After introducing Search popup feature, Opera software is testing yet another new feature in Opera 40 developer: Speed Dial suggestions. The latest Opera 40.0.2288.0 dev offers suggestions to add most popular websites to speed dials. To add your desired site that doesn’t appear in suggestions, click on + add a site, type the website address, done. Opera desktop team says the feature is still in early preview.
Turn off or remove Speed Dial Suggestions in Opera
If you don’t want speed dial suggestions to be shown in Start page, click on ‘x’ above the last suggested SD to remove them or click on cog wheel to open ‘customize start page’ popup, under Speed Dial, select ‘Hide Suggestions’.
Update: Ensure Advanced Settings are enabled to disable speed dial suggestions.
New battery saver UI
Keeping experienced and regular users in mind Opera browser team has redesigned the battery saver UI, so that experienced users get additional power saver settings to play with (presently behind a flag with the name -battery saver phase 2). “while regular users will have immediate access to the power saving mode, with default settings, through visual hints. The hints show more info regarding the function, for instance we have added a counter which estimates how much battery time is left for the user:”
Much like in Chrome, you can now open Task Manager in Opera with new Shift+Esc shortcut.
I’m a new user of Opera. I like the speed dial feature, but found the speed dial suggestions annoying — turned it off right away. Just my 2 cents.
How do i turn off the speed dial suggestions..they are awful..jeff
Enable advanced settings, visit start page, click on Cog wheel and uncheck ‘Show suggestions’ under Speed Dial.,
Opera, please stop pushing ADS. “Suggestions”, “front page” on mobile browsers, constant adding of bookmarks .. you know well what I mean. You are a small browser with a very loyal community. Stop testing it. Firefox doesn’t do this.
Lukas, I couldn’t put it in a better way. Thanks.
I have to agree with Lukas. This is becoming annoying.
What’s annoying most is the fact, that the suggestions constantly return even when they are removed from the page. If Opera doesn’t stop this I need to change the browser despite loving several of its features.
https://techdows.com/2016/10/opera-40-disable-speed-dial-suggestions.html
Show suggestions is unchecked but still getting the annoying list coming up.
An irritating feature that may drive me back to Firefox if it cannot be turned off successfully.
Kinda like the suggestions, but the Drudge Report suggestion was often deprioritized despite the frequency of hits I give the site. Call me suspicious ;)
Speed dial suggestions still shows, despite unchecking “show suggestions”, also update, also exit Opera and restart