@maxdule

• 2 work boxes
• 2 laptops
• one home machine
• a phone,
• a tablet.

It takes quite awhile to copy bookmarks. (especially since you have to stop and figure out which is the current one - then which is the right computer). If you spend 10 mins a day trying to keep bookmarks in sync, that is a hour a week, 52 hours a year, 520 hrs in a decade. That is 21 days every 10 years you will spend doing nothing but fixing Opera's mess.

Ya, it is time we had Speed Dial Sync. The backup to "other dials" is nice, but a modern browser without sync is sad.

@maxdule Yes, I rarely use other bookmarks other than speed dial folders. If you visit a site you want to visit later, but don't need it forever - SpeedDial is the way to go every time. The only way to keep them in sync with opera is to constantly edit your bookmarks 'other dials' folder.

To differentiate between speed dials and bookmarks is kinda silly.

I was thinking about trying Opera again. Has the speed dial not mirroring issue been fixed yet? (I have 7 main machines - last thing I want to do is manage bookmarks 50 times a day)

My solution is to run the portable version of Opera and just dump the whole thing in Dropbox. Works great on fast fiber connection, but when I am the road on public wifi, it's pretty slow. I tried moving the cache outside of Dropbox, but it then i have to login to opera sync account every time I switch computers (apparently session credentials are stored in the cache).

It's a kludge, but, it syncs speed dial bookmarks - that makes me happy.

any way to turn off the speed dial spam that has shown up in the latest release?

Even if you click 'don't show again', it comes right back on next speed dial preview.

@ploink Ya, speed dial should just start as the root of bookmarks.

Really surprising this hasn't been done.

Makes you wonder don't it? 9000 features that no one was asking for later, and still no Speed dial bookmark sync.

None of the hacks for this work any more.

Is this possible at all through an extension or external program? I just don't think you can get real time access to update the bookmark file to fix the sync. It would have to be after you close Opera to have a program fix the bookmark file.

You don't have to do it a folder at a time.

-> Bookmarks
-> "other speed dials".
-> Wade through and figure out which one is the right one (I have 12).

• Click on the correct folder to open it
• Control-A on the entire displayed batch on the right -- Drag-n-drop them to the real folder you want.

Seems like the new behavior is to open closed windows too. Is there a way to turn that off and just got back to reopen closed tabs? (in the current window).

If I grab a tab, drag it to a new screen - that used to present the new instance window as maximized. Now it is not, so you have to manually maximize it. This is a move I make 50 times a day.

The problem is that the tab you detached is now just enough smaller, that reaching up to close, max, or minimize it, often ends with you hitting the close button of the window below Opera instead.

Is there some kind of setting for this?

screen shot shows a fresh tab pulled out and how it is no longer maximized.

my settings:

@martyren hmmm.
You mean, just grabbing a tab and sliding it left or right? I am able too. (I do have all the new tab island stuff turned off)

Really surprising this hasn't been done.

Makes you wonder don't it? 9000 features that no one was asking for later, and still no Speed dial bookmark sync.

None of the hacks for this work any more.

Is this possible at all through an extension or external program? I just don't think you can get real time access to update the bookmark file to fix the sync. It would have to be after you close Opera to have a program fix the bookmark file.

@leocg because:
a) it is annoying as hell
b) it covers content
c) the number of times I want to login with Google is 1 out of 10million
d) It requires the user to take action to cover the popup
e) I'd rather have opera issue viagra popups....atleast it might be something useful.

I see DuckDuckGo will block Google's 'Invasive, Annoying' Sign-In Popups
https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1605919034150617091

Any chance Opera can do that?

@kanikavatsyayan Well, that is pretty dumb to ask for the same info that is freely available on Wikipedia.

Opera is traded as OPRA on Nasdaq. You can look at the last financials here: https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/opera-limited-announces-second-quarter-2021-financial-results-revenue-growth-exceeds

I would like to know if anyone anywhere has ever found any privacy violation by Opera?

• tracking user urls?
• tracking user searches?
• sending any private data (other than required by Sync and News services enabled by the user)
• tracking other than telemetry crash data.

It just seems so disingenuous for anyone to attack Opera with Zero evidence.

Opera has more competitors now than it did 10 years ago. There are a dozen competing browsers out there now. That is a dozen companies with proactive social media people to spread FUD.

Reinstalled - reconfigured - finally went away.

All though speed dials still don't sync