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How to open multiple web pages from Opera Speed Dial?

Friday, May 8, 2009 12:10:46 AM

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There are several ways to open multiple web pages in Opera.

  • Bookmarking web pages to a folder, navigating to folder from bookmarks menu and clicking Open All Folder Items.
  • Bookmarking web pages to a folder, giving nickname to folder and entering nickname in address field or setting nickname as home page in Tools > Preferences... > General > Home page.
  • Opening web pages, saving them as session File > Sessions > Save This Session... and opening it File > Sessions.

The advantage of sessions over bookmarks is it can store several settings (zoom, fit to width, images, etc.) per tab.

Sessions can be opened quickly by assigning it to a Speed Dial slot.

  1. Open web pages.
  2. Save as session File > Sessions > Save This Session....
  3. Assign it to a Speed Dial slot.

The path to session file should not contain space. If path has space use DOS name. To find DOS name of a directory/file, open Command Prompt, change path to parent directory of directory/file and type the following command. 

dir /x

Command Prompt to find DOS name
Command Prompt to find DOS name


Directory name DOS name
Program Files PROGRA~1
Documents and Settings DOCUME~1
Application Data APPLIC~1

Opera Speed Dial dialog with path to session file
Speed Dial edit dialog with path to session file

Note the WIN extension at the end of the session name.

Opera Speed Dial with session
Speed Dial with session

Opera will show above thumbnail for session but you can replace it with any image.

[Eric J. Goers via forums]

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Comments

lucideer Friday, May 8, 2009 12:36:35 AM

For x64 Windows users:

Program Files: PROGRA~1
Program Files (x86): PROGRA~2

(Opera is always located in the second one as there's no x64 Opera as of yet)

Angelikiellinidata Friday, May 8, 2009 2:02:19 AM

Tamil you deserve many bananas for this!!

after you chose for your Avatar the picture I gave you I know you always have one but here have some more :




Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, May 8, 2009 5:14:46 AM

cool

Might have to add Tamils post to the Discover Opera area of Opera.com http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Wink.gif -

KarenNerak Friday, May 8, 2009 5:41:49 AM

Thanks, Tamil! That pwns! headbangbanana

Tamil Friday, May 8, 2009 6:24:28 AM

@ellinidata,

@Nerak,

KarenNerak Friday, May 8, 2009 6:42:31 AM

banana

Ivanneofit Friday, May 8, 2009 9:09:05 AM

Thanks Tamil!
Very useful information!yes up wink

Angelikiellinidata Friday, May 8, 2009 5:53:50 PM

"Discover Opera area of Opera.com"

Chuck you always have the best ideas in town! p

*no bananas for you p *

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dapxin Friday, May 8, 2009 11:22:12 PM

Tamil protects his HDD's serial number bigsmile

dodgy Tamil. smile

renmush Saturday, May 9, 2009 3:22:01 PM

Does not work for me.
Opera 10.00 Alpha
Build 4340
Linux

It loads the .win file (gives a thumbnail).
Clicking on the speed dial does nothing.

Smiles

Tamil Saturday, May 9, 2009 3:27:50 PM

Works in Opera 10.00.1491 (Windows)

Bharat RajR7raj Saturday, May 9, 2009 8:45:26 PM

Nice info tamil!yes banana

garethfc Monday, May 11, 2009 4:31:28 AM

hi everyone
I've done the same thing using javascript
<html>
<head>
<title>NEWS</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function pop() 
{ 
window.open("http://www.cnn.com"); 
window.open("http://www.newyorktimes.com"); 
window.open("http://www.foxnews.com"); 
}

function end() 
{ 
window.close()
} 

</script>

<body onload="pop();end()">
</head>
</html>

if you wanna more webs to open, just add more
window.open("URL");

to the list

paste this code in notepad, save as whatever.htm
get the location, paste location in speed dial
you can change the < title > to whatever you want
popups must be allowed =/

thumbnail will be a blank page if you use that code. you can edit it like Tamil taught us or editing the html code (background, images, whatever you can do in html)

lucideer Monday, May 11, 2009 5:29:18 AM

Originally posted by garethfc:

I've done the same thing using javascript


This way is better and worse. Better as you can more easily customise the preview and title, worse as sessions are just more flexible and it's easier to create new ones/edit existing ones. Nice post though. There's always more than one way to skin a cat .

Unregistered user Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:11:33 PM

joko tole writes: weleh aku ga wudeng

Nwaogu DesmondDesmond22 Monday, July 6, 2009 4:01:41 PM

Thats opera improving. More greese to your elbows.Provide more softwares for mobile phones.

Unregistered user Saturday, July 11, 2009 6:27:34 AM

penincali writes: is there a way to copy/paste with opera mini?

Tamil Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:49:43 AM

Sorry, I don't know.

Nwaogu DesmondDesmond22 Monday, July 13, 2009 7:20:08 AM

Why is it that you cant copy text if your using operamini4.2 in phone

mhc Monday, September 14, 2009 2:42:10 AM

Very nice, but I have to press reload on every single page to get it up-to-date. Is there any way around this?

Tamil Monday, September 14, 2009 8:28:08 AM

CTRL+F12 > Advanced > History > Empty on exit

mhc Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:56:24 AM

Originally posted by Tamil:

CTRL+F12 > Advanced > History > Empty on exit

Thank you.

Josh Joycejoshjnz Friday, September 25, 2009 10:20:21 AM

Great tip. I've managed to make a link to the feeds page in the speed dial using this method. Unfortunately none of the usual methods will allow me to change the name. Any ideas?

Tamil Friday, September 25, 2009 10:44:45 AM

Nope.

Eric J. Goershappyfunland Monday, March 22, 2010 7:07:06 PM

One thing that will make a lot of the naming convention stuff moot. Once the .win file has been created it does not have to stay in the default folder with the rest of your saved sessions, you can move it anywhere and make your link accordingly. I have mine on the root of c:

Miftah El ShomadRancakbana Thursday, September 9, 2010 12:02:13 AM

Bagaimana caranya membuat masing masing halaman supaya terpisah dan tidak rancu.Maksudnya antara halaman blog,community,dllnya !

Tamil Thursday, September 9, 2010 12:22:10 AM

English please.

Miftah El ShomadRancakbana Thursday, September 9, 2010 12:49:36 AM

thank's so much for the information

JoshJoshL Tuesday, March 1, 2011 8:09:58 PM

Hi, Tamil!
I guess your complicated recipe makes one enabled to start so sophisticatedly treated sites only from the Speed Dial table, doesn't it? I use a lot of searches with the search feature. No, please don't give me the cleverest way to deal with it - for I'm in fear it will be far huger than ever:D

tisazalay Sunday, April 10, 2011 5:21:35 PM

This is the most awesome trick, (now I know I'm a lazy reader since this is pretty old!!!), thanks gazillions, plenty of bananas hahaha.
One question though, sessions open in new tabs and the speed dial keeps open, is there a way to close the speeddial when you select a session thumbnail as it does for other sites (not sessions)?

Tamil Monday, April 11, 2011 4:30:10 AM

Nope.

Unregistered user Friday, June 10, 2011 5:16:04 PM

Eric writes: If you are looking for a nice speed dial cloud application, check out: http://www.linkpad.me

How to use Quote function:

  1. Select some text
  2. Click on the Quote link

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