Hello Bookmarks Bar

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

• newscpq15. September 2010, 10:16

  hello, is there a screenshot, so that we can see how it looks like?

• lwiczek15. September 2010, 10:24

  I have mixed feelings about that...
  OK - on the plus side you've overcome the transparency problem that was present since introduction of the new UI.
  But the mamangement of the position of this bar is still diffictult (not that much of flexibility)...

• d4rkn1ght15. September 2010, 10:24

  Interesting!

• marbross15. September 2010, 10:27

  What is the aim of this?

• newscpq15. September 2010, 10:30

  posted here: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/09/13/new-presto-update-and-good-news-from-the-desktop-team?startidx=100#comment40601302
  

  Originally posted by havaard:

  the desktop engineering team has grown by nine people in one go

  
  can we expect that Opera will release autoupdates on all snapshots, to support the "Download All Snapshots" command of the Opera:config file, then?

• stivo8515. September 2010, 10:33

  So what is the different between new Bookmark Bar and old Personal Bar?

• eliotcougar15. September 2010, 10:33

  I'd like to have a button to show/hide Bookmarks Bar just like the "View" button...

• earth0115. September 2010, 10:34

  very nice !

• Publisher15. September 2010, 10:34

  nice idea but much to big. please make the distances smaller... much smaller.

• Tommy A. Olsen15. September 2010, 10:35

  @stivo85: The new name and the new placement.

• earth0115. September 2010, 10:36

  Originally posted by Publisher:

  nice idea but much to big. please make the distances smaller... much smaller.

  
  totally agree !

• sabisan15. September 2010, 10:43

  Originally posted by earth01:

  Originally posted by Publisher:

  nice idea but much to big. please make the distances smaller... much smaller.

  totally agree !

  Totaly agree +2!

• J-K-L15. September 2010, 10:45

  Originally posted by stivo85:

  So what is the different between new Bookmark Bar and old Personal Bar?

  
  There is also a new context menu entry "style" for the new Bookmarks Bar.
  
  This entry is missing if you set the Bookmarks Bar to the top as described in the blog post. So it seems by these steps you only activate the old Personal Bar It is even possible to activate both bars.
  I like the old placement better, so I'm happy they left an option to choose.

• getnikkoo15. September 2010, 10:49

  bad news for opera users Firefox and INTERNET explorer has geared up see the new bench mark ranking of web browsers
  #1 chrome
  #2 Firefox
  #3 opera
  #4 INTERNET explorer
  #5 safari
  
  but few days before it was
  #1 chrome
  #2 opera
  #3 safari
  #4 Firefox
  #5 INTERNET explorer

• pursanovd15. September 2010, 10:50

  Definitely good idea, but
  1-it must be smaller, because now its too big at top and the old one was not bad at bottom because of transparency.
  2-in bookmark edit menu there is still string: "Show on Personal Bar"

• Rijk15. September 2010, 10:53

  Originally posted by getnikkoo:

  bad news for opera users Firefox and INTERNET explorer has geared up see the new bench mark ranking of web browsers

  Which benchmark, and how is this related to testing snapshot browsers? Also, how exactly is it bad news that users of *all* browsers, in the near future, will be able to enjoy a browser that is much faster than the fastest browser was a year ago?
  

• Francesco De Domenico15. September 2010, 10:59

  in the 10.6x theme there is a missing black pixel under the first tab when opera is windowed (You can see it even in the image you posted here in this blogpost). Are you going to fix it?

• earth0115. September 2010, 11:01

  Originally posted by Rijk:

  Originally posted by getnikkoo:

  bad news for opera users Firefox and INTERNET explorer has geared up see the new bench mark ranking of web browsers

  Which benchmark, and how is this related to testing snapshot browsers? Also, how exactly is it bad news that users of *all* browsers, in the near future, will be able to enjoy a browser that is much faster than the fastest browser was a year ago?

  I think he is speaking about this one : http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/ (see in his opera blog) But I have also noticed that they take Opera 9.6 and not Opera 10.6. That makes a difference.

• OperaDrBruce15. September 2010, 11:01

  Originally posted by stivo85:

  So what is the different between new Bookmark Bar and old Personal Bar?

  
  
  There was a problem with the old personal bar, because if it was on top, above the tabs, title bar appeared. And Opera looked fat. We pointed to this for months and they finally fixed it.
  
  http://files.myopera.com/CrazyPersonalBar/files/Snap3.jpg

• prd315. September 2010, 11:03

  Originally posted by newscpq:

  can we expect that Opera will release autoupdates on all snapshots, to support the "Download All Snapshots" command of the Opera:config file, then?

  
  What on earth does this have to do with the team growing?
  
  

  Originally posted by getnikkoo:

  bad news for opera users Firefox and INTERNET explorer has geared up see the new bench mark ranking of web browsers

  
  Why do people insist on posting inane, baseless, sourceless claims like this? If you want to be taken seriously, ADD A SOURCE FOR YOUR CLAIMS.

• Publisher15. September 2010, 11:04

  Originally posted by getnikkoo:

  bad news for opera users Firefox and INTERNET explorer has geared up see the new bench mark ranking of web browsers

  
  
  I think it is not the most important who is the fastest browser. Important is that all parties always improve their product.
  
  By the way... browser benchmarks are not representative. Because benchmarks differentiate from the system where they ran.

• Алексей15. September 2010, 11:12

  small bug. Open some page and pin tab,go to O menu>toolbars>bookmars bar. Open new page, right click on bookmars bar>customize>apperance and remove bookmars bar, close page. And bookmars bar show on pin tab. If we have several pin tab, when bookmars tab showed on all.

• Brano15. September 2010, 11:15

  Good news, but it would be nice if I could open bookmarks with the middle button also from folders that are in this new bookmarks bar.

• Daniel Hendrycks15. September 2010, 11:17

  Bug
  
  Turn on Turbo via Settings>Quick Preferences>Enable Turbo
  
  Result: This will not turn on Turbo

• J-K-L15. September 2010, 11:20

  I have still a problem despite this fix: CORE-30558 (Search for spaces in page matches seemingly random pieces of text)
  
  you can test it on this page right here:
  
  1. search for a single space with inline find (via "." in the default config)
  2. cancel the search by clicking on an empty area of the page, not by hitting ESC
  3. random text (mostly links) on the page is highlighted (you might have to scroll up or down to get to this highlighted text)
  
  the search itself is fine. can anyone confirm this? Feel free to file it as a proper report if it is not already known
  
  Linux Mint 9, i386
  Edit: and WinXP32 SP3

• Crabman15. September 2010, 11:22

  Originally posted by J-K-L:

  can anyone confirm this?

  
  Yes. Win7 64Bit.

• FreeBrain15. September 2010, 11:22

  Those of you who like more vertical space and have a widescreen can hide the personal o bookmarks toolbar...
  TIP:
  Its is possible to drag favorite bookmarks using shift and drop them LEFT of the CLOSE TABS icon...
  
  
  
  (I got 12 icons there (no text): gmail,yahoo,digg,weather,stumble upon etc... and I algo got the readability special button)...
  
  *** I Love the customization capabilities of OPERA!...
  
  
  
  - I know this is not a bug report but I know some users maybe don't know about this customization!

• Giuseppe Bilotta15. September 2010, 11:25

  ... and I still cannot use Opera at work because it crashes when opening "new version" text document on Google Docs (a horrible crash too, since the crash recovery doesn't even trigger). Am I the only one affected by this bug? (x86_64 Linux)

• OperaDrBruce15. September 2010, 11:28

  Originally posted by FreeBrain:

  Its is possible to drag favorite bookmarks using shift and drop them LEFT of the CLOSE TABS icon...

  
  
  Or you can put them to address bar too. Many people don't know this and it's very useful.

• withme15. September 2010, 11:44

  after I changed to the new look of the bookmarks bar I thought that I'm using Chrome.

• Andomar15. September 2010, 11:47

  Super! It was just too hard to modify the personal bar. This is the one feature that Chrome had covered better.

• bachokocho15. September 2010, 11:48

  Maybe it was mentioned in the previous thread/snapshot but the "expand" button in youtube videos "expands" directly to full screen. Win XP SP2 x32
  You can try this, at least it's funny
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxn0Xfqkgw&feature=player_embedded#!

• Matt Cox15. September 2010, 11:49

  I never used the Personal Bar because it wasn't a Bookmarks Bar.
  
  You have made lots of ex-Firefox users happy.

• amit itzhaki15. September 2010, 11:50

  The old personal bar was very annoying, because enabling it showed the title bar as well, and that used lots of redundant space.
  
  Excellent work, thanks Opera team!

• Spadar Shut15. September 2010, 11:54

  I wonder when we'll get at least folders in Widgets panel, like Unite panel has.

• Rijk15. September 2010, 12:03

  Originally posted by SKYnv:

  small bug. Open some page and pin tab,go to O menu>toolbars>bookmars bar. Open new page, right click on bookmars bar>customize>apperance and remove bookmars bar, close page. And bookmars bar show on pin tab. If we have several pin tab, when bookmars tab showed on all.

  In fact, the menu only toggles the Bookmarks bar (and other in-tab toolbars) on or off for the active tab and new tabs. Toolbar placements in other already opened tabs will not changes their. This is not new behavior, but likely more visible now.
  

• Rijk15. September 2010, 12:05

  Originally posted by SpShut:

  I wonder when we'll get at least folders in Widgets panel, like Unite panel has.

  Not likely, because the list of widgets is not tied to your Opera installation anymore. You can create folders in the Windows Start menu of course. BTW, this is all totally off topic here.
  

• Michał15. September 2010, 12:06

  Opera can't open (from server) a text file with content:
  
  "Revision: 11
  Author: jerry
  Date: 09:29:47, 7 września 2010"
  
  Last 4 builds have the same problem :/

• pursanovd15. September 2010, 12:07

  Originally posted by FreeBrain:

  TIP:
  Its is possible to drag favorite bookmarks using shift and drop them LEFT of the CLOSE TABS icon...

  
  GREAT TIP! Thank you I usually use personal bar for links i want to read later. This way visually is even better than the personal bar ..The only drawback of this is that it wont synchronize them using link.

• Dmitry Simonchik15. September 2010, 12:08

  It would be great to have an option to make Bookmarks bar visible only on Speed Dial page. Thanks

• shaneh15. September 2010, 12:09

  At least once already I've seen the address bar show a completely different address to the page I am on. It wasn't even that of an open tab or the text from the clipboard, though I do have the address in one of my bookmarks. Can't reproduce it, but keep an eye out for it.

• ah-jong15. September 2010, 12:12

  There is no translated "Bookmark bar" to another languages (e.g. Russian).

• Matheus S. Bitencourt15. September 2010, 12:12

  I don't like it. Could be smaller and transparent

• shaneh15. September 2010, 12:12

  Just noticed the text selection bugs seem to have been fixed, but no mention in the changelog. I hope they have actually been fixed and just missed on the changelog, as it's a very welcome fix.

• metude15. September 2010, 12:12

  Looks like text-selection issue fixed.
  
  PS: Delete from bookmarks could be nice for bookmarks bar.

• Rijk15. September 2010, 12:13

  Originally posted by frankdd89:

  in the 10.6x theme there is a missing black pixel under the first tab when opera is windowed (You can see it even in the image you posted here in this blogpost). Are you going to fix it?

  That is an artifact of the default white line that Windows itself puts inside the border edge.
  

• Rijk15. September 2010, 12:14

  Originally posted by shaneh:

  Just noticed the text selection bugs seem to have been fixed, but no mention in the changelog. I hope they have actually been fixed and just missed on the changelog, as it's a very welcome fix.

  That was in fact the same issue as the core bug that got fixed.
  

• crisps15. September 2010, 12:23

  Thanks for finally implementing the renewed bookmarks bar! But like others have already said, it's a bit.. uhm, chunky. I would love to see it a lot smaller, to keep the entire interface nice and clean.
  
  But +1 for the effort already

• Michel Budnyatsky15. September 2010, 12:25

  After fresh installation of Opera on a new PC button that expands User panel (left foot corner) is disabled and in order to expand this panel you have to press F4 and only after that expand panel button will be enabled and user could show/hide user panel.

• Michel Budnyatsky15. September 2010, 12:28

  In Chrome when you add a new bookmark you can choose where to put it - in general bookmark storage (other bookmark) or in bookmark panel. In this implementation of bookmark panel you can't do that.
  
  I have about 100 bookmarks and only 10 of them I use every day, so it will be great if I could place them on bookmark panel, exactly as I do it in Chrome/Firefox.