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I'm trying to find out how to export my bookmarks from Opera and all I all I find is the same article saying,

"To export data from Opera, follow these steps:
Go to Settings > Import and exportFile > Import and export.
Choose the file name, change the location if you want to find it easily, and click "Save".
Import the data file according to the instructions of your other browser."

The problem is that no where in my setting does the word "Export" appear. The only available option is to import.
Please help.

That was too easy. Thank you, lando242!

When I click on "About Opera" the window opens and it says it's checking for updates. After checking for 2 or so minutes it usually says, "An error occurred while checking for updates"
Sometimes it actually says that an update is available, but it doesn't provide anything to click on to install the update. I'm copying and pasting examples of both below. Any clues or advice is appreciated. Thanks.

EXAMPLE 1:
Version information

Version: 37.0.2178.43 - An error occurred while checking for updates
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 8.1 64-bit (WoW64)
Browser identification

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36 OPR/37.0.2178.43

Paths

Install: C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera
Profile: C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Cache: C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Thanks to everyone who built the new Opera for computers!
In memory of Geir Ivarsøy. Copyright 1995-2016 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved.
Made possible by the Chromium open source project and other open source software.
EULA
Privacy policy

EXAMPLE 2:
Version information

Version: 37.0.2178.43 - New version 40.0.2308.90 is available
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 8.1 64-bit (WoW64)
Browser identification

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36 OPR/37.0.2178.43

Paths

Install: C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera
Profile: C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Cache: C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Thanks to everyone who built the new Opera for computers!
In memory of Geir Ivarsøy. Copyright 1995-2016 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved.
Made possible by the Chromium open source project and other open source software.
EULA
Privacy policy

Yes, I had been wondering why it wasn't updating to 40. I guess joshl's comment explains that.

The good news is, I fixed it. I'm a total caveman when it comes to tech, but after scouring the internet I tried a few things I'd found.

What worked was opening my task manager and taking a look at what was going on there.
I immediately noticed that my CPU was at 100% and that something called "DFS.Agent.Winservice" was bouncing around between 85-95% and nothing else was over 1%. So after researching to see what "DFS.Agent.Winservice" is, which is some sort of Dell encryption service, and checking to see if it was ok, I ended the task.
Everything went back to normal immediately and it's still working great as usual today.

I'm not sure if the power outage triggered something or why that service was going nuts, but I don't believe I use it for anything, so we'll see how it goes. I'll post another update in a week and let everyone know how it's going.

Thanks for trying, everyone!

Not sure if it's significant, but once a website does load, like I finally got Youtube to load, I can navigate around that site quick as usual. No hanging or any other problem.

No, I checked and Turbo is not on.

We had a storm last night and I believe we lost power as my pc was off this morning. Since turning it back on Opera will not load some webpages at all and others take close to 2 minutes. I'm not having this problem with my other browser, so I'm kind of lost as to what the problem could be. Thanks for any help.

This is what I get when I click "About Opera":

"Version information

Version: 37.0.2178.43 - An error occurred while checking for updates
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 8.1 64-bit (WoW64)
Browser identification

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36 OPR/37.0.2178.43

Paths

Install: C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera
Profile: C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Cache: C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable"

twitch videos on Opera (stable) won't play half the time. Like right now. I close the browser, relaunch the browser, go back to twitch, unblock it, AGAIN and nothing. Won't even register a click on the play button. It's really frustrating. I reported it to twitch, but never had this problem on the browser I'm sick of. I really want to make Opera my main, I like it, but help.
I'm not sure what is meant by "steps to duplicate the problem", but I duplicate it several times a day when I try to watch twitch on Opera. Oh, and having to unblock twitch every single time I get on isn't a good experience. Thank you for your time, in advance!

Opera for Windows
Windows 8.1
All of twitch