I very much preferred the Opera 29/30 builds speed dial as it was clean and unobtrusive. In Opera 30, the 'White Flags' where the titles of the speed dial icon were displayed were toggleable through this link: opera://flags/#experimental-start-page. Many people, including myself, (see:https://forums.opera.com/category/11/opera-for-windows) preferred the older speed dial and at the very least, would like an option to revert the speed dial to its former state.

I propose a series of check boxes/ drop down boxes in the settings menu/individual speed dial icon sub-menu, which would be: a) flag colour black/white/transparent. b)Thumbnail icon: Website name/screenshot/upload your own. c) when to autoupdate thumbnail icon: never(manual)/on startup/every X minutes/hours.

Secondly a must have setting-which I cannot currently find in opera 30/31- in ANY AND ALL browsers should be 'when to update: Automatically/ notify when an update is ready/ never'. This is an essential part to any browser and I am surprised that it isn't already implemented.

Opera is/was loved due to its customisability specifically of the speed dial.The Speed Dial is one of, if not THE main Unique selling point of Opera. Don't make Opera become another Chrome clone like so many browsers are becoming nowadays, stick to your roots and maintain that customisability.

I look forward to a response from the developers (if any/if they even see this) about this suggestion

In older versions of opera the banners which state what the speed dial icon's title is was transparent, now in opera 31, it is white and I want it to be transparent again. In one of the more recent versions I could go to this page: opera://flags/#experimental-start-page and disable the white flags so they would be transparent, but I can no longer do this. Does anyone know how to do this in this latest release?

Secondly is there an easy way to disable the opera autoupdater?

I think a useful feature would be the ability to fully remap key combinations for shortcuts. This would mean that users would have the ability (for example) to remap Ctrl + 1 to mean open the first icon in speed dial [I REALLY miss this speed dial feature :(] or, if they prefer, to cycle through tabs/jump to the first tab. This could be implemented on a new shortcut screen in the menu, where an (advanced?) option button could enable remapping. An 'activate' key would have to be assigned, eg Ctrl,Alt etc, and then an 'action' key would be assigned eg 1,2,Tab (basically any other key). Multiple activate keys could be assigned to one function as well (e.g Ctrl + Shift + action). Hopefully Opera will read this and implement it as I think it promises to be a very useful feature.