Yep. I did it just now. It offers something I can have always on the top of my menu. That's not what I want. I want what safari, firefox and others have; a menu > bookmarks > add folder > rename folder > add bookmarks in folder. My old version of Opera on my mac side (before my hard drive crashed) used to have this too.

I just had a friend do a search on the issue and it appears to be related to Opera 15. correction:I mean 18. Others too seem to have the same issue. And no Ctl + D is dysfunctional.

if it works for you, do not upgrade to v18. I was given no choice as I had to start over. Is there a way I can revert to an older version of opera?
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Uninstalled Opera 18 and downloaded version 12.16. Fixed it. Phew! Just beware of 18. You lose the ability to make bookmarks. Such a shame they took away that feature.

Maybe it is the toolbar I am missing, because I don't see any of those options you listed. It could be my Opera got corrupted. I had to battle a rogue search findwide that took over everything except opera. With opera it installed some other plugin which I now I disabled, but cannot seem to remove entirely. (tidy network)

The only features I see is just an opera icon at the top, the back arrow and forward arrow. Then an icon that gets me to my short list. I only want to put certain sites on that, not all bookmarks. Then next to that I see the field to type a url in, then my adblock plus , then the short list again, then add to stash. that is it.

if I click on the Opera it gives me additional options:
New tab
New window
New private window
recently closed
page
zoom
print
downloads
history
settings (shows nothing about bookmarks when I click)
themes
extensions
get extensions
off road mode
More tools -> clear browsing data/ import bookmarks/ synchronize/ enable developer tools
help
about opera
exit

Thanks. Now how do I add new bookmarks from pages I visited like today? Is that possible? Will that help?

I'm getting frustrated. I can't find the menu option. I also tried the Ctl +D command. Nothing happened. My windows is full of opera windows and each is full of tabs and I'd like to close many of them, but I can't before I save the links somehow. I don't know why I can't find something that should be so simple. Please help.