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How to change Speed Dial site titles in Opera?

Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:04:07 PM

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Several people wants to change the Speed Dial site title as some websites have long page title. You can change title in speeddial.ini, but Opera won't show the modified title. You can change Speed Dial site titles easily using the following trick.

  1. Create a HTML file preferably inside profile directory with the following content and change the name & website address. 
    <html>
<head><title>Name</title></head>
<frameset><frame src="http://www.site.com/">
<noframes>Enable <a href="opera:config#Extensions|Frames">Frames</a> and save.</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
  2. Open created file and Speed Dial page.
  3. Drag & drop opened page tab to a Speed Dial slot.
Opera Speed Dial with default title
Before: Long title 		Opera Speed Dial with custom title
After: Short & meaningful title

The URL won't change even if you visit another page/site via links on that Speed Dial page. That can be overcome by using the following but it needs JavaScript enabled and won't show thumbnail image. Thumbnail image can changed as shown here or by changing opera:blank to an image path. 

<html>
<head><title>Name</title></head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function load() { window.location="http://www.site.com/"; }
</script>
<frameset><frame onload="load()" src="opera:blank">
<noframes>Enable <a href="opera:config#Extensions|Frames">Frames</a> and save.</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

The above trick uses local file and won't work in synced devices.

You can also use Opera Image Dial Generator.

Update: Oct 30, 2009

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Comments

KarenNerak Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:20:24 PM

Flippin' awesome! yes

z@h3kZAHEK Sunday, March 1, 2009 8:59:22 PM

smile nice.

KryptoKnightAleksOD Monday, March 2, 2009 2:21:58 AM

Thanks for the great advice! up

Charles SchlossChas4 Monday, March 2, 2009 3:49:42 AM

Tamil the wise


Anonymous Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:44:26 AM

Anonymous writes: this sux that it can't be done by just a single click from opera...

EmanueleEngelium Tuesday, March 3, 2009 7:25:57 PM

Why a so "complex" way if you can simply open the source of page, change the title, click on apply and drag it on a sloot ? bigsmile

Tamil Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:49:29 PM

If you use reload that Speed Dial slot, Opera will change title. Also, it won't work for all sites.

Anonymous Friday, March 20, 2009 7:11:24 PM

sing1ep1ayer writes: I'm using portable Opera, so is there any way to change the htm files' paths to relative path after dragged into a speeddial slot?

Tamil Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:02:17 PM

Which portable Opera you are using and where your htm files stored?

Anonymous Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:17:42 PM

sing1ep1ayer writes: Opera 9.64, build 10487 and my htm files are in <programdir>\profile folder.

Tamil Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:28:35 PM

Are you using Portable Opera created by me? Then, you can drag & drop it from Z:\profile\ directory.

Anonymous Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:27:08 AM

sing1ep1ayer writes: I don't know if you created it or not, it says "Obermair Markus 2005-2009" and i downloaded it from operausb.com. The Z:\profile\directory thing is not working by the way, because Z: is not a relative path and it's not guaranteed when i'm using my pendrive on a different computer it can get Z: as a drive letter. So if i move the Portable Opera to a different computer or to a different drive on my own computer then the htm files won't work anymore. The path pointing to them should be something like .\profile but i can't find a way to make this change in speeddial.ini or elsewhere. Maybe there's no way to do this, just wanted a professional's opinion or answer.

Tamil Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:31:20 AM

AFAIK, not possible.

GeeBeeseeker Monday, April 6, 2009 6:56:51 AM

The problem that I'm looking for the solution to, is that whether using custom htmls, as suggested above, or editting the page source, it fouls up the cookies and logging into some websites. This ranges from a minor annoyance to a major problem, depending on which website is in question.

If not for this, this mod would be the solution that I have been looking for for some time. Is there a way to get a website to recognize a localhost html and accept cookies that are already loaded in Opera?

Tamil Monday, April 6, 2009 11:18:58 AM

Sorry, I don't know.

Anonymous Monday, April 20, 2009 8:37:33 PM

fernando writes: Hi! I try the two versions this "change Speed Dial site titles" post but results not always good. So I do the below. Follow directions your "change Speed Dial thumbnail images". Edit speeddial.ini Reload* values like: [Speed Dial 1] Title=Name Url=http://www.site.com/ Reload Enabled=1 Reload Interval=2147483647 Reload Only If Expired=1 Hex edit opthumb.dat: See three items each speed dial entry; URL, .PNG image name, title. Overwite long title with short title, ovewrite to end of title or \x00\x00 with \x00. Start and close Opera, she will rewrite opthumb.dat removing extra \x00 padding (except at last speed dial). Make opthumb.dat read-only.

Anonymous Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:31:31 AM

Anonymous writes: Brilliant! One question: does this preserve site security if I use it for a passworded site?

Tamil Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:43:10 AM

I won't change anything.

Anonymous Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:01:07 AM

ibbyco writes: Why doesn't somebody just write a widget? or better still, get the developers to fix the damn thing, its been an issue since day one of speed dial...jeez

Anonymous Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:51:19 PM

Simola writes: Try this for creating custom images and titles in Speed Dial. It's brilliant; http://miya2000.up.seesaa.net/opera/idg/dial_generator.html

jkforde Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:46:21 PM

Hi Tamil

I tried both HTM methods - the first works fine but like you say the URL doesn't change which is no good for StumbleUpon for instance.

So I tried the second method which works fine (page now usable with SU) but it doesn't seem to take the title from the HTM code so the title is generated from the website's title - I've noticed that when I open the HTM file in a tab that the tab's name is initially set to the title that I've specified in the HTM file but then that title is overwritten by title generated from the website.

Am I doing something wrong?

Tamil Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:08:38 PM

Originally posted by jkforde:

Am I doing something wrong?

Nope, it is not working in Opera 10.

Try this.

jkforde Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:29:57 PM


Thanks Tamil but that link brings me back to this page; just to confirm that I did try the second HTM code on this page

Tamil Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:31:09 PM

Originally posted by jkforde:

link brings me back to this page

Yes, it should take you to Simola comment.

jkforde Friday, October 30, 2009 1:29:49 PM


Ah thanks, missed Simola post, will try it!

FYI, another issue I've found is that this desktop tweaking of the titles doesn't work in OperaMini's Speeddial once the dials are synced using OperaLink - OM's Speeddial links point to the local desktop file and not to the actual web URL.... or am I too dumb for words!? I haven't tried the dial generator thing yet so.....

Tamil Friday, October 30, 2009 1:58:53 PM

Originally posted by jkforde:

OM's Speeddial links point to the local desktop file and not to the actual web URL...

It won't work when you sync it.

jkforde Friday, October 30, 2009 2:30:46 PM


OK, maybe highlight this in the instructions above as a good few people are Opera10 and OperaMini Link users.

banana

bye

Tamil Friday, October 30, 2009 3:44:49 PM

Done. smile

Anonymous Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:20:58 PM

Anonymous writes: why so complicated, why not just be able to do it within?

Jannah AminJazMinderr Saturday, May 29, 2010 9:49:43 PM

Another way to do it is save the page a bookmark. Then edit the name/title of the bookmark. When you start typing it on the speed dial it will show up smile

Jannah AminJazMinderr Saturday, July 24, 2010 6:57:43 AM

ok doesnt work sad i also tried changing the speedial text file within profiles directory but after saving it always reverts back to normal sad

Tamil Sunday, July 25, 2010 4:37:10 PM

Use Opera Image Dial Generator.

Zpace Monday, December 20, 2010 6:59:00 PM

MUY BUEN tema este, la verdad, me alegra haberlo leído.
Cosas interesantes salen del Blog

Anonymous Monday, March 28, 2011 8:47:46 PM

mafaz55 writes: may i knw how can i change the title in phone, opera mini 6?

Tamil Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:38:53 AM

Sorry, I don't know.

alanwarwic Friday, July 1, 2011 4:20:05 PM

Can I ask if you have found a way to get memory usage of the Speed Dial down Tamil? (Opera Desktop)
I have tried custom images for this but I sense Opera uses a set memory amount for each image, no matter what compression or resolution is chosen.

Tamil Friday, July 1, 2011 4:24:55 PM

Originally posted by alanwarwic:

Can I ask if you have found a way to get memory usage of the Speed Dial down Tamil?

Nope.

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