Originally posted by planetrock:

Somebody please just answer the question:

How do you make it so THE ONLY THING YOU SEE WHEN YOU OPEN OPERA IS THE SPEED DIAL PAGE, AND NOTHING ELSE - and the page that Opera has started calling 'Home' - which is the one with the stupid suggestions - is COMPLETELY, PERMANENTLY GONE.

I'm not sure how it happened, but yesterday (and days before as seen by my earlier posts) I was experiencing exactly the same thing you are describing.

The "Home page" listed under Settings > Advanced is still switched off. Now when I press the "O" button on the bottom right-hand corner of the toolbar and select "Start Page," it actually works. And when I open the app itself, the speed dial Start Page is what I see, no more blank pages.

Just to test, closing the app and reopening it again, everything is still good. When was the last time you restarted your phone? I'm by no means technical, but the only thing that's changed within the past few days for me is that I restarted my phone.

Just wanted to say, I don't know if there was an update or something, but the speed dial page is back and all is right with the world. I'm really glad. I was not enjoying using Firefox, haha. :hat:

Originally posted by dirgas:

Opera Mini line-up with smart page for featured and smartphone devices ain't that bad and anyway if that define 'stupidity' then can be easily ignored.

Not sure if I'm interpreting your statement properly so please forgive me. I know this isn't a horrible, world-ending application issue. It's not like the app is unstable or crashing regularly. But it is difficult to ignore and interferes with usability in a big way for me. Either I'm a huge idiot, or something's wrong when an update has me thinking my app is infected with a virus or frozen at first pass (or perhaps it's a little bit of both).

I get their reasoning for adding it - really, I work in a marketing department, I totally understand that sometimes the marketing team's aspirations don't always line up with what the developers or programmers might want, and sometimes it doesn't always score a home-run with consumers either. Heck, do I even have a "right" to complain, seeing as how I am not paying a penny to use this application in the first place?

I just want to know how to properly turn it off without breaking the application. Until I figure that out, I'll continue using Firefox and leave Opera Mini alone and unloved.

I'm not quite as doom and gloom... I really sincerely DO want to resume using Opera Mini on my droid, but this has really turned me off to it. I feel like the smart page is invasive and awkward - for example, I've been looking up a particular style of shoes for a birthday gift for my sister, then later today I decide to show her something online on my phone... cue awkwardness abound when I bring up Opera Mini and sitting right there plain as day on my "smart page" are gobs of ads for that same kind of shoe... way to go, so subtle.

I shouldn't have to turn it off every time I start the app up. Either make it (properly) optional or not, but I don't feel it's good design to break an entire app in order to discourage people from turning off a feature. (Then again, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")

I created an account specifically for this post. I'm glad someone else is having this problem because I've actually ended up installing Firefox on my phone instead and have been using it as my primary mobile browser (whereas before I'd only ever use Opera Mini).

I intensely loathe the "smart page" (is that what it's called?) - but what I loathe even more is that I cannot properly turn it off. Those instructions posted earlier do not work - If I navigate to settings > advanced > there's only one option to choose from called "Home page." ...

If I turn that off, hooray! I'm back to my basic Opera Mini "speed dial" page. However, once I exit the app and re-open it, I'm greeted with a completely blank page. No speed dial, nothing. If I press the small icon at the bottom for opening a new tab/window, it just shows me a blank page with three grey boxes. So essentially, yes, I can turn off the smart page... but it turns everything off with it once I close out of the app and open it back up.

The only solution is to turn the smart page BACK ON, then turn it off again... and not close the app.

I do not like the "smart page." It's not smart, it's invasive and distracting. In fact, when things were first updated, I thought maybe I had a virus or my app was FROZEN, stuck on some kind of web banner page. I restarted my phone several times.