Import Bookmarks from Opera 12 to 25
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A Former User last edited by
You could back up your 25s' profiles, uninstall/delete them, check your 12s as defaults and then install your 25s anew.
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simontewsg last edited by
You could back up your 25s' profiles, uninstall/delete them, check your 12s as defaults and then install your 25s anew.
Yeah, I figured I'd have to do that. I think I'll have to wait for a few more versions before it'll be worth doing though. From what I've seen over the last few hours the Bookmarks Manager isn't really ready for the big time. To me it looks slick but it has the functionality of Windows 1. Once it's got the functionality of File Explorer in Windows 3 then we'll be talking.
Funnily enough, the Bookmarks Bar manager seems to have all the functionality I could want in a bookmarks manager. Except that the Bookmarks Bar can't handle the number of bookmarks I have (tried it and found it takes between 10 and 15 seconds to render each time I want to get at a bookmark - too long). To me it would make more sense to swap the new visual Bookmarks Manager with the Bookmarks Bar manager.
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A Former User last edited by
What is in the .adr file?
Is it possible to rewrite it so that it contained items in the HTML links format, even to include previews possibly using your "thumbnail" files, open it with the blink and save in a major place there - your own bookmarklet! -
simontewsg last edited by
I was thinking along similar lines: Parsing the 12 adr file and converting it to the Blink JSON format. I think your idea of an HTML file would work better as the Blink Bookmarks Manager is just too clunky to deal with deeply nested folders (deepest I've got is 11 folders deep). Having to open each folder in the tree one by one in the Bookmarks Manager to get to something at the bottom level would be just too time consuming.
However, there would still be the issue of managing the bookmarks, since I update them frequently. I can't see any easy way of updating an HTML bookmarks page without using 12. If I'm going to be using 12 to manage the bookmarks anyway I'm willing to continue working the way I have for several months: Having 12 open on one monitor and Blink open on the other, browsing my bookmarks in 12 then copying and pasting any URL across to Blink to view it. (I guess I'm a die hard Opera fan who will put up with a year or two of irritation about bookmarks rather than move to a different browser. While the bookmarks thing is a bit of a PITA at least the browser works much better than it did in the days of Opera 4)
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A Former User last edited by
What if there were a program that, being called on with a shortcut, would open the Bfile (probably within itself), insert the opening tag and whatnot, shoot a screen, create a thumbnail, save it and put it as a code there, get your open active page's address and title and fill it all by itself, close tag, save, oops?
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simontewsg last edited by admin
I'm probably the wrong person to ask about bookmark capture functionality that includes screen captures. I'm not a fan of thumbnails as they take up room on the screen and in the bookmarks file. When looking at bookmarks I prefer a simple text view with favicons (as in the Opera 12 bookmarks manager), rather than thumbnails, so I can see more bookmarks on the screen. And the bookmarks file size: The Opera 12 bookmarks file is about a concise as a bookmarks file could be and mine is still 2.3 MB in size so I'd hate to think how large it would be with thumbnails.
Also I really like a hierarchy of bookmark folders so wouldn't want anything automatically creating bookmarks without me being able to decide which folder it would go in.
For now I'm ok with having both Opera 12 and Blink open, and just copying the URLs from 12 to Blink as I need them. If it all gets too annoying I could always move to a bookmarks extension, such as the ones mentioned in this post. The reason I haven't is I'm still holding out hope that one day I'll be able to import my Opera 12 bookmarks into a fully functional Blink bookmark manager.
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A Former User last edited by
Maybe the future is really for a standalone bookmarks app?
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simontewsg last edited by
Now that sounds like a really good idea. Wonder why none of the browser vendors have thought of it?
Perhaps I should look at Delicious. I had a brief play a few years back, when it was still Delicio.us, but didn't think it was for me. Probably time to revisit it.
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blackbird71 last edited by
Bookmarking in the cloud... ah, yes. I'll bet the data-mining outfits will absolutely love that. It's a nice end-run around tracking-cookie blocking for bookmarked sites.
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bbildman last edited by
I already have the Imported Bookmarks in my opera://bookmarks/ page, but what I Really want is the ability to access the bookmarks from a dropdown menu like we had in Opera 12.17 "File Edit View BOOKMARKS" etc
For me to have to add a few clicks to the tab that includes my bookmarks when I could have a dropdown menu, like Opera 12.17 AND Internet Explorer etc etc.
Just WHY can that not be enabled??
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A Former User last edited by
Bbildman, maybe it can - I don't know. Though as long as/if it can not, your way is to "Suggestion box". Know where?
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superknown last edited by
I didn't realize I would have to become an IT expert to get my bookmarks into 25. Their opera links do not even have my updated bookmarks or speed dials. Whats up with these monkeys
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Deleted User last edited by
@superknown Opera 26 BETA (the next Stable) has easy bookmarks import, may work for chimpansees or gorillas or dummies like you.