With your Opera Forums data:

and take a look here V7 Bookmarks

Relax, your old bookmarks.adr file is definitely stored somewhere (that's if you didn't use Opera Link).It must be located at home /Library/Opera...About "getting to many sites", I've been using the Speed Dial and its groups as the sole place to store my favorites and it works fine for me. Right now I have more than 500 links there. I can either open the links with the mouse or type in the address field to get them as suggestions.

"Relax" - "works fine for me" = Smug

They need to Trash the worthless Stash" and install a real Bookmarks System, Manager and Sync! Defying reasoning and logic to be different for the sake of being different, IS IDIOCY! Remember, Ignorance can be corrected.

(1) Bookmarks are indispensable to me, so I went back to Opera 12.
(2) I like using Startpage as my default search tool. Opera 19 doesn't allow custom default search engines, so I went back to Opera 12.
(3) I liked having the panel on the left of my browser. Opera 19 doesn't have panels, so I went back to Opera 12.
(4) Opera 19 got rid of Opera Link. I use Opera Link, so I went back to Opera 12.

Hmm... Time to rethink things a bit.
Opera 12 is an old browser. I need a browser that is current.
I guess I'll have to drop Opera 12 and go to an open source version of Chrome.
For those of you now looking for a new browser, here are my recommendations:

SRWare Iron: http://www.srware.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=18
Chromium OSX: http://www.freesmug.org/chromium

I sure hope Opera gets a clue about this, but it seems they are determined to pursue the path their on. I will leave with these questions for them to think about:

How is the "New Opera" browser similar to the Windows 8 interface?
Windows 8 sure worked out for Microsoft, didn't it?

Bye Bye Opera. I'll check back next year year to see how you're doing.

Microsoft and other vendors having drunk the "latest" UX Koolaid and apparently don't understand why removing ALL of the buttons result in a NON-existant user experience.

Taking away Bookmarks and forcing customers to create yet another cloud account in order to collect more data, show shareholders and advertisers bigger numbers only creates value for Marketing VPs and their Power Point pie-charts.

In the meantime the user is left high and dry - will simply move on to a product they are more familiar with.

If I want more minimalist I'll buy another Macbook with Safari, thank you.

Even Chrome uses bookmarks and offers a minimum of useful menu bar icons.

Until telekinesis-based menus are available, I suggest that Opera's principals stop the Fisher-Price approach to computing. A phased-in approach is how to do this, not alienating a devoted user base cultivated over many years.[/FONT]

Some time back I became a manager for an IT company, and with this, ehem, power, came the decision to use Opera as the secondary browser for the company (we *could* never forsake IE). Just doing my share to promote the browser.

The latest update, however, is just way too bizarre and frustrating that ive decided not to support the product anymore.

To the opera team, its been a privilege using the best browser ever! You were so far ahead of your peers and in some aspects you still are.

I feel Opera is not just a part, but was a pillar in the history of internet browsing. Along the same veins with Winamp, Napster, etc.

I'm sorry it has come to this, but goodbye.

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

Relax, your old bookmarks.adr file is definitely stored somewhere (that's if you didn't use Opera Link).
It must be located at home /Library/Opera...

About "getting to many sites", I've been using the Speed Dial and its groups as the sole place to store my favorites and it works fine for me. Right now I have more than 500 links there. I can either open the links with the mouse or type in the address field to get them as suggestions.

Um, I am relaxed. Migrating from Windows to Mac is increasingly common, yet I have yet to see an easy posted solution about migrating bookmarks from Win 12 to Mac 15 Opera. A relatively simple script could be provided that would accomplish this without the user having to delve deep into the directory trees. In any case, on my Mac,the Window>Bookmark Importer is grayed out.

It appears that the transition for legacy users could have been a little better thought out...

So, "there will be more", they say. This answer was given two and half months ago. No further hints meanwhile either in word or action. This brings us back to the short answer: Waiting for Godot. Evidently it's easier to find something else to use.

Well, I sure hope they get on it soon. I'm having good luck with using Opera, as it doesn't get bogged down in RAM, freeze and crash anywhere near as much as Safari, which has become nearly unusable for me. But every time I want to create a bookmark, or go somewhere I had previously bookmarked, I realize I can't do that here, and it really does drive me crazy, as I cannot even imagine what the developers were thinking, to just delete them from one's experience in browsing the web....

What makes this post particularly valuable is that it received an official answer that follows almost immediately:

Originally posted by bkazmierczak:

• Whoever decided to merge bookmarks with the speed dial decided to provide bookmakrs already, which as for now are added as QAB, but there will be more

So, "there will be more", they say. This answer was given two and half months ago. No further hints meanwhile either in word or action. This brings us back to the short answer: Waiting for Godot. Evidently it's easier to find something else to use.

I'm beginning to lose my faith in the common sense capabilities of programming geeks, as this kind of wack, two steps forward, three steps back, "updating" of software that only adds more complication, and screws up or eliminates features that were working just fine, is becoming all too common, even with Apple's own programs...

How soon until the bookmarks folder is restored???

So what's the deal, were we being misinformed, are Bookmarks going to return, or will that be just more waiting for Godot?

The short answer: It's waiting for Godot.

The long answer:
Some say bookmarks never disappeared. They were always available as speed dials.

Others say bookmarks are back now as QAB (bookmarks bar). Two catches here (or three, depends on how you count):

You have to activate this highly advanced and strictly experimental QAB first in opera://flags and then in the settings too. After this invocation of QAB you will get the same speed dial items in the QAB format. There is no other bookmarks manager than drag-and-drop on the QAB and some fiddling in the speed dials.

This is bookmarks in Opera 18.

So what's the deal, were we being misinformed, are Bookmarks going to return, or will that be just more waiting for Godot?

This even more idiotic than the recent Google Maps "upgrade." What were the developers thinking?

I did the flags thing, and this is at the top of the page:

"Careful, these experiments may bite
BEWARE! These flags control experimental or unstable features. They may not work, or may cause your browser to crash. You may lose data, or your privacy or security might be weakened. Features may come, go or stop working at any time. Be careful - here be dragons!

Wonderful, but I think I'll wait until or if Opera ever reinstitute's bookmarks back into the browser, some workaround is not worth screwing with my whole computer... Come on guys, this is hardly the way to win new users....

Bookmarks will return in a future update. In the meantime we have Stash and Speed Dial.

In the meantime we're stuck with Opera 12 or we have already chosen another browser and waved Opera bye-bye.

I am not sure what's on the Opera's board of directors mind regarding their web browser product. Is it seen rather as cost than as anything producing an income? How does Operas strategy as a company look like?

As a loyal Opera user for years it is hard to avoid getting the impression, that switching to a standard web browser platform and accepting a major cut in previously available functionality for months to come, means Opera does not care about th future of its web browser much more.
I'd be surprised if web stats wouldn't show a significant decrease of Opera users compared with other browsers over the last months.

Having said that, an overhaul of Opera 12 would also be needed - e.g, Flickr browsing is even with a rather new Macbook getting very slow with Opera 12 - compared to e.g. Safari and Firefox. Plus safety becomes a concern now too since last update was 7 months ago.

Update: Looking at Operas Third Quarter report (http://www.operasoftware.com/content/download/4581/153916/version/2/file/3Q13_Presentation.pdf) the indication is clear: Desktop is loosing ground (revenue "growth" - 25% YTY) whereas mobile grew by 110% YTY and produces already now more revenue than the desktop side. So in short: The platform move is mainly a cost-take out. Development focus is elsewhere.
Time to look for a replacement browser, as sad as it is...