Opera browser 12.15

Just downloaded and updated Opera to 12.15. Have to say I like it better than Chrome or Safari but one thing about it bothers me. And that is it still can't import Safari bookmarks as an HTML file. It imports them from "bookmarks.plist" which ends up making a mess.

Has anyone figured out an easy way to organize the imported bookmarks without having to re-do all the bookmark folders? Other than that one thing it seems like this version might be a winner. Give it a try if you feel like messing around with your bookmarks.

Interesting. Have not been messing with Opera much lately. Think I will grab it. If I can figure a way to do what you are after with bookmarks I will let you know.


Edit: I see what you mean. It puts them all in Safari Bookmarks then sub catagories BookmarksBar and BookmarksMenu. You can go into Opera's Bookmarks manager and drag things around but that will take some time in my case! Will see if I can find another way. Maybe some 3rd party app.

@Dennis:

I got it figured out. Opera has a bookmark manager that is not exactly easy to understand. Once I found the "secret" to lining up and placement of the individual bookmarks, it looks real good now. The secret is to select "Properties" (a Windows term) from each folder and tell it to place the bookmark or folder on the bookmarks bar. You also have to make sure the bookmarks bar is shown in preferences. Lots of unnecessary work. They could have made it much more simple. ;P

Used Opera for years on 'nix and OSX but 12.16 on the 2013 Air (or maybe OSX 10.4.8) is not very usable. The best way I can describe it is being like an old Win98 machine with too little memory. Sites load just fine, but finger and mouse scrolling are horrible - jerks, pauses and sometimes just freezes for five or ten seconds. Then, suddenly, it will clear up and work fine for two or three pages.

Same version on a MMini with same OSX works fine.

Memory piechart shows half to be free, cpu usage is 1 or 2 percent, the cpu bargraph of the cores is single or double bars - very low, since no other apps except mail are usually running.

Loaded Firefox for a control and it works fine. Even acting like this really is a Win machine and rebooting to get a clean system makes no difference. Dump and reload didn't change anything. So, either my hardware or OSX doesn't like Opera at the moment. Hate that, since it has always been a fast and clean browser.

Guess I will use FF until someone somewhere notices.

Dump and reload didn't change anything. So, either my hardware or OSX doesn't like Opera at the moment. Hate that, since it has always been a fast and clean browser.

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You're right about the sporadic scrolling with a mouse. Seems to work on and off and it really doesn't matter which type of mouse is used. I can't verify if the same problem occurs with a trackpad since I no longer have one to use. Other than that annoyance, Opera is fast and I do like the separate search engine box better than what both Safari and Chrome use. I suppose I should give FF a try. I used it exclusively on my Linux boxes.

I dropped Opera after they went with a Chromium base since that meant removing much of the functionality I liked (Opera Link) and need (bookmarks...seriously). They have yet to reintroduce these things to the new builds which don't appear to offer much that Chrome doesn't with an extension of two added. I'm starting to think that this move to a Chromium base was the worst decision they could have possibly made.

Agreed 100% with Van. Since they went to the Chrome engine few like it. It's just not the same browser both Van and I and many others loved. Sad really. I am not even updating any more. Keeping the last Presto engine version.

dtravis7 said:

Agreed 100% with Van. Since they went to the Chrome engine few like it. It's just not the same browser both Van and I and many others loved. Sad really. I am not even updating any more. Keeping the last Presto engine version.

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Ah so. Another wonderment gets answered. I had missed the underlying switch of Opera to the Chrome engine, somehow (probably has something to do with my current class load). But, after using Opera for years, and being solid as a rock, it suddenly began to crash on every Mac I have. I mean windows-like crash - click, disappear, Non Blue Screen of Death appears with a message offering to send your crash data to some black hole in the sky. It was so bad on my old Air that I had no choice but to swap browsers. This one isn't quite so bad, but it still hoses far too often. Or did. This is coming from FF.

Doing some googling at some dates, I can't be absolutely positive, but I am fairly sure the crashes started about the time they switched.

Sad.

I just install Opera and notice its fast using VPN and ADBlock... Now my mistake is deleted Opera Bookmark on left of tool bar, trying to get it back ? Anyone know ?
I dont see that I can Edit Book mark on Opera Broswer 12.5..
Help Pls