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@7kjcndri4 said in restart opera:

How to restart opera?

Type this in your address bar: opera://restart and hit enter.

@sgunhouse said in Cannot Sync Speed Dials in Opera, So why sign in or keep account?:

@tuffkitten Your other devices are there, and you can see them if you want to just Select all and then Paste.

The idea was that you may not want ALL your speed dials on a work computer or phone, or likewise all you work speed dials on your personal laptop or phone.

I'm tired of hearing this. No one knows the real reason why Opera has chosen not to sync speed dials.

Like me, I'm sure there is lots of people that have a desktop Opera and a laptop Opera. Heck yeah I want them to sync. Fortunately I do know how to make them the same. And thank fully I rarely change my speed dial.

I'm constantly finding myself duplicating tabs.

Would love a keyboard shortcut to make this
go faster.

It's a very old discussion but basically most people prefer to have different Speed Dials for home, work, etc.

I wish we could do a poll on this. I want the same speed dial myself on my devices. Why not just have a flag for sync speed dial yes|no.

Try this...
Open a new tab
Open a 2nd new tab and go to a website
Go back to the first tab. Is it empty?

Mine is.

Win 8.1, Opera 54.xxx

I'm sure we've all run across sites that "Don't work" in Opera. Usually (But not always) because of the browser ID string.

Well I just signed up for Hulu and it wouldn't work in Opera so no big deal, it worked in Chrome and I was happy.

I mentioned this to my daughter and she said she got it to work in Opera! I was pleasantly shocked. I guess
she's more tech savvy then I realized!

Here's how

1. Right click on page and choose "Inspect element."
2. Click 3 vertical dots in upper right corner, "More tools, Network conditions."
3. Uncheck "Select automatically.
4. Click on the box right below that and choose your Browser ID string.
5. Refresh the page you had trouble with! I use Shift-F5

She said she found this on a Reddit page.

Can the sidebar be placed on the right side of the screen?

@blackbird71 said in How to change your browser ID within Opera:

@browzer1 said in How to change your browser ID within Opera:

@rif ... Does this not change the Opera "statistics" on web browsing? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Yes, it does affect the usage stats. If a user can access a site by changing the browser ID, it's a good thing for him in gaining access to the site... but it's not a good thing for Opera's market share stats. The ideal would be for websites to respect and operate properly with Opera's genuine user-agent string or respond to user complaints if they don't. But all too often, that's not how the online world seems to operate...

Exactly. Ever try to email a big company such as Hulu and tell them the site works in Opera but you have us blocked for some reason.

Easy to follow instructions here...

https://forums.opera.com/topic/30081/how-to-change-your-browser-id-within-opera

Well I should have just googled that!
Just enter this in your address bar and hit enter!

opera://restart

Not sure how many of you were using M2 last year when it stopped working with gmail and yahoo. I was one of those. I've used a couple of other mail programs since then and have been very unhappy with them.

So I took another look at why it wasn't working.

Gmail, I do have 2 step verification turned on. What you need to do is to generate an "App Password." This will be used by M2 to access your mail. You can find info here: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

Yahoo mail. pretty much the same scenario, you have to generate a password for M2. https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15241.html

So at the moment I'm hoping I can continue to use this for awhile.

@burnout426
Thanks for this.

My most used search has always been on maps.google.com. After reading your post and the description of how it works now I was surprised that a search wasn't created. Especially after noticing that a search that I had to activate was created for drive.google.com (I was able to create my own search for that site).