One the Opera´s main feature is its customization. Each user can set it up to suit their needs. For instance, you can set a specific number of websites to add as homepage as well as choosing among several search engines. Let´s see how to add browser windows and search engines to Opera in a few steps.

One of its most interesting and original features of Opera is to set several websites as homepage. One of them is Speed Dial, a websites’ graphic menu that enables users to customize it either by adding or removing websites to the links grid.

Opera allows users to increase the number of websites in their Speed Dial homepage, since Opera uses by default a 3×3 grid for the SpeeD Dial.

Follow these instructions to add more websites to the grid:

1)    To modify the main grid, we must modify a configuration file called speeddial.ini. The latter´s path changes according to the version of the Opera and the operative system you´re using. Use Windows search function to find it.

2)    Next, close Opera and open the file speeddial.ini con  with any text file -such as notepad or WordPad- and add the following lines:

3)    Save the file and open Opera again, you´ll notice the change at once.

By doing this, we can modify the number of rows and columns just by modifying the numeric values set in the lines “Rows” and “Columns” in speeddial.ini.

Add search engines to Opera

Every web browser includes a default search engine. In this way, the user doesn’t´ have to enter the search engine website (ex. www.Google.com). Opera includes some of the most popular search engines, but you can still add others. Follow these instructions to add search engines.

1)    Once you choose the search engine, right click inside the search box and choose the option “Create Search”.

2)    Next, complete “name” and “keyword” text fields.

3)    Now, click on a tab and then right click on it and choose the “customize” option.

4)    Another window will now open. Choose the “Buttons” tab and once inside choose the “Search” option. The search engine you added will be listed there.

5)    With the left mouse click drag the search engine outside the window and place it anywhere you where. Once you´ve followed these steps, you´ll have additional search engines on your list.

Opera is an application that can be fully customized, giving the user the possibility to adjust its options and features to the utmost. If you properly followed the above-mentioned steps, you won´t have any issues increasing websites to the grid or adding more search engines.

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Are you looking for new ways of surfing the internet? There are many web browsers, some of them deliver stability, others provide overall speed and there is Google Chrome, which offers stability, speed and more.

Who has never heard of Google? This internet giant began as a search engine allowing users to search the internet to find anything they wanted, and without a doubt it´s the most popular and fast search engine on the planet up to date.

Google kept developing software for internet users, and now they bring us Chrome, a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. With its revolutionary Chrome tries to improve what´s been done up to now by Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer and it´s set to be one of the leaders in the field. On the performance side Google has implemented their own JavaScript rendering engine, called V8 that is reported to be 100 times faster than other browsers around.

Unlike the other browsers each new tab you open runs individually of the others. That way if a page or web application crashes it doesn’t affect the other tabs. You just close the offending tab and continue browsing.

Chrome comes with a default dynamic home page. As you use it, the program remembers the sites that you visit most often. The top nine of those appear in snapshots on your home page, along with your most commonly used search engines and bookmarks.

No longer do you search from one box and enter URL’s in another. You use the Omni box for everything including running a search on Yahoo, Live.com or any other search engine. Just start typing Yahoo.com and then hit your tab key and you will see what I mean. Rather than those cluttered up menus, Google Chrome has merely 2 controlling options for all your needs. Namely “control the current page” where it has numerous sub choices in them and “customize and control Google Chrome” tool which acts similar to “choices” in other web browsers. This feature makes Google Chrome really neat in its look and clutter-free.

Chrome continues fixing bugs and errors, so problems are bound to crop up over the coming months. If like most people you rely heavily on Web browsing, you run a risk by putting your online life into the hands of an unproven product. Chrome’s History functions are less versatile than the powerhouse ones built by Firefox. Chrome offers only a simple screen showing your day-by-day history. The ability to sort everything by date, site, or most visited appear to have joined the distaff and spindle on the ash heap.

To sum up, we have to say that Chrome is better than other browsers such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, though it may take some take for Google to fix all the bugs and errors we encountered with Chrome. Still, it´s an amazing web browsers. Calling the design of Chrome’s interface streamlined is an understatement. The program barely looks like a program, and the vast majority of your screen space is devoted to the site you’re visiting–with no buttons or logos hogging space. So there you go, give Chrome a try, as in all Google products and services, this web browser won´t disappoint you.

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