My OperaHow to change Speed Dial site titles in Opera?
Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:04:07 PM
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.
- 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>
- Open created file and Speed Dial page.
- Drag & drop opened page tab to a Speed Dial slot.
 Before: Long 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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