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How to customize Opera icon & title?

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Application Icon

Enter path to icon file with extension in Application Icon & restart Opera.

Opera with bug icon
Bug icon for beta testing

It is not possible to change Opera's default system tray icon.

Title

Enter required items in Title.
%t for page title,
%s for build number, &
%v for version number

Opera Title: Opera %v Build %s
Title with Opera %v Build %s

Opera Title: %t
Title with %t

If you don't want page title to be shown in title bar add Opera %v %t. Thanks to excession.

Update: Feb 6, 2007

வருக! (Welcome!)Updated posts

Comments

Darken 23. July 2006, 23:06

Thanx for the icon tweak, nice find! :up:

juapar2 19. October 2006, 09:13

thanks machi...

Anonymous 2. November 2006, 22:10

tamil writes:

தமிழில் opera nead

medium 9. December 2006, 18:27

About %v for version number have not know, only about %s for build number.
Thanks, Tamil!

Diego1981 6. February 2007, 15:48

I'm trying to change the icon at the top of browser but every time I do this and save it stays the same, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Tamil 6. February 2007, 16:25

Originally posted by Diego1981:

I'm trying to change the icon at the top of browser but every time I do this and save it stays the same, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Did you restart Opera?

Diego1981 6. February 2007, 21:06

Yeah and it stays the same.

Does it need to be in a certain folder, have a certain extension or be a certain size?

It's these ones I'm trying to make work.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=176649

Tamil 7. February 2007, 00:02

Originally posted by Diego1981:

Does it need to be in a certain folder, have a certain extension or be a certain size?

Size limitation is there.

Diego1981 7. February 2007, 12:33

What's the maximum size it has to be?

Tamil 7. February 2007, 14:03

Originally posted by Diego1981:

What's the maximum size it has to be?

I don't know.

Diego1981 7. February 2007, 17:07

What's the size of the icon you used? The bug one?

Tamil 7. February 2007, 17:17

Originally posted by Diego1981:

What's the size of the icon you used?

32x32

Originally posted by Diego1981:

It's these ones I'm trying to make work.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=176649

Did you use the icon with extension ico?

Diego1981 7. February 2007, 22:15

I've tried both the png & ico files and I resized one to 32 x 32 pixels and nothing works for me I just can't work it out. :frown:

Anyway thanks for trying. :smile:

sleepycookie 24. June 2007, 22:47

very good tip! :D
ps - does anyone know of a way to change the default internet shortcut icon (like .url) to something else in windows?
thnax!

Tamil 25. June 2007, 04:35

Originally posted by sleepycookie:

does anyone know of a way to change the default internet shortcut icon (like .url) to something else in windows?

Explorer Tools Folder options... [SELECT] URL extension Advanced Change Icon...

jegHegy 22. December 2007, 12:09

I do not seem to find this option in Opera 9.5. Any ideas? It would be useful for my attempt at turning Opera into a Site-Specific Browser. http://my.opera.com/jegHegy/blog/opera-as-site-specific-browser

Anonymous 10. January 2008, 06:25

Dahir writes:

I want to chaNge the caption of opera webpage. like in www.yahoo.com, the caption opeera shows in the tile baR is

Yahoo! Opera ----> I want to change it with the
desired text. like Dahir Opera
or My browSer OR Hotmail! Opera.

etc,....


CAN ANYBODY HELP ME OUT?







Tamil 10. January 2008, 08:52

You can modify caption using userjs.

Anonymous 15. July 2008, 20:43

Anonymous writes:

Firefox shows the image size in title bar. How can I do that on Opera~?

Tamil 16. July 2008, 06:38

It may be possible using UserJS. Ask in forums.

Roedy 4. June 2009, 00:18

There are various utilities for patching the embedded *.ico files inside *.exe files in Vista generally. However, somebody still has to do the art work to make a modified Opera icon. Since an ICO file contains several resolutions, it is more work than you might first think. I thought perhaps the Opera O in orange shades would be good for Beta.

You can also tell Vista to change the icon for a shortcut.

The proper solution is for the Opera folk to create a beta icon and build it in fully everywhere so you can tell beta apart from production.

There are so many skilled skin makers. Surely one of them could contribute a Beta icon, maybe even make it, and the production icon part of the skin.

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