Hi,
I'm having an issue getting a favourite web page to the start menu. I found my Opera Favourites but when I place the one I want in to the start menu it opens in IE.
Is there any way of having an Opera Favourite in the start menu?
You somehow stopped Opera being the default browser (installed v10 perhaps?) Go into Opera's options and reset it as the default browser.
mr_Ray said:
You somehow stopped Opera being the default browser (installed v10 perhaps?) Go into Opera's options and reset it as the default browser.
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No it's deffo set as default browser. When I click to open a link from emails and such it opens Opera. It's just all the Opera Favouries seem to be IE links. I don't understand it.
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Okay installed Opera 8.60 set it as my default browser
but now if i click on a link in my email it won't open like it did with PIE
I've soft reset so I don't know whatsup, alittle hlp PLEASE
I found this info here (in German) and thought I would pass it on, since I haven't found anything about it in this forum.
1) Export your FF or IE bookmarks to your PC (bookmarks.html)
2) Install Opera 9.xx on your PC
3) import the bookmarks.html file from step 1
4) make any changes you want in Opera, then close Opera
5) Go to C:\Documents and Settings\"USER NAME"\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile
and find a file called Opera6.adr
6) Copy this file to your Touch HD into the following directory:
My Device\Windows\Opera9
It will replace the Opera6 file that is currently on your Touch HD, and you should now have those bookmarks in OperaMobile.
A little deja vue (a few pages back mind),
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=449130&highlight=bookmarks
Search is your friend
gadgetuk437 said:
A little deja vue (a few pages back mind),
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=449130&highlight=bookmarks
Search is your friend
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Ahhh - search IS my friend - and this time my friend let me down!
I had searched and found nothing. I'll have to have a word with my "friend".
Thanks for the link. I checked it, but there it said it doesn't work.
Also, I noticed that Windows Mobile Device Center, has an option to sync favorites with the phone. Anyone know if that will do it? Or do I first have to import Firefox bookmarks into IE?
Chris Cross said:
Thanks for the link. I checked it, but there it said it doesn't work.
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Well it worked for me!
Also, I noticed that Windows Mobile Device Center, has an option to sync favorites with the phone. Anyone know if that will do it? Or do I first have to import Firefox bookmarks into IE?
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Device centre will only sync your desktop IE with your pocket IE (NOT Opera Mobile... rather annoyingly).
I might be wrong on that tho... I have given up on Opera now in favour of PIE/PIE+, largely due to it's better rendering of forums like this (got fed up with fingerscrolling around to find page buttons and finger flick RSI for long pages.
Just as an aside, in Vista, the Opera6.adr file can be found at:
Code:
C:\Users\*name*\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\Profile
Here's a method which works (and it's free):
1. go to www.xmarks.com, create an account and download their plugin for your browser. Xmarks supports IE, Firefox and Safari. I use this to sync all my bookmarks between my work and home pc and it works flawlessly. You can create profiles to sync only certain bookmarks between different pc's eg. you may not want your work stuff on your home pc etc.
2. On your mobile enter "mobile.xmarks.com", log in to your account and, bingo, you can access all your bookmarks. I just did this a few minutes ago and it was a doddle to set up.
Whilst you don't have your bookmarks living in your bookmarks folder on your phone you at least have easy access to them via xmarks - and they're always in sync. And you don't have to enter the data twice!
Any idea how to transfer opera bookmarks from HD to HD2?
Usually on older opera versions there is a opera6.adr file in windows/opera9 folder. But not on HD2.
Anyone solved that? Thanks.
rodgauman
My best suggestion would be to use Microsoft Myphone, as it backs up your favourites, as well as contacts, texts, calender, notes, etc.
This might work with internet explorer favorits but I cannot find anything for opera bookmarks. Opera6.adr file has to be transfered to any other favorit folder that opera on hd2 can find it.
On my HD2 Opera uses Internet Explorer bookmarks it seems. I can add bookmark files to the windows/favorites folder and they show up in Opera. It don't even uses the opera6.adr file for bookmarks. I don't know if this is something new on the new Opera versions or why it is like this.
The opera6.adr file was used on Touch HD and Touch Diamond 2 with opera 9.5!
Now I want to transfer my bookmarks from "old" HD to new HD2!
I've come from a Touch HD where I used Opera as my browser and I backed up with Myphone. My HD2 automatically loaded those same bookmarks when I logged into Myphone. Try it mate. It works.
install opera 10 as your default browser and use opera link function... Yeah, rock..
Just use Opera Link.
ClownShoes said:
I've come from a Touch HD where I used Opera as my browser and I backed up with Myphone. My HD2 automatically loaded those same bookmarks when I logged into Myphone. Try it mate. It works.
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I am interested also on transferring the opera bookmarks from "old HD" to HD2. I tried your suggestion, but when I checked the items backed up, they did not inlcude Opera (only explorer).
Has anybody found a solution to this problem - that works?
Hi,
Does anyone know of an android widget that will just perform a HTTP GET on a url without opening the browser? (I have a simple RESTful service URL I just want to hit). Ideal would be if the icon and text were customisable, but happy with just a bookmark that does't load the browser..
Cheers,
Craig
Current situation:
Firefox or Chrome (Windows version) users who are used to the convenience of having their bookmarks automatically synced across different PC's (with the help of the native sync function or Xmarks) usually feel a deep sense of loss when they have to browse the Net using their Android device which is void of their PC bookmarks.
A search in Google Play finds that there are quite a number of apps that attempt to import bookmarks from FF or Chrome to an Android device, but they are either handicapped in a major way (e.g. NO import of bookmark folders!) or they are NOT free (e.g. Xmarks Premium). But actually, there is a simple and FREE way of doing so
Solution:
On ur PC, open ur Firefox or Chrome, go to:
1) manage bookmarks/bookmark manager, then
2) export bookmarks as html, then
3) save the <bookmarks.html> file, then
4) Have Opera browser (for Windows) installed in ur PC, then
5) go to "manage bookmarks" in Opera (Windows), then
6) import Firefox/Chrome bookmarks (choose the <bookmarks.html> file that u just created), then
7) Activate "Opera link" at Opera (Windows), then
8) Ur Firefox/Chrome bookmarks (with folders) are now in the cloud hosted by the server of Opera, then
9) Install either Opera Mobile or Opera Mini in ur Android device, then
10) Activate "Opera link" in Opera Mobile/Mini (choose "I have an account" and log in), then
11) After the automatic synchronization... TADA! All ur Firefox/Chrome bookmarks --- neatly organized in their respective folders --- are now in ur Android device!
Limitations:
Automatic syncing of bookmarks between FF/Chrome on ur PC and Opera Mobile/Mini in ur Android is not possible with the above method.
My solution to this limitation is to manually export those FF/Chrome bookmarks to Opera (Windows) (after deleting all bookmarks in Opera (Windows)) from time to time and let Opera (Windows) sync with Opera Mobile/Mini automatically. Since I dun add/delete bookmarks that frequently, the trouble incurred is not a big one.
Hope it helps
Another limitation is that you have to use Opera though.
I just use Chromemarks to sync the bookmarks to the phone. To access my bookmarks, I open Chromemarks first, and hit whichever bookmark to fire up my default browser (which is Dolphin for me).
On the ICS roms bookmarks can be synced easily in chrome bèta or native Internet app.
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Another limitation is that you have to use Opera though.
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That's very true
oohyeah said:
I just use Chromemarks to sync the bookmarks to the phone. To access my bookmarks, I open Chromemarks first, and hit whichever bookmark to fire up my default browser (which is Dolphin for me).
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You mean with Chromemarks, u have to export ur bookmarks ONE by ONE?
How about folders?
Mafiatounes said:
On the ICS roms bookmarks can be synced easily in chrome bèta or native Internet app.
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Thx for info
When u says bookmarks can be synced easily in native browser, do u mean even Firefox/Chrome bookmarks can be exported to the native browser in ICS roms??