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What are your favorite Opera extensions?

January 24, 2012 · by Espen André Øverdahl

The Opera extensions catalog is growing every day. Right now, we have soon 1,000 extensions submitted and available for download. :yes: What are your favorite Opera extensions so far and why? Here are some of my favorites. Please share your favorite extensions as a comment!

Gmail on your Speed Dial: This extensions shows a preview of your unread mails on Gmail in Opera's Speed Dial. If you are logged in, it will show you a preview of your unread mails. If you have zero unread mails, then it will just show a Gmail icon in color.


YouTube WebM Plus: Enhance your open Web video experience. WebM Plus will let you save WebM videos, and make YouTube behave like Adobe Flash was just a bad dream. Play all the videos on the world’s most popular video sharing site in an open video format. No need to install and run any plug-ins.


Translator: Automatically translate foreign texts and pages. Translate typed text, selected text, the active page. This extension uses Google Translate, Bing Translator, Promt Translator or Pragma Translator (optional).


NewGenBook 2.0 Beta: How Facebook Should look like! This is a really cool extension. It completely changes the look of Facebook so it looks different. It's up to you to determine if it's better or not, but we can highly recommend you check it out. :up:


Weather in your Speed Dial: Real time weather and detailed forecast all round the world. It displays current weather or forecast for the nearest time. It's easy-to-use interface and easy configuration will help you get started right away. :smile:

Readers' comments 35

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  • MyOpera team, please fix this!Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:24:05 PM

    I really liked and enjoyed the Opera-to-Phone extension. Sadly Opera's extension API is not mature enough to port all the functionality from the Chrome/Firefox-to-phone extensions. I'd like to see much more movement on that front.

  • praetor87Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:30:42 PM

    Ghostery, a random calendar (almost every), snap links (i used userjs for it) and with some configuration the imgtip. Wot could be good too, but it somehow makes slower my pc. The extension's API is the same level as the chrome but it's allright. Less security risk.

  • mayerWednesday, January 25, 2012 12:08:54 AM

    opera to i phon extension

  • izaak-goldsteinWednesday, January 25, 2012 12:56:43 AM

    I use AdBlock, Opera Share, PageRank.

  • Phillip Robert O'ConnerWednesday, January 25, 2012 1:11:08 AM

    meme Smiley.Because Now I Can See Smiley Face.Instead of Those Silly Looking Text. :bigsmile: :smile:

  • Yeni SetiawanWednesday, January 25, 2012 2:09:10 AM

    Weather in Speed Dial is awesome. I also use Facebook extension to see how many comments/message I have, and also Meme Smiley.

    For the last extension, it made my day :up:

  • xpghostedWednesday, January 25, 2012 3:45:31 AM

    Opera Internal Pages (links to so much useful goodies)

    Reddited (checks if a link has comments, which tends to have great further reading/watching/listening)

    the weather on speed dial (yr.no and gismeteo.com)

    Reddit Enhancement Suite (its not in extension catalog, they won't submit it? crammed full of really useful enhancements)

  • MuneerWednesday, January 25, 2012 4:05:34 AM

    I use : Imagepreviewer, Opera AdBLock, Slim Scrollbar, Snap Links, The weather, Wikipedia Style - Gray Lady III :headbang:

  • inDigazzZWednesday, January 25, 2012 4:16:25 AM

    Imagus

  • d4rkn1ghtWednesday, January 25, 2012 4:17:44 AM

    YouTube WebM Plus

    :up:

  • Jan LizonWednesday, January 25, 2012 6:39:37 AM

    weather extension :smile:

  • MarteIraeWednesday, January 25, 2012 7:03:58 AM

    Easy User CSS, ExtendTube, ImagePreviewer, Redirect Bypasser, Snap Links, Source, Tab Vault & Translator

  • Yeni SetiawanWednesday, January 25, 2012 7:48:00 AM

    I think terryjen is a spam bot. :chef:

  • praetor87Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:57:38 AM

    Originally posted by sandalian:

    I think terryjen is a spam bot.



    I'm sure it will like the blocking too. :lol:

  • P2O2Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:24:22 AM

    I like Notes, Sessions, Downloads, Tab Stack options and many others. They are integrated so they work fine.

    I DO NOT like extensions but I have to use them:
    - Facebook blocker (essential in the world of kinky social circles)
    - FastestTube - YouTube Video Downloader
    - MakeLinks (it turns text web addresses into clickable links, why does it exist as an extension yet?)!!!
    - Opera AdBlock (it should be integrated eon years ago)
    - Opera Internal Pages (it should be integrated eon years ago)

    Do not play the Microsoft tricks - "we give independent programmers a tool to earn their money".

    Extensions are always bad in the world which is so complex as IT world. One could even say that extensions are sort of functionality patches. It bodes ill to stability.

    Regards

  • cgdsWednesday, January 25, 2012 8:40:21 AM

    LightShot + EntendTube :p:

  • Sami SerolaWednesday, January 25, 2012 9:27:45 AM

    Delicious Extension
    Textarea resizer
    Wikipedia Style - Grey Lady III

  • Spadar ShutWednesday, January 25, 2012 10:17:42 AM

    Edit the page & Easy user CSS!

  • envyandroidWednesday, January 25, 2012 10:50:48 AM

    The google maps extension ofcourse :smile:

    https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/maps/0.2/?display=en


  • P2O2Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:13:43 AM

    Originally posted by envyandroid:

    The google maps extension ofcourse :smile:



    As an example of the least useful extension, of course. :wink:

    Equally important information would be:
    - the weather in that "point",
    - number of frogs in the area and
    - what color of socks is most popular in 1 km radius.

    The number of topics related to the selected hyperlink should be increased on demand or automatically, according to measured stupidity of the user who asked for the information.

    Human idiocy has no boundary.

  • Mağruf ÇolakoğluWednesday, January 25, 2012 11:24:18 AM

    May favorites are;
    Lastpass
    Focus on Textbox
    Imagus
    Mac OSX Font Rendering
    Popup Statusbar
    Slim Scrollbar

  • DanielWednesday, January 25, 2012 3:39:14 PM

    https://addons.opera.com/de/addons/extensions/details/noads-multilingual-german/1.0.99/
    https://addons.opera.com/de/addons/extensions/details/imagepreviewer/5.1.1/?display=en
    https://addons.opera.com/de/addons/extensions/details/cleanpages/

  • AvolaWednesday, January 25, 2012 4:13:30 PM

    ExtendTube
    GetOffMyLawn
    Imagus
    Open With Long Click
    Opera Adblock
    Reddit Enhancement Suite
    SnapLinks
    TabVault

  • Satan D. LuciferWednesday, January 25, 2012 6:46:37 PM

    ImagePreviewer
    Imagus
    AutoPatchWork
    ExtendTube
    Snap Links

    and recently added by whochan called "WebScheduler"

    really whochans extensions are great and very popular which i like.

    could we add UserJS too? cause i have this

    http://extendopera.org/userjs/content/operaflag
    and
    http://fychan.fybertech.com/

    really useful.

  • SilhouetWednesday, January 25, 2012 9:22:14 PM

    Imagus
    Snap Links
    Scroll Marker
    Song Notifier

    Speed dial extensions:
    Daily Deviations (deviantArt)
    Earthporn in your Speed Dial

  • Jonathan SoaresWednesday, January 25, 2012 9:25:07 PM

    Originally posted by serola:

    https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/delicious-extension/1.1/?display=en]Delicious Extension
    https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/textarea-resizer/2.11/]Textarea resizer
    https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/wikipedia-style-grey-lady-iii/1.3/]Wikipedia Style - Grey Lady III

    Thanks for TextArea Resize. I missed it after I saw in Chrome.:cheers:

  • dlnWednesday, January 25, 2012 11:08:22 PM

    I really like the new Speed Dial. And the add a background.

  • Alen PendićWednesday, January 25, 2012 11:28:40 PM

    Imagus
    ExtendTube
    In-place translator
    Lightshot

  • itrex111Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:43:34 AM

    I like the Opera very much

  • Jeff YangThursday, January 26, 2012 10:49:30 AM

    Obviously the Adblock for Opera!

  • HartonoimudjiThursday, January 26, 2012 4:00:31 PM

    Thanks opera..

  • DanThursday, January 26, 2012 10:51:17 PM

    YouTube AddsFree :bigsmile: :heart:

  • naySaturday, January 28, 2012 2:10:34 AM

    Adblock for Opera
    Imagus
    YouTube

    love it .! :yes:

  • dlnTuesday, February 21, 2012 7:26:00 PM

    Dropbox and Swiss Knife

  • Fathima Rifqa GhaffarMonday, March 5, 2012 1:46:52 PM

    I like speed dial.:bigsmile: :bigsmile: easy to browse our favorite web sites.:wine: :wine:

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Published inChoose Opera
DateJanuary 24, 2012
AuthorEspen André Øverdahl
Tagsaddons, speed dial, extensions, opera
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