garrybartsch
I've tried vivaldi, but didn't find the experimental design of the express panel - in vivaldi there are screenshots, not logos or short URLs like in opera 26.

Remember that this is just a tech preview - it's probably not a good idea to make it your main browser yet, but you should definitely keep an eye on it. They keep adding more and more features that are actually requested by the users. I think that you can expect that feature to be added soon (there are logos for the default bookmarks in the speed dial page already, but there is no way to customize them manually - at least none that I know of).

I am still using operamail. For me it is the simplest, fastest and easiest way to check my mails. I have 3 mails synchronized. Currently i use two instances of Opera: - opera 12.17 mainly for the mail client and opera 28 for browsing. I wish i'd had the mail client integrated in the latest version of opera but in my searches i see that it is an abandonware. Very sad thing, i guess everything is evolving, and finally i will move tho something else. I used opera for a very long time and i think i use it now from stubbornness. Don't get me wrong, i like the new opera, but it lacks some very important things for me - like digital signature implementation, mail client. I tried Chrome (which is faster, more stable, can easy replace any browser), but i did not feel like home. I guess i will use 3 or more browsers at a time -one for browsing (opera), one for work with digital certificates and occasional browsing for pages opera 28 crashes(chrome) and one for mail (opera 12.17). Pfew, kind of complicated, no? But you know the saying: The shortest way is the way that you know best!
Enjoy your freedom of choice!

Same here - I still have the old Opera 12 and use it for the email client, while the new Opera (downgraded recently from 28 to 27) is there for browsing.

There's only one thing that I don't agree with you (or perhaps we have different experiences) - Chrome isn't faster than the new Opera. I have 8 browsers installed on my computer and Chrome is one of the slowest (IE seems to be the fastest). Only a few sites works better in Chrome. I use it frequently, but I don't like it. Maxthon is very customizable, and pretty fast too, but the way it looks and behaves sometimes makes me feel uncomfortable. <_<

Take a look here, if you want to go back to 27 or disable the auto-updates: https://forums.opera.com/post/69028

kuhlmanck was almost there, I just found it has to be "schedule tasks" and not "scheduled tasks" for W8.1. I realise that may be different if your not using O/S W8.1

I'm on Windows 8.1 too and that's where I looked for it - in the Task Scheduler. There are schedules for other browsers (Maxthon and Chrome), as well as other programs, but nothing about Opera. I think it's due to the installation method that I've chosen (as a standalone app).

Look in your windows scheduled tasks. You'll find a task that looks like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe --scheduledautoupdate

There is no such entry there (or anything related to Opera). But I've installed the new Opera as a standalone application, maybe that's the reason?

I don't know how to do this, but I was so disappointed after the recent changes to the speed dial that I decided to make a downgrade.

So, after updating to ver. 28 I've still had the 27 folder there - I just had to edit the installation_status.xml file and replace the 28 build number with the 27 build number (must be same as the folder name) and now I'm back on 27!

I've made a backup of the 27 folder in a zip archive, so that even if another auto-update erases it, I can always bring it back. I know it's not a solution (I'd like to know how to disable the auto update too!), but it's always some kind of a workaround - you can perform a downgrade every time the browser upgrades itself. :idea:

Hope this helps somehow. And always remember to backup your files before you'll start to mess with them!

I agree, this new speed dial looks AWFUL and now it's more difficult to find anything. :down: They should at least allow the extensions to manipulate the start page, so you could customize it - or at least be able to change the items shape and show icons instead of page screenshots, because the current start page is just terrible... :yuck:

You found it! Actually I've came across this one at least couple of times, I have no idea why I didn't try turning that off... Anyway, thanks for your help

Well, that's kinda rough solution - something that I was trying to avoid. If it really is one of the experimental features, I'd like to know which one it is. I was searching for "text", "input", "data", "experimental", "heurestic" with no success. But thanks for your help, I think that I will eventually do that if I'll fail to find that little bastard...

Hi, I'm experiencing this issue for quite a while and I tried many things to get rid of it, but nothing seems to be helpful. I think that I accidentally turned something on under opera://flags back then, when it was ver. 15-16 and now either I'm unable find it or it's not there any more. It is causing to add (or replace) almost every single text input and textarea placeholders with "heurestic type" and it's adding even more data into the "title" parameter, causing pages with field forms to look odd, like in this example: http://i.imgur.com/Bmlk4Zy.png. It is very annoying, because the pop-up with the title data appears every time I move the cursor over the text input and it is covering a lot of space, since it contains few lines of text, like in this example:

heuristic type: UNKNOWN_TYPE
server type: NO_SERVER_DATA
field signature: 0329388193435
form signature: 3242323187645544
experiment id: ""

Does anyone have a clue on how can I turn off this useless feature without the need to erase all the user data & settings?