I second this. It was really convenient to press F4 to bring up the bookmarks, or CTRL-Z to reopen closed web pages – and now you can't.

I really doubt my computer is that bad. It runs everything without problem, it runs 3D games except the really demanding ones with all graphical enhancements switched on (and yes, I know a good part of that is due to the graphics card) and we are always being told that advancements in PC technology have stagnated due to the effects of the consoles. In short, except for a few games that are particularly high-spec, it works as well now as it did then.

Telling someone that they have to buy a new computer in order to run their web browser properly is just ridiculous!

You say Blink Opera is multi-process. Is that why when I open it loads of Opera processes appear in the Task Manager, the CPU usage shoots up and the PC gets slow?

Yes, that's pretty much it, but on a modern multi-core computer with a decent amount of RAM there should not really be any significant slow down.

Okay, I do have quite a few windows open, but my PC isn't that old. It's seven years old, but things haven't advanced that much in that time, it handles everything else fine, and... okay, I'm just going to say it... Opera 12 never had any problems with them. Which makes the new Opera a big step back, not a step forward, for me.

You say Blink Opera is multi-process. Is that why when I open it loads of Opera processes appear in the Task Manager, the CPU usage shoots up and the PC gets slow?

I wrote the post when I was still angry, having just discovered the new bookmark system. The first I knew of all this was when Opera told me there was a new update, which I downloaded - so Opera jumped from version 12 to 25. A hell of a change, and literally the first I knew about the engine change at all.

I'm glad the programmers are still working on the bookmarks - there's clearly a lot to be done. More emphasis on usability, less on looking pretty, please.

So the sidebar isn't coming back? That's... disappointing, to say the least.

There are so many things wrong with the new bookmark system.

If you are using them as icons, they take up loads of space, so you can't see many on screen. Even if showing them in list format, they are still too spaced out and you don't get many on screen. A more compact format would be far better, both in the bookmarks window and the folder list.

I can drag to reorder bookmarks within a folder. But I cannot reorder the folders in the main bookmarks.

When this new version of Opera imported my old bookmarks, it put them in a folder called Imported Bookmarks. Why couldn't it just have put the folder structure at the 'root' level under My Folders? I had to recreate the folders and drag them in. For that matter, I was able to drag a frame around groups of bookmarks, but could only drag one at a time.

When my bookmarks were imported, it didn't preserve the order they were in. Of course, that order was forced to be alphabetical under the old Opera, but I was used to it. Now they are all randomly arranged in every folder. Now I do appreciate being able to rearrange bookmarks into any order I want, but in order to get back the structure I'm used to I have to drag them all individually into place! This is infuriating! At least have buttons to sort them in various orders, like alphabetical or date created.

The bookmarks take up the whole screen. A panel, like in the old Opera, lets you open multiple bookmarks without having to switch back each time.

You can't now switch between bookmarks and other things like history, downloads, etc.

The jump from the old Opera to the new one came as a surprise, a mostly unwelcome one. Opera, you should have implemented an improved version of the old bookmarks, not a new one that looks like it was designed for children.

They'd better put the panels back in. It's ridiculous for your bookmarks to take up the whole screen.