Wednesday, 22. October 2008, 02:53:26
How to Change Speed Dial Thumbnail Images
Hi. I changed the thumbnail images of my speed dial screen. It's annoying to look at tiny webpage images where nothing can be read at all! It's simple.
1. Go to C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\profile\thumbnails.
2. Use an image editor such as Adobe Photoshop, and create thumbnail images of your choice at the size of 192x156 pixels.
3. 'Save As' the thumbnail images in your thumbnail folder. Remember to use .png format.
4. Restart Opera and see your Speed Dial screen come to life!
Wednesday, 22. October 2008, 06:34:08
Thanks for the tip. I have heard that you should save them as 'Read only' to prevent updating in Opera...
Saturday, 22. November 2008, 22:37:44
EXCELLENT! Worked like a charm! Now my Speed Dial looks as sharp as what you can get on the FireFox counterpart....and as always, on my computer, the screen draws faster than Firefox's.
Monday, 24. November 2008, 00:07:08
Originally posted by ersi:
Thanks for the tip. I have heard that you should save them as 'Read only' to prevent updating in Opera...
I can confirm this. After having spiffy looking thumnails last night, today they were all gone as Opera "updated" them and wrote over them with pictures of the web pages again. So today I took the images I made yesterday and write-protected them and copied them to the thumbnails directory again.
For those who don't know, you write-protect your images by right-clicking the file in Windows Explorer, click properties and there will be an option to make it read-only.
Sunday, 13. September 2009, 19:45:02 (edited)
I apologize for bringing life to such an old thread but where do you get your custom speed dial images from? I came across a website that lets you create and download other user-created images but now that I need it, I can't find the url.
Found it!
http://userlogos.org/logos
Please share if you know other resources.
Monday, 14. September 2009, 13:12:18
This is a great topic - I plan to get my png's all fixed up tonight right after work.
The reason I was poking around in this forum, though, has to do with the titles on the Speed Dial panels.
Does anyone know how to change those? I mean, USA Today reads, "News Weather, Enter..." I'd prefer
if I could just make that say USA Today. It seems that only Google and Opera do it right, so we have to work
around the gunk that less sophisticated web designers throw at us.
Thanks for any pointers.
~gary~
The reason I was poking around in this forum, though, has to do with the titles on the Speed Dial panels.
Does anyone know how to change those? I mean, USA Today reads, "News Weather, Enter..." I'd prefer
if I could just make that say USA Today. It seems that only Google and Opera do it right, so we have to work
around the gunk that less sophisticated web designers throw at us.
Thanks for any pointers.
~gary~
Friday, 18. September 2009, 19:45:54
Originally posted by frem82:
it seems to take a site logo and scale it down to the correct size to use in the Speed Dial feature.Originally posted by joshjnz:
How can i use this?
just experiement and see
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