Posts made by sgunhouse

There is an Opera extension to allow installing most Chrome extensions; you would need to install that first.

For a while there, old Opera (Presto-based) had a submenu on the page context menu with a variety of "Refresh every... " options along with "Disable auto refresh". Though my guess is the current developers will say it should probably be an extension rather than built-in.

Besides that button in the address bar? Well, traditionally Alt-Home.

There is a distinction, but depending on things like your contrast settings it can be difficult to spot.

There is a link for an "offline installer" on the website, or you can download it directly.

In Settings > Advanced > Browser there is a setting "Hide speed dial", but rather hard to imagine that it would change by accident. Check and make sure that it isn't turned off ...

Your other bookmarks are fine? Your saved passwords? If it's only your speed dial then I'm not sure how that could even happen ...

It doesn't, though even if it did that would be in the browser and not on the desktop. As Opera is not a GTK app any menu bar it had would be strictly local.

Mouse gestures would be if you are moving the mouse while clicking the button - RMB and moving left is Back, RMB and moving right is Forward, etc.

Are you using "/path/to/...) or are you using a real path? The path needs to be somewhere that you have access to, hence somewhere in either /home or /temp.

It doesn't decide anything about your session. If you allow it to import cookies, then it will be using the same session as your other browser, and hence when you close that session in Opera it will be closed in the other browser (and vice versa). The next time you log in (in either browser) will be a different session and hence not linked to the other browser.

Instant search can't be changed, other than changing your locale. (That is to say, if you're in Russia it will be Yandex, here in the US it will be Google, etc.) Personally I turned instant search off and just use the address bar (which can be changed).

If you hit both buttons, right then left, Opera will go back. If you hit left then right, it will go forward. Opera refers to these as "rocker gestures" in Settings; you can turn them off. See if this might be what you are actually doing, as I have no problem simply right-clicking anywhere in Opera.

You changed your speed dial search engine?

Ubuntu can look like a Mac, with a menu bar from the active program shown on the desktop. Sounds like what he wants for Opera.

While most of us no longer use XP (and thus no longer use Opera 36), I don't recall it being that hard. Did you try the Quick setup (that icon in the top-right of the speed dial page)?

Check to see if your location for your profile changed (sometimes updates to Windows or just registry errors can do that).