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One way to speed up the Opera UI

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:18:07 PM

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Disabling the "Enable UI Animation" in opera:config makes the UI more responsive



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Jimtoyotabedzrock Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:23:04 PM

I think you can do the same thing in the appearance dialog.

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