WHY??? Was there something wrong with the way it was???? This is not an acceptable change. Not at all. You know.... "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Seriously, this is crazy having to do an extra step to see your favorites list. Sorry for the rant but dang it, this is just plain wrong.

I am trying to set up a Chrome browser to match my Opera browser. I have the Chrome browser set up with the FVD Speed Dial and I want to copy or import my Opera speed dials to Chrome which is using the FVD add on. Is there any way to do this?

@leocg Well thanks to burnout426 posting the link to the update page, I finally found the X which was on the opposite side of the page. Being that I was removing the icons one at a time, I never saw the X on the right side of the page. I'm glad this is resolved. Thanks for the help.

@violetphoenix Thanks for the tip. But I have decided that it is what it is and I can't change it so I will learn to live with it. But I still think it was an unnecessary change.

I installed FVD Speed Dial and I cannot find a way to make it the default browser window. I have Opera as default but when I start the browser I get the the normal Opera browser and not the FVD Speed Dial browser. Also, I would like to know how to use the animated backgrounds in the FVD Speed Dial browser as well. Can either or both on these options be activated? Thanks.

Thanks for the information. It would be nice if the next update had this fixed being that just turning off the bookmark bar is not enough to fix this. Thanks again.

Thanks again. I couldn't see the forest for the trees. I finally figured out that I needed to do a restore down to the browser to see the desktop so I could drop that icon on it. I'm just used to doing a right click to add a shortcut to the desktop as I did in IE11.

@burnout426

Thank you very much for that information! I hope that it will speed up the process of setting up Chrome. I am having to use Chrome to view many of the demonstration videos I encounter on a lot of websites like Amazon. So many of them will not play in Opera. But I still prefer Opera to let you know.

@nikaalexandrov On the last Opera update, the bookmarks bar was placed at the top of the bookmark selection list. Even if you select the folder that you want to place the bookmark in, the bookmarks bar will automatically turn itself on. It is a pain in the a**, The Opera software developers need to fix this as soon as possible. There is at this point nothing that you or any other end user of Opera can do to fix this in their settings. We are stuck with it for now.

Thanks for the information and your time gathering those links. Yes, I can play a lot of files on line such as files on the SoundCloud website but I want to listen to some mp3 files in a forum I hang around in but I always have to download those, listen to them and then I have to go to my download folder and delete them. That might sound like a trivial thing to most but if I find a lot of mp3 files I want to listen to then it gets to be a hassle.

Yes, the override option would be very nice for those files. Hopefully, someone is watching this thread that can make that happen... and soon.

@andrew84 You really should start a new thread for this. This is similar but quite different in what you are asking about.

@leocg said in Is there a way to backup Opera completely?:> @graywoulf Pretty much like that. You may need to set up some things again but, basically, you should have everything back.

Just a thought. The PC I am doing the clean install on is my laptop. I also have a Dell desktop that is running Opera and I am wondering if I use the profile folder from the laptop and replace the profile folder in the desktop PC, would that then make the desktop PC's Opera setup the same as the laptop? Like I said, just a thought. Thanks!

@burnout426. Wow, that is a lot to digest. If I am understanding what you are saying, I need to run Opera one last time before I wipe my drive, then shut Opera down and backup the entire Profile folder again. Am I close?

Thanks for all of the information and tips on what to do. Although Revo Uninstaller lists both versions, I did a search for Opera on my HD and I only see one folder. That being said, I think it is best to leave well enough alone at this time.

In consideration that I am close to doing a clean install of Windows 10, I will just wait for a clean install of Opera as well. One thing I noticed while looking through the search findings was that I saw a folder labeled "Opera Backup". The date on the folder was 9/2018 and the folder was empty. Did Opera have it's own built in backup application at one time? Just curious.

I have both Opera Stable 54.0.2952.51 and Opera Stable 67.0.3575.115 installed on my laptop. Can I safely uninstall the older one without affecting the current version using Revo Uninstaller?

@leocg Thank you. I found it and I am backing up the entire Opera Stable folder now. So, after my clean install of Windows 10 and after reinstalling Opera, do I just replace that same folder in the new version with the backed up folder to put everything back as it was?

@leocg Thanks for your reply and information. I opened C:\Program Files\Opera but there is not a profile folder. I did a search within the Opera folder for "Profile" to check sub folders but still, no Profile folder. Could it be somewhere else?

I need to do a clean install of my Windows 10 and I would like to know if there is a way to back up the entire browser and all of my bookmarks and settings all in one package. I just want to be able to reinstall it after I'm done with the clean Win 10 installation as easy as possible and to get back online as fast as possible. Thanks.

I don't usually install Windows updates but I let Windows install a few of them yesterday. I immediately started seeing strange problems such as I could not access the browser from my Mozilla Thunderbird email client until I specified which program for it to use. That has never happened before.

And now, when I click on my bookmarks, I only get a few old ones that say they were imported from Windows Explorer and all the rest of my bookmarks are not there unless I click on "Open full Bookmarks view" then they all are there like nothing ever happened.

Is there a way to fix the bookmarks feature?

Thank you for the instructions and links. Happy New Year!