 12.16 I can make any search engine the default.
Nope, that possibility was removed in that very version (12.16), to stop rogue sites/code from hijacking Opera users default search engines (You can only set the ones provided). The last version of Opera (Presto) to support setting any search engine as a users default is 12.14"

Thanks for clarifying. Actually 12.16 preferences still pretends to allow you to set any engine as the default, but evidently doesn't execute the preference any more! I guess I hadn't used the facility since 12.14. I'd still prefer to use ixquick, of course, since it seems not to want to steal my soul.

Tim

[roedy]

roedy last edited by

I am going back to firefox even though I have to hit reload every time and it takes forever to load a page. Why?

Opera sometimes refuses to load documents from local hard disk.
It does not have bookmarks.
It will not let you configure your own editor to replace view source.
It makes you click every instance of every Java Applet before you view it.
It thinks Java Web Start is not installed.
It sometimes gets the vertical positioning of text wrong.

[aeridus]

aeridus last edited by

Well, I'm not seeing ANY bookmark extensions updating... am I gonna have to learn how to make my own?

[k-art]

k-art last edited by

I feel your pain 8(

Sadly I have switched to Firefox, Some sites do not work w/ Opera 12.x very well any more like msn.com.

[aeridus]

aeridus last edited by

I found this example but it... doesn't work.
http://dev.opera.com/extensions/tut_bookmarks.html

Can an Opera Dev please update this tutorial to work with the current bookmarks implementation, since that changed? All I get is a blank window.

As for moving tabs to the bottom of the browser... it looks like Chrome Devs pretty much said "no" to all layout customizations in the past several years. I don't give a flying patootie about my background image, I want to change my browser layout. I hope the Opera team is able to change the code enough to allow for layout changes.

Also, I wish I could put those extension buttons on the left side of the browser...

[lem729]

lem729 last edited by

@ani-m

As for Bookmarks, I use them, quite a lot and definitely would want to organize them into folders. As I'm new to Opera, I can't say if the features in 20 will meet this need or not.

You can organize into folders. In that regard the extensions Chrookmarks for Chrome works well for me.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrookmarks-chrome-bookma/kcdheengilgkagjehknnnofigbmlnnfj?hl=en

If you click on the Chrookmarks icon on the Personal toolbar, you get a vertical display of your bookmarks. If you right click on a folder, you get the option to make a new folder. If you right click on that new folder, you get an option to create inside it a new folder, and on and on. Now those folders that you create show up on Personal Bookmarks bar (that you no doubt activated by going to Settings/Browser, and put a dot in the place to activate it). Without Chrookmarks, if you right click on a folder in the personal bookmarks bar, you don't get that option to create a folder in the folder (which is a bit of a nit/flaw). I'm not saying Chrookmarks is the only Bookmarks manager extension that gives you the ability to create folders within folders, but it's the only one I have on my computer to test right now.

[al-khwarizmi]

al-khwarizmi last edited by

Also, the classic menu bar. And the download dialog with options to Open, Save As, etc.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I miss a lot of stuff.

• Left-click on tab to focus the previously-focused tab. (Don't really need the MDI minimize part of that feature like in 12)

• Open tab at end. (Classic Tabs helps with that.

• Focus the previously-focused tab on tab close. (Classic tabs again)

• Bookmarks sub-menu in main menu.

• Clickable drop-down icon in the address field to see the previously-typed URLs.

• Go button for address field. (For submitting changes I make to the address with my left hand while keeping my right on the mouse)

• Open option on download dialog to download to a temp director and open the file.

• MIME type settings (including download preferences) in the UI.

• Down + up mouse gesture on page or link to duplicate page or open link in background tab.

• Right-click on link -> "open" option (that overrides target like in 12).

• Spatial navigation.

• Option to turn off close buttons on tabs.

• Middle-click/double-left-click on empty spot on tab bar to open new tab.

• Right-click on tab -> "Close all" (which clears the last tab).

• Mail client. (SmartRSS and RSS Detector help with the feed part at least)

• Dragonfly.

• Editing and "apply changes" in source viewer + Reload from cache + option to use external source viewer.

I'd say all the tab options are the most important to me.