@blackbird71 said in Creating Polls:

I use Hekasoft (any time I make a signficant change to any of my browsers' settings or data) to manually back up the relevant personal data/settings to an external hard drive.

Had to look this one up. Looks like a good program. I don't use Freefilesync as a "Syncing" backup for Opera, rather I just make a mirror backup of the 4 copies of Opera (Three of 56.xxx and one of 12.18). But with Opera's syncing capability I've never had to restore a version of 56.xxx or its predecessors. I have 12.18 (Used for email only) installed on my e: drive including the profile and when I need to "Restore" it I can just copy it or the backup to a new computer. Works great for me. I usually backup at least every other day.

The program does look interesting in that you can use it to backup all your browsers (I have IE, Edge, FF also).

Where Freefilesync shines for me is I keep everything important to me in d:\My Documents and I sync between my laptop and desktop. Works great.

On another note, I'm sending you a PM here with a weird Opera 12.18 problem.

@blackbird71 said in Creating Polls:

Damn, and I'm a numbers guy and you threw them into my face! LOL
Yeah, to be truthful I've run some polls elsewhere and then questioned
the results for some of the same reasons you mentioned.

@blackbird71 said in Creating Polls:
But then, I'd also like the browser to have built-in browser data file backup/restore features as well. Etc, etc.

I do hope I could search here and find where you made that suggestion! haha

BTW, I use https://freefilesync.org for all my backups!

@blackbird71 said in Creating Polls:

One problem with polls in forums is that they only provide a cross-section of those motivated to respond on the topic as worded, a cross-section which is further skewed by representing only those people who participate in the forum in the first place. Unfortunately, as a measure of what "most" users really want or how they use their systems, such polls are usually well off target.

I agree. And most all of the users of this forum I would consider some form of advanced user of Opera so they
wouldn't probably be the "Typical" user so it would be skewed that way. But still.................

Truthfully, I really only want a poll here to ask the one question, "Do you want to by able to sync your speeddial?"

I've never seen any post where someone was against this and have seen multiple times where someone has voiced
that they wanted the feature.

I think polls are a great way to determine the overall consensus of users.

Wish we could do them here.

@intlv said in Search bar does not select all on click:

I am on version 55.0.2994.61. Previously when you click into the URL/search bar, the current URL gets "select all'd" and you can just start typing a new address. Now, a text input cursor just appears at the end of the URL string. I am not sure if this was intentional or not.

I can confirm this happening to me also on 55.xxx and earlier versions. I never figured out why it happened.

I don't think it has happened on 56.xxx yet.

Woohoo. Opera 56.xxx gave us the keyboard option for duplicating tabs.

This is going to make my browsing that much easier.

Thanks Opera.

Well, this turned out to be MUCH easier then I thought.
Not sure where I got those parameters in 12.18 on a win 7
machine but was trying to use them in a Win 10 machine.

Hell, all I had to do was point it to the launcher.

Problem solved.

On Windows 10 I have the default browser set to Opera 55. The default protocols of http & https is set to Opera, the exttensions htm & html is set to Opera.

When I try to set the protocols in 12.18 Internet Explorer always pops up as the default.

So I tried setting in the Open with other applications and can't get that to work.

What do I need to do or try? Can I edit one of Opera's ini files?

I certainly don't like the results you get here when searching.
I wanted to voice my opinion that I wanted to add syncing of
extensions to Opera. I know this should go to the suggestions
forum so I head over there and then I did a search and it searches
all of the forums and gives you results that are years old.

Some forum software that I frequent lets you search the whole
board, or you can search individual sub-forums. AND, you can
filter by age.

I did find a 4 month old thread on it in suggestions and
commented on it there.

Just got a new laptop so had to install Opera. I was very
pleased with sync and how it brought everything over to
my new install. Copying and pasting my speeddial was a
breeze.

Extensions. Damn that was a bit of work. First I had to keep
looking at my desktop to see in which order they were in
so I could get them the same. Then a couple of them I
had to search where I got them from (Opera or Chrome
extension store).

It wasn't a killer, but it was a little bit of a hassle.