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Anonymous writes: CTRL + N means NEW PAGE MAN, get with it, TAB is for T, what else would T be for, The browsers want you to have all of them, they just wont say it directly, hah, firefox is awesome, you can use GSPACE ( try it). anything opera offers, Firefox doubles it, OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ROCKX , hands down.

Oscar writes: People are to lazy, how about you all spend twelve hours learning all the new shortcuts and you're all fine. No wonder why the world is getting fat when people can't even do minor ajdusments within their small brains. People sit tight on their asses waiting to get fed.

Anonymous writes: and some of them are even paying of it

Anonymous writes: Ctrl D gone? NO!!!!!!

Ejg writes: I really don't get this "dilemma". Opera has an exellent scheme for using different shortcuts for different users. Tools->Preferences->Advanced->Toolbars Having "Opera Standard" & "Opera Classic" (like Coke Classic) menu and toolbars files would solve this problem. The installer could select the Classic for updates and Standard for new installs.

Ejg writes: Make that: Tools->Preferences->Advanced->Keyboard Having "Opera Standard" & "Opera Classic" (like Coke Classic) mouse and keyboard files would solve this problem. :$

Anonymous writes: I would be nice if Opera developers add the long time requested ctrl+intro like Firefox and IE. And no, Opera autocomplete feature is not the same.

haha, funny how people complain about lack of features in Opera or flexibility when it's right under their nose

that's the reason many 'starters' dump opera after 2hrs of usage: 'doesn't have themes so I'm going back to <insert browser of choice>'

benthere writes: As an Opera user who switched from Firefox about a week ago and loves it, I'd say that the shortcuts still get me sometimes. It's not bad, I just have to cancel creating a bookmark quite often when I wanted a new tab/"page". The difference that bugs me more is the order of cycling tabs after closing one. IMO, it should [move to the right, unless it's the right-most tab]. That should be an option somewhere, because it's what every Firefox user is used to. It may not be "correct" in an MDI application, and could potentially even be confusing to infrequent users of tabs. But for someone who likes to open an index of links, then middle-click each link that I want, then cycle through each tab in order to view the content, closing each tab along the way, it really sucks cycling back to the index each time I close a tab. It ruins the workflow. I managed to hack the ctrl-w shortcut to "close page, 1, switch to next page" or something like that, so that my thumb mouse button is mapped the way I want it, but it still switches to the right when it is the right-most tab, which is not quite right. Fast browser, awesome browser, but it could use some options for Firefox users. Keep in mind that if a Firefox user didn't like the way Firefox worked, they'd just install an extension to "fix" it. They don't have that luxury with Opera, so they could use your help making them feel at home.

@benthere,

i completely agree with you... Firefox tab behavior is much better,, Opera sux it it.. this TAB feature must be given attention by Opera developers... they shud change it..

paplaukes writes: Long time user of Opera here too (3.5+). Love Opera. Now, everything was already said about CTRL+N/T, I'd like to second Smartalex: "The other browsers are wrong, not Opera." CTRL+N is a perfectly good way to open a new work unit. In Opera case, the unit certainly is page/tab, and not a window. If I went around pressing CTRL+N for each new window it would just clutter the taskbar. CTRL+N works everywhere else in software, I'd like to see it continue working in Opera.

Please, give me back the old Ctrl-N. I've been using Opera for more than 3 years now and I never knew this strange shortcut Ctrl-T. During my occational encounters of FF, I used the good old Ctrl-N and it worked for the time being. Why should I change my settings and keyboards now manually (or with some non-standard keyboard settings) because of the supposed new users comming from FF? I am happy that the Opera community is expanding and I never stopped persuating my friends in switching to Opera, but after all I am the hardcore user, which does not like undesired changes.
I hate Ctrl-T! I survived the banners which Opera had until recently, I am extremely happy about your decition to remove tha banner. But for the last 10 days since I installed the Opera9, I keep openening new windows. Every day! And i don't want to adjust!!! Why should I adjust? let the new users adjust, this is the good old Opera i've been using and I somehow feel as if a very close friend of mine entered my home and moved my fridge in the living room and the TV in the kitchen. Stop for a moment and just imagine how would you feel. One more moment.Yes, I can adjust, I can move them back, but why the hell would he do this to me? I thought we were friends. I hope the methaphore is clear enough.
Opera is unique in the way it is and people who come to it should be given a chance to adjust the things they want the way they like them. They are given this chance, more thna in any other browser. That is enought, don't play with what you have.

So my suggestion will be in the official release to preserve the default shortcuts and provide different non-standard keyboard settings for FF or IE users.

And please,PLEASE, don't even think of changing the mouse gestures!!!

@korako:

Realize, that it is You, who keeps the fridge in the livingroom, and the TV in the kitchen; and it is friends, who try to switch You right!

If You only use Opera, You may go back to Your favourite combination and everybody understands. But if you sometimes visit Your friends, almost all have TVs in the livings and fridges in the kitchens - or other speaking: if You also use another tab-enabled applications, browsers, file managers, integrated development environments for programming - the vast majority of them has this unwritten, but the most popular key combination for "open a new [T]ab".
If there are standards in software, then ctrl+T stands for standard Tab Opener, while ctrl+TAB for standard Tab switcher. And if You switch between them, aren't You confused...?

I came to this VIP site by accident, but as I am here, let me tell You my "message-of-the-month":

@ Rijk, Ejg, All:

Opera Classic. That's what I call music.
I have blogged ( http://my.opera.com/njupas/blog/show.dml/305548 ) about this issue, that every revolutionary thing undergoing evolution (especially so fast) grows up one day, to make the decision for a split; 1: the cutting edge version, and 2: the good-old-fashioned Classic version.

Who has already realized it? (it's not Opera's competition, so I hope it's OK to mention them to help realze the general, cross-branch trend; if not, just cut it away)
Drink Coke Classic has. Car Astra Clasic has. Music player Winamp Classic has. A Polish wafer, Prince Polo Classic also has... I'm sure many more have done also.

I cherish the opinion, that also for Opera, this time has come: Opera Classic.

How I feel about increasing amount of novelties in Opera. I feel terrified. On a laptop, performance is down. Noticeably down. I can't tell You in Percent, but it sometimes takes a few seconds after pressing ctrl+TAB until I get my last Tab to the front. And instead of improvements in existing functionalities (like Mail client operation [show me the messages from last eight Fridays; forward messages from JOB filter to my brother], contact mgmt, RSS handling), we get the water-splashes that empwer us to spend our lifetime on only playing with the tool, instead of focus on the content, we should view with it.

And the premature issue of 9, to test by using or to make forum sites full - a real goooal in the stomach...
But still if it is possible to browse a site with Opera, I do it this way.
Cheerful greetings,
Andrzej / njupas.

Ctrl + T is difficult to use for old Opera fans. I'm using Opera from version 3.54 and decision change for opening Ctrl + N to Ctrl + Tab is very strange for 2 reasons:

1) a lot of users uses Ctrl + N by instinct (like in Windows for 25 years Alt+F4, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Alt+Tab). Why there is neccessry made Opera by other software standards (IE, Mozilla etc.) ? In such way Opera loses their unicality. Opera looks as other medium level browsers

2) Ctrl+T in Latvia is default combination for opening local dictionary software Tilde ( www.tilde.lv) So, all latvian users has only one possibility - with mouse click on New Tab icon. By intensive surfing it takes a lot of time. Why use Opera instead other browsers? I don't see any advantages

These 2 things dissapointed me with new Opera )))))) I hope with Opera 9.01 everything will be better