[Request] Quick access for Bookmarks

A Former User

I have been trying Opera for the last couple of days and I really like it for now. It's innonative, beautiful, fast, and more. I love having my tabs from the last session saved too.

I have one thing that I dislike though : it annoys me very much not to be able to costumize the navigation bar like firefox does. I like having my bookmarks to the same level as the search bar. I don't see the point of having a super long search bar and I want to save view space as much as possible for my browsing. I even hide my windows' taskbar — you see, i'm a minimalist.

See image below to see a difference between the two.

My workaround is that I use the bookmarks icon from the sidebar to navigate through my bookmarks, I almost never type urls. In the default Opera browser, it opens a small window just like messenger would. Why can't Opera GX do the same? It opens another tab but I don't necessarily want to focus on that webpage right away. I'm aware I can click with the mouse wheel, but it still leaves my with an extra tab : the bookmarks, of which I have to close after...

Here are 3 solutions that I can think of to add this customization:

Allow users to customize the navigation bar (so to add the bookmarks section to the same level as the search bar);
Allow users to snap some of their bookmarks to the sidebar just like you do with twitch, messenger, and some extensions (e.g. bitwarden password manager).
Have the bookmarks' sidebar icon act the same as the Opera default browser;

Thanks.
— pensum