The development team of the Opera Internet browser introduced speed dial a while ago in the web browser. Speed Dial displays up to nine websites that are added by the user as thumbnails whenever a new blank tab is opened in the web browser. This gives the user another possibility of visiting popular websites without having to access the bookmarks or typing in the domain names or keyword shortcuts directly into the Internet browser.
Speed Dial is displaying nine website thumbnails in a 3×3 matrix. Some users of the Opera Internet browser might want to change the speed dial size to display additional (or less) website thumbnails. This can be done by editing the speeddial.ini configuration file that is found in the Opera profile folder. Windows users find the file in the Application Data folder.
All that needs to be done to change the speed dial size is to open the speeddial.ini file and add the following three lines to the end of the file.
[Size]
Rows=x
Columns=y
where x and y are the number of rows and columns that should be displayed.
4×4
8×8
Some sizes are obviously to large to offer the benefit that Speed Dial is supposed to offer to the Internet user. It might however still be interesting for some users who want to increase the speed dial size slightly.
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One downside is that extra cells aren’t synced with Opera Link.
Personally 3×3 is just fine for me and I mostly use those with hotkeys (Ctrl+number).
Martin, the speed dial of Opera does not show the top 9 websites that the user has visited in the past , it shows 9 websites as specified by the user.
Wow you are right, why did I think otherwise?
Neat little tip, thanks. :)
Another problem is that after the ninth speed dial, you can’t use the shortcut for it.
Martine,
Would you please tell us how did you create the background of opera’s homepage. I really like it. If you could provide us with the same picture that would be great!
If you meant the background of the Speed dail it’s the Mironix skin
“http://my.opera.com/Kajman01/skins/get.pl?id=8321″
I did that, but it doesn’t seem to work. :(
Does anyone happen know why?
@Opera’s fan
Had you closed/opened Opera?
Sure you got right ini file? There sometimes can be few copies of Opera stuff around, especially if PC has multiply users.
Tankss for all!!!