With today’s release of Opera 11.50 comes a new feature that turns the static new tab page into a dynamic page. Speed Dial Extensions work basically like standard add-ons with the difference that they run only on the new tab page and not on other pages. They can be used to display information in real [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

I’m currently testing new RSS feed readers, and one of the programs that I have been looking at is the RSS reader in Opera, or more precisely in Opera’s Mail module. RSS Feeds have been supported for quite some time in Opera. Depending on how you use Opera, you may have troubles figuring out how [...]

Categories: Opera, Tutorials Basic

Only Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has options to change the temporary Internet cache directory in the graphical user interface directly. Firefox and Opera require configuration file changes that can be done in the browser, while Chrome is the only one that requires startup parameters (see How To Change Google Chrome’s Cache Location And Size). Let us [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Did you know that the Opera browser has three different modes for history navigation? All browsers make use of the history, to allow their users to go back and forth in it which is a lot easier than having to re-open the pages manually. Opera by default uses an automatic mode for the history navigation. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

There was a time when I used Opera almost exclusively. This has changed with the rise of the Firefox web browser but I do know quite a few users who use Opera as their main web browser. Rarst likes Opera. That becomes apparent if you look at the comments that he leaves here at Ghacks. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Opera displays a set of up to nine thumbnails of websites on every blank tab that is opened in the browser. The Speed Dial feature provides the means to open nine custom websites faster than usual. It just takes one click of the left mouse button to load the selected website in a new tab [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Opera Launcher was released yesterday by Tamil over at the Opera website. The software program is a launcher for Opera with additional options that could make it useful for many Opera users. The main use of the launcher is to create an Opera backup. It can backup Opera bookmarks, notes and sessions with data stamp. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

One of the many things that Opera is doing really well is providing an easy way to changing themes in the web browser. Everything from choosing a theme to downloading and installing it can be done from right within Opera without having to open a website first. Firefox is providing a similar service since version [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera