I am very sad that FVD has chosen to entirely discontinue what was one of the best browser extensions ever (and easily my personal favorite for years)... It was incredibly disappointing that FVD couldn't even bother to leave us a legacy version that they would simply stop doing development on seems really dumb, considering the extension is still listed in every browser's extensions store. We can still download and install it. It just doesn't work....
But what is no only sad but Incredibly frustrating is that they took this down so suddenly that I didn't have anyy time to create a proper local backup of my speed dials and I didn't have tyhe opportunity to transfer the dials into Opera Speed Dial or some kind of Bookmark extension. All that work creating hundreds of dials across multiple categories, and each dial perfectl;y customized so I always know right where any specific dial was on the page at any given time without having to do any surfing through the speed dials to identify the one you want. Operas speed dial doesn't even come close to doing that and they lack of customization options for dials now makes trying to find a particular dial a time consuming, mind numbing chore of browsing through the whole index ial by dial just to find the one I want.
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RE: FVD Speed Dial - New Tab PageOpera add-ons
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RE: FVD Speed Dial - New Tab PageOpera add-ons
@richardschoots: Agreed! Any time I had to install a new browser the first thing I ALWAYS did was immediately go get the Speed Dial and Eversync extensions. They were amazing. I spent years honing my speed dial so I knew exactly where every one of my several hundred inndividual speed dials were across like 7 different category tabs. If I needed to go to a page I hadn't visited in months, I could immediately find and open it without even having to think about it, and the degree to which you could customize your speed dial images was light years beyond anything Opera's does. The speed dials always look so similar, even with custom dials, I find myself have to surf through the whole speed dial page to find the right one. In FVD every dial was perfectly customized with images that always made a particular site's dial immediately identifiable from the rest...
Not only is my favorite (and one of the all time best) browser extensions ever made now seemingly lost forever (why they couldn't just leave up a legacy version, with an understanding they would no long be doing development is absurd.)
But the worst part is, because they took this extension offline entirely without any prior warning at all, I had no opportunity to backup and transfer all my custom dials and settings in a way that would have at least made it easy to transfer them to Opera Speed Dial, or some other kind of bookmark extension that could have taken its place... All those years getting every little feature set up just right and then having to try and start over with no useable backup or even the chance to use FVD speed dial as a reference to transfer each individual dial over to Opera Speed Dial was the one thing that wasn't just sad and disappointing. The way FVD left me twisting in the wind from the loss of my custom dials and setting was really fucking frustrating. I'm still a little pissed just thinking about it now. -
RE: FVD Speed Dial - New Tab PageOpera add-ons
Love this speed dial. Any time I have to reinstall Opera on a new device or fresh OS getting this & the "Eversync" app that stores all your dials and customized settings is top priority. There is nothing to not love about FVD dials
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RE: Zoom PopupOpera add-ons
I have tried just about every zoon extension for Opera, this is by far the best one I have used. . The only thing I would suggest is maybe making the pop-up options a little larger than they are now. But functionally, using it is so effortless I never have to stop, go open the browser menu and use the tiny, inconvenient Zoom in Opera Browser's main menu