Please bring back old bookmarks

Deleted User

Deleted User

Thousands upon thousands of bookmarks is ridiculous
The only ridiculous guy here is you. You have no idea what these links are. If you ever worked with online manuals you would know that bookmarked links can rapidly grow. Even all people around me (colleges, family etc) use bookmarks heavily. But UI see, we are all soooooo 1990s...

That very reasoning is one of the main reasons why Opera never gained much usage even during its heyday.
No the major reason is and was, that Opera had major issues every time it released a new major version. While the last major release of Opera 15 had the most devastating effects on its reputation.

And here is my final question to all those silly guys which do like the new Opera: Why should anyone use a featureless copy of Chromium if anyone can use Chrome, Firefox or MS IE?

I want my old Opera features back (tab stacks, editable keyboard short cuts and B O O K M A R K S). Without these features I can use everything else than Opera. Period.

Deleted User

Deleted User

Then use everything else... period.

Deleted User

Deleted User

HOW TO IMPORT 9000 BOOKMARKS TO "SIMPLE BOOKMARK"? OR TO OPERA?

ADAM

Deleted User

Deleted User

HOW TO IMPORT 9000 BOOKMARKS TO "SIMPLE BOOKMARK"? OR TO OPERA?
ADAM

You cannot. There is a workaround, but it will ruin your bookmark order. If you can live with that, have a look at my post here https://forums.opera.com/topic/1438/coming-back-to-opera/3

You will still be missing a proper bookmark manager among other things.

Deleted User

Deleted User

HOW TO IMPORT 9000 BOOKMARKS TO "SIMPLE BOOKMARK"? OR TO OPERA?
ADAM

You might want to consider Linkman:

http://www.outertech.com

Deleted User

Deleted User

OK. SO, CAN I EXPORT MY BOOKMARKS IN FUTURE USING THE NEW OPERA?

WHY DOES THE NEW OPERA WORK LIKE THIS?
WHY OPERA DECIDED TO KILL OUR BOOKMARKS ?
IS IT A GOOGLE WHO WANTS TO OPERA DISSAPEAR? OR WHAT?
** Why this irrational policy? **
I've been using Opera for almost 18 years.
WHY DOESN'T OPERA HAVE THE RESPECT FOR OUR BOOKMARKS, FOR OUR HISTORY, AND FOR OUR LIKES?

w h y ?

WHAT FOR IS THIS INNOVATION? IT IS ALWAYS THE FIRST STEP TO KILL THE SOFTWARE.

THEY SHOULD THINK ABOUT PEOPLE !!!

THANKS TO ALL WHO WANTED TO HELP.
THANKS.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer

@atyp1 please don't shout.

griffrag13626

griffrag13626

does anyone know how to set the homepage(s) on Opera???
I have tried but it does not save the homepages, please help.

blackbird71

blackbird71

@atyp1 please don't shout.

I think maybe @atyp1 has just discovered how to (mis?)use Markdown syntax...

Deleted User

Deleted User

It seems that's only You can "put on" - Pitiful

lem729

lem729

@griffrag13626

does anyone know how to set the homepage(s) on Opera???
I have tried but it does not save the homepages, please help.>

Go to settings, browser, and put a check in "Open a Specific Page or Set of Pages."

Then click on Set pages, and add the link or links that you want. You can have a homepage with one or several sites.

lem729

lem729

@atyp1

That is not true. Opera 20 permits tons of Bookmarks -- in the Speed Dial, the Bookmarks toolbar, a Bookmarks extension, like Chrookmarks, Tidy Bookmarks, simple bookmarks etc., and even in Stash.

You can import bookmarks from Opera 12 to Opera 20. Go to Menu, More Tools, and Bookmark importer.

So don't repeat things that are definitely misstatements, and that might confuse or demoralize others (about using Opera). It's not right, or fair. You know what Mark Twain said: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”

suntana

suntana

I had never counted my bookmarks before, but I had an estimate of more or less how many I had. I finally decided to take the Geek Test and find out for certain how many bookmarks I have. My estimate was in the correct range. I turned out to have 282 bookmarks in only 12 Main Folders ... 4 Level One Sub Folders ... and 8 Level Two Sub Folders. The 12 Main Folders are hidden there at the right side as I have 10 bookmarks on the actual Bookmarks Bar.

Once a couple of you guys clued me into the secrets of the Boomarks Bar and how to maximize its use, I am now officially all set ... and without even having to utilize the Stash and the Speed Dial. I was surprised at how quickly I got used to the hang of the organization, flow and functionality of the Bookmarks Bar. I had been betting that I more likely wouldn't like it. I actually like it now.

Of course, I just happen to have had the good fortune that I was able to make do with just the Bookmarks Bar without skipping a beat. That's not to say that others who have more bookmarks and a different organizational layout scheme could also make do with just the Bookmarks Bar.

lem729

lem729

Bravo, suntana. You're not a geek if you have only 282 bookmarks You're more like me. Lol, I probably have less. You can still do good things with the Speed Dial, but that's like setting up your home. Make it not over-cluttered, and have nice artsy backgrounds that you change every now and then, and all of that adds to one's liking and comfort level for the Browser. If it looks great, I can forgive having to make a few adjustments for features not yet there. My view on the Speed Dial, is that Opera -- by early on making it the proposed vehicle for almost ALL bookmarks -- encouraged some people to use it in a way that made them unhappy with it -- an over-cluttered monstrosity, even a bit slow to get going, when you open the browser, because there so much in cache that has to load up. One doesn't want "ugly" for the home page. I would say, display only your most often used sites, and have fun with it. Make sure the page looks good -- makes you happy. I don't have that much in Stash either (10 or 15 items), but it's great for some threads you want to find quickly from this forum, or extensions in the Opera or Chrome store you want to take a second look at later on. I'm thinking about making better use of it. Notwithstanding that jabs at Stash that some make, it's still a plus.

suntana

suntana

Speaking of not having an ugly home page ... I'm getting more tempted to HAVE to add at least 1 bookmark to my Speed Dial just for the sake of balance and to prevent ugliness. LOL

It's that right now I have my Speed Dial set to a max of 3 columns. And right now it's only Wikipedia and the block with the big + sign in there ... oriented to the left. So, it's beginning to bug me more and more that it's unbalanced. I need to add a bookmark there to fill that empty slot at the right.

So, I might have to bring the Opera Forums bookmark from the Bookmarks Bar and slap it into that unbalanced empty slot and put something else up in the Bookmarks Bar.

lem729

lem729

Okay, well then -- ;)))) -- focus on nice wallpaper. You know you can set your home page for something other than the speed dial. That more traditional way of doing a home page or pages is available in Settings/Browser.

cruizer7

cruizer7

OK. SO, CAN I EXPORT MY BOOKMARKS IN FUTURE USING THE NEW OPERA?
WHY DOES THE NEW OPERA WORK LIKE THIS?
WHY OPERA DECIDED TO KILL OUR BOOKMARKS ?
IS IT A GOOGLE WHO WANTS TO OPERA DISSAPEAR? OR WHAT?
Why this irrational policy?
I've been using Opera for almost 18 years.
WHY DOESN'T OPERA HAVE THE RESPECT FOR OUR BOOKMARKS, FOR OUR HISTORY, AND FOR OUR LIKES?
w h y ?
WHAT FOR IS THIS INNOVATION? IT IS ALWAYS THE FIRST STEP TO KILL THE SOFTWARE.
THEY SHOULD THINK ABOUT PEOPLE !!!
THANKS TO ALL WHO WANTED TO HELP.
THANKS.

Totally agreed!

lem729

lem729

@cruizer

What do you totally agree with? That statement of atyp1. But surely you must know that you can import bookmarks into Opera 20 from Opera 12. Go to Menu/More Tools,and Click on Bookmark importer. And be sure to put a check in Settings/Bookmarks Show the Bookmarks bar. With that being said there's more possibilities for creating bookmarks and having a large number of them in Opera 20 than in any other browser on the internet -- whether in the Speed Dial (with folders), the Personal Bookmarks Bar, the Bookmarks Manager Extensions, or in Stash, etc.

linuxmint7

linuxmint7

@cruizer
What do you totally agree with? That statement of atyp1. But surely you must know that you can import bookmarks into Opera 20 from Opera 12. Go to Menu/More Tools,and Click on Bookmark importer. And be sure to put a check in Settings/Bookmarks Show the Bookmarks bar. With that being said there's more possibilities for creating bookmarks and having a large number of them in Opera 20 than in any other browser on the internet -- whether in the Speed Dial (with folders), the Personal Bookmarks Bar, the Bookmarks Manager Extensions, or in Stash, etc.

How can you get 'Export' mixed up with 'Import' ?. Did you even read the post that cruizer quoted ?.

That (quoted) person was asking if it was possible to 'Export' bookmarks 'from' the new version of opera, as there does not seem to be an option to do so.

lem729

lem729

@linuxmint7

It's possible People mix up things all the time. I read the quote (and so much of it was a rant, and angry, and wild, and unfocused), that I was reacting to some of the language after the "export" line, about Opera not caring about bookmarks. Also, I have been absorbed with the issue of importing bookmarks into Opera -- all the questions I get relate to that -- and that's what I was thinking about, so sorry there. Opera 20 just added the personal bookmarks bar, so they're making advances. A bookmark manager to export and import is desirable. On exporting Opera would need to make it possible for us to move the Opera 20 bookmarks, probably as HTML. It doesn't sound like it would be that difficult (but I'm not a software developer), and clearly Opera has its hands filled right now. So, the exporting issue is a good reason to have Opera 12 as a backup with all of its bookmarks.