Originally posted by thattoo:

You said that Opera doesn't work on your computer at all. Does that mean you couldn't make it run long enough to create the ~/.opera directory where Firefox would be most likely to look for your bookmarks file?

All the directories are already set up. Opera used to work fine until after one night when I did a routine openSUSE 12.2 update. (I'm now running openSUSE 13.1.)

Originally posted by thattoo:

The only Firefox I have installed right now is Iceweasel 10 (because every time I upgrade it to v. 17 on Wheezy, I get bored trying to figure out why the tiny window that opens turns into a dot as soon as I touch it to try to resize it :irked: ), but that one can find and import Opera's bookmarks directly in addition to importing from HTML files. From the menu bar, Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks -> Import and Backup brings up those options.

Thanks for that info. It would be nice if Mozilla hadn't buried the feature in such an unobvious place.

Unfortunately, it's only giving me Chrome as an option, and now Chrome doesn't want to work either. (What's going on here???)

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

Incompatible system upgrade, or what?

Not sure. It did fail after some routine updates to openSUSE 12.2. After reinstalling Opera and upgrading to openSUSE 13.1, there is no change.

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

If Opera ran - even without connecting to the internet - it could export your bookmarks as HTML which could then be imported to anything.

As I said, Opera doesn't work at all. It grabs all of the system memory (8 GB) and all of the swap space (2 GB) right off the bat, and never even gets to the point of opening a window before the OS kills it.

I can get used to UIs of other browsers. What I'd like to know is how to import bookmarks from Opera into Firefox. I've got more than 2000 of them in nested hierarchies of folders. Chrome knows about Firefox, and will even import Firefox's bookmarks for you without your permission. But there seems to be some industry conspiracy to pretend that Opera does not exist.

Meanwhile, Opera. Does. Not. Work. On. My. Computer. At. All.

(I'm another one who paid money for Opera back in the day. Opera is the only browser that knows the difference between a requested pop-up and a spontaneous pop-up, which is what prompted me to pay them. Also, Opera has saved sessions and can assign user CSS based on Web site; I don't know of any other browser that does those.)