[Solved]I've lost my Opera Home Page

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou What do you call a Home Page? It's been a long time that Opera doesn't have/support setting up a home page.

[operaoperandi]

operaoperandi last edited by operaoperandi

I strongly assume that "home page" means "speed dial". Probably you deactivated it yesterday by mistake. You can enable speed dial again in the settings. You might have to put them together again.

[damnyou]

damnyou @leocg last edited by

@leocg
I explained that in detail in my question. My Home Page is where I keep the links to all of the sites that I frequently use. I also have already explained why I want to rebuild it: It's so that I can have all of the links I frequently use as soon as I click on the Opera icon in my dock. When I do that, my Home Page appears, or should.

[damnyou]

damnyou last edited by leocg

@operaoperandi
(1)
Thanks. I'll try that, as soon as I find settings, that is.

(2) You are right. Now I just have to learn how to use Speed Dial. I might even be able to bring back the page that I have lost without having to rebuild it. I did it once, so I guess I can do. it again

[operaoperandi]

operaoperandi last edited by

Simply open a desired page, copy the address, click on "+ Add..." on the speed dial page and paste the copied page. Done.

[damnyou]

damnyou last edited by

@operaoperandi
Thanks, but I can't find "+Add" in the Speed Dial section of Settings.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou Nope, you didn't. You just said how that thing that you call(ed) home page had on it but you didn't say what do you mean by a home page.

It was a real page, with an address? It was an extension? It a page that opened when you start Opera?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou So that thing you called home page wasn't your speed dials?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou Open a page you want to add to Speed Dial, click on the heart icon a the address bar, choose Speed Dial in the drop down menu.

Your right click on the page and then on add to speed dial

[damnyou]

damnyou @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou
Thanks for your interest, but you're obviously not one who has anything useful to say. I suggest that you look elsewhere.

[damnyou]

damnyou @leocg last edited by

@leocg
I (You) found it. I won't have to rebuild my "Home Page" after all. However, I still have to relearn how to put it in my Dock, so that when I click on Opera, my Home Page/Speed Dial appears. However, I'll do that another time. I've already spent too much time on this, and I'm worn out.

Thanks a million for your help. Obviously, it's something I wouldn't have been able to do by myself, although I did do it once before when I was several years younger.

In closing, my apologies to whomever it was that I was impolite. I shouldn't have been so curt, but, well, I'm only human and the "answers" I was getting, didn't help, and I was upset that they hadn't understood what I had said so clearly, or so I thought.

Next time I come back,. I'll try to be more patient. Anyway, thanks again.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou Unless you have changed something in the start up section of the settings, Start page (with Speed Dials) is what you should see when you start Opera.

[damnyou]

damnyou @leocg last edited by leocg

@leocg
That's interesting, and encouraging. Unfortunately, as it happens, that doesn't take place.now. It did in the past, but not now. However, sometimes it took longer than usual, so I left it on all night last night to see if a click on Opera in my dock would evntually produce my Home Page/Speed Dial, but it didn't.

Now I have to see what I might have changed in settings to cause the problem. I won't try today, however.

Thanks for your continuing interest.

[damnyou]

damnyou last edited by leocg

It's getting better. If I click on Opera and then click on the little heart in the column to the left, I get my Speed Dial. It's not exactly the same as the format I had before, but it's the same chart, the same links. Anyway, although it's not what I wanted or what I had, it's not that much trouble to use. I'm going to keep looking for a way to make it a one-step process, though.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou What do you see when you start Opera?

[damnyou]

damnyou last edited by

A black screen with a search bar at the top and ten icons down the left side:
Workspace1, Workspace2, Facebook Messenger, What's App, Instagram, Twitter, Bookmarks,, History, Setitngs, Tutorial

I should add that it takes me three steps to get to Speed Dial: Opera, Bookmarks, Speed Dial

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou Check in Opera settings if your speed dials aren't hidden.

[damnyou]

damnyou @leocg last edited by damnyou

@leocg
(1). I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for, but I'll see what I can find. It's too late for you to reply today, so I'll be waiting for your reply tomorrow.

(2) I checked the settings, but I didn't know what I was supposed to be looking for, ,so I found nothing.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @damnyou last edited by

@damnyou In the settings page, click on advanced on the left and then on browser. In the start page section, check if hide speed dial isn't enabled by chance.

[damnyou]

damnyou last edited by

It didn't make any difference. I tried it ON, and I tried it OFF. In neither setting did Speed Dial work as it used to, with one click on the Opera icon in my dock.. Now I'm going to bed.