Does anyone remember back when Delicio.us actually worked? When you could add a sidebar to your browser for bookmarks, and they were sorted by the tags you gave them?

Honestly, I haven't been able to use bookmarks properly since that service went down the drain years ago.

I think it would be nifty, and also fit into the direction Opera is going, to implement something like this. Maybe not a sidebar, but a way to tag your bookmarks. You could organize by the tags, and then search by the tags.

Folders can only do so much, and sometimes you can't remember if you put a sewing tutorial video in crafts, sewing, videos, or tutorials. With tags they would show up in all 4 locations.

Things would just be easier.

If you meant me, yes, I know the difference. I just wanted to clarify that that users isn't actually connected to the company officially, because yikes.

Oh my god leocg should not be a mod. His lack of effort is a joke. That on top of bad advice..... To even suggest backing up %appdata% when you want to do a clean install instead of having opera give you the option to backup your bookmarks??? I mean... if anything... a browser should have it's own backup feature. But okay I will humor you lmao. Fill me in how how replacing an appdata folder would fix a broken profile when you are trying to do a clean install. (Hint: It won't!!)

Anyway blackbird71, thank you for taking the time to actually reply.

The freezing issue fixes when I close the browser, but usually I have to manually close it with the task manager. The black screen covers the whole browser, as seen here. The top part is the address bar.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 with, as of a few days ago the most recent drivers (clean install). The problem has been happening before and after I updated them.

No, I haven't messed with profiles as there is no backup feature in opera but I guess theres no harm in that now. Tho I am kind of scared to use Opera now though. I really wish there was a backup feature. (that wasn't appdata as thats solves nothing with issues like mine...)

No. Firefox just... lags weird? and the browser actually crashes and just... closes? Opera... is different.. It's hard to explain. Chrome is the best bet I guess right now.... but tabs in Chrome crash. Up until an update in September Opera ran fast and perfectly for me.

I don't know. I really love Opera despite all my anger towards it right now.. So I am sure I will keep trying to use it hoping it will work again. I will try to do a clean install tomorrow, and report back in a week or so? Feel free to shoot any other ideas you have my way though.

Thank you for a reply that actually feels like it wants to help. I appreciate it.

Version: 41.0.2353.56

Update stream: Stable

System: Windows 10 64-bit (WoW64)

Reiterating this all started around a September update.

If I think back, I first noticed it deleting settings. I noticed that flash wasn't working and that I needed to re-enable "plug-ins." It defaults to "Click to play" despite the setting I want saying it is "(recommended)." This happens a few times a week? I honestly don't know exactly how much because HTML5 is a thing now, so running into flash isn't as common as it used to be. (Also on that note, click to play doesn't actually work.)

I also noticed it would turn off the VNP setting, and sometimes it would turn on the ad blocker, which I do not want to use. It probably changed other stuff, but as it didn't cause inconvenience, I didn't notice.

My browser also started to freeze up. The scrollbar would randomly disappear. The screen would sometimes go all black. Sometimes when I would open a new tab the tab would be blank and I need to clone it to see anything else.

I use extensions, but opera deleted them all. This is what set me off to ask for help, although I admit I came of rude. This on top of the page freezing and settings issues.... I was frustrated, and the other users dismissiveness just set me off even further. I am sorry for that.

I have "Synchronization: You're currently signed in [...]" and "Background sync: Allow recently closed sites to finish sending and receiving data (recommended)" and am not aware of any other sync settings so... yes? I think i have sync enabled.

Today I woke up to find all of my bookmarks have been deleted as well.

I use Avast free.

Windows is working fine and I am on 1511. (I didn't like the Anniversary update so I rolled back. I don't believe these problems are related, though.)

Also my Opera menu bar just went red... so I guess there is an update. So I will probably click to install that later tonight unless you think I shouldn't.

Again, I am sorry I am so abrasive, but when a browser you love and trust starts to delete things, and just previously you were looking for a way to back up your data, only to find it doesn't have the option to do that natively.... It is pretty irritating. If I had the option to back everything up, I would have just done a clean reinstall.... And even if that didn't work... I wouldn't be in the position I am now having lost everything.

Continuation of: https://forums.opera.com/post/110991

Opera is deleting everything. Been broken since September. First got annoyed enough to post when it deleted my extensions. Topic above is related, but apparently it isn't. Sorry I am so abrasive, but I am really annoyed right now, and leocg is infuriating to deal with.

Also leocg, I need to know... Do you own opera? Do you work on it? Or are you just a hired help... because the fact that you exist makes me not want to use this product alone. I don't really like suporting companies with terrible customer service.

Also, I don't know why I am bothering posting a new topic, WHEN IT IS BASICALLY THE SAME ISSUE, and if I know leocg is just going to be the one to reply to it lmao. You don't help. I would rather someone else reply to me please. Thanks.

Actually it is related and the same discussion because Opera deleted my settings, which is also when the speed dial page changed. I had it up until that point.

I posted about my issues in September on the update, and the reply I got was unhelpful. ... lol I found it and IT WAS YOU.

http://i.imgur.com/4seXchk.png

But it wasn't helpful lol. I also assume this is related, because opera deleted my extensions after I was already having issues with the browser, but ever since September it has been deleting my settings. (Why do I have to enable flash EVERY day. I don't want to click to play?????)

Anyway....... I noticed in fact, that now my bookmarks are gone. I am pretty annoyed... like... I don't know. I don't like being rude and abrasive but I am so annoyed. I searched back in September when all this bullshit started to happen for ways to backup my bookmarks with no luck because I wanted to just reinstall my profiles. Clean start. See if that helps. But nope!! Not possible to backup your settings on Opera for some reasons jfc omg I am annoyed.

This also happened last night and then it crashed:

http://i.imgur.com/uMFppp8.png

Another issue I have been having is tabs won't load. Blank white page. I need to clone them in order to see the contents. Like all this has been going on for a while. Loosing my extensions just set me off, and now my bookmarks....

Since opera deleted all my extensions I am just going to attempt to use Firefox AGAIN I guess. I tried to wait it out after the September update hoping an update would fix it.... but it is just getting worse??? Neither browser works well for me, but I stuck through it because I honestly LOVE Oprea, or did... for the past 8 years. I used Opera because it worked... but.... I mean if neither browser is going to work right I guess I would prefer one that at least lets you export your settings and bookmarks and all that jazz??? Why put users in this position when the browser starts to fuck up? It makes it so users can't even effectively trouble shoot because they will LOSE EVERYTHING. Tho I guess Opera took care of that for me by going ahead and deleting everything... but its too late my trust feels broken.

Hopefully opera can get it's shit together.... This makes me sad.

I honestly just gave up, I will make backups though...... but now I am annoyed again.

Did opera get rid of the speed dial news page? It is gone after Opera deleted my settings, so maybe it did update without my permission idk. All I see there is some dumb "person news" page I can click on the left now... but can I get this back on speed dial?

The reason it's so much better on speed dial is... I don't think to look at news, but I open tabs constantly, so just seeing it there would make me.... read it.

Also opera has been freaking out lately and not working right. I think it was the September update? but ever since then its just been weird....

http://i.imgur.com/Zl2gXIm.png

so i guess its probably lost for good? if so i may just back up this folder and then reinstall stuff and see if i can dig through for settings if i can figure out which is which.

i am so stressed out though because i have so many stylish styles i made and stupidly didn't save to userstyles (mostly because i stole some of the codes from other styles and theres no post privately option there...) & other extentions with similar stories that have data saved in them that took a lot of time and effort to set up...

thank you for your help though

There are folders in the extentions folder

Nope. I closed Opera normally when I went to play Overwatch, and then opened it afterwards and they were gone.

What is the path for this?

How do I check this? This is kind of what I was thinking so I want to know where my possible settings may be stored and if anything can be restored.

Same account as always. No other users on this PC. My bookmarks are all still here. My setting I noticed are gone too. (VPN was disabled, flash was back on by default.)