Favorite Places/Bookmarks
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blackbird71 last edited byYes, they do need a better way to import bookmarks. Of course, the ability to make bookmarks is very much in Opera 20. ...
If I were "king" of Opera, the very highest of priorities would be placed on development of an effective means of importing user data into Opera directly from other browser brands. If Opera intends to grow its market share, that share will have to come from somewhere - and it will want/need to bring its data with it, whether or not Opera believes bookmarks are that major a deal. But if users can't easily bring in their favorite/bookmarked sites from other browsers, that barrier risks killing the deal for many of those users. A good product trying to win users from other products will strive to make their transition as painless and easy as possible... but Blink Opera, 9 months later, still has a glaring "import" defficiency. Now that Opera has a bookmark bar, that import deficiency seriously needs to be corrected.
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lem729 last edited by
Absolutely. We can't ask users to jump through a thousand hoops to get their bookmarks into Opera 20.
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alex00752 last edited by
I transfered my bookmarks from opera 12 to opera 20 whit the help of bookmark-importer option from "more tools" menu. It gives you the option to import opera 12 bookmarks to bookmark bar or to a single speed dial folder...
It will be nice for the bookmark bar to have a alternative display, for example a button in the area where extension buttons are. On a laptop 16:9 display 1366x768 you need all the vertical space you can get. Full screen also needs a auto hide bar for displaying and switching tabs.
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lem729 last edited by
Perhaps, I missed that idea with boblink. The more tools menu and the "import" option. hmmm. Well, perhaps he'll stop back and look at this thread again.
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lem729 last edited by
@bonblink
It would be better if one could send a personal note -- say, Oh, yeah, I forgot, check the "More Tools," menu item, and click the Bookmarks importer. One could do that in the old days in the forum. Perhaps, they'll bring back that feature. I hope so.
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Deleted User last edited by
The import bookmarks is not on my settings>more tools.
I want to import my bookmarks & favorites from firefox and IE8.
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Deleted User last edited by
The import bookmarks is not on my settings>more tools.
I want to import my bookmarks & favorites from firefox and IE8.How do I do this?
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albatros48 last edited by
The import bookmarks is not on my settings>more tools.
I want to import my bookmarks & favorites from firefox and IE8.How do I do this?
Quick answer: it's just not possible. One of the big missing functions.:-(
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lem729 last edited by
@longshotblues
@albatros48You can do it. It's just a two step process.
(1) You have to first get your bookmarks from IE or Firefox in Opera 12. So you go to this link, scroll 2/3 down the page, and install Opera 12
http://www.opera.com/computer/windows
Then click on File (In Opera 12, Import and Export, and the click on Import from Internet Explorer, or Firefox.
Now you should have your bookmarks in Opera 12.(2) I'm assuming you have Opera 20 installed already. If not download and install from the link above (at top of that page). In Opera 20, click on the File menu at the top left of the page, Click on Settings, Browser, and under User Interface, put a dot in Show the Bookmarks bar. Now click on in Opera 20 again the File menu at the top left of the page, click on more Tools, and click on Bookmark importer. And then choose to connvert the Opera 12 bookmarks into Opera 20. I would definitely convert to the bookmarks bar (which will run across the top of the browser), and use the Speed Dial for what you want to highlight/emphasize/give quick access to, but you have a choice.
I hope that helps
Ignore some of the earlier material in this thread, as this issue has become clearer to me more recently. At some point you might want to add a bookmark manager extension but for the moment, see about getting the bookmarks transferred to the bookmarks bar.
