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Friday, 30. October 2009, 09:59:25

Phantom of the Opera

First of all, well done to the community for answering the call for Halloween speed dial backgrounds with such short notice! After only a few days, there more entrants than I expected, and the end decision was a hard one. There were some truly sinister takes on the theme, and some wonderful artwork, but Jon's favorite of all was Cole Henley's 'Phantom of the Opera II'.

Cole's great use of public domain artwork, colour and textures, along with the subtle use of the new Opera logo, made it a sure winner. Well done to Cole, and indeed to all the entrants. Please keep making those Speed Dial backgrounds and sharing them with the community!

Also kudos ki-to for making the great "IBIS Inspire" skin we based this custom Opera build on! Keep 'em coming! :yes:

Other cool Speed Dial entries:

How to install if you are already using Opera:

If you already have Opera, you need to backup 3 files and rename them in order to get the Halloween experience:

  1. Open menu "Help" » "About Opera".
  2. Find the path to the catalog with user data ("Path" » "Preferences") and copy the address
  3. Close Opera
  4. Open the catalog with user data found above (for Windows: "Start" » "Run" » paste the address you copied before)
  5. Remove or rename the following files:
    • bookmarks.adr
    • speeddial.ini
    • operaprefs.ini
  6. Install the customized version (without removing the previous one)

If you are not an Opera user, simply download and follow the instructions. :up:

Comments

Dacotah 30. October 2009, 10:16

:cool:

hnkien 30. October 2009, 10:17

:yes:
don't download it p:

Morghus 30. October 2009, 10:18

Hahaha, so cool ^^

Tamil 30. October 2009, 10:24

alexdavydova 30. October 2009, 10:26

Let's celebrate Halloween :smile:

thetomster 30. October 2009, 10:34

:eyes:

nhat-ky 30. October 2009, 10:43

Ôi sợ quá ... :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

scapers 30. October 2009, 11:03

no skin for linux :frown: so bad :frown:

pleone 30. October 2009, 11:11

how to uninstall it?

RaihanNadia 30. October 2009, 11:30

Wow...

Thabotizz 30. October 2009, 11:38

Thumbs up Cole!

lilmoder 30. October 2009, 11:42

Flash player and browser while browsing Flickr crashed. Well, that's interesting.

drlaunch 30. October 2009, 11:47

What about my entry? I've been working constantly on it since the contest was announced. Only interupted by work and sleep. I actually drew every single thing on the entry on paper with very crude tools, then scanned it. Except the moon and the stars which are public domain artwork. After that, the drawings were painstakingly cleaned and put together in Paint.NET.

But that's not all. What about every single entry on the first page on the comments? Don't they at least deserve a mention? I'm sure they've been putting their blood, sweat and tears into their submissions as well.

What would give me some peace of mind, is to be told these entries were considered. But as things look now. I believe they were completely overlooked. I know it's a mistake to rant my anger out like this. But it needs to be heard, just like Halloween needs to be celebrated.
Halloween is about celebrating every forgotten saint. Consider this the anger of every forgotten artist in this challenge.

pROCKrammer 30. October 2009, 11:52

Is there any Linux version ???

NEWCOMERpro 30. October 2009, 11:57

I ever never had halloween in Indonesia butta let me in to join it..

alexdavydova 30. October 2009, 12:18

Originally posted by drlaunch:

What about my entry? I've been working constantly on it since the contest was announced. Only interupted by work and sleep. I actually drew every single thing on the entry on paper with very crude tools, then scanned it. Except the moon and the stars which are public domain artwork. After that, the drawings were painstakingly cleaned and put together in Paint.NET.


Hi Drlaunch, I really liked your entry :smile:

tundebunmi 30. October 2009, 12:32

It's interesting.

Chas4 30. October 2009, 12:38

:cool:

harlekinmond 30. October 2009, 12:41

great :D thx

drlaunch 30. October 2009, 12:44

Originally posted by alexdavydova:

Hi Drlaunch, I really liked your entry


Thanks. Don't forget to check out the other entries as well.

tekonaza 30. October 2009, 12:48

As you wish...

killerrabbit 30. October 2009, 12:53

nice. :cheers:

dimatz 30. October 2009, 13:11

Hay, The upgrade removed my open pages, removed my speed dials, favorites and saved passwords!!! (Windows version)

EspenAO 30. October 2009, 13:23

Originally posted by drlaunch:

Don't they at least deserve a mention?

Of course. Good feedback. Updated the post!

drlaunch 30. October 2009, 13:52

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Updated the post!



Thanks. :smile:

jgm21 30. October 2009, 14:20

Hey! and linux???
...
I can't belive it...:worried:

ellinidata 30. October 2009, 15:09

:up: + :cool:

adam664 30. October 2009, 15:14

Where is Unix version? :cry:

Pattty 30. October 2009, 15:19

Just love it!! :yes:

fherrerav 30. October 2009, 15:50

Cool :smile:

tandder 30. October 2009, 16:12

ADOREI! :love:

Tabmartel 30. October 2009, 16:15

Awesome!

Great work by everyone!

Happy halloween!

Nerak 30. October 2009, 16:39

Neato & Happy Halloween to all!

b2-66er 30. October 2009, 17:08

:frown: What about linux users :cry:

persianweblog 30. October 2009, 17:48

:up:

IKoke 30. October 2009, 17:58

:up: :coffee:

anonyy 30. October 2009, 19:32

why would you need to do as per instructions, just right click and save the file or when you have the file open properly right click and it will give you option to set it as a speed dial background.

i wouldn't go deleting those folders either you will lose the bookmarks etc.

completely unnecessary instructions.

selurus 30. October 2009, 19:59

:cool:
Happy Halloween to all.

WILMER2000 30. October 2009, 20:15

I like the Phantom of the Opera. lol Opera is the best! XD

produrox 30. October 2009, 22:25

congrats to cole :beer: , and nice done everyone!

! i'll be trick-or-treating on the highway dressed as a deer

kudesnik84 30. October 2009, 23:15

:yes: :star:

DanielHendrycks 30. October 2009, 23:24

I installed this then went back to the latest snapshot but the title bar still says "Opera Halloween Browser" but it is build 1848. Any ideas?

hasbit 31. October 2009, 02:06

Opera Halloween Browser

sgunhouse 31. October 2009, 06:29

On first run, I saw the regular skin and no speed dial background, after restarting Opera I finally saw the new skin and speed dial background. Did see the new speed dial entries, and added bookmarks.

Oh, Daniel? opera:config, look for Title and click on Default, then Save.

Kirbylover4000 31. October 2009, 08:32

I guess linux users can use wine (WINdows Emulator) from http://winehq.org/

Overall this thing (halloween-wise) is great. Good job opera.

shadow076 31. October 2009, 10:27

very good opera, it's so interesting item)thanks)

namnvhue 31. October 2009, 12:04

cool! but I'm a Firefox guy :smile:

DanielHendrycks 31. October 2009, 12:50

Thanks sgunhouse.
Can someone post a screenshot of this build because I saw the same skin from other builds at first start-up then I reverted back to the latest snapshot?

nhat-ky 31. October 2009, 18:13

Happy Halloween ...

.... sorry for spam at here !

alexdavydova 31. October 2009, 18:22

cool Halloween image!

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