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Opera's Halloween Browser

Friday, October 30, 2009 9:59:25 AM

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!

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:

Open menu "Help" » "About Opera".
Find the path to the catalog with user data ("Path" » "Preferences") and copy the address
Close Opera
Open the catalog with user data found above (for Windows: "Start" » "Run" » paste the address you copied before)
Remove or rename the following files:

bookmarks.adr
speeddial.ini
operaprefs.ini

Install the customized version (without removing the previous one)

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

Comments

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Dacotah # Friday, October 30, 2009 10:16:11 AM

Hoang Kienhnkien # Friday, October 30, 2009 10:17:07 AM

don't download it

Morghus # Friday, October 30, 2009 10:18:38 AM

Hahaha, so cool ^^

Tamil # Friday, October 30, 2009 10:24:48 AM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL2.gif -

Alexandraalexdavydova # Friday, October 30, 2009 10:26:57 AM

Let's celebrate Halloween

dirkthetomster # Friday, October 30, 2009 10:34:38 AM

Hoàng Vũ Hiệpnhat-ky # Friday, October 30, 2009 10:43:05 AM

Ôi sợ quá ...

Scapersscapers # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:03:53 AM

no skin for linux

so bad

pleone # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:11:22 AM

how to uninstall it?

Nadia NurraihanRaihanNadia # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:30:02 AM

Wow...

Thabo Thabotizz # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:38:44 AM

Thumbs up Cole!

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47:36 AM

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.

SardorbekpROCKrammer # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:52:40 AM

Is there any Linux version ???

Jarvis nazaretNEWCOMERpro # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:57:10 AM

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

Alexandraalexdavydova # Friday, October 30, 2009 12:18:19 PM

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

olagunju babatundetundebunmi # Friday, October 30, 2009 12:32:57 PM

It's interesting.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, October 30, 2009 12:38:58 PM

Harlekin Mondharlekinmond # Friday, October 30, 2009 12:41:41 PM

great

thx

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Friday, October 30, 2009 12:44:02 PM

Originally posted by alexdavydova:

Hi Drlaunch, I really liked your entry

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

Diego Schild Smithstekonaza # Friday, October 30, 2009 12:48:35 PM

As you wish...

Philippkillerrabbit # Friday, October 30, 2009 12:53:52 PM

nice.

Dimitar Stojanovskidimatz # Friday, October 30, 2009 1:11:11 PM

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

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Friday, October 30, 2009 1:23:05 PM

Originally posted by drlaunch:

Don't they at least deserve a mention?

Of course. Good feedback. Updated the post!

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Friday, October 30, 2009 1:52:38 PM

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Updated the post!

Thanks.

Joeljgm21 # Friday, October 30, 2009 2:20:19 PM

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

Angelikiellinidata # Friday, October 30, 2009 3:09:26 PM

adam664 # Friday, October 30, 2009 3:14:55 PM

Where is Unix version?

Pattty # Friday, October 30, 2009 3:19:45 PM

Just love it!!

Francisco Herrerafherrerav # Friday, October 30, 2009 3:50:17 PM

Cool

Tandder Limatandder # Friday, October 30, 2009 4:12:49 PM

ADOREI!

TabTabmartel # Friday, October 30, 2009 4:15:45 PM

Awesome!

Great work by everyone!

Happy halloween!

KarenNerak # Friday, October 30, 2009 4:39:13 PM

Neato & Happy Halloween to all!

Fred Jose Diazb2-66er # Friday, October 30, 2009 5:08:33 PM

What about linux users

endless lovepersianweblog # Friday, October 30, 2009 5:48:09 PM

IKoke # Friday, October 30, 2009 5:58:45 PM

Ask and i may tell anonyy # Friday, October 30, 2009 7:32:35 PM

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 # Friday, October 30, 2009 7:59:59 PM

Happy Halloween to all.

Wilmer BlancoWILMER2000 # Friday, October 30, 2009 8:15:40 PM

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

produrox # Friday, October 30, 2009 10:25:22 PM

congrats to cole

, and nice done everyone!

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

Алексейkudesnik84 # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:15:18 PM

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Friday, October 30, 2009 11:24:44 PM

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?

mohammad hasanhasbit # Saturday, October 31, 2009 2:06:45 AM

Opera Halloween Browser

Stevesgunhouse # Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:29:42 AM

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 # Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:32:43 AM

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

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

Русланshadow076 # Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:27:19 AM

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

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:50:16 PM

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?

Hoàng Vũ Hiệpnhat-ky # Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:13:22 PM

Happy Halloween ...