Opera Software yesterday updated its namesake desktop browser to version 26, introducing bookmarks sharing and beating rival Google to the punch.

The bookmarks folder sharing feature introduced in Opera 26 on Wednesday followed a design revamp of the browser’s bookmarks manager seven weeks ago. Then, Opera unveiled a manager that showed bookmarked pages as thumbnail-sized images illustrating the pages’ content.

Claiming that “our memories are often visual,” Opera ditched the traditional list-style manager that simply showed titles of saved URLs.

In the latest addition to its toolset, Opera 26 features folder-based bookmarks sharing. Once URLs are bookmarked, any folder — each site visually represented with a thumbnail — can be selected and shared with a click. That generates a special URL that can be copied and pasted into an email message, text or tweet.

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