I recently upgraded from Opera 12 to Opera 28 because PhotoBucket.com is no longer supporting Opera 12. On the web site that I moderate several members use photo bucket to post images. So I upgraded to Opera 28. Now the images are correctly displayed. However I have discovered several things that seem to be missing from Opera 28 or I just do not know where to find them.

1. I can not add buttons like HOME and PRINT to the Navigation Bar like I could in opera 12 having a home button makes Administrating the web site much easier rather than having to hit the web site on the bookmarks bar.
2. The Staff of the Web Site communicate with each other using Internet Relay Chat, from a button on the sidebar of the site. There was never any problem doing this with version 12 of opera. However when I click on the link using Opera 28 I get the following message. Unknown Protocol Opera was unable to open the link since no application associated with IRC protocol was found on your system. I find this quite odd for the following reasons.
3. I have the current version of mIRC installed on my system
4. Opera 12 has an IRC Client
5. Google Chrome has an IRC Client.
   If I do a search within the add ons and extensions for Opera 28 by typing IRC chat, IRC client, IRC plug in it tells me nothing was found.

I know I could use FireFox, Google Chrome, or even Internet Explorer but I would really like to continue to use Opera is there a way to add buttons and to get an irc client to work in OPERA 28?

Thanks
Lili