@leocg Yes, but if I can't remember the name of the extension, then I can't "try the last update one", now can I?

@leocg No, I remember quite clearly that until my recent re-installation, whenever I opened a new tab, the FVD speed dial was displayed.

I think this is a recent development in Opera. You can no longer select a specific web site to show whenever you open a new tab. You can choose to make Opera start with a specific page whenever the browser starts afresh, but then you lose the functionality of continuing where you've left off. Previous versions of Opera allowed for both.

Curiously, if you want to set a start page, you shouldn't select the option "Open the start page" but the rather "Open a specific page or set of pages". I have no idea why there is an option "Open the start page" if selecting that option won't allow you to set a start page.

G'day everyone

I'm trying to set a home page in the latest Opera, but the settings do not seem to have an option to set the home page. There's the built-in speed dial, but I can see no "homepage" option. Has this functionality been removed altogether?

I was trying to set FVD as my default speed dial when I discovered this. Also, I can't figure out how to set FVD as my default speed dial, but if that is no longer possible, then at least the ability to set a home page would be nice.

Thanks
Samuel

I've set Opera to automatically update to the latest version, but that doesn't solve my problem. Some web sites refuse to display a site properly or at all in Opera when Opera identifies itself as Opera.

For the moment, it appears that this one would work:
http://spoofer-extension.appspot.com/
It's not entirely intuitive, and I almost uninstalled it before I realised how to use it: the extension's main functionality is on the second page of the settings, labelled "Permanent Spoof list", and you have to right-click (not left-click) the toolbar icon every time you want to add a site.

G'day everyone

After Opera "helpfully" deleted all my extensions, I'm looking for a user agent switcher again. I used to have one that was fairly simple but allowed me to specify a specific string for a specific web site. I've tried a few others that now come up in Google searches, but most of them assume the user wants to use the same string for all web sites, or select a user agent string whenever he visits any web site. Which user agent switcher do you recommend? Do you know of one that allows me to specify a specific string for specific web sites, but continue to use the default one for all other sites?

Thanks
Samuel

Guys/gals, do not trust Opera when it tells you that it will reset without losing stuff. I just discovered that Opera had lost all of my extensions. And I really can't remember which extensions I had, or where I had found them.

When using the Update and Recovery > Recover feature, it says "If the browser isn't running well, resetting to a default state might help. You can choose to preserve your personal data and only reset settings or to perform a fully fresh reinstall." Well, I think it should be made clearer to the user that Opera will delete all the extensions (not simply disable them all).

In fact, the dialog says: "This will revert your search engine to its default, remove pinned tabs, and reset browser settings. It will also disable all extensions and clear temporary data, like cookies. Your bookmarks, history, and saved passwords will not be cleared." But it doesn't just disable your extensions -- it deletes them (and all of their settings) from your hard drive.

(My bookmarks and my passwords are still intact, so no, I did not accidentally choose the second option.)

In Firefox, for example, the search box remains open when moving to a new tab, but: it doesn't automatically perform the search. You have to perform an action to trigger the search: you have to press F3 again, or you have to click it again. This is not very different from with the current Opera: you have to press F3, and then Opera automatically performs the previous search.

Usually, Ctrl+click will open a link in a new [in the background] tab, and Shift+Ctrl+click will open a link in a new tab [in front of all other tabs].

I know of no extension in Opera that will cause a list of downloads to be displayed automatically after something was downloaded. Opera 12 had a download list which opened in a new tab (which was useful because you could get to it in the same way as you'd move from tab to tab). In the new Opera, you can open the Downloads list by pressing Ctrl+J (and you can customise that shortcut).