Where are the bookmarks in Opera 18?
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Deleted User last edited by
I've just installed opera 18 alongside opera 12 and I'm trying to do a careful migration. (Although it appears that opera is leaving behind the features I use the most - cascading tabs, notes, bookmark sidebar - I'm hoping it will still be a decent browser; not that there is much choice - I refuse to use IE or chrome, and I only use firefox for things that opera doesn't handle - maybe with the chrome engine, firefox won't be necessary?) A few things I've noticed:
- Since I'm running both versions, each version wants to set the default browser. (a bit of ping pong - enough already :rolleyes: )
- opera 18 keeps wanting to download the mail client app. This automatic download didn't start until after I downloaded it and imported my email from opera 12; now when I start opera 18, it tries to download it again.
- When I migrated my email to the email client, opera quietly dumped my notes into an html file. (I thought I saw something indicating you had to do this explicitly.) Copy-to-notes was such a useful feature; it seems clear that they aren't going to bother with it anymore.
- I haven't imported my bookmarks into opera 18 yet. It appears that opera 18 bookmarks don't have descriptions (when you edit a bookmark, it only provides name and url fields). I made heavy use of the bookmark description field. I'm guessing that existing bookmark descriptions don't make it through the migration. (I'm waiting a while before I try importing bookmarks.)Because of the lack of a bookmark sidebar and editable bookmark descriptions, I may end up keeping around opera 12 as a bookmark editor and notes tool. Opera was an integrated toolset; I use opera in both work and non-work environments, and it's disappointing to see them drop features that I have depended on.
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blackbird71 last edited byOriginally posted by kirk1017:
... (I'm waiting a while before I try importing bookmarks.) ...
I would concur in that. Opera is not done evolving its bookmarks system (as well as some other features), and until it has at least reached the point of being able to import them upon demand from several browser brands directly and simply, it's not quite ready for prime time. But, hopefully, that time will come... perhaps indirectly announced by Opera's notifying users that Opera 12 has finally been officially rendered "unsupported"... and perhaps whereupon auto-update in 12 is activated to bump users to whatever New Opera version is current at that time.
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frenzie last edited by
Originally posted by blackbird71:
Opera's notifying users that Opera 12 has finally been officially rendered "unsupported"...
I assume/hope that won't happen until they've got a Linux version out.
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blackbird71 last edited by
Originally posted by Frenzie:
Originally posted by blackbird71:
Opera's notifying users that Opera 12 has finally been officially rendered "unsupported"...
I assume/hope that won't happen until they've got a Linux version out.
Agreed. Though I hope somebody fast-browsing through these posts won't incorrectly take your partial quote from me as a statement of Opera's support actually ending, which it has not. Some folks are navigating around these forums with hair-triggers now... I can only imagine the reaction if that happened.
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Deleted User last edited by
I'm glad I didn't import bookmarks. I just upgraded to 19 (supposedly stable) - there is no bookmark bar, even though it maintained the opera:flags enabled setting for the bookmark bar. I only had a few bookmarks that I was using to try out the bookmark bar, but now they appear to be gone, unless I can figure out how to restore the bookmark bar (and they magically reappear). I tried re-setting the flag, and restarting opera, but still no bookmark bar.
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Deleted User last edited by
Solved. I forgot about Settings. The upgrade wiped out the bookmark bar setting; restoring that displayed the bar (with bookmarks).
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fjbr last edited by
Just installed 19.0. This ranks right up there with Vista and the Metro screen for brain dead 'improvements'.
Was bookmark sync discarded too?
Is the source for the bookmark bar still an editable text file? If so what is it?
I still have 1 computer which hasn't been corrupted by this update so I'll try reorganizing bookmarks into a single folder then importing into the bar. Has anyone tried this?
I see nothing indicating a shortcut to toggle the bookmarks bar. Is hoping for an undocumented keyboard shortcut an exercise in futility?
I don't see mention of panels anywhere. Were they too sacrificed on the alter of progress? -
A Former User last edited by
- Profile\Data\bookmarks
- No, don't sort all of your bookmarks into a single folder. Organise them into no more than 12 folders so that all folders will fit on the Bookmarks Bar.
- There's a bookmark extension that replaces the Bookmarks Bar
- No sign of panels yet. Nothing was removed in the name of progress. The program is being rebuilt from scratch. Many of the less widely used features will never make it back, others will be catered for with extensions. It is debatable whether this is progress, but that's the direction Opera is going in — like it or not.
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jedaqia last edited by
Okay, for those guys who actually had this question "WHERE THE HECK IS THE QAB EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT?!!!!! ARGHHHHHH!!!!!" ...same as I did.
I'm using Opera 19, so yours might be a bit different.
1. Click "Opera', you know that small tab at the top left corner of the browser.
2. Click "Settings".
3. Click "Browser".
4. Look a bit to the right. Scroll down till you see "User Interface".
5.Check the "Show The Bookmark Bar"
6. Exit your Opera browser then restart. If you don't understand, it means "turn off your browser" then "turn it on again"
7. You would see something quite annoying on top of the browser "For quick access, add your bookmarks to this bar"That's your bookmark bar. If you hate it, go back to Chrome (or your previous browsers). If you think you might like it, stay and play.
If you still need help for other things concerning the bookmark, reply or "Quote" to my comment and I'll try to source a simple solution for you. No promises tho. I'm an accountant not a programmer. :left:
