Improving Opera Bookmarks

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:27:28 -0500, you wrote:

>While I love Opera dearly I really dislike the Bookmark
interface.
>
>There are specifically two elements I find  MOST
annoying about this 
>interface:
>
>1) All the folders appear open without any ability to
close them making
>navigation burdensome when one has as many nested
folders as I do. Why 
>couldn't Opera ship with a more Windows Explorer type
interface with 
>configurable folders that could be opened or closed by
default? Is there any 
>way this could be done?
>
>2) When dragging/dropping a html file to a new folder,
the windows focus 
>immediately
>shifts to the destination folder by default. This is
particularly annoying
>when dragging a number of files as one has to
continually return to the
>folder from which one is moving files.
>
>In contrast, IMHO, both these complaints are remedied in
Firefox interface
>which in this is more user friendly in this regard.  I'm
thinking of using a
>third party application in the place of Opera but this
is a major pain and
>it would be far easier if there were a way of improving
just theses aspects.
>
>Thanx for any suggestions
>
>Wndy
>
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Speaking of bookmarks, is anyone else finding that since
version 8,
it's taking ages (about 15 seconds) to add a bookmark. 

I recall there was an integrity code fix done at the time,
but its now
as if Opera is either working with very small data buffers,
or
possibly doing sorting by default each time a bookmark is
added, only
to find when it's done that it's not required. What is more,
the
entire browser application is locked out until the add
bookmark window
eventually appears.

Regards
Colin Knight
Using Opera 8.5, build 7700 on Window 98
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Colin Knight wrote on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:07:42 +0000:
> Speaking of bookmarks, is anyone else finding that
since version 8,
> it's taking ages (about 15 seconds) to add a bookmark. 

I'm not seeing this behavior; adding a bookmark is virtually
instantaneous for my 550 kb book mark file. Maybe yours is
much
larger.

Version	8.5 	
Build	7700 	
Platform	Win32 	
System	Windows XP

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...... Original Message .......
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:37:50 -0800 "Marian
Beddill" <beddillnas.com> wrote:
>I gave up on bookmarks years ago.

I gave up sorting bookmakrs years ago.

I use Opera's bookmarks like M2 for email - when I bookmark
a site I use 
the nickname feature (for later use with shift+f2 or f2 or
f8) and I'm sure 
to use the area for text.  Then I just do a quicksearch and
let Opera show 
me the results.

With a sufficiently sophisticated search mechanism, manual
sorting becomes 
unnecessary.  I do wish I could save searches like M2
filters.

TjL

 
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On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:07:03 -0500, you wrote:

>Colin Knight wrote on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:07:42 +0000:
>> Speaking of bookmarks, is anyone else finding that
since version 8,
>> it's taking ages (about 15 seconds) to add a
bookmark. 
>
>I'm not seeing this behavior; adding a bookmark is
virtually
>instantaneous for my 550 kb book mark file. Maybe yours
is much
>larger.
>
>Version	8.5 	
>Build	7700 	
>Platform	Win32 	
>System	Windows XP
>

Maybe it's something to do with my opera6.adr file being
3,810KB, 
which I've just continued to transfer, import and add to,
from way
back in the Netscape, Win 3.1 and Opera 3.21 years.

I guest I really should try and filter out the old stuff,
but chances
are that'll probable invite the whole lot to disintegrate.

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On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:00:26 -0800, Colin Knight
<yoru2tiscali.co.uk>  
wrote:

> Maybe it's something to do with my opera6.adr file
being 3,810KB,
> which I've just continued to transfer, import and add
to, from way
> back in the Netscape, Win 3.1 and Opera 3.21 years.

I too used to keep bookmarks that I imported into Opera 3.21
from  
Netscape, and then added to over the years. I would
occasionally set about  
to clean up and organize the collection, removing links that
had gone 404  
and trimming out stuff that I was no longer interested in.

About two years ago I realized that, although I often stored
things in  
bookmarks, I rarely retrieved anything from there. The sites
I use most I  
added to my local home page or I can remember their
addresses and key them  
more easily than recover them from bookmarks, and otherwise
I just  
automatically type CTRL+N to open a new window and then
"g " followed by  
whatever it was that I wanted. In other words, Google had
become more  
useful to me than my collection of bookmarks.

I still keep my old collection of bookmarks because there a
few quirky  
things that I can find more easily there than via Google,
but I now rarely  
bother to bookmark anything.

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