Setting a homepage
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A Former User last edited by
Still, page on startup and page on a button are not exactly the same things...
For example, I just like Speeddial - ANY Speed dial, and either use it under the home button - or it's a truOpera where I have to open a new tab (or "long-click" to the start - if available).
So I mean, there is a homepage for me, and I prefer having a button to instantly access it at any time from any tab. While on startup, I don't need any home page but I use other settings. -
Deleted User last edited by
As was already posted, a home button is available by means of an extension in the Chrome store.
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gderreck-0629 last edited by
I am also new to Opera. I came from Firefox. I do like the fact that the program seems to be lighter on memory usage. And appears to be pretty fast.
Like greenyellowred, I am a bit mystified at the lack of a native facility to decide what page my favourite page is going to be.
So far, I've had to install an extension to navigate to my page when I open a new tab. I then had to install another one to ge able to set up the home page I want. I don't have any use for Opera's Speed Dial page. I use FVD Speed Dial. I am not being critical of the native speed dial page. I just prefer something else. Furthermore, I prefer to use Google Canada as my search engine. I am OK, because Google knows where I am and when I type into the address bar, it gives me Google Canada. Others may not be so lucky.
There is no way to customize the toolbar in order to add/remove/move buttons. Perhaps there is something I am missing.
It seems that Opera has abstracted away a fair amount of functionality in the browser. I don't necessarily think that's wrong. It will just take a bit of getting used to.
I am not trolling around trying to cause trouble. I am new to this browser and I would like to continue to use it. It is important that the application work for me though. Not the other way around. I hope you guys accept this as just my honest input. We're all new somewhere sometime and depend on others who have more knowledge and experience.
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albatrosschris last edited by
As a long time user of Opera I can see where the confusion lies... I'm using Opera 32 and whilst the browser itself is fine the 'tool-bar' is, frankly, rubbish! However if you want to set your homepage go to that distorted Opera icon (top Left) and select 'Settings'-> 'On Start-up'-> 'Open a specific page or set of pages'-> 'Set pages' and viola! While I'm here does anybody know what happened to the copy thingy that sat on the right click that enabled you to save in a wee list?
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davidr last edited by
This is a months-old thread; but I just upgraded from Opera 12 to 32 (and have been using Opera since the days when you had to pay for it--which I still would do, for a truly finished and polished version), so I'll jump in. My understanding is that the current Opera is (a) completely rebuilt from the ground up, and (b) still under development. Who knows? Maybe a Home button will get added later on. Or not.
I wouldn't call the toolbar rubbish--rubbish, after all, at least actually exists! :eek: There really isn't a toolbar in Opera 32. In fact, I went to Opera Help and searched for "toolbar." Here are the results:
No results matches on search for "toolbar". Please try refining your keywords.
Did you mean: toolbarWRT a Home button, though, setting a page to be opened on startup is not quite the same: a Home button (or hotkey) will take you to your home page from anywhere in the program while you're browsing. Alt+Home used to do that in Opera 12. The kludge in v. 32 would be to create a link to the desired page on the Bookmark Bar, which can be accessed at all times.
WRT the "copy thingy" (I love technical terminology!), do you mean the "Copy to note" feature? That's completely gone, along with the notes and the rest of the panels. I'm just starting with Opera 32 (or Blink--where do we learn that it's called that?), but it seems to me that at present its functionality is not much different from other browsers, except for the way it handles bookmarks and Speed Dial. I'm hopeful (in my ignorance) that as it develops, some features like notes and tab-stacking, which set Opera apart from other browsers, may return, since that would actually give people a reason to try it.
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lando242 last edited by
There are extensions that add a home button to Opera. Thats basically what the Opera team wants. Any feature that isn't used enough for them to spend time developing and maintaining should (hopefully) be added via an extension developed by someone else. There are at least two decent ones I know of in the extensions store for Opera. You should check them out.
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A Former User last edited by
As a long time user of Opera I can see where the confusion lies... I'm using Opera 32 and whilst the browser itself is fine the 'tool-bar' is, frankly, rubbish! However if you want to set your homepage go to that distorted Opera icon (top Left) and select 'Settings'-> 'On Start-up'-> 'Open a specific page or set of pages'-> 'Set pages' and viola! While I'm here does anybody know what happened to the copy thingy that sat on the right click that enabled you to save in a wee list?
On start-up and the home page are certainly different things.
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A Former User last edited by
I realize this is pretty old but, you know... ALT + Home button (on the keyboard, that critter used to input commands for those of us with a mouse aversion) is the automatic home button in pretty much every browser out there on pretty much every platform in modern times.
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davidr last edited by
Including Opera 32--except that "home" is not a Web page that you choose, but the Opera Start page. I.e., it duplicates Ctrl+T, except that it goes to the Start page in the tab you're already using rather than a new one.
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davidr last edited by
While I'm here does anybody know what happened to the copy thingy that sat on the right click that enabled you to save in a wee list?
Assuming that this query from albatrosschris was indeed referring to the old Opera "Copy to note" feature (discarded in current versions of Opera, along with the notes and other panels), I can report that I suddenly discovered that, during the installation of Opera 32 and importing of bookmarks and settings from Opera 12.16, Opera created a file on my desktop called Opera 12 Notes.html. It contains all my notes from v. 12, including the trashed ones. I didn't see it before because I generally keep Desktop icons disabled in Windows 7. So -- any Opera Blink/32 users mourning the loss of notes they'd saved in earlier versions of Opera, this is where to find them, and reclaim them for some useful purpose.
