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1. Description

Ability to resize the Extension Bar and reorder Icons

2. What it does

• When pointing the mouse at the left edge of the Extension Bar, Cursor changes and lets the user resize it to the desired amount of visible Extension (Icons). In addition a drop-down icon appears on the right side to select hidden Icons.
• Each Extension Icon can be reordered per drag & drop.

Here is a Screenshot showing the scenario (Google Chrome, which natively supports both features):

3. Why it is useful

Since the amount of visible Extension icons decreases with lower Screen Resolution/Width (18 items with 1920 pixels), items that exceed this amount are automatically hidden, thus these Extensions cannot be used anymore.
Adding support for resize and drag & drop allows users to:

• use more Extensions than their screen width currently allows them to
• hide Extensions they don't use very frequently, but often enough to have them enabled
• reorder the Extension Icons as they wish (similar Extensions side by side, order from most used on the one side to less used on the other, or any other order one may have in mind)

4. Conclusion

• Currently the amount of usable Extensions is limited by screen width (there is no way to use an Extension, if the icon is not visible
• Icons are ordered by date/time they were added
• Icon order is preserved even if any Extension was disabled and enabled again

Some words for the developers:

Please think about implementing these crucial features or at least some other kind of temporary workaround for using more Extensions

Same thing here.

Opera Stable 67.0.3575.53
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit

No matter what I do, with Sync enabled Opera freezes after about 20-30 seconds, giving me no other choice then force close Opera.

So I temporarily signed out of Sync and things work just fine for now.

Please fix this!

@leocg said in All Extensions gone after copying Profile to new laptop:

@celadyn

• Go to the extensions page and enable developer mode
• Click Load unpacked
• From you back up, select the Extensions folder, then the sub-folder with the extensions you want to reinstall and, finally, the folder with the version of the extension.

OK, finally I have my Extensions back. About 20, I didn't count.

But I found out, that Opera deletes the Extensions folder inside my profile folder each time I launch Opera.
What I had to do is, first, launch Opera (it then removes all Extensions - OK, whatever), then with Opera running copy back all Extensions (the Extensions folder) and, finally, "load unpacked Extensions" via the button under Developer Mode (which I had already enabled).
At least most Extensions were loaded. With one extension Opera told me that the "manifest" file is corrupted or something. I don't even know which Extension that was. Anyway...

The other problem is, that some extensions settings are gone too. For example, I use the V7 Sessions Extension, where I can save opened tabs and windows as sessions, or the V7 Notes Extension, where I can save copied text from a website to Notes.

All are gone! That really sucks! I have it all saved inside my Opera profile folder and just wanted to copy it to another installation (my laptop) and Opera kills it all. I am very disappointed. Why does Opera do this?

Google Chrome, for example, stores all extensions in my account and when I reinstall Chrome somewhere else and login, all my Extensions are back too, with all their settings and data.

I think, it's time that Opera adds Extensions to their "Opera Sync", which they should improve or better said: repair (because now it is not working very well sometimes).

Enough said,
is there any other way to get my Extensions and their data back in a batch process?

Any hints highly appreciated.
Kind regards.
Celadyn

+1

I totally agree and even suggest a better solution:

Adding custom pictures (thumbnails) for each speed dial.
Either upload a picture from your local computer or add an URL to the desired picture.

In Opera 12 there was an addon for this, but now there is no way to change the speed dial images.

Or does someone know a temporary workaround?

@spborges74 so glad it helped!

Enjoy Opera!

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to share this with you, so here are some useful Extensions that bring back features that were abandoned in the latest Opera and some useful functions that the old Opera 12 had.

If you know anything else, just let me know here and I will update the post.

1. bring back recently closed tabs:
   Wrona History Menu
   Undo Closed Tabs Button

2. show image properties:
   Classic Context Menus
   Classic Images

3. switch tabs with right-click + scroll (buggy, doesn't work on all sites):
   Opera 12-like tab switcher

4. auto-reload page:
   Classic Context Menus (steps: none, 1m, 5m, 30m 60m)
   Tab Auto Refresh (1s steps)

5. site specific preferences:
   Site-specific Preferences

6. user style sheet:
   Stylus

7. turn all images on/off:
   Images ON/OFF

8. turn JavaScript on or off:
   JavaScript Switch ON|OFF

There may be more Extensions, but these are the ones I use mostly.

I also made a little website where you can test your Extensions: 1info.tk

Hope this helps

Hi zalex,

thank you very much for your hint:

For your particular Passwords problem, you could use the NirSoft Chrome Pass dumper, then type each one in Opera and sync or use any Passwords Manager and they will be available in any browser and device (Cloud/Extensions/Mobile Apps).

First I thought WebBrowserPassView already has the passwords included, but I was wrong.

Since I still have the old Windows Installation on a HDD connected internally to my motherboard, I could recover ALL of my passwords from my old User Profile! Now I only have to save and format the password list to a comma-separated file and import it with Opera.

For anybody who wants to recover passwords from another Windows installation or User (or backed up profile folder), follow these steps:

What you need prior to recover your passwords:

• A previous or current Windows installation
• Your User Password for that Windows Installation
• Your User Folder for that Windows Installation

1. Download and open ChromePass
2. Press F9 or go to File > Advanced Options
3. Select the option "Load the passwords from another Windows user or external drive:"
4. Enter or select/browse for the User Profile path, e.g. E:\Users\John
5. Check the option "Advanced external drive settings:"
6. Enter the path for the Windows Protect folder from this user, e.g. E:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect\
7. Enter the path of the Opera Profile folder, e.g. E:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\ or F:\Backup\Opera Profile\
8. Click OK and wait! It might take some time if you have huge number of passwords.

I have just tested the TrackPoint on Wikipedia: Google with following browsers

WORKS:

• Opera Version: 56.0.3051.116, Update stream: Stable
• Chromium Version 73.0.3638.0 (Developer Build) (64-bit)
• Google Chrome Version 73.0.3637.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)
• Vivaldi 2.1.1337.51 (Stable channel) (32-bit)
• Vivaldi 2.2.1388.29 (Official Build) (32-bit)

DOESN'T WORK:

• Opera Version: 57.0.3098.91, Update stream: Stable
• Opera Version: 59.0.3167.0, Update stream: developer

ESET Internet Security reported this as Threat and disconnected.
Any updates?

+1

see also: https://forums.opera.com/post/124980

Hi everyone, if your Opera is extremely slow, disable "Use hardware acceleration when available"

I don't know what the developers did, but HA makes Opera unusable (Opera Stable, Opera GX)

I already asked about the reorder of the extensions and got a solution for.It's not practical but still gets the job done.
https://forums.opera.com/topic/9455/sort-extensions-manually/3
Also I agree about hiding the icon without disabling it.Stylish icon is annoying me as many other extensions.

Yeah, actually I miss the resize-feature way more than custom order. Right now I have to pick a selection of my favourite 18 Extensions, leaving the others unusable.

I really need more Extension icons, since I do a lot of stuff in the browser.

Question:
Is there anything about it I can do on my own?
e.g.: manipulate any kind of settings files (JSON, SQL, INI, PAK, BIN, DAT, XML, ...)

Picture this: You're a mechanic, working on a car, you got three tools in your pocket and each time you need another tool, you have to go to your locker, put as many tools back as you wish to exchange and than go all the way back to the garage.

Wouldn't that be frustrating?

A couple of weeks ago I realized that "Hardware Acceleration" was taking Opera down.
Since I turned it off, even Opera Sync is working without any problems.

I'm running Windows 7 SP1 64-bit on both my desktop and laptop with latest Opera 68.

To all of you having crashes and freezing sync, I think it is worth a try to disable hardware acceleration.

If it already is, good luck...

Still no improvement on the latest Opera 69.0.3686.77

I have also created a new Opera account to see if the problem persists... it does! Although it worked for a wile at the beginning, but after several minutes Opera crashed anyway.

Luckily managed to sign out of Sync (had to try a gazillion times, since Opera crashed when trying to click the "final" OK button)

Are you Opera Developers even working on that issue? Doesn't seem so.

I am very disappointed and sad. Always been loyal to Opera since Version 6 on WinXP back in the past.
Nevertheless I will stay with Opera, even without Sync.

I really hope, you won't turn Opera in something like Chrome or Edge in future...

Hi folks!

I've got a little problem over here...

On my desktop PC I copied everything under:
Profile: C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable

Most settings were adapted:

• Interface and Browser settings
• Search Engines
• Autofill Data
• Shortcuts
• Languages and Spell Check
• History
• Bookmarks
• Speed Dial

but some were not:

• Passwords (no big deal, I can import them from a previously exported CSV)
• Extensions => now, that just sucks!

Is there anything I can do to get my Extensions back?