Let's get right down to it, Opera Devs: Where, on God's green earth, are BOOKMARKS??
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jrista last edited by
Pesala, trying to force your way of tracking links on everyone else, and calling them delusional because they expect more, doesn't get you anywhere. You can call something bookmarks, but just because that word is in the name doesn't make the feature actually bookmarks.
A bookmarks bar is not what I need, pesala. I need BOOKMARKS. Full blown, fully featured, hierarchical, searchable, structured bookmarks. A bookmarks bar is even less useful than stash!!! Why doesn't anyone in the Opera camp get this? Stash, speed dial, bookmarks bar. These are all USELESS for storing bookmarks, BECAUSE they are flat and linear. That isn't bookmarks. That's a half-assed attempt at appeasement, an attempt to shut up their customers while the Opera dev team pitters about with a bunch of useless new experimental features (Like STASH!) that no one wants.
People who have been browsing for decades, need fully featured bookmarks. I have thousands of them in Opera 12. I'd use Opera 12 for everything...except the Opera devs ditched Presto. Presto is no longer modern-web ready. I can't develop with it, I can't browse many modern sites with it. So, I'm either stuck using FireFox, which is exceptionally insecure these days, Chrome (which I've hated for a long time, and I've never liked Google anyway), Internet Explorer (ok, but it's about the most feature anemic browser around), or Opera Next. None of the options are really great, however at least EVERY other option EXCEPT Opera has true bookmarks.
I don't need just another flat, linear, limited list of links. I need bookmarks, hierarchical, searchable, exportable, importable (including from Opera 12 bookmark exports), fully featured without limitations. It's an utter joke that Opera can't wrap their head around that concept, and they keep wasting time on useless alternatives like Stash or a "bookmarks bar", which is really just stash in a bar...just as useless.
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A Former User last edited by
The Bookmarks Bar is not flat and linear. You can have folders and subfolders on it. You can sort folders, you can drag and drop bookmarks and folders.
On installing Opera 20, bookmarks are imported from Opera 12 or 11. Enabling the Bookmarks Bar will show those that were available on the Bookmarks Bar in Opera 12 or 11. Using the Bookmark Import will let you import other folders onto the Bookmarks Bar, or into Speed Dial as speed dial folders. Sessions can also be imported.
I am not trying to force anything on anybody. The way things are will not change by ranting and shouting. Bookmarks like in Opera 12 are not a priority. You can like it or lump it — it's not going to change any time soon. If you cannot wrap your head around that, that is your problem.
What you need is not bookmarks, which you already have in Opera 12 or earlier, but anger management or meditation classes.
I agree with you that Opera for Blink needs lots more features before it's a viable alternative to what I am using now, though bookmarks are not a priority for me — I am OK with using speed dial and the Bookmarks Bar. However, ranting about what it lacks won't change anything. The developers will add what they think is most important first, not what you or I think is important. For some other users, a Linux version is the top priority — for me it's keyboard shortcuts and gestures, for you its bookmarks:
http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2014/02/opera-21-today/#comment-1256495634
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jrista last edited by
I have Opera 20. It did not import any of my Opera 12 bookmarks. The bookmark bar has no bookmarks on it, and the + button only adds more links. Right clicking does not seem to do anything. I see no way to add folders. I can apparently drag links to the bookmark bar to add individual links, but that's it. I'd also note that there is no way to easily add links to the bookmark bar. You have to either add them manually, or drag and drop them. Dragging and dropping links is a pain in the ass all too frequently. When I ask for proper bookmarks, I mean PROPER bookmarks, with the standard way of adding them: Such as right-clicking the page background and clicking "Add to bookmarks", or right-clicking a link to do the same. We aren't just talking a little limited here. The bookmarks bar feature of 20 is EXTREMELY limited.
What you want or what you are ok with doesn't concern me. People, lots of people, not just me, have been asking for bookmarks since Opera 15. In every one of the opera next blog entries, like the one you linked, there are multiple people asking for bookmarks. Not a bookmarks bar, REAL bookmarks. Those requests have been ignored for 7 versions. That's bull. Sorry, but sometimes anger is entirely justified. Asking nicely has gotten the people who need bookmarks, which as I've said before is an exceptionally BASIC version of EVERY browser, has gotten us nowhere. So now I'm angry. Suck it up, bub, and take your satisfaction elsewhere. I'm not satisfied, and I want to be heard.
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A Former User last edited by
If the BB in Opera 12 had no bookmarks then the BB in Opera 20 won't either.
To add a folder to the BB use the Bookmarks Importer.
Right-click on the BB to add a new folder.
Ctrl D will easily add bookmarks to the BB
What lots of people have been shouting about for six months doesn't make any difference, except to their own blood-pressure and sense of well-being. Anger is never any good. Justification only makes it worse — self-righteous anger make you suffer even longer than the usual impatience and frustration of disappointment due to unrealistic expectations.
I won't accept your anger — it remains with you. I am happy because I am still using 12.16 or 11.64. (~_~) Don't be a sucker bud, take your dissatisfaction elsewhere.
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vinczej last edited by
For me is quite useful the Bookmark extension. I can import my Opera 12 bookmark full structured, and I can manage it comfortably.
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jrista last edited by
Pesala, this is the only place my anger might have an impact on Opera development. As for having "unrealistic" expectations, I believe it is ENTIRELY REALISTIC to EXPECT that EVERY browser SHOULD have bookmarks, full and proper bookmarks, not some half-assed excuse like Stash or half-implemented flop like the bookmarks bar.
So sorry, but I have completely realistic expectations, as do everyone else who've been asking about full bookmarks since Opera Next was released. The UNREALISTIC state of affairs is that those requests have been ignored for so long.
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A Former User last edited by
The real state of affairs is that most users don't have that many bookmarks, and can manage fine with what is already available. Stash was there from the beginning, so they're not spending any time on that at the moment. The Bookmarks Bar is now fully implemented and enabled by default.
The devs have not ignored anything, except perhaps the ranting and shouting, which they should ignore.
They have other priorities, which are not mine either. I don't care about a Linux version, or synchronisation, but some do:
http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2014/02/opera-21-today/#comment-1256495634
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magogam last edited by
and can manage fine with what is already available
A huge fixed bar is not a thing that I can manage fine. What is wrong with the old "Start bar"?
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icarium11 last edited by
If you don't find the option "show the bookmarks bar" in the settings, you have to do this first:
- copy in the adress field: opera://flags/#quick-access-bar
this brings you to the super secret experimental feature "Enables a bookmarks bar below the address toolbar."
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choose "enabled" in dropdown menu. default(enabled) seems not to work
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restart opera
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now go to settings> User Interface. The check the box "Show the bookmarks bar". It should be there now
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A Former User last edited by
On the menu"
Menu????? What Menu, there is no Menu.That silly button in the upper left that is barely visible and what show after you click it is NO Menu!
BTW and OT; This childish war between Opera and FF with who has the highest version number is beyond ridiculous.
All of this makes one want to use Idiot Exploiter. -
jade-knight last edited by
I completely agree with jrista. The new Operas lack a ton of features that made the old Opera 12 unique, in an effort to appeal to the Firefox and Chrome users, I guess. I think that kind of approach is foolish, since those people are not going to stop to use their browsers to use a watered down copy like the new Operas are. If you want to add new stuff to try to appeal to those people, that's fine by me, but doing that by removing the features that your users loved in the first place and by forcing them to use the new lackluster features, like that terrible bookmark bar, is a terrible idea cause what that makes is us to go use their browsers instead. And that's a shame.
I've been a long time Opera user, but 12 is becoming obsolete, so I'll have to upgrade to a new browser soon. That being said, I'm not going to use the new Opera as it is now. I'd love to see the old bookmark menu back, the old downloads page back, instead of that terrible Firefox download box thing, and customization options back, since I want to put buttons like the home button where I want them to be. Otherwise I'll just go to Chrome, because why would I use the new Opera when it lacks everything I liked about Opera anyway?
I hope you guys hear us old users suggestions so I can keep using Opera in the future.
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davidmrcoleman last edited by
jrista, I've been following your posts and have to thank you for expressing my views exactly. About the anger, I can't understand why everyone is not furious with Opera.
Besides these recent setbacks, there's the age-old problem of Opera's huge number of errors. I've been especially frustrated time and time again when Opera would fix a problem only to have the problem reappear in a newer release, and again, and again. What does this day about Opera's software management? Are there competing groups of Opera programmers, each trying to swap the other group's fixes out and their own old code back in?
I don't know where to turn. I also have thousands of bookmarks, with wonderful hierarchies and dummy bookmarks used to assign attributes to folders. Searching in Opera, when it works, has always been wonderful. For example, I could search and find all products (each product in its own folder) which use a particular battery (the battery being indicated by one of my dummy attribute bookmarks). For this to work, when bookmarks match you must be able to see the hierarchy each bookmark is contained in.
Such searches, which show the containing hierarchy of each found bookmark, along with keyboard cut-and-paste of multiple bookmarks and folders enables easy maintenance of such a large bookmark file.
It appears that this strategy, which has served me so well for numerous applications, is dead.
I have absolutely no faith left in Opera, and as quickly as I can find another browser with a rich feature set, I will bolt. Firefox's strategy, minimal features and thousands of extensions, will never work. Nothing will be ever done well, done completely, or be guaranteed to be there tomorrow.
Anyway, thanks for your efforts. Unfortunately I doubt Opera has enough intelligence to listen.
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A Former User last edited by
I doubt if Opera developers have so little intelligence to follow what a small minority of users want and demand, rather than what most users need.
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jade-knight last edited by
I'd love to see where are you getting your userbase preference data from, pesala, because I have never met a single person who didn't use bookmarks in the past 14 years.
Listening to your loyal users' complaints and suggestions is intelligent, cause we're the ones doing the word-of-mouth at the end of the day, and nowadays I wouldn't recommend Opera to anybody.
What's not intelligent is to defend a company that removes basic features from their new products. Do you use Windows 8 too?
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A Former User last edited by
I'd love to see where are you getting your userbase preference data from, pesala
http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2013/07/ctrl-z-of-ctrl-d/
Different people have different perceptions of what's important vs what is vital, and what is just nice to have. The developers have to weigh up the pros and cons, after listening to all of their users, and their shareholders, before deciding on what is the highest priority.
If car manufacturers just listened to a few of the loudest voices, most would be driving electric cars by now, or maybe hydrogen powered cars. If car drivers listened to the Greens, then most people would be riding bikes by now.
If only they would listen to me, Opera would have implemented editable keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures by now, and tab-stacking, and menu customisation, and maybe give a few more skins, and a way to edit them, and .... just a few hundred more little things I really need.
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jade-knight last edited by
That car example is a completely different issue. We're talking about removing features here.
Anyway, to begin with that study is assuming that the people who didn't accept the data collection has the same behavior, so it's clearly a biased study.
In any case, if you want to lose more than a 10% of your user base, even though your web browser is the less used one, that's fine by me. You've already lost me, so I don't care anymore, good luck.
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A Former User last edited by
It doesn't matter at all if Opera loses 10% of one's existing user base, provided one gains users from other sources. It's totally impersonal, so don't take it so personally, and don't make it a personal issue.
Why do you talk to me like Opera is my browser? I am just another user. It's not my web browser, and I do not make any decisions regarding what gets implemented and what doesn't.
You just don't care to face the facts — bye now. Good luck with finding another browser that does exactly what you want.
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rwp728 last edited by
I am uninstalling Opera 20 because there seems to be no provision for importing bookmarks from another browser. The Opera help system says "Select Settings > Import and export File > Import and export." This is false for this version. There is no submenu called Import and export File under Settings in v. 20, and I couldn't find any provision anywhere else.
Furthermore I see no information for how to contact Opera tech support for this or any other problem. Opera clearly does not want to hear anything from customers or users, and I have no use for companies with that policy. -
werewolf last edited by
Same here! Who needs another Chrome clone? I have over 4,000 bookmarks and I click on them all the time. I want them on a permanently open list on the left, like Opera 12, which I'm still using, and Firefox, still have.
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A Former User last edited by
First of all apologize for my English.
I do not understand why in all clones of chrome not there yet any developer who has made a sidepanel for bookmarks, is because the browser engine? API? The sidepanel is very necessary, almost essential.
