Opera 9.5 and Opera Link
By Serola. Saturday, 14. June 2008, 18:19:24
Now that Opera 9.5 for desktop browsers is finally officially released it's also time to give a few advices before you rush using it together with Opera Links and Opera Mini 4.Once you have taken the new Opera browser in use, just select 'File > Synchronize Opera...' from menu bar. Then, when you open a new tab on Opera 9.5, you get the same speeddials as you have on your Opera Mini 4 browser's start page. Moreover, you get access to all your other Opera Mini bookmarks via Opera 9.5 bookmarks, and all your Opera 9.5 desktop bookmarks will be accessible via Opera Mini 4 browser's bookmarks page.
All this is made possible by Opera Link service, which by the way can be accessed from any other browser as well. Just head to link.opera.com, log-in, and there you have your Opera 9.5 and Opera Mini 4 bookmarks. You can also access Opera Link via your MyOpera 'Account' page.
But then a few warnings! There are currently some problems with Opera Link service causing the following issues:
Do not edit speeddials on Opera 9.5! I have noticed that after editing and dragging them around they start to switch back to old ones. This is somewhat difficult to explain. If you don't mind editing all your speeddials again on Opera Mini 4, then do experiment it by yourself
Moreover, editing speeddials on Opera 9.5 may cause problems on Opera Mini 4. I'm not sure what really caused it but after playing around with speeddials on desktop browser, I lost all the favicons of speeddials on my Opera Mini 4's start page. So, only edit speeddials and reorder them in Opera Mini 4 browser till this bug is fixed! It is a little difficult to change the order of speeddials on Opera Mini 4, but do it like this. Open every speeddial and save them on Opera Mini 4's bookmarks page. Then edit the speeddials and retrieve them from bookmarks page.The other problem takes place only if you are interested to Customize the number of items in speed dial. This tip by Larskl is very useful if you do not connect Opera 9.5 and Opera Mini 4 via Opera Link, but if you do, then do not change the number of speeddials on Opera 9.5! It will break the connection between Opera Link and Opera Mini 4. In other words, Opera Link just kick your Opera Mini browser out and you are not able to synchronize it unless you remove all extra speeddials on Opera 9.5.
Post Scriptum on June 17th 2008
After using Opera 9.5 for a while, I realized there are some additional settings when you start to synchronize Opera 9.5. There is an option not to synchronize speeddials, which is very nice. Using that option you keep your desktop speeddials apart from Opera Link and you can have separate speeddials on Opera Mini 4. Doing so, you can edit Opera 9.5 speeddials as much as you like and still share desktop bookmarks with Opera Mini 4. You can also use Larskl's advice to add more speeddials on Opera 9.5 if you want.
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serola # 17. June 2008, 07:49