How do I import bookmarks from Firefox to opera 20
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Deleted User last edited by
As someone said above, I am speechless at this oversight. I have hundreds of bookmarks which are categorized into folders in Firefox. Imagine the mess in Speed Dial. Even worse is the bookmark bar would be totally unusable. As much as I hve come to like Opera in the last few days, I can't use it because of this grievous oversight. Someone in planning really messed up and worst everyone else bough into the error. Any person in business, scientific, engineering, construction, purchasing or any other field needs to be able to categorize bookmarks. This relegates Opera into the category of a toy instead of a usable browser. It's fine for my phone but useless for my desktop. I'll check back from time to time to see if the programming folks have come to consciousness and implemented a usable bookmark system.
Opera 20 is perfectly usable with hundreds of bookmarks organized into folders nested within folders on the QAB. It's simply a case of relearning how to categorize, bookmark and use the new browser. In addition you have speed dial for your dozen or so frequently visited sites as well as stash for those sites you wish to temporarily bookmark (i.e. read later). Times are changing; just look at IE11 in the modern version. Nothing remains the same so try and adapt.
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lem729 last edited by
The Speed Dial can be used for more than your dozen or more most used sites. You can create folders of sites within the speed dial, so it can cover 100 sites or more. It works like apps in the Ipad or IPod. Move one of the sites in the speed dial on top of the other and you have a folder of two.. (In the IPad and IPod you move an app on top of the other to create folder) (No orther browser has a speed dial like this where one can create folders within the dial. It's super!! ) Move another site on the speed dial on top of the folder, and suddenly on the speed dial you have a folder of three. No limit to what you put in the folder. And then label it. Maybe call it video sites, or general news. So you can organize very well withim the speed dial. Pick your area of interest, and start creating folders in thevspeed dial. Also You can drag items from the Speed dial to the personal tool marks bar, and vice versa.
Then you can have , IN ADDITION, more options: there is: (1) Stash, (2) a personal bookmarks toolbar, and (3) a range of choice for bookmarks manager extensions in the Opera and/or Chrome stores for extensions. To use a Chrome extension, all you need to do is download the Opera extension, called "Download Chrome Extension. "
The bookmarking ability in Opera is robust with choices, and it will be better as Opera refines it.
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priceybaby last edited by
I may misunderstand the above thread. However, having thought I'd give Opera a go (I'm trying to find a decent sychronisation facility between several computers and Opera's Synchronise seems highly spoken of), I now discover that I cannot import my old Firefox bookmarks (hundreds, like the individual above). If the answer is that I have to import them individually, that seems to rather defeat the point of me coming across to Opera.
So, in case you care, you've just lost me back to bloody Firefox!
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lem729 last edited by
Per the discussion in the thread I just posted, I was suggesting, not the Transmute vehicle (though it may well work, but I've never tried it), but rather using the import capability of Opera 12.17 (which specifically is set up to import bookmarks from Firefox and other third party browser), and then to utilize the Bookmarks Importer feature of Opera 22, which is designed to import bookmarks in Opera 12.17. For this to work, make sure Opera 12.17 is installed on the computer first (so completely uninstall Opera 22), and then after you've imported your Firefox bookmarks into Opera 12.17), reinstall Opera 22, and use the bookmarks importer. Oh yes, don't forget in Opera 22 to activate your Personal Bookmarks Bar (Alt P) (the keyboard shortcut for Settings), and then under User Interface, but a dot in Show the Bookmarks Bar.
No way go back to bloody Firefox
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rmsg1965 last edited by
Over the last 14 years of travelling for work and making contacts, I have picked up a huge amount of bookmarks. Depending on the job, country and company I work for/with, I have all the information at my finger-tips, so-to-speak, through my bookmarks; some 9000 of them. To find out that I can't import them into Opera, I'm using version 23.0, nor do I have access to them via xmarks, is a massive let down. Opera is obviously a browser to be used in school, universities and internet cafes where saving bookmarks is not at all important.
I might use it for my tablet or smartphone but not for work.
Thanks anyway.
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A Former User last edited by
The latest Developer version of Opera does import bookmarks from whatever your default browser is, when it's first installed (whether you like it or not!)
However, although there is the rudiments of a bookmark manager too, it's at a very early experimental stage, so at the moment I think you're correct in thinking that it's not for you with your 9000 bookmarks!
It's getting there though, so do check back.
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lem729 last edited by
@davehawley, what number is the latest Developer version? Is it Opera Next 24?
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lem729 last edited by
That's great, leocg. Thanks for the info. It will be something to suggest people try if they're attempting an import, and wonderful if -- for most people -- it works well.
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A Former User last edited by
Thanks leocg, I couldn't remember whether the automatic import facility was there in version 23 or not.
I don't remember there being reports on the developer blogs about any technical problems with it, although a few people didn't like the principle of it!
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A Former User last edited by
There's a way to do it lem
Delete the profile and...--with-feature:first-run-import=true
PS. The feature was and still is under development. Don't assume it's bug-free and that it'll import everything to the preferred folders for example.
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s0lem last edited by
I would leave the chrome today and switch to Opera, but for that they released a version that no such import, export, add favorites satisfactorily in a single bar.
I have hundreds of bookmarks in chrome that I would simply import them into Opera, and saw that there is no possibility.
Not even add bookmarks bar is easily possible, I needed to find in the settings.Please do not blow up a release by half, missing things ...
The last time I used Opera was years ago, and by the way will not be now.more tools -> bookmark importer
I found by chance, no matter HTML ...disappointed
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A Former User last edited by admin
I have hundreds of bookmarks in chrome that I would simply import them into Opera, and saw that there is no possibility.
Oh common... https://forums.opera.com/topic/2634/opera-21-importing-bookmarks -
lem729 last edited by
There's a way to do it lem
Delete the profile and...
--with-feature:first-run-import=true
PS. The feature was and still is under development. Don't assume it's bug-free and that it'll import everything to the preferred folders for example.I wanted to understand if I had to explain it.
I think I'll wait till Opera 24. But as for importing from Chrome, that link @rafaelluik provided is good. It's not hard to do it. -
s0lem last edited by
common?
A browser like Opera and I have come to question in their forums on how to use a simple importer favorites? looks like crap to meand I have to add an extension to help my favorites simply record a single bar?
And if I do not want to see the bookmarks bar? do what? have to go into settings to disable?
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lem729 last edited by
Alt P (settings) and under user interface, put a check in Do Not Show Bookmarks Bar. That's easy enough.
Actually the browser is wonderful, @sOlem, though the import ability from third party browsers will be/ needs to be improved. Now you don't have to add any extensions, but if they help, why not?
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colderwinters last edited by
Don't we get tired of these kinds of posts, We've gone over the bookmarks thing over and over and over, countless times, plenty of prior posts detail just about anything anybody needs to know about bookmarks
