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For some general performance tips, see Opera7Performance. For pointers on modifying a skin for general users, see Opera7SkinTips.
[⊗] [Author: Danila]
You can use Spurl social bookmarking service in Opera. Go to spurl.net, get an account, follow the instructions for Opera - add a bookmarklet to your personal bar and add a new panel.
You can also create a keyboard shortcut for Spurl bar.
go to Preferences/Mouse and Keyboard/Keyboard setup Edit
create a new item in Application group. The key combination can be "0 ctrl".
The action "Focus panel, 11". The number may need to be changed if there are
other custom panels already installed.
Now you can activate the Spurl bookmarks just like you would normal Opera bookmarks. The great thing about Spurl are, of course, tags and the ability to share the bookmarks with others. Spurl can also be connected with your existing del.icio.us account.
Note: you can now emply UserJS to solve this problem in a more elegant fashion.
Although we will have to wait to see what GMail will do once Opera 8 goes final, in the meantime to stop GMail checking which browser you are using, enter this URL once you have logged in to get the full interface:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser — found by quiris.
Jor and Arve have extended this into a user CSS addition to forward you automatically! Add this to your UserStyleSheet:
/* Fix gmail */
td[id="bm"][bgcolor="#FAE5B0"] {
background: url('javascript:window.location="http://gmail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser"');
}
Opera can't import messages from generic (UNIX) mailboxes into the Sent folder. So all messages that you have sent, for example, in The Bat! mail client appear in the Received after importing (and in the relevant filter, of course). This clearly sucks, but it can be fixed.
To do this you need a copy of Eudora and a copy of mbxtools. Then do the following:
The sent messages should now be visible in the Sent folder. Contacts and threads should work properly now. Importing received messages from The Bat! is much easier and doesn't require these intermediary steps.
credit: based on a post by Andrew Brown.
For some bizarre unknown reason, Opera removed the button to allow controlling the display of the browser history in the panel - though the functionality is still there. To get this ship-lost-at-sea back into harbour - do the following:
Add this to your toolbar.ini (I centre the full toolbar content - remove spacers to suit your taste):
[History Full Toolbar.content] Spacer0, 1 Quickfind1 Spacer2 Button3, 11292="Open link + Show popup menu, "Bookmarks Panel Open Menu"" Button4, 26544="Show popup menu, "History Panel View Menu", , , "View"" Button5, 67218=Delete Spacer6, 1 [History Panel Toolbar.content] Button0, 11292="Open link + Show popup menu, "Bookmarks Panel Open Menu"" Button1, 26544="Show popup menu, "History Panel View Menu", , , "View"" Button2, 67218=Delete Quickfind3
And to your menu.ini:
[History Panel View Menu] Item, "Default Sort"= Sort by column, -1 --- Item, 67381=Sort by column, 0 Item, 67383=Sort by column, 1 Item, 67386=Sort by column, 2 Item, "Sort by popularity"=Sort by column, 3 ---0 Item, 67387= Sort direction, 1 Item, 67388= Sort direction, 0
To do the same for Notes, you need to add to the [Notes Full Toolbar.content] and [Notes Panel Toolbar.content] the following line:
Button, ="Show popup menu, "Notes Panel View Menu", , , "View""
and then add this to your menu.ini. I have chosen to allow you to use split view and full view here as options, more useful for the page than panel, but it allows the folder hierarchy, the folder contents, and the note content to all be visible:
[Notes Panel View Menu] Item, 67644 = View style, 0 Item, 67645 = View style, 1 Item, 67646 = View style, 2 ---- Item, 67380 = Sort by column, -1 Item, 67381 = Sort by column, 0 —- Item, 67387 = Sort direction, 1 Item, 67388 = Sort direction, 0
Note: both JekyllAndHyde and WebDevToolbar have this tweak already applied if you don't like getting your hands dirty…
[Author: TarquinWJ]
Some users find mouse gestures can be too sensitive to trigger, especially for those on a laptop. To change the sensitivity of your gestures, edit your opera6.ini and add the following to your [User Prefs] section:
Gesture Threshold=10
The units are in pixels, so the above line means "only trigger a gesture if the user dragged the mouse more than 10 pixels".
Locate and edit your custom menu .INI file, then add the following "Print" command to any menu:
Item, "Print" = Execute program, "rundll32.exe", "mshtml.dll,PrintHTML %U"
NOTE: If you replace Opera's default Print command (Item, 50004=Print document) with this customization, then Opera's "Print preview" mode may not resemble the final output.
Opera's keyboard shortcuts come really handy when you are using fullscreen mode (F11). You can hide/show the address bar (Ctrl F8), panels (F4) and scroll bar (Ctrl F7).
Fastforward (Shift Z) and Rewind (Shift X) are a blessing when you are reading forums in fullscreen. If you accidentally close your only active window (when you thought you closed a page that had opened in new window) just press Ctrl Z to recover it.
To allow Flash to be toggled on/off, you can use a user CSS file to convert flash embeds into text entries. See OperaUserCSS for how to install this, the contents of the CSS file would be:
embed[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"] {content:"Flash"; outline: 1px dotted gray; color: #DD0000; background: black}
The chat window is like any other "browser" window. So, you can use the "Save" function to save your chat log. Opera will allow you to save it as HTML (encoded as UTF-16le) or as TXT (will become a little messed).
[Authors: Mvg, SeaKai]
It is possible to block ad banners "on the fly" using a third-party program called Opera Ad Filter.
Download and install the program, follow the instructions and you are done. However, if you don't want to run it all the time, simply add this line to the [Link Image Popup Menu] section of your menu.ini:
Item, "Block this ad" = Copy image address & Execute program, "<path-to-operaadfilter>\operaadfilter.exe"
V7.5 introduces management pages for bookmarks etc. that can be accessed through an icon in the panel header. However this buton results in TWO interfaces for the same function, so to correct this behaviour, edit your toolbar.ini to the following:
[Hotlist Panel Header.content] Button, , 130="Show popup menu, "Internal panels"" Spacer, 1 Button2="Manage,,,,"Panel Collapse Right" & Set collapse, "hotlist", 0" Button3="Set collapse, "hotlist", 0,,"Panel Collapse Small" > Set alignment, "hotlist", 0,,"Panel Collapse Small""
[Author: nafmo]
If you need to allow Opera to cache pages / resources from secure (HTTPS) sites (some sites misuse HTTPS for image delivery) add this to the [Disk Cache] section of Opera6.ini:
Cache HTTPS=1
Remember that this is a potential security risk as it will expose secure documents to being viewed outside of Opera.
[Author: Arve ]
Arve has a nice CSS addition to allow text files to wrap if they do not have explicit line feeds. He suggests adding the following to browser.css (Opera V7.5+ only):
@media projection {
body > pre:first-child {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1.3em;
padding: 1em;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
border: 2px solid #ccc;
}
}
body > pre:first-child {
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
max-width: 76ex;
}
This makes it apply to ALL pages (even HTML pages if pre is the first child of body - which is however very rare). If you want to be able to selectively toggle it, then simply make it a user style-sheet instead; see OperaUserCSS for details on how.
[uthor: Kevin W ]
You can save any image to disc by ctrl+clicking it.
[Author: christian linzatti]
If you don't want to use the built-in RSS reader, you can make a Sidebar with as much News as you like. The Newssite must have a RSS-Feed.
Then go to to this Page and Enter the address from the RSS-File or address line from the xmlmania service in the field "Or enter your own RSS URL". Then click on update. Change the other rate how do you like. When you disable the option "Compact View", you get also the description of the News.
(Unfortunately entering your own address is no longer possible, you can only select from a (huge) list of feeds.)
Copy the javascript-code to a new HTML-Site and after the code enter a <br>. You can do this for every news-item. When you have done it, you can save your html-file and make a panel from the HTML File. When you like a refresh Button, you can make a Frameset. This works Perfect :)
[Author: SeaKai - source: Frode]
[author : LeeHarvey]
This customization uses the page Address Bar to replace the global Status Bar, and is intended for Opera users that prefer:
This customization effectively fixes the following issues associated with the global Status Bar in MDI mode:
The following main steps are used to accomplish this customization:
When you are finished, your active toolbar .INI file (located in your profile directory) should contain sections that resemble:
[Document Toolbar] Button style=0 Large Images=0 Wrapping=0 Status0 [Progress Toolbar] Button style=0 Large Images=0 Wrapping=0 Progress0, 0 Progress1, 1 Progress2, 2 Progress3, 3 Progress4, 4 Progress5, 5
Likewise, your opera6.ini file (also located in your profile directory) should specify:
[User Prefs] Show Progress As Popup=0 AddressBar Alignment=4
NOTE: The settings listed above are by no means absolute, and may be used in conjunction with other settings and values. This example is just one of many possibilities.
In general, this customization allows each page in MDI mode to host their own status bar, and effectively utilizes the page Address Bar for this purpose. When finished, your Opera setup will not exhibit the issues outlined in the RESOLUTION section shown above.
One minor drawback to this customization is that when status bars are hosted on each page, they consume valuable screen real estate when many pages are tiled. However, if pages are mostly maximized, then this is not really an issue.
If you want to create a desktop shortcut to a website, this is possible. Resize the Opera window so (a part of) your desktop is visible, and drag the icon left of the URL in the addressbar to your desktop.
A URL shortcut pointing to the page will be created.
You can also manually create a URL shortcut anywhere you like: just create a normal shortcut in Windows, but instead of putting in a file path, paste the URL.
[Author: DarkElf]
If you have 'Reuse existing page' checked in Preferences - Windows, all bookmarks will open in the currently opened page. This also applies to any searches spawned from a Hotclick, or other menu items.
If you press and hold the Shift key while selecting the bookmark, search or similar, the page will open in a new page, leaving the original page intact: in essence giving the same behaviour as if 'Reuse existing page' was unchecked for that single page.
This can be very handy if you do not want to lose your place on the original page.
Holding Ctrl+Shift also works: this will open the new page in a background page, so your browsing needs not be interrupted at all.
Middle click also can open the bookmark or link in a new page or background page. Look for "Middle click options" at Preferences.
[Author: SeaKai]
Instead of relying on the multi-user install which is tied to the OS login or being limited to a single account for multiple users, you can simulate multiple user accounts and have them available in the same logon session, across all logon sessions or even running simultaneously. No more arguing with you housemates over settings or unnecessary logouts. If you're really paranoid you would use the Opera master password anyway. The following applies to Windows, something similar applies to Linux.
Opera Preferences version 2.0 [User Prefs] Opera Directory=C:\Operauser\user1 Title=Opera - user1 Local CSS File=C:\Operauser\user1\styles\user.css Hot List File Ver2=C:\Operauser\user1\bookmarks.adr Mouse Configuration=C:\Operauser\user1\mouse\mouse.ini Windows Storage File=C:\Operauser\user1\sessions\autosave.win Download Directory=C:\Operauser\user1\download\ Toolbar Configuration=C:\Operauser\user1\toolbar\toolbar.ini Menu Configuration=C:\Operauser\user1\menu\menu.ini Keyboard Configuration=C:\Operauser\user1\keyboard\keyboard.ini [Mail] Mail Root Directory=C:\Operauser\user1\mail [Saved Settings] Save Dir=C:\Operauser\user1\download Open Dir=C:\Operauser\user1\download
(note: it's possible that some of these directories are redundant — but we're just making sure)
Target = "C:\Program Files\Opera720\opera.exe" /Settings c:\Operauser\user1\opera6.ini Start in = "c:\Operauser\user1"
The different profiles can now be configured individually. Different instances belonging to different users will say the username in the title bar so you can keep them apart on the taskbar in case you're running different profiles simultaneously.
[Editor: SeaKai - source: Giarle]
Steps to configure Opera so that all settings (bookmarks, notes, contacts, cookies, wand, email, preferences,…) will be shared between a Windows and a Linux partition (or more general n OS partitions that run Opera).
[User Prefs] Opera Directory=D:\Opera7\profile Windows Storage File=D:\Opera7\profile\opera.win Direct History File=D:\Opera7\profile\opera.dir Global History File=D:\Opera7\profile\global.dat Viewer History File=D:\Opera7\profile\viewers.dat Hot List File Ver2=D:\Opera7\profile\opera6.adr Local CSS File=D:\Opera7\profile\styles\user.css Toolbar Configuration=D:\Opera7\profile\toolbar\standard_toolbar (1).ini [Mail] Mail Root Directory=D:\Opera7\profile\mail
[User Prefs] Opera Directory=/mnt/win_d/Opera7/profile/
The linux version expects to find the "mail" directory located in the Opera Directory hence the move and rename in step 3. Remember to backup everything first and do not edit opera6.ini while Opera is running.
[Author: DarkElf]
The <WBR> tag is not supported by Opera, but is used by some people and page management systems to break up long strings. You can make this tag work for you by adding the following to your UserStyleSheet:
/* Fix <wbr>: this enters a soft hyphen after any occurance
of this tag. */
wbr:after {
content: "\00AD";
}
A soft hyphen is normally invisible, but will show if the string it occurs in is too wide: then it is identical in appearance to the normal hyphen (-).
[Author: DarkElf]
You can prevent blinking done with the <blink> tag by adding the following to your UserStyleSheet:
/* Prevent blinking */
blink, .blink {
text-decoration : inherit !important;
}
Also, here's a JavaScript bookmarklet to accomplish nearly the same thing:
javascript:var b=document.getElementsByTagName("blink");for(var i=0;i<b.length;i++) b[i].style.textDecoration="inherit";if (b.length) return false;
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[Authors: TheElektrans]
Opera 7.20 added support for animated (scrolling) text done with <marquee>. You can disable this by using what is probably a bug in Opera, by adding the following to your UserStyleSheet:
/* Disable marquee: this exploits what is probably a bug */
marquee {
display : table-row !important;
font-size : 1em !important;
}
Also, here's a JavaScript bookmarklet to accomplish nearly the same thing:
javascript:var m=document.getElementsByTagName("marquee");for(var i=0;i%lt;m.length;i++) m[i].style.display="table-row";if (m.length) return false;
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[Author: SeaKai]
The 'News at news.opera.com' parent in the Mail hotlist behaves like an accesspoint you can open to show all messages in ALL subscribed groups on that server. Only accessing it is a bit tricky…
From the Mail hotlist open a view of a newsgroup you subscribed to, e.g. opera.general.
a) Use the cursor-up key just as long as you hit 'News at news.opera.com' to show the view
b) Use the view collapse mouse gesture, that will select it as wel.
This will work for any News or IMAP server in the hotlist. —-
[Author: Thomas Scholz]
Normally the Notes panel uses a standard split-pane view, but a 3-pane view makes managing notes easier:
That's all. You should now have 3 fields in your Notes panel (not remembered on a restart), you can sort the notes now "by name" or by "my order". The other entries don't work. Example:
Folders |
Content of the Current Folder |
Content of the Current Note |
[Author: LeeHarvey]
Edit your_menu.ini file, find the [Browser View Menu] section, then add this simple JavaScript command:
[Browser View Menu] ... Item, "Cookie" = Go to page, "javascript:alert(document.cookie);" ...
Save your menu.ini file, and reload. Now you can readily see the info stored in cookies for any website.
Comment: The above javascript: URL can also be used as a bookmark, i.e. a so called bookmarklet. Just select the bookmark and the cookie will be shown.—-
[Author: TomAn]
Opera's startup dialog is about startup. This is a modified version which is just as much about browsing, a sort of control panel if you like..
All actions taken from the dialog except for pressing Start will leave the dialog open.
Screenshots: Normal size Resized to show sessions field (About 25KB each)
Modify the file 'dialog.ini' in the main opera folder, and replace the whole [Startup Dialog] section with the following:
[Startup Dialog] Title = 67222 Group0, 0, , 34, 20, 367, 160, size, End Group1, 0, , 0, 20, 367, 160, size , End Radiobutton2, 67223, Continue_lasttime_radio, 97, 70, 230, 23, fixed Radiobutton3, 67225, Start_homepage_radio, 97, 100, 270, 23, fixed Radiobutton4, 67226, Start_nowindows_radio, 97, 130, 270, 23, fixed Radiobutton5, 67224, Continue_session_radio, 0, 160, 0, 0, fixed button6, 67399, , 92, 40, 138, 23, fixed = Show popup menu, "Browser Session menu" Button7, 67398, , 237, 40, 130, 23, move right = Show popup menu, "Internal Bookmark Folder" Address8, , , 0, 7, 230, 23, size right search9, 0, , 237, 7, 130, 23, move right Button10, 67397, , 0, 40, 85, 23, fixed = Show popup menu, "Startup Mail Menu" Button10, 50836, , 0, 70, 85, 23, fixed = Manage, "transfers" Button11, 19053, , 0, 100, 85, 23, fixed = Show popup menu, "Advanced Startup Options Menu" Button12, 50006, , 0, 130, 85, 23, fixed = Exit Treeview13, , Sessions_treeview, 0, 160, 367, 0, size,end
To make the Preferences and Mail buttons work, you must add the below to your own_menu.ini in your \profile\menu folder
[Advanced Startup Options Menu] Item, 67424= Enable requested popup windows Item, 52200= Enable popup windows --------------1 Item, 52206= Enable Java | Disable Java Item, 52207= Enable plugins | Disable plugins Item, 52208= Enable javascript | Disable javascript --------------2 Item, 52216= Enable proxy servers | Disable proxy servers Item, 51099= Work offline | Work online Submenu, 68132, Identify As Menu Item, 50394 = Show Preferences, -1 --------------3 Item, 54493= Delete private data --------------4 Submenu, 67403, Skin Menu [Startup Mail Menu] Item, 67409 = Read mail & Get mail Item, 50679 = Compose mail ----1 Submenu, 67045, Internal access points Submenu, 50979, Get Mail Menu ----2 Item, 54070 = Send queued mail ----3 Submenu, 69694, Browser Chat Menu
If you run a system with multiple users, it may be wise to put this last part in ..\Opera7\defaults\standard_menu.ini instead of ..\Opera7\profile\menu\own_menu.ini
Sometimes you want to report an E-mail as spam, or for various other reasons need to copy the source of an E-mail. To do so, select the E-mail in the list of mails and press the [C] key. The mail source will be placed on the clipboard.
By default, Opera has two mouse gestures each to go 'back' (right-click:drag-left & hold-right:click-left) and 'forwards' (right-click:drag-right & hold-left:click-right).
I want the second type (called FlipBack/FlipForward) to instead open the page
history - simple enough; Preferences > Mouse & Keyboard > edit mouse settings:
FlipBack Show popup menu, "Internal Back History" FlipForward Show popup menu, "Internal Forward History"
If you want to use the rewind and fast forward histories:
FlipBack Show popup menu, "Internal Rewind History" FlipForward Show popup menu, "Internal Fast Forward History"
Or, to switch to the next or the previous page/tab:
FlipBack Switch to previous page FlipForward Switch to next page
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[Author: Martin33?]
Normally I open up lots of new pages within the MDI workspace, when I click on and read the first page, and then close it via ctrl-w, the focus moves to the tab to the left of the one I closed. To move to the next unread page, try editing the keyboard mapping:
w ctrl = Close page & Switch to next page
[Author: MarcFou?]
Open your toolbar INI file and add the following section & button. (note the section in brackets may already exist.)
[Notes Panel Toolbar] Buttonx, "Empty"="Empty trash, , , , "Show Trash""
Where "x" is the next available button number. Now when your working in the Notes hotlist you can easily empty the trash with a single click. You can also place the same button under the following Panels as well.
[Mail Panel Toolbar] Buttonx, "Empty"="Empty trash, , "", , "Show Trash""
[Bookmarks Panel Toolbar] Buttonx, "Empty"="Empty trash, , "", , "Show Trash""
[Contacts Panel Toolbar] Buttonx, &;amp;;amp;;quot;Empty"="Empty trash, , "", , "Show Trash""
[Authors: ScipioNeer/MarcFou?]
Change toolbar.ini with the following:
[Browser Toolbar] ButtonX, "Mail"=Read mail & View hotlist, 7 & Focus panel, "Mail"
where X is the button number in your toolbar.ini.
[Author: DarkElf]
To most benefit from the speed increases of multiple connections and pipelining (HTTP1.1 features) when using a proxy (e.g. TheProxomitron) remember to select it in Preferences » Network » Proxy Servers.
[Author: Kevin W]
Some people find the new Trash can in the Bookmarks, Notes and Contacts panels annoying. The solution is simple: Preferences > Mouse and Keyboard > Keyboard setup > Edit. Then under Bookmarks, Notes and/or Contacts Panel, add a new shortcut key:
Del = Delete & Empty Trash
Now, deleting items will skip the Trash can.
[Author: Ketlan]
You want your notification box bigger then 1 line? Well, just use this simple tip!
Change your lines in the english.lng file to the following:
67067="\n\n\n\n\n\n\n %u New Message(s) was Received \n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
and
67361="\n\n\n\n\n\n\n %u Message(s) was Sent \n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
Now you will have a huge box that pops up on sending and receiving, and you can modify the tooltip font sizes to any size at your leisure.
When editing many INI files, one sees the text label indexed by a cryptic number - e.g:
Item, 54022 = Open link address in background
This number actually refers to the entry in the language file (in the English version it is called english.lng). To change the text therefore you can either replace the number with the text, or edit the language file. —-
[Author: Jan van Gent]
Add to input.ini:
[Application] j= switch to next page & switch to previous page m= Activate hotlist window & Focus next widget & Focus next widget & Focus next widget
j will bring focus to email view window and m will bring focus back to hotlist mail tree, so you can browse the mail/news tree with the arrow keys again.
When browsing, hitting 'm' twice will work like a kind of the missing manage mail function. It will bring up the hotlist and focus on the mail panel, but only when it was previously used in the hotlist.
J will only work in MDI with another window open, but hey, that's why we using Opera. The command is quite silly. But it's working fine! No problems.
Note from CrazyTerabyte: you can use keyboard navigation in M2 very easily. F7 brings focus to hotlist, F8 to message list and F9 to message itself.
[Author: Rijk]
You can edit the skin to define extra images. Add lines like this to the skin.ini file under the [Images] section:
Quirk = pathinzip/filename.png
… and of course add the files to the zip file in the correct position.
Now after you dragged bookmarks to toolbar (not the Personal bar), you can close Opera and edit toolbar.ini:
Button22, "Quirks?"="Go to page, "javascript:alert(document.compatMode)", "", , "Quirk""
The last parameter is the image name as defined in the skin. See AllActions for more details.
[Author: John Quincy]
To display a list of open pages in Opera, including their loading status, add the following line to the bottom of the [Document Popup Menu] section of menu.ini:
Include, Internal Window List
This is especially useful if you don't want to display the Page bar to save some vertical screen space, but do want an idea of your open pages (better than ctrl+tab if you don't want to switch pages).
[Author: Saito]
If you want to save some vertical space, then Ctrl+F11 toggles the menu on and off: When you need to open something from Menu bar, you can add the following to menu.ini to show the menu bar with a right click.
[Document popup Menu] ---------------- Submenu, "Main menu", Browser Menu Bar, =
And/Or you can rewrite input.ini to bring up the Menu bar with e.g. F10:
[Application] F10 = Show popup menu, "Browser Menu Bar"
If you want the main menu as a toolbar button, see CustomButtons for pre-made buttons to do this. [⊗]
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Edit the [HotListWindow] section of opera6.ini and add:
Hotlist Single Click=1
Edit dialog.ini in the Opera 7 directory and replace the [Bookmark Properties Dialog] with this version. Restart opera. See here
for full details.
[Bookmark Properties Dialog] Title = 22115 Group0, 67000, , 0, 0, 420, 400, Center, End Label1, 25103, Name_label, 0, 0, 90, 23, Fixed Edit2, 0, Name_edit, 90, 0, 290, 23, Size right Label3, 10943, Nick_label, 0, 30, 90, 23, Fixed Edit4, 0, Nick_edit, 90, 30, 290, 23, Size right Label5, 10944, URL_label, 0, 60, 90, 23, Fixed Edit6, 0, URL_edit, 90, 60, 290, 23, Size right Label7, 10945, Description_label, 0, 90, 90, 23, Fixed MultilineEdit8, 0, Description_edit, 90, 90, 290, 53, Size right Label9, "Added", Created_label, 0, 145, 50, 23, Fixed Label10, , Created_text, 50, 145, 150, 23, Fixed Label11, 10825, Visited_label, 210, 145, 50, 23, Fixed Label12, , Visited_text, 260, 145, 160, 23, Fixed Label13, 10820, Parent_label, 0, 170, 90, 23, Fixed Bookmarks, 0, Parent_view, 90, 170, 290, 225, Size Checkbox15, 54023, ShowOnPersonalbar_check, 0, 400, 180, 23, Move down Checkbox16, 67323, ViewInPanel_check, 210, 400, 180, 23, Move down, Move right, End
Opera supports keywords as the AOL Client does - don't start flaming, keywords are cool.
And here's the How-to:
- the address bar to open the bookmark's address or
- in window under Shift+F2 to open the bookmark even faster - the little window will automatically close and the bookmark will open even without pressing Enter - as soon as characters put in this window identify bookmark uniquely.
[Author: Rijk]
Add the following to the menu.ini section of your choice (probably [Document Popup Menu] - see EditingINIFiles for a turorial on how to edit INI files):
Item, "Open in IE" = Execute program, "iexplore","%u" Item, "Open in Mozilla" = Execute program, "mozilla","%u" Item, "Open in Firefox" = Execute program, "firefox","%u"
The words 'iexplore', 'mozilla' and 'firefox' can be used this way because the Windows Registry knows about them. You can also use a full path to the executable
there.
The commands one can use in general are:
%u = URL of currently displayed document
%t = selected text
%s = source of currently displayed document
%c = clipboard contents
%i = number of search hits (in search.ini)
%l = link (unsure which though)
If the letter is written in uppercase (ie. %S) the parameter is put inside a pair of quotes.
Note those % holder can be used for anything — therefore you can set up customised programs that get called from any menu in Opera…
To add this functionality to the a link WITHIN the page - Edit menu.ini adding the following:
[Link Popup Menu] Item, "Open in IE" = Copy link & Execute program, "iexplore","%c"
Edit by gun:
As you wrote above, there is a %l command. Whith this it can be done easier:
[Link Popup Menu] Item, "Open in IE" = Execute program, "iexplore","%l"
To get a translation of the page you are viewing and other Google services, add the following to your menu.ini file, for example under the [Document Popup Menu]:
Item, "Translate page" = Go to page, "http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=opera&hl=en&u=%u" Item, "Backwards Links" = Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=opera&q=link:%u" Item, "Cached snapshot of page" = Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=opera&q=cache:%u" Item, "Similar pages" = Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=opera&q=related:%u"
To avoid clutter I made these menu items a Submenu.
Changing the Location of the Cache
Opera defaults to storing the cache files in either the program directory or user directory (depending on install options). To put the cache somewhere else, add the following line to the [User Prefs] section of opera6.ini:
Cache Directory4=your\path\here
I put the cache in a drive other than c:\, as I like to reduce fragmentation on my main drive to a minimum, and caches, by their nature, result in somewhat increased fragmentation.
[Author: Saito]
See here for full details.
In the "Pass 0 rules" section of (either) %SYSTEM_ROOT%\System32\tp4table.dat or %SYSTEM_ROOT%\System32\tp4scrol.dat, add:
*,*,opera.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
then reboot. (On some systems the tp4table.dat file may be in other locations, such as "\programs files\synaptics\synTP\")
For Opera7.20b1 up to Opera7.20b4 :
Open the SynTPEnh.ini file and add this:
[Opera7] FC = "OperaWindowClass" SF = 0x10000000 SF |= 0x00004000
above the section that says:
[Opera Browser] WT = "*Opera 5*" SF = 0x10000000 SF |= 0x00000002 SF |= 0x00000004 SF |= 0x00000008 SF |= 0x00000400 SF |= 0x00000120 SF |= 0x00001000
Save the changes and reboot. Or else simply end the process SynTPEnh.exe and run it again.
For Opera 7.0x and 7.1x use instead:
[Opera7] WT = "*Opera*" SF = 0x10000000 SF |= 0x00004000
For Opera7.20b5 and later: no need to do anything.
The modifications of SynTPEnh.ini are automatically done by the Opera installer.
Edit the Opera7/styles/mime.css file and find:
ql.L1 ( color: forestgreen; ) etc.
replace the colours with ones of your choice - remember CSS can use RGB notation e.g. red='#FF0000'.
[Author: Doirlinn]
To mark an entire thread as read in M2, click on the first message in the thread. Hold down shift, and click on the last message in the thread. Press k once.
[Author: DarkElf]
To add more colour schemes to Opera, open menu.ini. Look for the text:
Set skin coloring
Now, add your own colours in that part of menu.ini, using the normal hex notation.
Here's some of the colours I added:
Item, "White" = Set skin coloring, #FFFFFF Item, "Ivory" = Set skin coloring, #FFFFEE Item, "Pale Goldenrod" = Set skin coloring, #EDE49E Item, "Med Goldenrod" = Set skin coloring, #CCB954 Item, "Light Blue" = Set skin coloring, #BDEDFF Item, "HoneyDew" = Set skin coloring, #F0FEEE Item, "Grey" = Set skin coloring, #666666 Item, "BurntSand" = Set skin coloring, #888786 Item, "Lavender" = Set skin coloring, #E3E4FA
[Author: DarkElf]
note: you can toggle scrollbars using ctrl+F7, but if you HAVE to have them on by default, you can, see CustomCommands for more information, and CustomButtons for pre-made fullscreen buttons.
Edit Input.ini to enable scrollbars in Fullscreen:
[Browser Window] F11 = Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & Enable scroll bars
If you want this for the mainbar button, edit Toolbar.ini as well:
[Browser Toolbar] Button#, "Fullscreen"=Leave fullscreen,,,, | Enter fullscreen & Enable scroll bars
[Author: arach]
To add Print… Item to your Right Click Menu:
Open file named: menu.ini (it's in the Opera folder), and scroll to the section named [Document Popup Menu]. Insert a line:
Item, "Print…" = Print document
Save the file. Start Opera.
[Author: DarkElf]
Because AOL (owners of ICQ) keep changing the ICQ Protocol intentionally, to lock out third-party clients, the ICQ support that was in Opera6 has not returned in Opera7. However, if for some reason you must have ICQ support within the browser, you can add ICQ2Go as a side panel. This is a web-based version of ICQ, and uses Java. To add this panel, add the following URL to your bookmarks, and select 'show in hotlist panel':
ICQ2Go!.
Note: there is IRC support built into Opera since V7.5.
One of the most wonderful features of Opera for web designers is tucked away in an obscure command in View menu » Refresh Display. Sounds boring enough, until you realise that it refreshes the display by reloading a page in the cache, rather than Reload which tries to get the document from the web. When you view the source of a page (Alt+F3), it comes from the cache. And you can choose what program you want to use in the Preferences dialog. Therefore, you can view a page from the web, edit the HTML in your preferred editor (see below) and immediately see what the changes you made look like. Neither Mozilla nor IE offer such an option AFAIK.
This is great for fast development and when you want to learn from someone elses code.
For the best option to get beautifully coloured source, I recommend replacing the default Source Viewer with a tiny but feature packed editor called SciTE(loading a larger editor like UltraEdit or HomeSite is often overkill!). It is possible to download a single 260kb EXE that you can place anywhere (no install needed). It contains what is the most beautiful and clear source colouring (and collapsing) of ANY editor I know. Also features RegExp search, UTF-8 support, brace matching, good indenting support etc.
Finally, I would place the following somewhere in the [Document Popup Menu] section of menu.ini:
Item, "Refresh display" = Refresh display
And possibly re-map a keycommand for it in input.ini (I use Ctrl+r for refresh and F5 for reload).
Sometimes, one want only to change one thing in the style files as shipped with Opera, for example the font used to display e-mail. Editing the original file means losing the changes on upgrade, copying the file to a new location and pointing to it in the INI file means losing track of changes in coming versions. The solution is to create a minimal file that imports the original file and then overrides whatever it is you want to override. Then point to this file.
To change the font used in e-mail I have this mime.css in my ~/.opera/styles directory:
@import "/usr/share/opera/styles/mime.css"; omf|p ( font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 15pt; )
to which I point in my INI file:
[User Prefs] Mime Style File=/home/peter/.opera/styles/mime.css
Change your paths as appropriate.
[Author: RenumeratedFrog?]
Here's a quick way to translate those pesky foreign pages, including Chinese!
Find [Document Popup Menu] in your custom menu.ini file and add the following submenu:
Submenu, "Translations", Translations Menu
Then add the following section in your menu.ini:
[Translations Menu] Item, "Auto-Translate" = Go to page, "http://translate.google.com/translate_c?u=%u" Item, "Russian to English" = Go to page, "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ru_en&urltext=%u" Item, "Chinese to English" = Go to page, "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=zh_en&urltext=%u" Item, "Japanese to English" = Go to page, "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&urltext=%u" Item, "Korean to English" = Go to page, "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ko_en&urltext=%u"
When you run into a webpage you need to translate, just right-click the document, go into that menu and select the appropriate translation. All you have to remember is that "Auto-Translate" is only for 5 major Western European languages: French, German, Italian, Portugese and Spanish.
Be warned that online translations are still far from perfect. French->English can be quite good, but reading Chinese->English can sometimes test your sanity! :)
[Author: DBron]
Instead of using sessions to collect sets of webpages, you can use the hotlist. I find the main advantage to this method is that it's easier to manage and manipulate bookmarks in the hotlist than it is to edit session files. Also, I don't have to create & store separate session files, plus I don't like how session files remember things other than what pages I had Xywx (such as toolbar layouts; I want these remembered by and inherited from the browser).
To create a "session" in the hotlist:
#1 Create a new top-level folder, named "Sessions"
#2 Create a subfolder in this folder, give it the same name (or type of name) you would have used to name the session file.
#3 Give this subfolder a nickname. Make it something short, appropriate, and easy to remember.
#4 Right-click the folder and select "Add All". This will bookmark all the pages you're currently viewing into this folder.
When you want to start Opera up with this "session", instead of using the 'opera.exe /session "foo"' syntax, use 'opera.exe "nickname"', where "nickname" is the nickname you gave the folder in step #3.
Kai Middleton writes: I tried this in Opera 7.51 for linux, but the "add all" feature doesn't seem to work.
