Most used commands in Opera
Monday, 7. November 2005, 21:07:20
Jensen Harris, working on the Microsoft Office "user experience" team, is keeping a blog, to explain about the user interface changes there are doing in the next Microsoft Office. Fascinating reading every weekday, and frankly the research facilities they have make me jealous. Luckily, it appears they build their monopoly-winning older versions (until Office 003) using the good-old
But MS now has a "Customer Experience Improvement Program", where users can opt-in to send all their actions in Office to Redmond. Harris shares a little bit from the vast store of data they've collected in a few years, the Top 5 Most-Used Commands in Microsoft Word 2003:
I'd love to have data like this for Opera usage....
What do you think are the most usd commands in Opera? I'm afraid I can't give prizes for the best answer, because that is simply unknown
wild guesses, justifications, and personal 'anecdotes' served up as factmethod. Somewhat like we do, though occasionally some people get abducted from Karl Johanns Gate in Oslo, to be released only after performing some tasks in the latest Opera under the watchful eye of UI developers.
But MS now has a "Customer Experience Improvement Program", where users can opt-in to send all their actions in Office to Redmond. Harris shares a little bit from the vast store of data they've collected in a few years, the Top 5 Most-Used Commands in Microsoft Word 2003:
- Paste
- Save
- Copy
- Undo
- Bold
I'd love to have data like this for Opera usage....
What do you think are the most usd commands in Opera? I'm afraid I can't give prizes for the best answer, because that is simply unknown
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* New page
* Go to nickname
* Open link in background
* Read mail
* Find in page
* Google search
* Check mail
* Preferences
* Stop
* Reply
* Reload
* Reopen page
* View source
* Compose message
* Quick Preferences
* Reload from cache
By scipio, # 7. November 2005, 22:01:42
Close (MG)
New Page (keyboard)
Go to page (although I always use a nickname there)
middle click (open link in bg)
Top 10 box (never thought I would say that.. but it's true)
By elcid73, # 7. November 2005, 22:52:01
'Open link'
'Back'
I've read some early research on browser usage [1], and apparently these two are the most used actions in a browser, vastly more important than things like 'bookmarks, 'reload' or 'forward'. MS has an excellent reason for making the 'Back' the most prominent (and easy to hit) button.
[1] http://www.igd.fhg.de/archive/1995_www95/papers/80/userpatterns/UserPatterns.Paper4.formatted.html , http://ijhcs.open.ac.uk/tauscher/tauscher.html
By Rijk, # 7. November 2005, 23:12:10
1,2,4,5,z,x,/,u,j,o,ctrl+n,F8,ctrl+right,ctrl+left,PgDn,PgUp
and a couple hundred others
By Moose, # 8. November 2005, 01:28:36
My suspected top 5:
Back (button on toolbar)
New page (button on toolbar)
Google search
Close (button on tab)
Check/Send Mail
By Andrew Gregory, # 8. November 2005, 01:48:58
reload
trash can
rss button
google search
Not sure but perhaps the button that toggles images fits in the list as well.
By mxforce, # 8. November 2005, 02:03:07
Open link
Back
New page
Address field (including doing searches with search shortcuts)
Tab in the tab bar
Close tab
Panel toggle
Delete mail
Mail read
Add chat message
Quick search (finding translations)
Navigation link: home
Check mail
Answer mail
Compose mail
Send mail
Mail panel
Chat panel
Fit to window width
By lachralle, # 8. November 2005, 07:32:01
New page (50% ctrl+t + 50% mouse dbl click on tab bar)
Back (MG)
Close page (60% MG + 40% ctrl+f4)
Reload (MG)
f8, g search term
Undo page (ctrl+z)
Find in page (/term)
Forward (MG)
By Orlando, # 8. November 2005, 16:29:05
*shrugs* I have *no* idea whether this is hard to do or not...
By WildEnte, # 8. November 2005, 17:07:06
But, yeah, it would be very interesting to have actual statistics on this...
By nafmo, # 8. November 2005, 18:35:40
And some of custom buttons — Trashbin, Open in IE, View CSS, Offline|Online, Enable|disable JS, Restore all, Cascade|tile|tile horisontaly, "Save with images to one file with title as filename" ;-), Bookmark Manager, may be some else… ;-)
Agreed with WildEnte — that version will be very intresting…
By Kildor, # 9. November 2005, 03:37:28
By shoust, # 9. November 2005, 19:35:51
New page
Goto URL
Scroll down
Open link
Back
Reload
Close page
Does right-click (invoke context menu) count as a command? ;-)
By Lee_Harvey, # 10. November 2005, 13:59:16
click (on a link)
Shift+click (on a link) or MG
Ctrl+N (new page, not window)
MG or Ctrl+F4 to close a window
Home (scroll to top)
Mouse button "back" or Backspace
1
2
F4 - show/hide panel
. or / - find in page
F5 - reload
Shift + arrow keys + Enter
Ctrl+T (add to bookmarks)
Ctrl+E (compose e-mail)
By FataL, # 10. November 2005, 17:39:58
I don't think I use 'Back' very often because I prefer 'Open link in background', which is why I didn't mention 'Open link' either. They should probably be in the list anyway, as well as 'Copy' and 'Paste and go'.
By scipio, # 11. November 2005, 10:59:23
By rocco, # 11. November 2005, 12:23:13
2. Spatial navigation (SHIFT+arrows)
3. Page/scroll up/down
4. Follow link in background (CTRL+SHIFT+enter)
5. FastForward (CTRL+right)
6. New page (CTRL+N)
7. Follow link (enter)
8. Back (CTRL+left)
9. Go to nickname (CTRL+`)
10. Close page (CTRL+w, often 'held down')
11. New page, focus address bar and Google (CTRL+N, F8, g term)
12. Open/close Mail panel (F4 / CTRL+3)
13. Check mail (CTRL+K)
14. QuickFind (.)
That's about it, I guess, though I cannot be sure
By hermen2048, # 12. November 2005, 16:40:18
By SimonLenton, # 20. November 2005, 20:18:58
Fragments listed are broken. See the table below to know what action to take.
CodeOccurrencesWhat to do
3011You should update the link.
3022Usually nothing.
5011Could not check this link: method not implemented or scheme not supported.
http://www.my.opera.com/community/gfx/banners/ redirected to
http://my.opera.com/community/promote/buttons/
What to do: You should update the link.
Response status code: 301 -> 200
Response message: Moved Permanently -> OK
Lines: 12, 15
http://www.nokia.com/770 redirected to
http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/770
What to do: Usually nothing.
Response status code: 302 -> 200
Response message: Moved Temporarily -> OK
Line: 6
http://my.opera.com/wildlifegroup/ redirected to
http://my.opera.com/wildlifegroup/about/
What to do: Usually nothing.
Response status code: 302 -> 200
Response message: Found -> OK
Line: 6
irc://irc.opera.com/lounge
What to do: Could not check this link: method not implemented or scheme not supported.
Response status code: 501
Response message: Protocol scheme 'irc' is not supported
Line: 6
List of directory redirects
The links below are not broken, but the document does not use the exact URL.
http://my.opera.com/operaplatform/about redirected to
http://my.opera.com/operaplatform/about/
What to do: Add a trailing slash to the URL.
Response status code: 301 -> 200
Response message: Moved Permanently -> OK
Line: 6
http://my.opera.com/nokia770/about redirected to
http://my.opera.com/nokia770/about/
What to do: Add a trailing slash to the URL.
Response status code: 301 -> 200
Response message: Moved Permanently -> OK
Line: 6
Checked 1 document in 178.7 seconds.
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Just minor, my attempt to help a little. T-G
By T-G, # 30. November 2005, 02:07:08
Middle mouse-button scrolling up & down
Open link in background (click & Ctrl-Shift)
Mouse-gesture back
Selecting Feeds (mouse action)
Personal Bar button selecting (mouse action)
Bookmark Panel link selecting (mouse action)
Selecting page text (with mouse)
I see a pattern with mouse usage here
By pauldurham, # 30. November 2005, 07:53:40
anyone use the keypad for 0,9,6,8 to percentage zoom a webpage ?
Anyone miss that the display of the percentage of original webpage is not legible fully , anymore ? :| (from vers. 7.23 to 8.5+) :|
By anonymous user, # 3. December 2005, 02:48:27
Ctrl+N for new tab, not window like in Merlin
Click to follow link
Midclick to open in new tab
Midclick on tab to close it
Enter to go to address
Alt+F3 - well, I'm a web developer
Ctrl+N, Tab to go to Google search
RClick+LClick and we are going back
I think that's all.
By Aux, # 13. December 2005, 21:46:58
F8 / Z / Ctrl-Enter / Shift-P / Bookmark-shortcut (self made)
By anonymous user, # 20. December 2005, 10:02:45