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    • lem729
      lem729 last edited by

      @skulldent

      I agree with you. However, I'm seeing the image of the page -- the thumbnail. If I weren't seeing that, I'd give up on the speed dial.

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      • desertoutlaw
        desertoutlaw last edited by

        I never use the speed dial. Its easier just to place links on the bookmarks tool-bar, more efficient and faster 🙂

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        • lando242
          lando242 last edited by

          When I look at my speed dial I like to see all the different images of the individual pages of a website that I have saved. Not just blank squares with only the web address - boring. Please put it back the way it was?

          @skulldent You can have it both ways in Opera 29. If you want a thumbnail you can have it. If you want a the colored box with the address you can have that too. You just have to set it the way you want in when you make the entry. You can also change it after the fact from the same pop up.

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          • skulldent
            skulldent last edited by

            I can't see where or how I can change it. Please explain it to me?

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            • lando242
              lando242 last edited by

              When using Opera 29 or above go to the website that you wish to change the icon of. Click the Heart icon to the right of the address bar (make sure its red). Use the left and right arrow keys to cycle through the selection of images you can use as an icon.

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              • lem729
                lem729 last edited by

                I initially didn't understand what Opera was doing, but, @lando242, I see now how Opera has given options for everyone on how to have the icon or, if you chose, thumbnail show. That's pretty good. Thanks for your clarifying comment.

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  It might not suit everybody but I cherry-pick a couple of Chrome extensions to make my Opera experience better for me. I use 'Speed Dial 2' with 'Configure New Tab & Start Page' and 'Neater Bookmarks' and I'm a happy camper. If you don't have it already you will need the Opera extension 'Download Chrome Extension'.

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                  • lizabinelli
                    lizabinelli last edited by

                    Opera 29.0 - AGAIN the thumbnails in the speeddial are ugly giant blocks! Why the hell? And why there is no way to change their size?

                    Why Opera is punishing its users? 💣

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                    • lando242
                      lando242 last edited by

                      why there is no way to change their size?

                      But there is a way. Its the same on the speed dial page as it is on any other page. Zoom. Why do you act like this is some unknowable secret thing?

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                      • gustavwiz
                        gustavwiz last edited by

                        The zoom setting is even being saved when you close and open the browser.

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                        • chaostg4
                          chaostg4 last edited by

                          I had enough. I have spend all evening to use a version of Opera I use at work. Opera 27 without the fu..... gray bar at the bottom. Even when I have told the Opera 27 not look for updates, it installs Opera 29. What a fu.... are the developers thinking about?? It should not force a version that users do not want to use.

                          Sorry Opera.

                          I'm ditching this browser and start using Firefox instead. After all these years using Opera, I had enough crap from his company.

                          Why change a winning team?????

                          That's all folks. Seeing you in he...

                          Rgds

                          Chaos.

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                          • miscideas
                            miscideas last edited by

                            I agree with everyone who says the speed dial sucks. And it is bad enough to abandon Opera after all these years.
                            Opera does not seem to care or want to listen.

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                            • johnmason1951
                              johnmason1951 last edited by

                              I quite like it. If you don't. change your preferences for a different start page and never click the icon!

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                              • sasparilla
                                sasparilla last edited by

                                In version 29 you can't refresh the Speed Dial images on the Speed Dial page (right click the thumbnail and choose refresh in 28 and earlier).

                                Changing the setting as linked by helpful users (above) to the old Speed Dial restores this functionality.... (it lets me see what pages have changed and choose where to go) - its literally the key reason that drew me to Opera....so please folks, don't take the old speed dial functionality away, its why I'm here. Thanks....

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                                • lando242
                                  lando242 last edited by

                                  so please folks, don't take the old speed dial functionality away, its why I'm here.

                                  Then you are in the wrong place. The devs don't get around here much. You are much more likely to get traction by posting a comment soon after a release announcement on the Opera blog. This is just a user support forum.

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                                  • gustavwiz
                                    gustavwiz last edited by

                                    This is just a user support forum.

                                    Except for Suggestion box and Lounge.

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                                    • rode
                                      rode last edited by

                                      I understand that Opera is free... although there was a time you were required to buy a license and I did. But these speed-dial changes that Opera keeps surprising end users with are not only annoying, but provide an obstacle to those people who do real work with their browser.

                                      I have been using opera for over twenty years and honestly, I don't think Opera really gives a damn about their end users. Imagine if Microsoft or Google treated their user base with such disregard. Come to think of it isn't that what happened with Windows 8, but at least in that case you had the ability to stay with windows 7.

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                                      • lando242
                                        lando242 last edited by

                                        Opera keeps surprising end users with

                                        Yeah, if only they had some kind of 'development blog' that users could go to and see what is coming...

                                        I have been using opera for over twenty years and honestly

                                        So you've been using it since before it was even released? Wow please tell me more about how awesome you are.

                                        Imagine if Microsoft or Google treated their user base with such disregard.

                                        I see you've never tried to get free support from either of those companies. If you don't pony up cash they wont give you the time of day.

                                        Look, you are angry. We understand. But we also we don't care. This isn't the place you come to if you want to cry about how things are changing and you don't like it, how the world is passing you buy, how you don't understand anything anymore and those damn kids that wont get off your lawn. If you don't want to install updates fine; turn them off. If you read the posts on this forum you'll find three or four threads on the first page alone that show how to do that. But if you just what to moan and complain you can leave. You have two posts on that profile so its clear you haven't been asking how to fix these problems.

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User last edited by

                                          I have been using opera for over twenty years and honestly
                                          So you've been using it since before it was even released? Wow please tell me more about how awesome you are.

                                          Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company. In 1995, it branched out into a separate company named Opera Software ASA. Opera was first released publicly with version 2.0 in 1996, which only ran on Microsoft Windows.

                                          Lando, don't be too picky.
                                          Besides, he might've used v.1 or something*;)*

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                                          • jarafel
                                            jarafel last edited by

                                            I'm having a similar problem. I was trying to create a webstore on this website www.jarafel.com. Problem is that Opera isn't displaying well. But Chrome works with no problems. I wish I could use Opera instead because it is faster than Chrome in my opinion.

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