Hi!

I, like most, have a few issues with the new Opera. But I guess if the Opera team thought this was a good move for their software, who are we to blame them?

Anywho.. Im from Sweden so when I use the search shortcut for wikipedia, it searches the Swedish wiki. But I mostly read stuff in English so I want to change the search to use the English search page instead.
Is this possible?

I know I can create a new search with a different letter but its nice to have it consistent to other browsers that also use "w" for Wikipedia.

cheers!

Originally posted by LeoCG:

Imho bookmarks are a very outdated and less useful feature because, among other reasons, they demand spending time organazing them, deciding if belongs to a or b or both, etc. And, in the final, you use them once or twice.

I really dont know what's so outdated about bookmarks? Do you mean that people dont need to save addresses any longer? I , sadly, HAD a great collection of bookmarks and used them often and had no problem organizing them. So just because the basic users only visit a handful of popular sites I shouldnt be able to save as many sites as I want to visit at a later time?
I really need my bookmarks but there are far too many to have on speed dial or the QAB, and I only saved the .adr file so I cant even import them without reinstalling Opera 12.16 and exporting them.

Opera Dev-team, are you just ignoring your old user base in the hunt for growth and simplicity?

Yeah, I cant understand how they even can remove bookmarks. Also, custom quick search, doesnt chrome/firefox have those as well?

Sure, Opera 17 is fast, reliable and has very little compatibility issues from what I can gather. But all the features (-quickbar) that I used and loved to use are gone... The question now is, change to another browser or hang around hoping for more features.

Thank you for all the replys.

@LinuxMint7: That post just says they were doing "under the hood" changes, not how you interface with Opera. Sure compability issues have been a problem for Opera users for a long time but it has gotten better.

@Pesala: Of course I didnt literally mean it had become Chrome/Firefox. I've already enabled the Quick Access Bar but cant see why it had to be hidden in the first place. And according to the link you posted it seems quite difficult to get bookmarks and bookmark folders working and I dont want all my bookmarks in the QAB or speed dial, I've got waay too many for that.

No, I dont think its a different action, in my previous version of Opera it just knew what to do. Closed a tab -> reopen it, delete a mail -> undelete it, write some text -> delete it. Worked really well and was one of the best features in Opera imho.

I recently installed Opera 17 and everything good about Opera is changed.

Why do you have to change undo from ctrl+z to the backwards shift+t? Undo is universally ctrl+z!

You've taken away the email client so I have to install another program and have even more icons on the Windows bar.

You've taken away bookmarks!? And I cant even import them back since the importer is grayed out!

You've even changed where in the right menu copy is, and I can no longer dubble click next to a tab to get a new tab..

A lot of things that I thought was great with Opera, gone! In one version update.. Why not quit and join the other browser companies, you are almost them anyway.

Sorry for all the negativity.