Requested Feature: Scroll down and edit size of Bookmarks Toolbar

Hi

Thanks for a great browser. My request is obvious from this screenshot


http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/2328932631/photos/1416425/opera-bookmarks

I have many bookmarks placed where I can easily click on them. What I want is more space as at the moment only half the screen can be used for browsing meaning I will have to delete some bookmarks. I don't want to.

What I want ideally is a scroll up/down bar to the right hand side of the bookmarks toolbar, combined with the ability of simply click-dragging the bottom line of the bookmarks toolbar and moving it up or down depending on my preferred bookmarks view.

In my opinion, this could be a quiet and simple KILLER feature for Opera, because it allows people to use bookmarks in a visual way; i.e. you remember whether the bookmark was to the left or right, and you can instantly scroll through hundreds of bookmarks intuitively and without confusion.

Does speeddial not do this?

I just tried it with over 70 bookmarks and it handled that no problem, and scrolled just as you request. In addition it gives a (small when there are 70 pages) preview of each and every page so aswell as remembering by location people can remember by colour. I had to zoom out as much as possible to show more than ~6 on screen at a time, but at full zoom out ~60 were displayed.

Is that what you mean, or were thinking of something more like a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface"> ZUI</A> or <A href="http://www.raskinformac.com/features.php">Raskin surface</A>?

Alternatively you could just type the first few letters of the website in the address bar and hit enter maybe.

Hi, thanks for your help. I'd really like to keep SpeedDial with only approx 15 large thumbnails for my most regularly used websites. Above that, I'd like to have my bookmarks in a smaller non-thumbnail, but still visually accessibile format as I remember whereabouts on the toolbar I dragged them to and sometimes what symbol they get from their website.

This is what I already do; adding new 'favourites' to the Bookmark toolbar (approx. 70+ at the moment) and it means I can quickly get back to these websites the next day/ next week if I can't read them right then. I find this approach to be much easier and more intuitive than either using 'save/load session' or traditional bookmarks that have to be called up and searched through (I usually don't tag my traditionally saved bookmarks very well as I find the process a bit cumbersome and not as fluid as the above method of just dragging them into the box).

So my problem is when the bookmarks in the toolbar are too numerous, my visible window for browsing websites is too small. ( I may get 30" screen but that's a bit pricey at the moment and may run out of space anyway)At the moment I'm having to turn the toolbar off and on as its too big.

What I'd like is to be able to reduce its screen size by dragging the bottom upwards, thereby causing the addition of a scrollbar so I can browse up and down all the toolbar contents. Hope this makes sense. I'm sure others would find this approach to bookmarking sites intuitive; simply drag the tab top of your current Opera tab into the toolbar, and bingo, you have a smaller, scaleable type of SpeedDial.

Have you tried <a href="http://my.opera.com/marloff/blog/read-it-later">Read It Later,</a> for which there is an Opera Extension <a href="https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/reading-list/1.5.1/?display=en">here</a>?

<a href="https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/tab-vault/2.3.3/">This</a> might also work.

Some of what you're talking about is already implemented in panels, try holding down Ctrl while pressing the "b" key.

I hope this helps.