More speed dials? There you go!

Tuesday, 6. May 2008, 18:18:14

upx, opera, speed dial, customizing, speeddial, customize

As some of you may know, there is sometimes information hidden in a compiled application that is not visible at first. Sometimes they are easter eggs, other times they are features that are not enabled yet.

Just because I can I sometimes poke around in the compiled application to see if there is anthing interesting. To get the unpacked dll (yes, the windows version), you need to unpack it with UPX first.

In the unpacked dll are binary strings that show/do a lot of stuff, but the one I found was until now unknown and does something a lot of people were asking for: it allows a custom number of speed dials. To make use of this hidden feature, just add this to you speeddial.ini file[1]:

[Size]
Rows=4
Columns=5

I think the settings speak for themselves. A small note: while testing really large numbers of speed dials had the nasty habit of eating up all cpu time for quite a while, so be moderate.

Enjoy!

Screenshot of 4x5 speed dials

[1] The file is in the directory after "Opera directory" on Help -> About Opera

Opera and flash on linux

Comments

nice!!!

By larskl, # 6. May 2008, 18:28:25

Thank you so much, very useful

By themoose, # 6. May 2008, 18:31:17

You smart fellow, you!

By BAMAToNE, # 6. May 2008, 19:51:50

wicked!

By philry4n, # 7. May 2008, 00:36:39

Excellent

By BleedingHeart, # 7. May 2008, 00:39:41

Unfortunately doesn't work in 9.27.

Also section in speeddial.ini have to be the first one in speeddial.ini before all other sections.

But, still -- it's great!

By profiT, # 7. May 2008, 11:51:37

Wow!

Real easter egg!

By FataL, # 7. May 2008, 14:13:21

Morphinomenal!

By Cyro, # 7. May 2008, 15:58:56

Also section in speeddial.ini have to be the first one in speeddial.ini before all other sections.

It doesn't, you can put it at the end as well.

By larskl, # 7. May 2008, 18:10:09

Oh noes, you found out!

By toman, # 8. May 2008, 11:30:28

9.25 build 8827 - doesnt works
9.50 build 9945 - works great! THANKS!

By .nuke, # 10. May 2008, 14:05:08

Красавчек! С пасибо.

By Gamovrik, # 11. May 2008, 10:39:40

super!

By s1eepwa1ker, # 12. May 2008, 10:54:04

You are a god !!!

I have a question :

Why in my screen (laptop 15'') the slots don't cover the entire empty space ? ? ?

Here is a screenshot to see what i mean :

[img]http://www.photo2box.com/images/6ntmisqnsf4hrccpoc60.gif

EDIT : I found it ! I use another combination 3x5 and it takes now the 90% of the space.It's has to do with the screen size.

By ipred, # 13. May 2008, 20:58:02

Works fine, thanks!

By purgossu, # 26. May 2008, 16:03:35

Молодець

By Леонардо, # 27. May 2008, 15:11:12

Can it be done in 9.27?

Tried section first and last, but 3x3 is what I keep.

By bartgzn, # 30. May 2008, 19:40:38

can someone explain to me how to do this on a mac? thanks.

By papasmurfrock, # 30. May 2008, 19:59:05

never mind. i found out and figured it out...and it's working! very cool! thanks!

By papasmurfrock, # 30. May 2008, 20:12:43

is really great.thanks

By ZAHEK, # 30. May 2008, 20:13:04

Thanks Remco, works great.

By V'ger, # 10. June 2008, 14:08:17

Wow! I didn't know that. Thank you for the tip.

By Arnt, # 13. June 2008, 15:15:54

As we say down here in lagos - Scraaaaaaaaaaaaaaabada to you !

It means You are baaaaaaaaaaaaaad !

By dapxin, # 14. June 2008, 01:12:52

Unfortunately, only the first 9 are synced with Opera Link

Also, I hate it that Opera Link website doesn't let you edit the Speed Dial urls.

By kitt, # 14. June 2008, 02:33:35

Кросафчег!

By RzCoDer, # 15. June 2008, 16:21:05

Rock!! But if only there was a speed-dial CSS :O

By SirJeff, # 19. June 2008, 00:01:01

I already knew it from another source, but is there a way to use the speeddial-numbers larger than 9 in the adressbar?

E.G.: you write 11 into the adressbar and opera opens Speeddial Nr. 11?

By CheeseyFighter, # 19. June 2008, 12:26:08

I'm relatively new to opera so bear with me. I'm intrigued at being able to expand the speeddial page to more than the usual 9. However, I cannot fully understand your instructions. Could you please expand on them for a newbie such as me? To be honest, I need a roadmap. I'd really appreciate it.

By clark777, # 22. June 2008, 15:38:14

To quote myself:

To make use of this hidden feature, just add this to you speeddial.ini file[1]:

[Size]
Rows=4
Columns=5

[1] The file is in the directory after "Opera directory" on Help -> About Opera

If you need more help, the forums are the place to ask.

By remcolanting, # 22. June 2008, 16:55:44

Thanks for the quick response. I just logged in to indicate I found out how to do it. Thanks!

By clark777, # 22. June 2008, 18:02:05

Warning:

If you use Opera Link to synchronize desktop Opera 9.5 and Opera Mini 4+ on your phone, then do not share speeddials. Synchronizing extra speeddials of Opera 9.5 may cut the connection between Opera Mini 4+ and Opera Link server. I have not even reported this "bug" yet, so it may take some time before this is fixed.

By serola, # 23. June 2008, 13:03:53