I have mixed feeling about this one. I think it makes more sense for new users. But it certainly changes expected behavior for long time users.

By the way Opera was never shy to remove or change how features work. It’s not always perfect but trimming is important part of maintaining good user experience as opposed to deadly spiral of bloat.

Yes, I know that the rationale behind Opera not allowing
you to bookmark a page a second time is to prevent users
from inadvertently filling up their bookmark lists with
duplicates.

But some of us maintain extensive bookmark categorization
through a system of folders. Often a given Web page fits
into more than one category …and, therefore, folder !

An aqequate way to address both issues would be to simply
have an alert when a site is already bookmarked. This
permits the user to decide if he wants to bookmark it again.

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The PC Rat

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“Few version ago Opera
made a change that you
can no longer create
duplicate bookmarks”

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One of the few Opera features I ~don’t~ like ! ( The
others are v. 10.5x removing the minimize button from
sub-windows, and removing the ability to categorically
list widgets in folders. )

You ~can~ create duplicate bookmarks in v. 10.5x (I’m
currently using 10.53, but have recently used 10.52
and 10.51. ). But you got to copy-and-paste an existing
bookmark. Cannot simply bookmark the page again like you
used to be able to do !

I view this as a retrograde event with Opera, and part of
a disturbing trend for this wonderful browser to unnecessarily
remove features.

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The Computer Rodent

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Few version ago Opera made a change that you can no longer create duplicate bookmarks, you get bookmark properties dialog instead of bookmark creation. There may be some glitches left because of this change and you are no longer supposed to be able to do this anyway.

Version is up to 10.53 at moment. Try that one and you should upgrade anyway – there were some security fixes.

“Folders and search
work quite good”

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I use an extensive system of categorical folders which works just fine.
Doesn’t seem going to any more trouble creating folders than creating
tags.

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The Computer Rodent

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Cleared cache, search still works just fine.

I don’t use address bar search much. Way better to open bookmarks in sidebar and work with them there.

I would so much like to be wrong because it would mostly solve my issue with bookmarks and also add a nice and integrated way of searching through them by tags.

Hm… I might be wrong on that one then. If it works for you… try clearing opera’s cache and do it again. I’ve noticed that it does seem to scan some meta-data but once I cleared the cache it no longer wants to do “what I want it to do”.

Tagging is just my personal preference for organising some forms of data. For example: I have links that I categorize as HOWTO’s and searching through them using the address bar would be as simple as:

address bar: howto linux somestuff

P.S. I will try the “description” scanning thing again but I already did test it and it didn’t work (maybe it’s my Opera 10.10). Something obiously worked but after clearing all private data… no more searches giving “relevant” (from description field) results.