I’ve seen many of you joking about the recent change of the menu name from “Opera” to, well, “menu”. Therefore, we’re hoping to make it easier to use. We believe that simplicity matters and the current settings page has become too complicated. So, we introduced a “basic” section in Opera 35, where you can decide about browser’s behavior on startup, how downloaded files will be saved, change your theme and more. With testing, we saw that many people visited the settings page to personalize browser according to their tastes. The settings page is the third-most visited internal page just after Speed Dial and history. Tell us what you think about the box and we’ll weigh you opinion with our tests to see if we start providing this by default. I’m unsure whether advanced users need it, but now you know where to find it. If you enable it, the separate search box will appear next to the heart button in the browser chrome. In Opera 35, the search box appears as an advanced setting. But, we’re taking it slow and testing to see if we want to enable this option by default. We know that many people prefer to use a separate search box. Thank you very much for helping us figure out problem and let us know if you’re still seeing any duplicates. We saw in our logs that duplicates are no longer an issue. We figured out a solution, and to consider any possible performance drawbacks, we tested it on Windows XP Core 2 Duo machine (our sysadmins hate us for doing that, since it is not officially supported). Otherwise, we introduce duplicates again. If you are syncing, things get a little bit trickier because we cannot remove duplicates until they known to the server. When you aren’t signed in and syncing, the algorithm is pretty straightforward: we pick candidates for the duplicates removal based on their ID in the bookmarks model. Therefore, we introduced a duplicate-removal tactic in Opera 35. We debugged a lot of the sync protocol and considered many different scenarios, but we didn’t get any closer to a solution. Some extreme corner-cases reached more than 1000 duplicates. When we started syncing bookmarks, we found that many of you had duplicates of the same URLs. "In this version, we focused on removing duplicate bookmarks, introducing a separate search bar, cleaning up the settings page and a few other improvements. 10, which provides support for the i386 architecture, as well as RPM packages for Linux in the beta stream
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