@thorntonp I agree. I've spent hours, going round in circles, trying to do this. What is this passphrase nonsense? Why on earth can't I just tell it to get my bookmarks from Firefox and there they are? Never had this trouble with any other browser.

I write in sorrow rather than anger. Opera is my favourite browser, but I can never have it as my default because of the lack of a Bookmarks Button. Opera seem determined not to include this feature even as an option: I look in every few years to see if there's been any change, but Noooo. It would be a ten-minute coding job. You may say it takes only two clicks on Opera, but I need to use Bookmarks hundreds of times a day, and it makes a difference. If Firefox can do it, why not Opera?