Tweak

Yippee, Kestrel's finally out. As buggy alpha for now, remember! You are best of testing this in a seperate installation, installing in a new directory does that trick. If you decide to upgrade, you really want to have a backup of mail (and bookmarks, wand, cookies etc if these are important for you).

Among many else, this release aims to become more usable out of the box. That means no surprising non-obvious shortcuts where you need to read the documentation to figure out how to get your normal browser back after pressing the wrong key by accident. Yes, this did happen. Quite a lot. Our Elektrans testers made it very clear that power users will dearly miss some of the one-key shortcuts like 1/2 for tab switching and z/x for navigation. So we've also thought of a way to ship with those power shortcuts in a forward-compatible manner (shipping with an extra 'classic' keyboard setup will bring problems for us later). You can find the new switch to turn these shortcuts on under 'Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts'.

Now, what changes did we make, and why? There's a complete official list of changes available (edit: updated the link to point to the beta 2 version). And here's a list of reasons:

• Several keyboard shortcuts have been changed or added for better cross-browser compatability.
• All single letter and single number keyboard shortcuts have been removed. These one-key shortcuts are powerful, but also caused serious problems for many users. For most of them alternatives are available. They can also be switched on separately in the Preferences.
• All Shift+letter and Shift+number keyboard shortcuts have been changed or removed for the same reasons.
• All Alt+letter keyboard shortcuts have been changed or removed. These keyboard shortcuts are not compatible with many Opera localizations, because Alt+letter is used to access the main menu. Exceptions: Alt+P and the new Alt+D, both available for historical reasons. Preferred alternatives are available for the actions they perform.
• All Ctrl+Alt+letter keyboard shortcuts have been changed or removed. Windows user interface guidelines reserve these shortcuts for system wide use and as alternative input method for some keyboards.
• Keyboard shortcuts for seldomly used features have been removed, including two series of shortcuts that didn't show in the normal user interface: Ctrl+Shift+number shortcuts for 'manage' pages and Site Navigation keyboard shortcuts (think <link rel=home ...>)
• Duplicated keyboard shortcuts that served no purpose anymore have been removed, those that were needed for compliance to operating systems guidelines have been made specific for those operating systems.

http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%m&cc=%c&bcc=%b

http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?To=%t&Subject=%s&Body=%m&Cc=%c&mailto=1

http://compose.mail.yahoo.com/?To=%t&Subject=%s&Body=%m&Cc=%c

http://webmail.netscape.com/compose.adp?mailto=%t&mailcc=%c&mailsubject=%s&mailbody=%m

http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/mail/Outblaze.mail?composeto=%t&subject=%s&body=%m&cc=%c&compose=1

http://mymail.operamail.com/scripts/mail/Outblaze.mail?compose=1&did=1&a=1&to=%t&subject=%s&body=%m&cc=%c

opera "http://YOUR_HordeURL_HERE.com/horde/imp/compose.php?popup=0&to=%t&cc=%c&msg=%m&subject=%s"

http://YOUR_SquirrelURL_HERE.com/src/compose.php?send_to=%t&subject=%s&body=%m&send_to_cc=%c

http://YOUR_URL_HERE/?To_Field=%t&Subject_Field=%s&Body_Field=%m&Cc_FLield=%c

Set preference, "User Prefs|User JavaScript=1" | Set preference, "User Prefs|User JavaScript=0"

• Action name: Set Preference
  
• First parameter: "Section|Prefs parameter" (as they appear in opera6.ini)
  
• Second parameter: not used
  

1. take note of the current locations shown in 'Help > About Opera' [1]
   
2. close Opera
   
3. open 'OperaDef6.ini' from the main Opera folder (where opera.exe can be found) in a plain text editor like Notepad
   
4. change the line 'Multi-user=1' to 'Multi-user=0'
   
5. save and close 'OperaDef6.ini'
   
6. copy the Profile and Mail folder from the 'Documents and settings' folder to the main Opera folder
   
7. 9.5: copy the contents of both Profile folders [1] to the profile folder you create under the main Opera folder
   
8. 9.5: doublecheck whether your mail data was stored under '\Local settings\Application data' (the new default location) or '\Application data' (the old default location)
   
9. open 'opera6.ini' from the newly created Profile folder in a plain text editor
   
10. update all the file paths you find there to match the new location
    
11. save and close 'opera6.ini'
    
12. done
    

1. take note of the current locations shown in 'Help > About Opera'
   
2. close Opera
   
3. open 'OperaDef6.ini' from the main Opera folder in a plain text editor
   
4. change the line 'Multi-user=0' to 'Multi-user=1'
   
5. save and close 'OperaDef6.ini'
   
6. start Opera, this should give you clean new profile folders under the 'Application data' folders for the current user
   
7. take note of the current locations shown in 'Help > About Opera' [1]
   
8. close Opera
   
9. copy the Profile and Mail folders from the main Opera folder to the noted new directories, replacing the newly created profile files (these can be overwritten)
   
10. 9.5: note that the profile subfolders 'bt_metadata', 'cache4', 'images', 'opcache', 'voicelib', 'vps' will go to the profile folder under '\Local settings\Application data'
    
11. 9.5: note that the Mail folder will also go under '\Local settings\Application data'
    
12. open 'opera6.ini' from the new Profile folder in a plain text editor
    
13. update all the file paths you find there to match the new locations
    
14. save and close 'opera6.ini'
    
15. done
    

1. take note of the current locations shown in 'Help > About Opera'
   
2. close Opera
   
3. copy the Profile and Mail folders from the 'Documents and settings' folder to your chosen locations
   
4. open 'opera6.ini' from the Profile folder in a plain text editor
   
5. update all the file paths you find there
   
6. save and close 'opera.ini'
   
7. create a shortcut with this commandline:

   "C:\Program files\Opera\opera.exe" /settings "{path to profile folder}\opera6.ini"

   ... of course, using you chosen locations.
   
8. done
   

• main (installation) folder is likely 'C:\Program files\Opera\'
  
• profile folders can likely be found at 'C:\Documents and settings\username\Application data\Opera\Opera\profile\' and 'C:\Documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Application data\Opera\Opera\profile\' (the latter are used by 9.5 installations for data not suited for inclusion in a roaming profile)
  
• mail directory is likely either 'C:\Documents and settings\username\Application data\Opera\Opera\mail\' or 'C:\Documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Application data\Opera\Opera\mail\' depending on whether you started with 9.5 or an earlier Opera version.