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The SpeedDialPatch utility patches Opera Developer builds to support more speed dial columns and smaller/larger preview images, set custom thumbnails and injects custom CSS styles into internal pages. …

The SpeedDialPatch utility patches Opera Developer builds to support more speed dial columns and smaller/larger preview images, set custom thumbnails and injects custom CSS styles into internal pages.

Because SpeedDialPatch modifies the opera.pak file, you must run it after each Opera update.

Opera 15, 16 and 17
Not supported.

Opera 18
All developer builds are supported, and at the time writing this text all next builds also.

Opera 19
19.0.1326.0 is supported. I will try to support all future Opera Developer builds until built-in Speed Dial customization will be supported. Opera Next and Opera Stable builds will not be supported (I am using developer stream builds only and binary patching takes a lot of time). Because this tool has to patch opera.exe also, you have to wait for me to update the tool after each Opera Developer update.

Requirements:

• .NET Framework 2.0 (preinstalled in Vista or above)

Usage:

1. exit Opera
2. run SpeedDialPatch.exe
3. locate your Opera installation folder containing launcher.exe
4. enter Speed Dial configuration values
5. run Opera again

You have to delete and add again default speed dial entries (like Facebook, YouTube, etc.) if you disable built-in speed dial thumbnail images.

If you want to use a custom thumbnail for site www.something.com, something.com or anything.something.com, create something.com.png image file with the desired resolution in the sdimages folder. Using a lot of custom thumbnail may slow down Speed Dial.

I known that cropped thumbnails are blurred, but I cannot do anything against it, Opera 12 had a nicer thumbnail generation algorithm. Using cropping may increase Opera memory consumption.

Changes on 2013-11-24

• Updated patching mechanism (calculating modified opera.pak hash and patching data instead of patching x86 code)

Changes on 2013-10-25

• Updated for Opera 19.0.1300.0 (thanks to Izer0 for the executable patch, you saved me at least an hour)
• Added PatchOperaExe flag to the configuration file to patch only opera.pak (and leave opera.exe untouched)

Changes on 2013-10-19

• Added new CSS files to hide speed dial labels
• Added an option to modify vertical and horizontal spacing between thumbnails
• Added an option to create cropped thumbnail images like in Opera 12 instead of scaled ones (see note)
• Added default search engine editor

Changes on 2013-10-16

• Updated for Opera 18.0.1284.5
• Dropped support for Opera 15, 16 and 17
• Added custom speed dial thumbnails

Changes on 2013-09-29

• Updated for Opera 18.0.1274.0.8
• Added heuristics to for patching unknown versions
• Added program icon
• Code refactoring, sources transformed into a VS2010 project

Changes in 1.7.0 (2013-09-23)

• Updated for Opera 18.0.1271.0

Changes in 1.6.0 (2013-09-19)

• Updated for Opera 18.0.1267.0

Changes in 1.5.0 (2013-09-16)

• Updated for Opera 18.0.1264.0

Changes in 1.4.0 (2013-09-15)

• Updated for Opera 18.0.1258.1 (thanks to Izer0 for the executable patch)
• Patching opera.exe if necessary

Changes in 1.3.0 (2013-08-22)

• updated for Opera 15.0.1147.153, Opera 16.0.1196.55 and Opera 17.0.1232.0
• stricter Opera version checking
• added CSS injection with some sample scripts

Changes in 1.2.0 (2013-08-13)

• updated for Opera 16.0.1196.41

Changes in 1.1.0 (2013-08-08)

• updated for Opera 17.0.1224.1

Thanks
Thanks to Izer0 for the patches, to dAKirby309 and to Klukeart for the icons.

Download: SpeedDialPatch.zip
Source code: GitHub repository