My Extensions. Let me show them to you.
Extensions allow you to add excellent functionality to Opera easily (just browse our rich extensions catalog). Personally I prefer to have extensions doing useful stuff under the hood - not clustering up my UI, so here are my extensions:
From top to bottom:
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Documents previewPrompts for document preview when you click links pointing to either .DOC .PPT or .PDF files. Uses Google documents viewer.
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YouTube Video DownloaderThe extension adds a simple drop-down below the YouTube videos where you can easily select and download the video in the format of choice.
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Force Speed Dial LogosReplaces speed dial thumbnails with site logos for preconfigured and user configured sites.
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GMail CheckerDisplays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox.
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Make It SoA simple extension which sizes large images to fit in the window, either along one axis or both.
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My Opera ShareShare any site with your My Opera friends with a single click!
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Turn Off the LightsThe entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch the video as if you were in the cinema.
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YouTube AdsFreeRemoves annoying popup ads on YouTube videos.
What extensions do you use? Got any tips for me?
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About this article
| Published in | Choose Opera |
|---|---|
| Date | May 13, 2011 |
| Author | Espen André Øverdahl |
| Tags | speed dial, extensions, opera |
| Original | Internet Archive |
TamilFriday, May 13, 2011 11:47:54 AM
Ingvar StepanyanFriday, May 13, 2011 11:50:20 AM
Докучаев КонстантинFriday, May 13, 2011 11:52:21 AM
FibitechFriday, May 13, 2011 11:54:03 AM
Randy DisherFriday, May 13, 2011 12:00:50 PM
YonasFriday, May 13, 2011 12:02:20 PM
Uncle MickFriday, May 13, 2011 12:04:15 PM
Opera AdBlock
Translate
WOT
Alexei MorozovFriday, May 13, 2011 12:08:21 PM
nimbuzz loginFriday, May 13, 2011 12:09:27 PM
sirnh1Friday, May 13, 2011 12:21:22 PM
barbod1364Friday, May 13, 2011 12:26:25 PM
Mağruf ÇolakoğluFriday, May 13, 2011 12:31:09 PM
Samed AyanFriday, May 13, 2011 12:31:47 PM
PengeFriday, May 13, 2011 12:38:59 PM
Erik HauboldFriday, May 13, 2011 12:42:51 PM
with webm plus i dont have to run flash as often as before this extension
Žiga PirihFriday, May 13, 2011 1:11:48 PM
ExtendedTube
Lately much hated Image Preview Popout by whochan, customly hacked so the ad is not displayed
Opera Adblock
YouTube AdsFree
YouWatch
SaveText
FastestYoutube
mubaidrFriday, May 13, 2011 1:29:04 PM
Extendtube
google ajax loader
Image preview popup
no-ads fixed
popup status bar
remake links
slim scroll bars
youtube mp3 download
SaskatchewanFriday, May 13, 2011 1:33:15 PM
OPERATORFriday, May 13, 2011 2:01:35 PM
Download Media Bar
Force Speed Dial Logos
Bit.ly
Ronit KumarFriday, May 13, 2011 2:05:27 PM
Link Redirector, Extend Youtube, Flag Button, Edit the Page
Manuel Andreas KuhnFriday, May 13, 2011 2:12:41 PM
FastestTube - YouTube Video Downloader
YouWatch
open-in-background-with-long-press
kyu3Friday, May 13, 2011 2:44:58 PM
http://blog.livedoor.jp/kyu3_2-think/archives/3108150.html
JinWoong, HwangFriday, May 13, 2011 2:55:27 PM
I am using almost 40 extensions, that make me start to feel the large extension config window uncomfortable.
Also now I should think about the efficiencies. There are many similiar extensions comparing each others, and soon, the performance will be the most factor to choose one.
I think providing a professional UI - for example, checking memory usage and delay -would be an enhancer for extensions to get more popularity. :]
CristianFriday, May 13, 2011 3:47:40 PM
Opera AdBlock
GMail Checker
Léon McGregorFriday, May 13, 2011 3:58:07 PM
benjeFriday, May 13, 2011 4:26:22 PM
ExtendTube = only 1 extension for all your youtube needs
RenkeFriday, May 13, 2011 6:40:32 PM
in my opinion you can bette use a pinned tab with GMail + the lab that shows the number of new mails in the favicon instead of the GMail Cheker extension.
Regards,
Renke
Tiago WakabayashiFriday, May 13, 2011 7:07:29 PM
CrsFriday, May 13, 2011 7:08:46 PM
Suggestion
IronFriday, May 13, 2011 7:25:02 PM
d4rkn1ghtFriday, May 13, 2011 9:27:53 PM
webtaxSaturday, May 14, 2011 2:24:51 AM
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/open-in-background-with-long-press/1.0.2/?display=en hold mouse1 to open on background, ultrauseful on laptops
that would be it so far.. opera doesnt need to much more
Eli MitchellSaturday, May 14, 2011 2:45:37 AM
Download Media Bar (sure, it's Russian, but it works great for me!)
Textarea Resizer
PageScrubber (mine...
NoAds Fixed (my favorite Opera ad blocking extension so far)
Shorten URL
glacheSaturday, May 14, 2011 4:23:01 AM
Paruchuri Sai AnudeepMonday, May 16, 2011 6:28:52 AM
Max stoneTuesday, May 17, 2011 8:43:57 AM
Денис ДавыдовWednesday, May 18, 2011 1:34:29 PM
ping yangFriday, May 20, 2011 2:32:30 AM
easteinsteinMonday, May 23, 2011 5:53:18 AM
HenryMonday, May 23, 2011 2:33:16 PM
To name a couple of fav's...
Browser Stats love it! by sabisan
HTML5 Outliner by Daniel Davis and Bruce Lawson
Source by Deathamns
Opera Configurator by [email protected]
Opera Internal Pages by mozlima
Swiss Knife by Leomajko
WOT by Web Of Trust
Fav Authors:
Sabisan.. {above mentioned}
Bruce Lawson.. {Show IDs} Huge fan.
Daniel Hendrycks.. {Validator}.
tagawa.. {HTML5 Powered, Pimp My DevO, also author to an HTML5 Outliner}
Aleksander.. {My Opera Share, Facechat}
Chaals.. {Excesskey! IDN Mail fix! Key Title! Swaplang!}<< Like the language options. Huge fan.
s-a-s-h.. {ForceSpeedDialLogos}
Zahek.. {Converter and Mobile Haber }
Web Dev and Tools - fav catagories.
Mp3 Conversion from YouTube Video, sorry not into it.
But i can see why peeps are.
I'll shutup now.
SanleeThursday, July 14, 2011 3:22:56 PM