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Something I really miss from Opera is that the content of every page you visited was saved and stored for search! This helped me so often to find pages that I had visited, and remembered a few words from, but didn't bookmark or save otherwise. No idea why browsers today did not copy this feature.

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Web browsers are strange. They are sophisticated pieces of engineering, but they refuse to implement the lowest hanging fruit features UX wise.

They are built by people who are excited about the web, so it sort of makes sense that anything off the critical path of: “make websites and web applications great” would be deemed less important. Why make local search when there is a web application called Google?

Ferraris probably aren’t know for having sufficient cup holders.

A cynical take is that they purposely hold back bookmarks/offline-search so that you use their web search engine instead.

What an amazing idea! I would love to have that feature.

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