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How to change Opera bookmark/feed/panel favicon?

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:10:26 AM

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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.

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#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 DarkenDarken Friday, September 29, 2006 3:48:29 AM

Excellent tip, thanx smile

Unregistered user Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:23:35 PM

Anonymous writes: HARD TO USE

Unregistered user Wednesday, December 27, 2006 8:45:56 PM

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..)

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 7, 2007 7:09:04 PM

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 Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:12:14 AM

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.

DiegoYeGoU Monday, May 7, 2007 11:21:52 AM

Gracias

Buen dato nos e me habia ocurrido

Unregistered user Monday, August 13, 2007 9:43:16 AM

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 Monday, February 2, 2009 10:16:51 PM

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 Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:13:52 AM

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 Georgievvladimirg Monday, June 8, 2009 6:54:46 AM

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 Georgievvladimirg Friday, June 12, 2009 8:23:16 AM

To avoid confusions:

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

Don't try it smile

Tamil Friday, June 12, 2009 8:29:26 AM

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

Vladimir Georgievvladimirg Friday, June 12, 2009 9:54:39 AM

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 Friday, June 12, 2009 10:03:34 AM

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Gouravgourav2711 Friday, October 16, 2009 8:08:28 AM

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 Friday, October 16, 2009 8:16:49 AM

See this comment.

sergkir143 Saturday, January 9, 2010 2:42:23 AM

Вместо того, чтобы разбираться с иероглифами блгарскими, подумайте головой лишний раз и придумаете что-нить получше блгарского "почистите кэш"

Tamil Saturday, January 9, 2010 8:05:28 AM

confused

Vladimir Georgievvladimirg Monday, January 11, 2010 7:46:13 AM

@sergkir143 :

No one is expected to read the Bulgarian text.
That's why a link to Google Translate is provided too cheers

Of course, it would be nice if someone write it directly in Enlgish smile

Anyway, my personal opinion is that the hack is anyway too complicated, and based on my own experience, I'd expect ppl would rather stick with Opera's default behavior bug

Gouravgourav2711 Monday, January 25, 2010 1:34:35 AM

Originally posted by vladimirg:

my personal opinion is that the hack is anyway too complicated


correct, I would rather let the default icon be

Davidspiffydavid Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:19:10 PM

i'm having a hard time with the Bulgarian post. is it just because of the google-translation or is it very different for Mac users?

Tamil Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:32:21 PM

confused

Unregistered user Saturday, February 20, 2010 8:52:13 PM

Anonymous writes: This worked for me: open Manage Bookmarks Go to the page which needs its favicon changed in another tab. Drag the favicon to the place where you want it in Bookmarks. (You may have to rename it according to your preference.)

Unregistered user Monday, March 22, 2010 2:16:56 PM

Torquemada 1420 writes: Hi. This is a deep annoyance in Opera and as pointed out by kingsarms, a techie hammer to a nut. I don't understand what is so hard for Jon & co to have a favicon folder and a rt click --> use as favicon option for bookmarks The web is a graphic interface and in this regard, Opera wants us to stick to text. I can contact Jon directly if anyone thinks this will help. T1420

Unregistered user Monday, March 22, 2010 2:51:29 PM

Torquemada 1420 writes: OK. I've spoken with Jon and he thinks it's entirely reasonable to simply have a rt-click option so its gone to the developers. Hopefully we'll see it in an update soon. BTW, anyone know how I recover my password to login? :¬( T1420

Tamil Monday, March 22, 2010 2:56:18 PM

Originally posted by anonymous:

how I recover my password to login?

From password manager?

Unregistered user Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:38:03 AM

Torquemada 1420 writes: :lol: I meant for your site. Sorry. It wasn't clear. T1420

Tamil Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:55:16 AM

My Opera? http://my.opera.com/community/lostpw/

Unregistered user Saturday, May 1, 2010 10:50:01 PM

Anonymous writes: Dear Tamil, I imported Favourites side bar from IE to Opera. In IE they all had their little favicons. In Opera they have the Folder Icon preceding the name of the folder. How can I replace the folder icon by the IE favicons I had? Thank you

Unregistered user Sunday, May 2, 2010 9:46:48 AM

Nyuszika7H writes: Hi! I'm using Chrome, and experiencing the same problem. There are a Firefox extension called “Favicon Picker” for replacing favicons easily, but since it's a Firefox extension, you can't use it with Opera, Chrome, IE or any other browser. If I replace a favicon with that extension, then import it into another browser, it keeps its favicon, but that's still hard to do that.

Tamil Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:15:42 PM

Try AM-DeadLink.

Jessica Bosarijbosari Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:17:06 AM

Any chance of of the right click "change icon" option coming in our lifetimes? Opera is so advanced in many ways, but this is basic functionality that improves user satisfaction. Unsatisfied users=Opera loses.

Tamil Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:20:00 AM

I don't know.

Jessica Bosarijbosari Sunday, January 16, 2011 12:32:27 AM

I hate that answer sad Okay, here's a workable solution for now: yes Install Opera Extension, Favicon Changer: https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/faviconchanger/1.1.0/?display=en.

You must use favicon files hosted on the web for this program to work. I found excellent collection at: http://www.favicon.co.uk (click on "gallery"). I'm sure there are others...just go to the page with the offending lame favicon, click the extension button and enter your shiny happy new favicon address. You can store it for later if you want...I also found that the main url of most sites has a favicon you can apply.

Navigate to the main domain, hit ctrl+u to pull up the site code. Search text for "favicon" to find the right one. Highlight and copy. Then navigate to the bookmarked page and change the icon. You can also enter an image file, which it will automatically shrink down to an icon for you. You need to re-bookmark it and delete old bookmark for the change to show in your bookmarks. It will not work for secure pages at all, so my solution is to bookmark another page that gets me near to the secure one. scared

Because most pages apply the favicon correctly, this little solution should get the Opera developers off the hook! Now who's up for making an Android skin?

Vladimir Georgievvladimirg Sunday, January 16, 2011 10:07:57 PM

The URL given by Jessica might not work, so just use this search link:
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/?query=favicon

NigelHughes Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:22:14 PM

I've just found that you can also customise bookmark icons (aka favicons) in Opera 11 using the technique shown in this forum: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=715512
Enjoy...

Tamil Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:25:10 AM

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AllanRockwell Saturday, August 27, 2011 6:44:54 PM

I'll take my beer back, and some of those bananas, as this is outdated: now i'm all over those files... well i'm sure learning something about our beloved browser...

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