"" @operasucksn How did they find out what the majority of the users wanted? How did they come to the conclusion that a stash is what the majority of the users wanted?
By analyzing millions of data sets send by Opera usage statistics. Enligthened enough?""
So you want to tell me that analyzing usage statistics yielded "The most users want a stash". Laughable.
""But don't complain, that this or that is missing""
Normally I wouldn't, but it was there, don't talk like there has never been bookmark management and they needed to implement it from scratch. They simply took it away for no good reason, didn't they?

""But its not Xmas for users.""

I don't think it's christmas-ish for a user to click a button to export bookmarks. Looks like Opera simply doesn't want users to have an easy way to switch to another browser ^^

"" @operasucksn How did they find out what the majority of the users wanted? How did they come to the conclusion that a stash is what the majority of the users wanted?

By analyzing millions of data sets send by Opera usage statistics. Enligthened enough?""

So you want to tell me that analyzing usage statistics yielded "The most users want a stash". Laughable.

""But don't complain, that this or that is missing""

Normally I wouldn't, but it was there, don't talk like there has never been bookmark management and they needed to implement it from scratch. They simply took it away for no good reason, didn't they?

""Exporting stuff isn't a priority when basic features like the ones mentioned before aren't finished yet.""

How come every other browser has these basic features? The above sounds like we're talking about an all new browser here?

Why would I publish a browser which lacks normal bookmark stuff and then tell people that other features are more important?

Ever thought of the possibility to implement everything and then releasing it?

Comprehension:

Opera had a perfect normal way of managing bookmarks, then some guy decides it would be great to erase that functionality and shove a "stash" down the throats of users who surely did not want such a thing.

When users are complaining about the lack of e.g. exporting bookmark functionality, they get told that it's not that important..LOL

Did i miss something? Was the original bookmark functionality broken, so that it had to be replaced with "stash"?

And now that users want the old stuff back, it's not that important.

How did they find out what the majority of the users wanted? How did they come to the conclusion that a stash is what the majority of the users wanted?

Is anyone supposed to understand this? Please enlighten me.

I'm working on the script right now, but since we have a Browser Extension specialist in here, he is well capable of creating such a script by himself and publish it for the whole opera community. So no, I will not post it here for sure because it's not that important, right?

So, just for clarification: I can't export my stash data right now, because it's not that important?
Spot on.

What would you expect from a company who lets mods like this into the open....

Figured out a way to convert the stash.db into a firefox-readable html. Need to create a python script for that, so thx opera devs, i have way too much freetime anyway ^^.

If the script is ready and working, I will publish it somewhere for the next poor souls who just want to leave a bad browser.

Oh, and I just learned that this is only a tip and trick forum, so we really should not try and go over Christophs abilities, he's just a mod with no knowledge of developing software.

sound of crickets

"some features like exporting stuff"

That's what I'm talking about Have fun moderating a forum for a broken piece of code. Bye.

So, just for clarification: I can't export my stash data right now, because it's not that important?

Well, I have been using Opera since Version 5, today is the day I will abandon [it]

Why am I posting this, while knowing nobody cares about that?

Because [] devs at opera thought it would be a good idea to not let me export my bookmarks to a format which is readable by firefox.

Are you for real? No export button for the stash?

My stash file is a mere 150 MB and now I am supposed to fiddle with a sqlite manager? (Which I already did, but still can't import the stash data into firefox,because the exported format ALSO sucks)

[]

Seriously, the people who decided to rape opera like this should be fired and banned from software development forever..what a crying shame.

Just abandon opera, they deserve it, it's dead, some clueless suits killed it.

Ok, that's it. I will be busy the next few days, manually importing the urls from the stash into firefox....thx again opera devs, well done.

tl;dr: Opera sucks big time, doesn't let you export the stash data, preventing you from switching to another browser.

[mod edits: Watch your tone!]