[Solved]Speed dials changing colors
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eduha last edited by
I have same issue on two computers. On one it's changed back after restart, but on second it's still changed.
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A Former User last edited by
@sgunhouse said in Speed dials changing colors:
I've never figured it out.
I expected the thumbnail color of a speed dial entry to be stored together with the entry itself in the "Bookmarks" file, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
By the way, I wonder if Opera uses a certain scheme to assign a color to a speed dial thumbnail, because for a purely arbitrary color assignment my 40 entries look too sensibly colored.
On my PC (win7 32-bit) the colors of some entries also change sometimes, and then automatically back again, since several Opera versions.
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aimzz last edited bySame here. I doesn't happen to all of them, just the generic type that have the site name and a small 2nd line that says .com or .net. The background color is picked up from the site somehow. Example: on mine, the Amazon related stuff like Amazon, Audible, Goodreads, etc have orange backgrounds. Whenever there's an Opera update, they all turn purple. After a while, they turn orange again, maybe after a reboot or 2
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A Former User last edited by
@aimzz said in Speed dials changing colors:
The background color is picked up from the site somehow.
I wonder if these background colors are saved somewhere in the settings during the creation of a new speed dial entry or if they are dynamically reassigned each time the speed dial page is re-opened.
So far I haven't found a configuration file that would save these colors, but from somewhere this color assignment must be done.
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aimzz last edited by aimzz
@yanta
Purely MHO, but I think the colors are picked up from an accent color on the favicon or maybe the website. For ex, BBC-black, XDA-orange, Project Gutenburg-red, androidforums-blue. (ignoring the ones that don't) Anyway, maybe the cache gets dumped or overwritten sometimes. Maybe it decides to try complimentary colors (kidding). Why, oh why does my brain dwell on these things?
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A Former User last edited by
@sgunhouse said in Speed dials changing colors:
It happens here sometimes; sometimes it just corrects itself while using Opera. I've never figured it out.
It’s fascinating how the colors change – like flowers, a kaleidoscope or a bowl of fruits.
“You never know what you're gonna get”.
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downhouse last edited by
A few months have passed since the bug occurred. And developers do nothing.
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bunjoman last edited by
I've found a work around that works (so far) for me. I'm on Opera 63 and if you type "opera:flags" in the address bar you get access to some experimental settings (no guarantees!). Find the #force-color-profile setting and change it to sRGB (very rich colours on my kit) or Display P3 D65 (a more muted colour scheme). HDR settings might have some unexpected effects.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@bunjoman said in Speed dials changing colors:
I've found a work around that works (so far) for me. I'm on Opera 63 and if you type "opera:flags" in the address bar you get access to some experimental settings (no guarantees!). Find the #force-color-profile setting and change it to sRGB (very rich colours on my kit) or Display P3 D65 (a more muted colour scheme). HDR settings might have some unexpected effects.
If you have to change that setting that usually means you need to adjust the color profile for your monitor in Windows. You do this in "Color Management", add the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile and set it. That's of course if you don't have your monitor set to some other profile on purpose.
Then, you won't need to change the flag.
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A Former User last edited by
Setting the Color Management profile worked for me. Kudos to burnout. Very glad to be rid of this little annoyance.
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vr51 last edited by
This is not very well documented. We can set a thumbnail image for each speed dial tab:
- Click the tab,
- Click the heart (
) in the address bar; this is the same heart that is clicked to add a bookmark, - Use the thumbnail carousel to select the thumbnail that is to be used to represent the bookmark in Speed Dial, then
- Click 'Done'.
The Add to Bookmarks button (the heart) can be used to put any singular page tab into Speed Dial. I only realised this today after months and months of frustration from wondering why Opera didn't have the option available in the actions dialog displayed when a tab is right-clicked.
More details here https://blogs.opera.com/news/2015/07/customize-operas-speed-dial/
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nomansland last edited by nomansland
I also have the same. In Opera 64 it became permanent. In version 63, I only saw this phenomenon occasionally. My monitor is profiled properly... This variable coloring is really weird.
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vr51 last edited by
@nomansland I only stepped on finding a solution to this today because all my Speed Dial bookmarks had turned to purple after the Opera Stable update installed into my computer, and some shades of purple give me a headache.
Seems that the colours change each time Opera updates; almost as though the scheme resets. There must be a cache that is automatically wiped after Opera updates are applied. If there is a cache it would suggest we might be able to manually edit those button colours.
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nomansland last edited by
@vr51 said in Speed dials changing colors:
manually edit those button colours
You're 100% right. That would be the best. We can choose the graphics in tiles, and we are not able to change the color...
These purples are pretty nasty.
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vr51 last edited by
@nomansland good to know we all are seeing the same colours. It means the Opera devs are setting them with each update.
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jmc5221 last edited by
can confirm this, in previous version (I forgot the number) when speed dial change color I just restart Opera and the color back to normal, now in new version (Version:64.0.3417.47) I can not restore the color back to normal, even though I restarted many times
