Hi @rafaeljvieira, thank you for your response...

"Furthermore, Opera's Speed Dial supports folders and that could be a problem. I mean, if your 7th item in Speed Dial is a folder and you press CTRL+7, how should Opera behave?" Easy, CTRL+7 to go into that folder, and the user has to CTRL+X again to select the item within that folder. It would behave exactly as if the user is mouse-clicking the item/folder on Speed-dial except that the keyboard is used instead.

I went through the features link you provided, but I don't think the speed-dial hotkey issue is listed. Can I request this as a feature to be added somewhere?

Thanks @starthq, I added my voice in your link

Dear people,

In Opera 12, the first 9 websites on speed-dial are numbered 1-9 and can be called by CTRL+1-9.
In Opera 23, the speed-dial page aren't numbered anymore, and the CTRL+1-9 keys do absolutely nothing.
I miss this feature tremendously. Now I have to actually MOVE MY MOUSE AND CLICK ON A DIAL TO GO THERE.

Dear developers, if you weren't planning to rewire the CTRL+1-9 keys for another purpose, why did you then remove them? New versions should ALWAYS add/fix/improve features, NOT remove them... You just end up agitating and alienating your previous users.
Please add this speed-dial shortcut key back.

Meanwhile some questions for other users, is there anything I can do to manually add back this short-cut key to quickly go to particular websites? (either for items in Speed-dial or Favourites or even if I have to manually set the link CTRL+1 goes to for example) Perhaps by using an extension or add-on?
Appreciate any help or advice, cheers!