Currently, the entries in the browser history are sorted by the date when a page has been opened/loaded. However, web pages are usually not used for a point of time, but for a period of time. This gives the following problem:

The top of the list entries may actually not be the pages that were last used, if the user has still older pages open, then opens some new pages and closes them again (ie. checking out search results and closing the uninteresting ones). This becomes a problem when you want to search for pages that were used in certain time frame (last week monday 14–15:00) or if you want to recover opened tabs (due to ignorant tabs bug (#158505 or browser/system crash). If you had tabs open for several hours or days, they might be spread over thousands of history entries of pages that were only temporarily opened and closed.

Current workaround:

Do a linear search and read every history entry from now to one or two weeks back. Try to remember which ones were open for a longer time, which ones were relevant and which ones where irrelevant. If necessary, re-open a page just check out what it was about (if it was not relevant, close it, but the history jumps to the start). Be disappointed by not remembering all pages to restore.

Suggested solution:

Add another metadata "closed date" to brower history entries. Optionally the user can toggle the sorting order from "loaded date" to "closed date". Eventually there could be an advanced search like between: <start date>, <end date> giving all pages that were open within that period of time.

Sorry, but this is both a frequent and serious issue for me. I just came back curious how this suggestion is perceived.

If you always download from a different site, it's not your use case and I can fully understand that from your perspective it appears unnecessary.

Are there Opera users with the same use case who regularly download files (literature, exercises etc.) from same web pages and organize them in a folder structure? I know, many of such users are on Firefox.

…and when Opera is specifically set to a different default search engine.

When Opera is set to ask for location before downloading, the save dialog will default to the last folder where whatever file has been downloaded to.

However you often have repetitive download tasks that depend very much on the domain/website. For example you get regularly every week a pdf from website W1 and store it in location L1, then a pdf from W2 to L2, then a video from W3 to the video folder etc.

Currently you have to navigate the folder list to choose the right folder unless the most recently downloaded file went into the same folder. Much of that effort could be saved if opera kept a smart history with last download location per most similar url (or t least same domain), and launches the save dialog with the path parameter.

For example Firefox remembers the download location per domain.

Platform: Windows, OS X, Linux desktops

Description:
It should be possible to delete suggestions in the searchbar using the [Del] key.

Use case:
When typing in the search bar, you may get suggestions that you know they are dead links (old bookmarks) or that you didn't want opera to remember (history). Using the [Del] key would be fast and distraction-free way to get rid of them and immediately continuing to search what you wanted to search. Currently, you would have to open history or bookmarks to delete the unwanted item before you can return to your original workflow.

(Where do feature requests belong to? If there is not yet, I would also request a dedicated place to manage for feature requests)

Platform: Windows, OS X, Linux desktops

Description:
The bookmark popover menu should contain a button to remove the currently opened website from bookmarks.

Use case:
When unintentionally clicking on the bookmark button (instead of somewhere next to it), a bookmark is created. To keep your bookmarks in order, you may want to undo the bookmarking. However clicking again the bookmark button does not remove the bookmark, and the bookmark popover menu does also not contain a button to delete the unwanted bookmark. The only way I see is to open the opera:bookmarks in a new tab, searching for the same website as in the previous tab and unbookmarking it.

(P.S.: Firefox and Chromium have this feature.)