The Express panel provides the ability to quickly access your favorite sites, as well as save various links. Due to the fact that users have to reinstall the operating system from time to time, saving bookmarks is a very pressing issue.

Installing Opera

The Opera browser installer can be downloaded for free from various sites, including the official resource. Installing the program takes several minutes and requires only successive installation confirmations from the user.

Express panel - what is it?

The Express Panel is a tool that provides quick access to bookmarks and favorite sites. You can also install various applications in the Opera express panel, which are presented in a wide selection on the browser website. Unlike standard panel In bookmarks, links to Internet resources are displayed in the form of logo images or site previews. This solution allows you to navigate the panel much faster when searching for the desired bookmark.

The panel is supported by browser developers and receives regular updates that introduce various innovations and amendments to the panel system. Therefore, the Opera express panel ( old version) may have some differences in settings and interface. In addition to the Express panel in the browser, there are also two other elements for quick access to pages: "Piggy Bank" And "Recommendations".

Settings in the browser

To change the basic settings of the express panel in the browser you need to:

• open menu "Opera" in the upper left corner;
• go to section "Settings";
• check the box "Show advanced settings";
• select the necessary express panel parameters in the section "Home page".

How to set up the express panel in Opera?

One of the main features of the express panel is an intuitive interface that is not overloaded with unnecessary settings. Thanks to this solution, setting up bookmarks and other elements does not require any special skills or knowledge.

Theme and screensaver

The theme is configured using a special panel, to open which you need to right-click and select "Change theme"».

Video: How to set up Opera 15 and Opera 16

New interface design

The default browser includes several themes from which you can choose the most suitable option. To download alternative topics necessary:

• follow the link "Get new themes»;
• choose a topic;
• press the button "Add to Opera".

To create your own theme, change the background, or if your express panel screensaver has disappeared, you must follow these steps:

• press "Create your own theme";
• select your image;
• select image location options, as well as text display settings;
• press the button "Create".

This way you can create a wallpaper for the express panel background.

Create a new element

To create a new element on the express panel, you need to click on the “cross” and enter the site address or select the proposed options for pages and applications. You can also click on the other extensions button to select applications from the entire list.

Adding applications is done in the same way as installing themes. An alternative option for adding elements is to click right click mouse over an empty space on the panel. In the menu that opens, you can select “Add to Express Panel” or "add extension".

How to change cells?

To change or delete the contents of a cell in the express panel, you need to right-click on a bookmark or application and select the desired item. By clicking the item "Change" you can edit the name as well as the address of the visual tab.

Tabs in the Opera browser

When you add a cell, it automatically offers different suggestions for pages you've previously visited. After adding, you can rearrange the tabs by dragging them to the desired location.

Folders for pages

Besides individual pages You can also create folders that will contain tabs on various topics. How to add a folder? To create a folder, just drag one tab onto another. This way you can create your own bookmark directory. For folders there is an “open all” function, to access which you need to right-click on the folder.

This function allows you to open all tabs located in this folder. This way, you can create a folder with pages that you open daily to check news, mail, etc. You can also save all open pages to a folder. To do this, right-click on the area open pages and press “Save tabs as a folder in the Quick Panel”.

Express - panel on the main page

By default, the express panel is installed on the start page.

If you have another page installed, then to make the start express panel you need to perform the following steps:

• press the button "Opera";
• select section "Settings";
• in section "At startup" choose "Open home page».

How to save the express panel in Opere and import it?

How to copy express panel settings? Unlike previous versions of Opera, in current versions, exporting and saving bookmarks is possible using synchronization or by moving files manually.

In order to find out where Opera stores files containing bookmark parameters, you need to open the “About the program” section. To do this, open the menu "Opera" and select "About the program".

In the window that opens, next to the inscription “Profile” is the address for storing tab settings files:

• Bookmarks files include settings for your saved pages;
• “Stash” files are responsible for sites saved in the “Piggy Bank”;
• “favorites” files contain express panel settings.

How to import bookmarks? In order to restore saved pages, you need to move the saved files to the same folder after reinstalling the browser and confirm the replacement. Bookmark your favorite site You can also save pages of your favorite sites to the “Piggy Bank” section.

This service allows you to get instant access to a page that you, for example, want to view later. To add a site to this section you need to click on the “heart” icon next to address bar and choose “Add a page to the Piggy Bank”.

Where is the bookmarks bar?

Initially, the bookmarks bar is hidden in Opera Express Bar.

To enable this panel, you must do the following:

• open menu "Opera";
• choose "Settings";
• open tab "Browser";
• In the “User Interface” section, check the box next to “Show bookmarks bar”.

The Express panel of the Opera browser is quite simple and user-friendly interface, which includes not only the standard visual tab features, but also additional services: Applications, Recommendations and Moneybox. Thanks to simple instructions the user can easily customize the express panel according to his preferences.

The panel also offers fairly wide possibilities for customizing the design. Thanks to a large number of different themes, you can choose the most suitable design for your Express panel. Restoring settings occurs by saving and then moving files with panel parameters that are located in the program directory.

In addition, in Opera browser There's also a sync feature that allows you to save your settings across multiple devices as well.

But I have it functionally configured and contains: a large express panel of visual thumbnails of sites, bookmarks, installed extensions, themes, how can I transfer all this to a settings export file and after reinstalling Opera, import it back so that nothing is lost and I don’t have to configure it Opera again?

Note: Hello friends, I personally use “Manual” export and custom import Opera settings! This method in this article under number 4.

Browser supporters Google Chrome will never admit that there is best browser, as at one time fans of the Opera browser from versions 9 to 12 on the Presto engine did not want to admit it. But even after switching to the Chromium engine, the Opera browser did not become another “Chrome-like” clone. Opera, starting from version 15, is based on Chromium, but externally it has a lot of unique differences. This is a built-in express panel of visual bookmarks, a “Piggy Bank” of links for reading later, a news selection in the “Recommendations” section.

But even this is not main feature uniqueness of Opera. This browser can be equipped with both extensions from the Google Chrome store and its own - created by developers only for Opera.

As before, while still on the Presto engine, Opera is now based on Chromium and works faster than Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and many other browsers.

The only thing in which Opera and Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox, and Yandex.Browser are inferior is the inability to synchronize settings during authorization in Opera Link, as was previously the case with the Presto engine.

Opera also does not have a mechanism for exporting and importing settings - so that you can export an express panel of visual thumbnails of sites, bookmarks, installed extensions, themes and other user data to a settings file, then import it when new installation browser or when opened on another computer device. By choosing Opera as your main web browser, you will be forced to manually configure everything again every time you reinstall the system or when you move to another computer.

What does the browser developer, Opera Software, say about Opera Link not working? Alas, nothing concrete. Opera Software simply promises to fix all the shortcomings “in the near future.”

How to solve the problem with the lack of synchronization of settings in the Opera browser? Let's look at a few below universal methods working with bookmarks, and we’ll also figure out how to “do it yourself” to export and import Opera settings for transferring to another system or device.

1. Cloud bookmark managers

A cross-platform way to synchronize visual bookmarks, no matter what browser, no matter what operating system, no matter what computer device you did not use - these are third-party web resources, so-called cloud bookmark managers.

After logging into your account, you can create your own catalog of visual bookmarks once, then use it in any browser, on any operating system, on any device. To do this, you just need to set the web page of your account in such a service as your browser home page.

In addition, such services, as a rule, have their own extensions for integrating cloud visual bookmarks into popular browsers.

Here is a small list of popular cloud bookmark managers:

And others.

Of course, many of these cloud bookmark managers are very far from the beauty and convenience of the visual bookmark express panel built into Opera. And they don’t solve the issue with other browser settings - they don’t install extensions, don’t save themes, don’t transfer browser history, etc.

2. Incorporating bookmarks from another browser into Opera

Some of Opera versions provided for the import of bookmarks from other browsers, but, for example, the latest current version as of the date of writing this article - version 24 - does not have such an option in the menu options. You can manually embed bookmarks exported to a .html file from another browser into Opera's bookmarks bar.

Export bookmarks from another browser and save the “.html” file in a convenient location for storage.

Open this “.html” bookmark file in the Windows Explorer folder and directly drag it to the bookmarks bar in the Opera browser.

Bookmarks exported from another browser can be embedded in the Opera express panel by calling on the bookmark local file context menu and selecting the “Add to Express Panel” command accordingly. After this, the bookmark can be removed from the panel.

3. Local directory of favorite sites

operating room Windows system directly on your desktop it offers convenient tools for creating Internet bookmarks and storing them locally on your computer’s hard drive.

Call the context menu on the desktop and select “Create”, then “Shortcut”.

In the shortcut creation window that appears, enter the website address and click “Next.” In the next window, enter the name of the site and click “Finish”. A shortcut to this site will appear on your desktop.

From the desktop, you can move shortcuts to your favorite sites to a separate folder on a non-system drive (so that the data does not disappear when you reinstall the system). Site shortcuts inside shared folder You can sort them into thematic subfolders.

Double-clicking a site's shortcut will open it in the system's default browser. Backup your collection of favorite sites in the form Windows shortcuts you can send separately to cloud storage to have access to the folder with shortcuts from any Windows device.

4. “Manual” export and import of Opera user settings

Personally, I use “Manual” export and import of Opera user settings! All Opera is transferred and with a guarantee!

All of the above methods of working with Opera data are good if you resort to organizing the accumulated information in advance. But none of these methods solve the transfer problem installed extensions. In case Windows reinstallation The method of “manual” export and import of Opera settings is much more suitable. As a result of this, on the reinstalled system, the browser will launch with the same theme, and with the same visual bookmarks on the express panel, and with installed extensions, and with history, and even with active tabs that were open in Opera even before reinstalling Windows. The method is suitable for Windows versions 7, 8, 8.1.

Close Opera. Open Windows Explorer, set the display of hidden elements and open the “Opera Software” folder in the settings folder of the “AppData” programs installed on the computer along the path:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\

Username is the name of your account on the computer.

Copy the “Opera Software” folder with all its contents to a non-system disk partition or to cloud storage. Now you can reinstall Windows.

After reinstalling the system, install the Opera browser and close it. And activate again in Windows Explorer hidden elements and follow the path:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\

Delete the "Opera Software" folder.

The latter, like the main version, does not yet have full-fledged tools for exporting and importing bookmarks and browser settings, but it implements at least half of the capabilities - importing bookmarks and settings. To import bookmarks from another browser, click the browser menu, then “Other tools,” then “Import bookmarks and settings.”

In the import source drop-down list, you must select where the bookmarks and settings will be taken from. You can choose one of installed browsers, or you can choose to import bookmarks from a previously saved HTML file.

Imported bookmarks will appear in the Opera “Bookmarks” section, in a folder specially designed for this. In the "Imported Bookmarks" folder, individual bookmark folders can be sent to the Express Panel in one click using the corresponding context menu option.

Just as everything was neatly collected in one bookmarks folder, everything will be neatly moved to the express panel.

If there is no need to transfer an entire folder to the express panel, you can limit yourself to only one bookmark.

Quite often it happens that as a result of some kind of failure (voltage drop, virus attack, etc.) reinstall the Windows operating system. And of course, I want to save all my data from the old system. One of these data is Bookmarks and Opera Express Panel.

Internet browser "Opera" - one of the most popular among users of the Russian-language Internet. Main page official Opera website informs about the fact that they are actually using it 170 million people. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the constant development and improvement of this browser.

First of all, I will tell you, How to prevent loss of Internet data in Opera in advance.

Starting with recent versions, users will be able to return Bookmarks and Express Panel in Opera, including if they reinstalled their own system.

Guide to action:
1. Function Opera Link– this is probably the most comfortable and necessary opportunity that has appeared in latest versions browser. Its significance is difficult to overestimate. All key options are saved on the server and can be synchronized and loaded into Opera installed on another computer or on a new Operating System. In addition to all this, you can use them by going to the user’s own page Opera Link at least with any other browser. This service makes it possible not only to return bookmarks in Opera, but also other information:
Individual panel
Express panel
History of entered addresses
Articles
List of search engines

Passwords

2. To activate the function Opera Link, after launching the browser, go to the menu "File" and click on "Synchronize…". In the window that appears, check the boxes for the data that will be synchronized. Next, create a free account by registering in the system. Create a username and password and click "Log in."

3. Now we can almost always reconstruct bookmarks in Opera, including as a result of reinstalling the system, or by using a browser on another computer. To achieve the desired result, simply activate the function Opera Link . In addition to all this, we are given the opportunity to access our own information, including from another browser. In this case, go to the web page Opera Link, enter the registration data of your own account, and see all the information and options saved on the server.

How to restore Bookmarks and Opera Express Bar if you reinstall Windows.

If your Operating system as a result of any computer failure ( voltage drop, virus attack, etc. ), you can restore the system by reading my article"How to restore system files without reinstalling Windows"

If the Operating System boots:

1. We find the bookmark files and the Opera Express Panel - bookmarks.adr And speeddial.ini

They are located at C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\

May also be located at another address: (your username)

2. We save the files to a spare disk partition or to a flash drive. I advise you to copy the entire folder \AppData\ in case you suddenly make a mistake in choosing files.

3. After reinstalling the Operating System and installing it on it "Operas" go to the system partition of the disk at the address C:\Users\User (you can have your own username) \AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\ or C:\Documents and Settings\User (your username) \Application Data\Opera\Opera\and paste our saved files there bookmarks.adr And speeddial.ini. If a prompt window appears "replace files"- We agree with the replacement.

4. Let's launch "Opera" and rejoice at the restored Bookmarks and Express panels.

If the Operating System does not boot and you decide to reinstall it:

1. Download and burn it to disk using the program ISO Burner, or another program for burning discs. We do this, of course, on another computer.

3. Turn it on and go to settings "BIOS"(by pressing the key when turning on the computer "Delete", or "F2" on the laptop...).

4. Finding download options - "Boot" or "Advanced Bios Features"(depending on version "BIOS") and put it first booting from a CD\DVD drive. Saving the settings "BIOS" on the tab "Save and Exit Setup".

5. After the reboot, the "" window will appear. Let's look at an example Windows 7. Select the third tab from the top and click "Enter".

6. In the window that appears "NetStart" click on "No"

7. Confirm reassigning drive letters.

8. In the window "System Recovery Options" press Next...

9. In the next window, click on "MDRT"

10. In the next window, click on "Conductor"

11. In Explorer, find the system partition of the disk (on which Windows is installed) and go to the address C:\Users\User (you can have your own username) \AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\. Selecting files bookmarks.adr And speeddial.ini right-click on them and select "copy to..." ( I advise you to select and copy the entire folder /AppData/)

12. In the copy window that appears, select a disk partition or flash drive (where we will save) and click "OK"

13. Now you can safely reinstall Windows and after its launch and installation "Opera", You just have to go through the steps 3 And 4 from the first part of the article...

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The Opera browser is preferred by many users because it has characteristics such as convenience and reliability. The developers tried to think through the program so that working on the network would be as comfortable as possible. One of useful functions Internet browser is an express panel that allows you to always have it at hand and instantly find yourself on frequently visited resources.

Features of the express panel

This element provides quick access to your favorite sites. When you open a new tab, you will see an express panel with 9 cells in the form of a 3x3 square. By appearance This panel resembles . In the latest version of the browser, 4 cells in 2 rows appear in front of the user. Each of them is a link to a website. In order to go to it, you just need to click on the desired icon. You can also press Ctrl and a number from 1 to 9.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated in working with the express panel. By default it becomes home page. If it does not open upon startup, you will need to change the settings. To do this:

1. Launch the browser and click on the Opera main menu button.
2. Select the Settings item.
3. In the menu that opens, place a highlight next to Open Express Panel.
4. Click OK.

How to add or remove a tab

You can add new tabs to the express panel as follows:

• Open the express panel.
• Hover the mouse over any of the cells and right-click.
• In the list that appears, select Edit.
• A tab will open where you need to enter the site name and its web address.
• Click OK.

Now, by clicking on this cell, you will find yourself on the resource that you added here. Initially, the site icon will be empty. But after you go to the resource, its main page will begin to be displayed in the panel.

Advice! If the site has changed its design, but in the express panel it looks the same, then right-click on the icon and select Update. After this, the browser will correct the image.

The express panel has dynamic layout. In other words, the scale of the thumbnails depends on the number of bookmarks. As new icons are added, their size will decrease. You can configure this setting manually.

1. Launch the browser and go to the express panel.
2. In the upper right corner, click the Configure button.
3. To fix a specific cell size, select Scaling.
4. Follow the Manual link, determine the desired size and click OK.
5. To change the background, select Background Image.
6. Insert the desired image and adjust it to your liking using the appropriate buttons.

Pay attention! In the latest browser versions, the steps may differ from those shown above. For example, in Opera 26, in order to change the background image, you can simply right-click on any free space express panel and select the appropriate action.

Some users find the [+] button located here annoying. It can also be removed through the panel settings. To do this, you just need to put a highlight next to the desired inscription in the menu. After that in context menu An additional item will appear that will allow you to add web links to the express panel.

How to change the number of bookmarks

By default, the express panel is a 3x3 square (in new versions the number of rows and cells may differ). In fact, this parameter can be changed up or down if necessary. To do this, let's use Settings again.

1. Launch the browser and go to the express panel.
2. Click on the “Configure…” item.
3. Go to the “Arrangement of elements...” section.
4. We set required quantity miniatures

Here you can hide the express panel, for which you simply click the corresponding item. If you need to return it, you will need to click on its icon, which will be located in the top line of the browser, next to Settings. After setting the required parameters, click OK.

Saving the Express Panel

Users may be wondering how to save the express panel in the Opera browser. To do this, you will need to copy the speeddial.ini file. It is located in system folder AppData, which is located on drive C by default. In it we follow the path Roaming - Opera, where we will find the required file.

By copying the express panel data to any medium, you can replace it with it after reinstalling the browser empty file with the same name. In addition, there is another way to save information. For this purpose, the developers created the Opera Link service. After you log in to the system, all information will be automatically saved and synchronized with other devices.

The Express Panel is a convenient tool that allows you to go to your favorite website with one click. In the latest versions of the browser, the capabilities of this element slightly expanded. Huge number users have already been able to appreciate the convenience of this function. We learned about how you can change the panel settings, customizing it to your taste.

The development of the Opera browser after the transition to the Chromium platform in 2013 in terms of the synchronization service dragged on for quite some time. long time. The Opera browser synchronization service started working only this year, 2015. As of the date of writing this article, the Opera synchronization service provides for bringing together data from computer and mobile devices something like this: visual bookmarks of the express panel, regular bookmarks, open tabs, settings.

A complete list of synchronization objects is available only for computer versions of the browser, a list of synchronized data for mobile versions Opera, in particular for iOS platforms And Windows Phone very limited.

True, even in the case of browser synchronization in the version for computers, we will encounter some limitations. So, the concept of browser settings, alas, does not include synchronization of installed extensions. Latest in every new installed version The browser on a particular device will have to be re-implemented for now. In this regard, Opera seriously loses to its main competitor - Google Chrome, which automatically installs all synchronized extensions immediately after logging in with your Google account.

Opera also loses to the latter in synchronizing completed authorization forms on Internet sites. Logins and passwords in the Opera browser installed on each individual device, you will have to enter it again. This is a positive point from the point of view of data security, but a very serious problem for those who do not store their logins and passwords somewhere in a notepad or in a password manager. Such users will first have to retrieve logins and passwords saved in Opera on one computer in order to use them for authorization on sites when using the browser on another computer.

It is not possible to transfer logins and passwords saved in Opera on one device to Opera on another using HTML file export-import. After all, Opera, again, unlike the reference Google Chrome, only provides for the import of data from other browsers and an HTML file, but Opera does not have the function of exporting its data to such a file.

To synchronize available browser data, you must have Opera account. You can quickly create it by clicking on the profile button in the upper right corner of the browser window. A login form for the authorization service is also available here for existing Opera accounts, including those that were previously known as accounts Opera Link.

After authorization in the synchronization service, we will not see an instant transformation of the browser to the latest current state, as happens in Google Chrome. In Opera, synchronization works differently, providing for the design of the browser's visual bookmarks express panel on each individual device in a new way. Only the data from the regular bookmarks section will be brought together, from where all of them or just individual bookmarks special button can be quickly attached to the express panel.

We will get access to visual bookmarks of express panels on each individual synchronized device here, in the section of regular bookmarks. The subsection is intended for these purposes "Other Express Panels". These other quick panels will be sorted into folders according to the name of the devices being synced.

Buttons for quickly attaching visual bookmarks from other devices are not provided on the current browser express panel. However, they can be pressed left mouse button, drag and drop to any of the sections on the panel on the right, including the current express panel. Visual bookmarks You can not move it from other devices, but copy it to the current express panel using the context menu.

We won’t see automatically appearing tabs in the Opera window that were previously opened in a browser on another device, as can be seen in Chrome. Open Tabs will be displayed in the section "Tabs", grouped for each individual device on which the Opera browser was used.