Originally posted by yakyelnats:

Your frustration is shared by many long term users of Opera like me. I have over 3,000 bookmarks and the new system drives me to distraction and unless Opera improves the "bookmarks" issue it will loose long term users like me and also, like you, drive away new potential new customers too. It is clear that Opera feels that it should concentrate on users who need no more that a couple of pages worth of Speed Dial entries - i.e. about 24 icons. Any more than that becomes a pain to handle. I wonder how large a market share that number represents?

I can see that I have raised a touchy subject. However, I have no interest in continuing this debate because I have already rejected Opera and am now testing out Google Chrome. It seems to be a much better proposition because it:-

1. too is fast enough for my Company needs.
2. has a proper "bookmarks" system.
3. also offers to manage "sessions" where a list of frequently used web sites can be easily loaded as and when needed. Opera does not offer that basic need either!

I have now said my piece and so this is my last posting on this Forum because clearly Opera is a lost cause.

Many thanks for your response.

I am responsible for determining which Browser my Company should use and will only move away from our standard Internet Explorer (IE) browser if there is a better alternative. I was attracted by recent news that Opera had won an award for it's latest browser so I downloaded Opera 18 about an hour ago. It certainly runs faster than IE so I decide to give it a more thorough try. My first task was to load up our standard bookmarks html list so I went to the help section and typed in "Bookmarks" so that I could receive guidance on how to achieve my objective. All I got was a message informing me that "No results matches on search "bookmarks". Please try refining your keywords. Did you mean: bookmarks". Since I did indeed mean "bookmarks", then I clicked on the suggestion and ......I got the same message. There is clearly something wrong here when a common requirement for "bookmarks" brings up nothing. I did more searching via IE and discovered that in Opera "bookmarks" are actually called "Speed Dial". It seems a little odd not to use a term that everyone understands but, so what, I will try out "Speed Dial". I then went to the import process and pointed "Speed Dial" to my Companies "bookmarks.html" list and pressed go. Off it went and quickly presented me with a recognisable list of bookmarks. I expected to be asked to accept the list but....no! I am now required to go every single item and accept/reject it. Since the company has some 4,000 bookmarks in a nested list then this process is complete pain!!!!! I decided to select a few items just to test the import process and then I waited for for the results....and I waited.....and I waited etc, etc. I was staggered to find that Opera doesn't adopt the standard and efficient process of creating a bookmarks list....Oh, no. Instead, it created a large icon with picture of ever single bookmark. Needless to say this takes forever!!! Frankly I gave up after an hour because my import list id only a fraction of the total. The Company staff would kill me if I presented them with this monstrosity as an alternative to IE. HOW ON EARTH DID THIS RUBBISH WIN AN AWARD?

I think you will have gathered that Opera is no longer on my wish list and I struggle to comprehend why anyone would create a browser on this basis unless they have a death wish. There is one good thing that came from this experiment. I now have endless fun explaining all of this to everyone I meet and we all have a good laugh at Opera's expense. Keep up the good work of embarrassing yourself - we all love the light relief you are so generously and selflessly creating. Unfortunately, you will go bust shortly and this "fun time" will be short lived.