Well, well, well... Opera Link doesn't matter to me anymore. My phone was stolen over the weekend, and all the bookmarks, saved pages, my speed dial... all that went away with it. Most of those were curated over years. I had to manually export those from the older OMs to 8.0, and that took HOURS daily. There was a time Opera Link worked but that was maybe last year. .5 hours? Yeah right. Once I left it syncing for like an hour and the thing was STILL SYNCING just a few megabytes worth of data. Obviously nothing was happening.

I'm afraid but that's the end of Opera for me. I'm finally going Android and Chrome has some ok data-saving capabilities, not to mention that it's 2 billion times better than Opera, and syncing is automatic moreorless.

Good riddance, Opera.

Anyway, here's my real bother that needs an answer. I want to upgrade to this bug-fix version but since OL is broken, my bookmarks, history, speed dial etc. haven't been backed up and I'm REALLY SCARED that I may lose all of them in the process of upgrading since this is a simple JME browser. Is that fear founded or should I just go ahead with the upgrade?

I want to believe Opera Link hasn't been retired, but the truth is that it has been dysfunctional across all Opera browsers (I think) for much of this year, and the dev team has been likely given a gag order because apart from a few polite, low-info canned responses, they've been pretty much tight-lipped about the whole affair. Seems to me that some much better syncing feature is in the works so we'll have to grin and bear the wait and embrace Opera's future. This is a calculated guess anyway, nothing firm... I'm thousands of miles away from Oslo so there ya go.

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Since Opera Link has sadly been retired, I need to be sure before I update from 8.0 to 8.1. I would get extremely pissed if my bookmarks (and their folders), speed dial entries, login credentials, etc. are lost in the update process. I think much of that data is stored somewhere on my phone's C drive, and nothing should change since it's the same version, but I NEED TO BE REALLY, REALLY SURE.