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How to customize Opera icon & title?

Sunday, July 23, 2006 7:13:28 AM

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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.

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Comments

Steve DarkenDarken Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:06:18 PM

Thanx for the icon tweak, nice find! up

juapar2 Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:13:01 AM

thanks machi...

Anonymous Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:10:28 PM

tamil writes: தமிழில் opera nead

Medium Saturday, December 9, 2006 6:27:53 PM

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

Diego1981 Tuesday, February 6, 2007 3:48:47 PM

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 Tuesday, February 6, 2007 4:25:02 PM

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 Tuesday, February 6, 2007 9:06:40 PM

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 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 12:02:38 AM

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 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 12:33:05 PM

What's the maximum size it has to be?

Tamil Wednesday, February 7, 2007 2:03:35 PM

Originally posted by Diego1981:

What's the maximum size it has to be?

I don't know.

Diego1981 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 5:07:12 PM

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

Tamil Wednesday, February 7, 2007 5:17:22 PM

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 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 10:15:25 PM

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. sad

Anyway thanks for trying. smile

Mikesleepycookie Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:47:33 PM

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

Tamil Monday, June 25, 2007 4:35:37 AM

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 Saturday, December 22, 2007 12:09:41 PM

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 Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:25:10 AM

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 Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:52:04 AM

You can modify caption using userjs.

Anonymous Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:43:05 PM

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

Tamil Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:38:48 AM

It may be possible using UserJS. Ask in forums.

Roedy GreenRoedy Thursday, June 4, 2009 12:18:58 AM

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.

Anonymous Monday, September 14, 2009 8:15:28 PM

Rossie Jordan writes: Great-I found a tutorial easy to follow.Thanks for sharing. rossie_jordan yahoo com

metude Monday, July 19, 2010 3:37:50 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

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


Doesn't work. Can you update parameter...

Tamil Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:02:01 PM

Originally posted by metude:

Doesn't work.

Yes, in Opera 9.60.

Anonymous Friday, July 23, 2010 10:13:35 AM

Anonymous writes: i got in my page title a 1280:871 always showing no matter what i do... why is that ? *This is showing on my second instalation of opera The version is 10.70 beta

Anonymous Friday, July 23, 2010 4:49:39 PM

Anonymous writes: thanx for your response tamil....your site is very useful for opera users..

Anonymous Saturday, August 28, 2010 12:05:43 PM

Anonymous writes: I've always used just "Opera" as the text in the title bar and had managed to keep the page title (%t) from showing. Since I updated to version 10.60, this doesn't seem to work and I can't prevent the page title from showing. Is it no longer possible? Thanks for any help.

Tamil Saturday, August 28, 2010 12:11:50 PM

Is it no longer possible?

Anonymous Saturday, April 2, 2011 8:58:52 PM

fatima writes: how do i do this?

Tamil Sunday, April 3, 2011 1:37:46 AM

Click the link in post.

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