No Start Page/Speed Dial button
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A Former User last edited by
@redcapshortcut This is something that was asked for many months ago I can vouch. The topics listed have since been deleted by the moderation team for a merging reason I guess but the feedback from those posts are now lost.
The home button is such as simple request but the forums fails to let us know what we have to do to get "x" implemented, like, do we need users requesting such features? since most of the people dont know that a forum even exists let alone they be willing to create an account on here.
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Reverse7 last edited by
12 Months later i return to this post... I thought ill move on without the button, but i still miss it every day...
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Soban last edited by
@redcapshortcut said in No Start Page/Speed Dial button:
I know that this was already asked several times:
- How to add a start page/speed dial button to the toolbar in gx?
- Why they removed "GO TO SPEED DIAL" Button
- [Request]Add Speed Dial button
- Opera GX Has No Home Button
- Homepage button.
But why Opera team has still not responded to this yet?
I know that there is a Speed Dial button in the Sidebar, but it's too far away, and it also functions differently. Why not at least give an option, which is disabled by default, so that those who need the button, can enable it?exactly! I would like to remind, that in the macOS version this button exists where it should be - next to the refresh button. why not in the windows version?
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emertinsp last edited by
Adding myself to the request. I don't understand why it was decided that GX doesn't need it. The Speed Dial button on the address bar should to the very least be something that can be turned on/off in GX, but at least give the option to add it!
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ksakel last edited by
If any developer is watching this post... Please add a speed dial button on the address bar. I have just switched browsers and I am seriously thinking or reverting back to my old one due to this disadvantage.
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A Former User last edited by
I stopped bothering with OperaGX, if web browser devs cant handle a simple request then i'd rather not use such a browser. Been going well without it, for about a year now.
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KoolBreeze420 last edited by
@reverse7 I know this is an older question but this is for anyone like me that wants that speed dial button from normal to GX. What I eventually had to do was to open the page and then pin the speed dial page. Just in case you don't know how to pin you can right-click the tab at the top and pin it, the tab will shrink and stay open at the top left.
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stanislavstratil last edited by
Well, seems like they will just not implement it ever. And what is worse is the fact, that they will also remove it in the main branch, which is gonna be Opera One.
I was recently trying Edge, and it was so refreshing to see that simple home button there. It is such a basic feature! Who cares about some AI, give as that speed dial button. -
bigmell last edited by
@stanislavstratil
Ahoy, still sucks no solution so far. From what I've seen it seems opera wants to get rid of the speed dial. Despite the fact that they invented it and I have always found it incredibly useful. The transparency effects are very blurry, makes it hard to focus, and there appears to be no option to go back to the way it was with the speed dial button and the block colors as of 6/19/2023. The developers seem to have completely removed it or want to. Luckily there are still some shortcuts.- If you are using mouse gestures, right click and hold, drag down, then release click for the speed dial in a new tab.
- If you want to type it you can type opera://startpageshared in the url box.
- The keyboard shortcut for the speed dial is alt+home and it will take you instantly there in the current tab.
I had to create some of my own icons for the speed dial by changing the colors around manually and downloading some off the net. I replaced almost all the blurry ones and will finish the rest soon. The current page is way too blurry like everybody is wearing bifocals or something. I had about 30 speed dial icons and did a little more than half. Really sucks that I have to do it on my own now when it used to be the default.
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luk-ahmad last edited by
@reverse7 I'm using normal Opera browser, not Opera GX (I didn't know what that is actually lol) but my Speed Dial button has dissappear after the latest update! Now I need to pres Alt + Home everytime I want to go home, its annoying.
Why its been removed? At least put an enable/disable option, right? . Please Opera, you've been the best so far. You just one speed dial button from perfection lol
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stanislavstratil last edited by leocg
@bigmell said in No Start Page/Speed Dial button:
@stanislavstratil
Ahoy, still sucks no solution so far. From what I've seen it seems opera wants to get rid of the speed dial. Despite the fact that they invented it and I have always found it incredibly useful. The transparency effects are very blurry, makes it hard to focus, and there appears to be no option to go back to the way it was with the speed dial button and the block colors as of 6/19/2023. The developers seem to have completely removed it or want to. Luckily there are still some shortcuts.- If you are using mouse gestures, right click and hold, drag down, then release click for the speed dial in a new tab.
- If you want to type it you can type opera://startpageshared in the url box.
- The keyboard shortcut for the speed dial is alt+home and it will take you instantly there in the current tab.
I had to create some of my own icons for the speed dial by changing the colors around manually and downloading some off the net. I replaced almost all the blurry ones and will finish the rest soon. The current page is way too blurry like everybody is wearing bifocals or something. I had about 30 speed dial icons and did a little more than half. Really sucks that I have to do it on my own now when it used to be the default.
Thanks for the reply, but your shortcuts, are not solutions.
- It doesnt solve the issue of opening speed dial in current tab, instead of opening a new one, so you have to close the previous one (which is annoying)
- Why woud I prefer typing, instead of single click on speed dial button?
- Keyboard shortcut - again, not a solution.
There is one solution, and it is to create a bookmark and put it on the bookmarks bar, then you can even delete text, and you have a properly working speed dial button, but Im not using bookmarks bar.
The speed dial button in the sidebar, I could get used to it, if it worked as previous button, but it doesnt... it opens a new tab again.
Also, I dont really think they are trying to get rid off the speed dial page.... if they wanted to do this, they wouldnt bother with this redesign of speed dial icons. And about your "blury" issue... I dont know, but I havent noticed anything like that. The one thing that is blurry, is the new wallpaper on speed dial, but thats it.