to all at opera, thank you
i am a happy cat!

same thing here, on os x 10.8.5
the odd thing is i backed up the opera files, erased and then did a new clean install with the same result.
no icons will appear in the bookmark bar.

thank you Opera!
looking for a better solution for my iPhone i tried opera mini.
i am so happy with it that i decided to give opera a try on my mac.
i have stopped using safari for a week now with no major issues.
i dumped chrome and never will go back.
i will next try opera on my ubuntu laptop may be saying goodbye to firefox next.

i am very impressed with opera.
it is super fast and very stable.

takes a little bit to learn your way around but i was able to accomplish everything i wanted in a few hours. now i am just having fun.

thanks again.

ps. i hope this is an appropriate place to post this. i am posting this here because i could not fine a better place to say thank you.