The Opera desktop team has implemented Power User Settings in Opera 19, now available in Opera 23 as well. Opera software hasn’t talked much about this, perhaps they don’t want you to play with those, as they might damage your browser. However, if you want to enable them in Opera, here is how to do hat.
Resetting Opera Settings to its default
Enabling Power User Settings in Opera
1. Visit opera://settings page
2. Make sure the mouse cursor is not in the search box under Settings,
3. Now type ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → b a
4. Opera shows a power user settings dialog, and warns you ‘these settings are hidden for a reason, they can severely mess up browser and we can take no responsibility or performance of the product after proceeding. "
5. You’ve read that, now click on "I, understand , Proceed’ (you find this similar to entering about:config in Firefox).
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After turning on, these will be disabled after a reload or restart of the browser. To always see the Power User Settings on Settings page, after enabling, select ‘always show power user settings’, so that you don’t need to type the Konami code again.
Using these power user settings, you can able to
- Hide the search box in Speed dial
- Adjust speed dial thumbnail width and height
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Note: Opera Advanced Settings and Power User Settings are different.
The disabling of the search bar is a joke. Now we have an advanced settings mode AND a power user mode. WTF, Opera? This is, all in all, just a browser, not a damn server and I really, really don’t want to enter cryptic codes just to disable useless features.
Which features you want to disable in Opera now? You should let them know by posting a comment in their blog.
Than you very much, this was very useful.
You’re welcome John.
Is that supposed to be the up arrow down arrow left arrow and right arrow? Is so they don’t work. And if not what keys are they, don’t see anything labeled that way on my keyboard.
Whatever mentioned in the article (two ups, two downs, left right (twice) ba is you need to enter, type the code correctly.
Just enabled power settings and still can’t remove google from the search engine choices or make Startpage my default search engine. I’m guessing the today’s Opera is just a giant vacuum cleaner gobbling up people’s surfing sessions for the seriously evil corporation that is Google.
Oh well …. the search for a secure browser continues.
What you said is absolutely true. Though we can add starpage as search engine, you can’t make it as default, Opera doesn’t allows that. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
doesn’t work. maybe i have my mouse in the wrong place?
does this not work on later versions of Opera?
im on the latest version i believe (2019)
Seems they already said goodbye to that way of revealing hidden settings, we can confirm konami code no longer working to display extra settings.