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How to change Opera bookmark/feed/panel favicon?

Wednesday, 20. September 2006, 01:10:26

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Opera bookmarks before changing favicon
Before changing favicon

Opera bookmarks after changing favicon
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Save image you want to use in images directory in profile. Close Opera, search for bookmark/feed/panel you want to change favicon in opera6.adr, enter your image file name with extension in the line ICONFILE= and save.

Set Read-only attribute to image to prevent deletion when you use Delete private data with Clear bookmark visited time option selected.

#URL
ID=14
NAME=Mouse Gestures
URL=http://www.opera.com/features/mouse/
ICONFILE=www.opera.com.ico
IN PANEL=YES
PANEL_POS=9

changed to

#URL
ID=14
NAME=Mouse Gestures
URL=http://www.opera.com/features/mouse/
ICONFILE=mouse.ico
IN PANEL=YES
PANEL_POS=9

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Comments

Steve Darken 29. September 2006, 03:48

Excellent tip, thanx :smile:

Anonymous 28. November 2006, 12:23

Anonymous writes:

HARD TO USE

Anonymous 27. December 2006, 20:45

Anonymous writes:

very helpful, this is what i needed. thanks!(if you find it hard to use, maybe you are not unhiding folders to get to the folders of interest..)

Anonymous 7. March 2007, 19:09

kingsarms writes:

I think what "hard to use" means that we are comparing the typical method:
Bookmark-> Properties-> "Change Icon" Browse... (which does not exist) with:
Navigating through multiple levels of folders hoping to find that file. (normal people do not know where it is. Sometimes its under documents and settings, sometimes its in the program path) Then finding a way to edit it. (.adr is not set up for notepad or anything) Then searching through the thousands of lines of text. Then carefully typing in lines that, if one letter or punctuation is wrong it will not work.

This is a geeks only workaround I'm afraid. Geeks? People who accept poor usability. An in some cases, defend it.

Jibse 29. March 2007, 08:12

Excellent. I tried to do the same thing for a folder (which I put onto the personal bar). It works, until you edit the bookmarks. I didn't find a solution. Thanks for your help.

Diego 7. May 2007, 11:21

Gracias

Buen dato nos e me habia ocurrido

Anonymous 13. August 2007, 09:43

ozo writes:

I fully agree with kingsarms it should be :
Bookmark-> Properties-> "Change Icon" Browse...

As i consider it "poor usability" :(

Also by the way I agree with
"
>>Then finding a way to edit "opera6.adr" as it not set up for notepad or >>anything) Then searching through the thousands of lines of text. >>Then carefully typing in lines that, if one letter or punctuation >>is wrong it will not work.
"

As it will be nice if "opera6.adr" formated as xml or ini file.

Tamil 2. February 2009, 22:16

Originally posted by GSPandher:

Hey what is sticky post?

A sticky post is "pinned" at the top of the blog index, enhancing its visibility and preventing it from being buried by newer posts.

Tamil 3. February 2009, 08:13

Originally posted by GSPandher:

How do i make a post sticky?

Click advanced options link in edit post or new post page and enable show this as a sticky post under post settings.

Vladimir Georgiev 8. June 2009, 06:54

I tried to set an URL as ICONFILE, but unfortunately it did not work...

(I want the setting to have an effect on all my Operas trough Opera Link)

Vladimir Georgiev 12. June 2009, 08:23

To avoid confusions:

This does not work at all in latest Opera 9 and 10.

Don't try it :smile:

Tamil 12. June 2009, 08:29

This will work up to Opera 9.27 and format is changed after that.

Vladimir Georgiev 12. June 2009, 09:54

Yup.

I wrote a new how to.
It is in Bulgarian:
http://my.opera.com/bulgaria/blog/show.dml/3584872

Translated by Google into English (rather Funny-English):
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.opera.com%2Fbulgaria%2Fblog%2Fshow.dml%2F3584872&sl=bg&tl=en

Tamil 12. June 2009, 10:03

:up:

gourav2711 16. October 2009, 08:08

Is there a way to do this in opera 10? Since I cannot change icons, bookmarks become confusing when I place them on any toolbar without a title!

Tamil 16. October 2009, 08:16

See this comment.

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