Posts made by gonkg

Hi,
I'm using Opera v25 developer which sounds like it may have similar bookmark functionality to v24 (but I don't know not having installed 24). Anyway here's a thread I started with my frustrations (main ones) with the latest version of Opera. You'll see I too lament the lack of reverse compatibility between the latest format of bookmarks with the earlier .adr format. Non-existent or limited bookmark storage & management in the latest versions of Opera is a huge oversight by the developers in my opinion. The only easy way I could find to make my extensive list of bookmarks available to v25 was to bookmark to an htm backup of my earlier bookmarks stored on my local drive.

https://forums.opera.com/topic/4492/i-m-thinking-of-defecting-to-firefox-someone-stop-me/9

Thanks Lem, I did read your earlier post and I did look in More Tools but I didn't/don't see any option there to import bookmarks? Only options I see are "Clear browsing data" and "Enable developer tools". My Opera version is 25.0.1592.0 Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place or maybe that option is removed in the version I have for some work before being reinstated??

Thanks for all the replies.
I'm partial to a bit of Opera - I've been using it for many years so I've decided for now to install 25 developer and trial that rather than going back to v12 or over to the other side. 25 does have some bookmark functionality. But its a bit clunky as you'd expect from a developer version. Annoyingly I cant find any import of bookmarks from earlier versions altho I did manage to dump my bookmarks (from an htm backup) into the bookmark manager but I don't see any way to manage or edit them from there. I see from inspecting the bookmark files the old opera .adr format is now changed - grrrr and no apparent backwards compatibility. If I get keen and have the time I might play with writing a bit of code to try to convert all my bookmarks .adr or htm into what I think is the new format but really it should not be necessary for users to do that. I certainly hope the Opera developers wont change the bookmark format from the existing developer version 25 when it becomes stable cause users who create their bookmarks want the ability to import them into the latest stable version. Also with the bookmark manager in v25 dev whats the difference between My Groups and My Folders? dont seem to be able to do anything with the My Groups part of it at all.
I haven't had a chance to look at chrome cache viewer but I'll do an install of that and see how that works with Opera cache inspection and control before finally deciding on re-installing an old version of Opera or trying Firefox.

Thought someone here might be able to address a couple of my concerns about the latest versions of Opera and the lack of functionality they - seem - to have compared to earlier versions.
Currently my main areas of concern are

1. bookmarks - yes there is now a bookmark bar but I have hundreds of bookmarks saved (there are lots of sites I have recorded and this is really useful when needed). Its important I don't lose this ability to have my browser also be my personal site reference tool but there is no way I know of to import bookmarks from early versions of Opera into the latest Opera versions - does anybody know of a way to do this.

2. entering opera:cache in the URL to inspect/access files websites are dumping on my computer no longer works. This is a really basic feature all browsers should have and one I like just in terms of principle if for no other reason: its my computer and I want to be aware of and in control of whats on it. There is no way I know of to access these cache files in the latest versons of Opera - does anybody know of any way to access those cache files in the latest versions of Opera.
   Thanks