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@leocg

O.K., and thanks. The explanation makes sense and fills in that gap.

Let me then ask this, if you or anyone else may have the answer. I tried to graft the section for an installed, known to be working prior version extension -- from one Opera ver. 99 to another Opera ver. 99 on a different machine. This will be a crude, inexact representation, but close enough, and hopefully the idea will come across:

This (example):

in Opera, under \Data\Profile\Data

\Extensions
\bdallnkjchemfeicfdneeaidongbpdnj
\1.1_0
\metadata

\kgodbpmaebgibhnnejlcmcfpfenfmfo \0.1.1_0 \data \icons \interface \resource \vendor \codemirror \lib \mode \sql \sql \lib \chrome \metadata

I realize that these extensions are not explicitly identified (until you look in the Manifest.json under 'Name:' for each), otherwise they are just getting some code ID string as seen above.

But the graft wasn't seen, and did not work. My speculation was that when the extension got installed, something essential also went into some Opera registry file(s) for them ?

Another question was whether there was something in these sections to click on, that might install what is in one of these older, transferred sections ?

I'm just trying to extrapolate from some brute force type hacks that I think I may have managed to do with other browsers in the past -- although their designs and structures were different. Sometimes such a thing might work, provided one had some basic grasp of the rules.

Just gave it another try, this time using Bookmarks Sorter ver. 2.1, from the Chrome Web Store -- which should have been installable and usable thanks to the "Install Chrome Extensions" extension for Opera. I did not invoke Bookmarks itself, which remained available for callup in the Sidebar. Right clicked on Bookmarks Sorter under Extensions, which opened a checkbox panel. Left the Speed Dial unchecked, as I did not want to affect that. (It was tremendously briefer -- under 30 entries -- and can be rearranged easily enough by dragging entries wherever I wanted them onscreen, via the mouse pointer.) The Bookmarks Sorter extension seems to have ignored the Bookmarks Bar bookmarks proper, which remained alphabetized from the accident, despite the box for sorting it having been checked. I think the extension may have succeeded in restoring "Other Bookmarks" (which is HUGE, and the largest section) back to By Last Date Entered. If so, guess I would settle for that. Will have to compare to the pre-accident Bookmarks file to be sure of this. By this point, I think the entire Bookmarks file must exceed something like 7.5 MB in size. Can't even estimate how many entries that would add up to.

Additional queries:

Do Bookmarks (the .HTML file of them) follow the same standardized format for pretty much Every browser out there ? I do seem to notice extensive similarities.

The Date Created info seems to reside in the individual bookmark entry 'Add Date' xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, such as ADD_DATE="1322971515" (?)
But I don't know how you decypher what each of these actually mean.

@mitranasiri if you open opera settings and type "shortcuts" into search box top right, in the results should be "Configure shortcuts". under that list that opens when you click configure shortcuts will be "toggle full screen". set a key bind or look what key is set there and try it. opera should toggle between full screen (i.e. hide the taskbar etc and show it full screen) or just maximized with taskbar showing. Try it and see what happens... it is either normal behaviour or you have some issue, but may help to drill it down a little, I think i am stating the obvious and you probably know this stuff better than me...