Tweak

Now that Opera 9.5+ ships with a set of keyboard shortcuts where cat-owners are protected from accidental exposure to Opera's features by disabling the single-key shortcuts by default, I wanted to expand the shortcuts that can be enabled with the checkbox under 'Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts'. After all, there is no need to be careful anymore with single-key shortcuts if only the happy few will enable them!

Here's the current list:

1	Switch to previous tab	2	Switch to next tab	3	Focus next frame	Shift+3	Focus previous frame
4	Minimize page	5	Maximize page | Restore page	6	Zoom to 100%
7	Zoom out 100%	8	Zoom in 100%	9	Zoom out 10%	0	Zoom in 10%
X	Forward	Shift+X	Fast forward	Z	Back	Shift+Z	Rewind
H	Show typed history	I	Load all images	Shift+I	Tri-state image toggle	Shift+G	Toggle author/user mode
A	Highlight next URL	Q	Highlight previous URL	S	Highlight next heading	W	Highlight previous heading
D	Highlight next element	E	Highlight previous element	V	Speak selection

Some items in this list are relics from the past that I don't need, like the number shortcuts for Zoom (I'm fine with only using '-', '+' and '*'), and the Highlight shortcuts (I much prefer to use Spatial Navigation instead). And some shortcuts are now overcomplicated, because in the past they were made harder to hit accidentally (as well as on purpose). So for my optimized single-key setup, I removed various keys, and returned to 'P' for Print Preview and 'G' for the graphics toggle. Adding a simpler shortcut for toggling User Mode came naturally then: 'U'.

And I wanted easier access to spatial navigation. On a numpad 2-4-6-8 work fine, and for notebook keyboards the A-S-D-W keys can be used instead. Looking at the numpad again, I then switched to using 1 and 3 to switch tabs, and 7 and 9 to switch frame focus.

Some specific additions for webpage tinkering: 'R' for Refresh display (after editing cached documents) and 'Shift+R' for refreshing after editing user style sheets (yes, there's an action available for that, to prevent having to restart all the time when testing user stylesheets). I've also made 'M' the 'Boss key' to minimize (hide) Opera. This leaves me with this set of single-key shortcuts:

A	Navigate left	D	Navigate right	W	Navigate up	S	Navigate down
4	Navigate left	6	Navigate right	8	Navigate up	2	Navigate down
1	Switch to previous tab	3	Switch to next tab	7	Focus previous frame	9	Focus next frame
X	Forward	Shift+X	Fast forward	Z	Back	Shift+Z	Rewind
G	Tri-state image toggle	P	Toggle Print Preview	R	Refresh display	U	Toggle author/user mode
M	Hide Opera	Shift+R	Reload stylesheets	H	Show typed history	V	Speak selection

One problem: there are still lots of keys available! I could use some suggestions for shortcuts for common actions to add to my setup. Preferably with some mnenomic connection between the key and the action

And no, this is not an announcement of a change in Opera, just some private tweaking.