Opera settings / data import wizard and clean uninstall option.

Opera settings / data import wizard and clean uninstall option.

Please do this, I'm tired of deleting the bookmarks that are automatically imported from IE when you open a new Opera profile for the first time (e.g. after a clean install) and having to delete Opera directories manually when I want to perform a clean install!

Firefox already allow us to make these choices...

Settings / data import wizard






Clean uninstall option

The fact is end users would be able to choose their settings / do a clean install easily when they are experiencing problems if this options are implemented.

personally -1 to the mandatory import wizard like in firefox (it annoys me) but +1 to the general idea of an easier/more visible import (maybe the start page should contain a section with "How do I import my data" and a text like "click here to run the import wizard or use [menu entry] for more options".

also big +1 on possibility to remove personal data on uninstall.

the problem is that importing is mandatory (Opera import IE bookmarks with no asking when it's run by the first time - at least in my system), because we don't have the import wizard I have to delete the IE imported bookmarks in clean installs!

why don't you want the import wizard?? it's not mandatory, you can simply select "Don't import anything", press finish and be happy...

Very good, they implemented option to remove profile information in the latest builds...
Now if it only stopped automatic importing data from IE...

I'd like to state that I don't really want a data import wizard, I just want Opera to stop automatic importing of bookmarks from the current default browsers on the first time it runs. (I even has an option opera:config#UserPrefs|DisableBookmarkImportOpera but it's impossible to edit this before the first time you open Opera on your system after you have just installed it - since 1. the installer automatically opens Opera after installing and 2. the user settings files aren't created before its first run).

Originally posted by serious:

also big +1 on possibility to remove personal data on uninstall.

Indeed. It might help with the "I reinstalled Opera, but it didn't help" + "Did you delete your profile too?" situation too.

Originally posted by serious:

personally -1 to the mandatory import wizard like in firefox (it annoys me) but +1 to the general idea of an easier/more visible import (maybe the start page should contain a section with "How do I import my data" and a text like "click here to run the import wizard or use [menu entry] for more options".

Same here. The import wizard is annoying and Opera has stressed very strongly that they don't want to ask the user these things on startup like that. The start page stuff sounds like a good idea.

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

Please do this, I'm tired of deleting the bookmarks that are automatically imported from IE when you open a new Opera profile for the first time

I think they're automatically imported from the default browser (which may be another Opera or IE etc.). I think it's annoying too. But, Opera likes to implement solutions that work by default, are automatic and are not a problem for average users. I think your best chance would be to ask for a command-line option in the installer to not automatically import bookmarks.

Originally posted by burnout426:

Originally posted by serious:

also big +1 on possibility to remove personal data on uninstall.

Indeed. It might help with the "I reinstalled Opera, but it didn't help" + "Did you delete your profile too?" situation too.

It's already available on the uninstaller since 11.10.

Originally posted by burnout426:

Opera likes to implement solutions that work by default, are automatic and are not a problem for average users.

It depends on your point of view, some users might have a false perception that they've got the bookmarks in Opera because it shares bookmarks / is synchronized with their other browser and that would be confusing at first.

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

I just want Opera to stop automatic importing of bookmarks from the current default browsers on the first time it runs.

That's something entirely different, big +1 to that one, but please, no wizard