Posts made by opeepo10

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@Born-in-Gva I don't know anyone who only has one browser installed on their device. Even my cell phone has like 5 different browsers on it.

Opera works great on 99.9% of websites. On the rest, I use a different browser. It doesn't mean you have to use that browser all the time, just when you log in to certain sites. You do not have to swear allegiance to those browsers. Just log in to your bank, do your business and log out and go back to your default browser.

I have this issue with my insurance company. I also have or had this problem with logging into the web UI for some of my newer surveillance cameras which is infuriating.

I also used to have another need to temporarily use Safari browser when I wanted to use ApplePay. That's no longer required but it used to be.

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@leocg What makes you so sure?

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Hello. Does anyone know if there is there are way to change the URL that is used in the built in search engines? For example, I'm running into the dreaded problem of being stuck with the China version of Bing even though I'm nowhere near China. So I need to set the URL to https://www.bing.com/?cc=us
Even changing the setting in the microsoft account doesn't stick so I need to find a different way. The opera browser does have a bypass when you're using their VPN. I am using a different VPN which might explain partially why I am having this problem to begin with but it's not a China based VPN either. Thanks in advance I appreciate your help.

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@Born-in-Gva Unforunately some website developers do a check before a website loads to check if it is the most popular browsers only because they only tested their website with those browsers. So it's not that the technical specifications are any better or any worse, just that they only did testing with certain browsers and so anything other than those browsers gets a blanket error message. There are add-ons/extensions you can add to change your user agent but I haven't had the best luck with those personally. That may be more to do with cookies being set already and not so much that the extension doesn't work.

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@nataskrad I think the simplest thing to use for this particular case of building a start page with thumbnail links, and it feels awkward recommending it on this forum, but it's been around forever and it's free and easy to learn on is Netscape Composer. Yes, that Netscape. I told you it was around forever, didn't I? Well you can still find it in SeaMonkey which is an open source mozilla based browser suite. I don't use it for web browsing but I do still have it for designing webpages in tables. Which is the old, old, old way of doing things but it still works and it's still compatible and is reliable. The only downside is it's not "responsive" for mobile browsers. For that you'd use a modern way of coding websites in CSS. But if you're just using the speed dial on desktop, totally fine. Just noticing now that I can add code to the forum posts in here. I'll insert some basic code for you to copy and paste into a new composer document or just any text editor and you can just replace the file names with your own files and change the links to where you want it to go. And it's only going to take a few minutes.

Should like like so...

And here's the code...

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body vlink="#551A8B" text="#000000" link="#0000EE" bgcolor="#000000"
alink="#EE0000">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5" border="0"
align="center">
<caption><i><b><font size="+3" color="#ffffcc">NatasKrad's very
own SpeedDial<br>
</font></b></i><font color="#ffffcc">Nobody will ever take
it away.</font><i><b><font size="+3" color="#ffffcc"><br>
</font></b></i></caption><tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top"> <br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top"> <br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top"> <br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top"> <br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="80%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="5"
border="2" align="center">
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center"><a
href="https://lifehacker.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="tile21.png"
alt="-" height="300" width="400" border="0"></a><br>
<font color="#ffffff"><b>Lifehacker</b></font></td>
<td valign="top"> <br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div align="center"><br>
</div>
<br>
</body>
</html>

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@myswtest Nothing found on a search about this topic other than this thread.

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@trifon81 Not even that. It scares the ish out of me. What a cruel joke.

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@richardschoots There's software that does it for you. You don't need to learn very much. If you don't want to take control of your stuff, then at least back it up with screen shots and the links so you can restore if the developer decides to pull the plug or it is removed from the app store or something happens to your device.

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@richardschoots I've been developing websites since 1997 so I don't want to come across like everyone should automatically know how to do this but building a basic web page with thumbnails and links to your favorite websites is like the easiest project one could do. It's like the homework assignment after week 2 of a web design class. And you can customize it just as nice as FVD if not nicer. Mine happens to look the same as FVD only when you hover over the thumbnails it glows. Nothing earth shattering about that, just that is one of the many finishing touches you can do. Then you totally own your content. It's yours forever, nobody is ever going to take it away from you and if you got a web server or web hosting account to throw it up at, it's already synchronized anywhere you want to access it. And password protect the directory. There is literally no reason whatsoever to use any speed dial. None. I can't think of a single reason. FVD is dead to me. I'm embarrassed about how lazy I was for not building my own speed dial sooner especially with the permissions granted to third party extensions.

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@burnout426 Thank you very much! The Home Button extension is exactly what I'm looking for.

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I want to put a frequently accessed link somewhere on the same line as the URL bar. Preferably where the extensions are pinned. I do not use the bookmark bar or the side bar because it takes up too much space. Any ideas? A shortcut might work too but I can't figure out how to use those to open a link that I specify. And I have not found any extensions that will just be a button to access my own custom URL.

You may be wondering what this is all about. Since FVD speeddial was removed from the chrome web store I decided to create my own self-hosted speed dial page that I have full control over and that won't suddenly disappear.

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@szavi9024 FVD was doing some things that were not allowed in the Mozilla extension store (I said Mozilla) and were given an opportunity to fix it and they didn't . The app was subsequently removed. That same thing more than likely happened with the Chrome webstore. But hey, there's nothing stopping any of us from creating our own speed dial page either hosted remotely or locally. And that's exactly how I recreated my FVD page. I was able to finally get the Eversync backup to show the links which was a time saver.

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No worky. But in fairness it hasn't been updated in 10 years. ︎

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@orionsbelt74: +1. This is why I back up and not just back it up with eversync but actually take screen captures of where the tiles were, their URLs and their thumbnails.