Since Vivaldi (the new Opera spiritual successor) has the Speeddial exactly the way I would want Operas to be, I'm definitely going to have that one as default now.

Oh, and of COURSE you'll have to do that for each of them individually! They want you to FEEL the pain.

You're not entirely stuck with it. You can manually switch all these speed dial entries to have thumbnails. It doesn't remember, so you'll have to do it again and again, and every time you'll be practically re-adding them, but heey ... look at ze fanzie new zpeed dial. We so faanzieee! ;/

How do I set it to thumbnails by default, for all and any entry in the Speed dial? Forever!

Is there any way to revert to the normal old speed dial now? Any settings I can change in some sort of INI file? Where are those INI files anyway -- I was just looking through the Opera folders and isn't a single INI file in the profile folder for my user.

This new speed dial is horrific. I've been saying this again and again and again, and if they're forcing this on me, they're forcing me to really, really try and get everything working right with Vivaldi. I can't be using Firefox, but at least Vivaldi is exactly where I would have wanted Opera to be. The only thing missing, still, is perfect chrome extension integration, but it's coming.

What am I supposed to do with a screen full of rectangle text gargabe? Graphical cues exist for a reason!

Just when I get used to something, it changes.
Again.

Now, where are the speed dial extensions? I actually liked those.

I found the culprit.

In the Opera Stable directory, there was the favourites database and journal. Those were created when I first installed Opera, after it went Turbo on me ... you know, ditched Presto for Chrome.

When that was created, there was a really poor bookmarks import utility available that would import all my Opera bookmarks and put it INTO the favourites. It created about 2000 bookmarks and many, many folders in folders in folders in folders.

Because I really do have a lot of bookmarks. I keep a lot of URLs handy that I sometimes do not need for years. Don't question it.

Anyway, these gazillions of bookmarks and subfolders IN the favourites, were causing this massive slowdown.
Now that I have all my bookmarks in the PERSONAL bar, I don't need'em down there anymore anyway.

So problem solved. The favourites routine just can't handle that much content.

Favourites = Quickdial

Yes I did try that this morning. Didn't help. Cleared the history and that did not make any difference either.

The old Opera had another way to enter URLs ... you had to press F2 first. I wish I could do it this way, here. It's an extra keypress but still much more responsive.

Internet connection is instant, CPU cores look to be free and available for Opera to use, and this happens when I have 1 tab open, or 20, and everything inbetween.

I'm clueless what is causing this. But I remember it started when the prediction feature was introduced. Since months I'm using it this way. With patience :/. This copy of Opera has all my bookmarks imported into a bookmark bar .. if I reinstall a new Opera, they will all be lost, there is no export feature yet.

The prediction is disabled in my Opera, but -- it's annoying really -- every time when I type in a new search term or URL, on the empty URL input field, -something- slows down input considerably.

It's so bad, I'm typing a word and then have to wait for the first letter to appear. Once two or three letters are visible, the rest is handled fluently or promptly, but really, what gives?

I open up Opera, type in ANY one single letter, and 2 or so seconds later, it appears.

This browser is searching through SOMEthing and it takes for frickin-ever. And yes "prediction" is disabled. Can I completely, utterly disable it somewhere? Super-disable it?