Posts made by 960t

I have to replace my Harddrive. All I want to know is how can I save my speeddial or Bookmarks so that I can put them on the new Harddrive. Is there a folder somewhere that they are stored in? Somewhere I read that you have to enable SYNC. Seems like a stupid answer. Not only do I not know how to enable Sync; I have no other devices to Sync to. I wish people would stop assuming that everyone knows what the hell that they are talking about, that everyone has other devices and that everyone is part of some social network. Any help would be appreciated, because I am very disappointed that Opera doesn't offer Help info about this.

Thanks for nothing. I want to transfer speeddial and bookmarks to a new harddrive. How is it done and is there a folder where these things are stored? Please be detailed.

First off, I never said I was with Opera Presto. I don't know which version I got, when I originally downloaded Opera. I was happy that it worked well and that was that.
Second when the upgrade to Opera exactly occurred I have no idea; except that it was approx. 2 mths. back. I get upgrades to programs all the time (Win7 practically every 2nd day) and what you and they call an upgrade, I would rather the term "new VERSION" was used. I didn't even know it was called Opera25 until I came on the forum. Nothing at the time notified me that a new version called Opera 25 was being installed. I think they were/are very remiss with that terminology and lack of openess. For example, I wouldn't tell someone on an XP machine that Win8 is just an upgrade; go ahead and install it. As far as speed up and slow down; again we're talking Apples and Oranges. Granted the new version might render faster, however my IP service provider and I would watch together how the signal transfers would stall and stop and start again (when using Opera as the main Browser) giving me a transfer rate sometimes as low as 2 mbps. This occurred on both on the MB's NI and using a separate Gigabit adapter. The transfer rate and ping were never steady. The readings would vary from test to test. Now if you have a way of correcting that in Opera 25; Im all ears.

To transfer Bookmarks and Speed dials, simply open each, one at a time, copy the addresses from the address bar by right clicking your mouse, paste them one at a time into a notepad file/s and just reverse the process with your new browser.
Currently, transfers are back to normal, but now that you mention it I do think rendering is slower; so I wouldn't call myself happy just yet.

I've worked with computers for over forty years and I am tired of all the crap you have to deal with today. For example I used go to CBS Sports with Internet Explorer and watch videos and check game stats.etc. until my browser got bogged down with wigets, plugins, etc. for things I never use such as facebook and twitter. So I had to upgrade my machine and change browsers and ended up with Opera; which I discovered later was the best browser for streaming vids. Everything was fine until a couple of months ago when I got upgraded to Opera 25. I didn't notice at first and was attributing the cause to various websites, but things got slower and slower over the last month with stuttering in the vids and longer wait times here and there. I thought I might have a virus. Nope that wasn't it. Checked with my IP provider and tried various cures all to no avail. Seems I was stuck with my situation. Then just taking a chance I did a speedtest in IE. and low and behold everything was normal and now I knew the culprit was Opera itself. Unfortunately there is no one to actually talk to; so on my own I tried going back to 12. something and surprise, surprise speed seems normal. A huge amount of work, transferring all my speed dials and bookmarks. cross my fingers this works. What I would like to know and without some gobbleygook answer (plain english please) is why was I Downgraded to Opera 25 and what was it supposed to do for me??