Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

Suppose you have 3 categories in My Opera Links page in following order and you want to move Opera to the position 1.

1. Softwares
2. Everything Else
3. Opera

There is no option to reorder categories in My Opera Links page.

1. Open your My Opera Links page.
2. You want to move Opera category to position 1 and currently Softwares category is in position 1. Open edit links to both Softwares & Opera categories.
3. Right click on page and select Source in both EDIT CATEGORY pages.
4. Swap the values of catid below the line EDIT CATEGORY in source, press Apply changes button in top left corner and close source tabs.

   EDIT CATEGORY
   </h2><p class="nomarg"><label for="catname"><b>Category name:</b></label></p><input type="hidden" name="catid" value="539471" />

5. Press save button in both EDIT CATEGORY pages.

Now you will have categories in following order.

1. Opera
2. Everything Else
3. Softwares

If you have problem in installing Opera using MSI installer, use Windows Installer CleanUp Utility & then install using MSI installer or try classic installer (except Windows Vista).

If you get Error 1327. Invaild Drive: error, see this.

If above fails, download PortableOpera, unzip & move all files except the following from PortableOpera directory to Opera installation directory (C:\Program Files\Opera\).

OperaLauncher.exe
PortableOpera.exe
PortableOpera.htm
PortableOpera.ini

If you have problem in uninstalling Opera, use Revo Uninstaller. (Backup entire profile & mail directories before uninstallation).

If you have multiple Opera installed and want to uninstall particular Opera, use MyUninstaller. MyUninstaller can show path to installation folder. If you used classic installer, run Uninst\unwise.exe from Opera installation folder to uninstall that Opera.

Updates:
Jul 2, 2008
Aug 2, 2009

Opera has 9 Speed Dials by default but you can add more in Opera 9.50.

1. Note the path to speeddial.ini file.
2. Close Opera.
3. Open speeddial.ini file in any text editor.
4. Add the following lines and adjust number of rows & columns to your need. If you use widescreen monitor, increase number of columns. Use trial & error method and adjust rows & columns so that Speed Dials will fit on your screen properly.

   [Size]
   Rows=3
   Columns=4

5. Start Opera.

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Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 will open Speed Dials 1-9 respectively. To open extra Speed Dials using keyboard shortcut, create new keyboard shortcuts in Application section with action Go to speed dial, X where X is Speed Dial number.

To remove Speed Dial search box,
Above Opera 9.60, Tools > Preferences... > Search > [Select] Speed Dial search engine > Edit... > Details>> > [Disable] Use as Speed Dial search engine
Below Opera 9.60, set Speed Dial Search Type to 0

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Update: Nov 22, 2008