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Form history / Autocomplete in Opera

Thursday, November 3, 2005 4:22:58 AM

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Opera doesn't save form history. Use the following.

1. Personal Information

To save, Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Forms (Wand in versions below 10)
To insert, right click on any text input box > Insert Personal or type first letter for drop down suggestions.

Insert Personal in Opera
Insert Personal

2. Notes

Save frequently used text in notes. To insert text press down arrow or right click on any text input box & select from Insert Note.

Insert Note in Opera
Insert note

3. OpS - Opera input suggestion or Auto Fill Form User JS.

If your press down arrow in text box Opera will show both Personal Information & Notes.

"Open in Firefox & Internet Explorer" in Opera right click menuHow to set Opera as default browser?

Comments

Zalex ;-) Zalex108 Saturday, February 10, 2007 4:19:08 PM

Jay Shri Hanuman!

mrlami Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:40:25 PM

Very Nyce... (especially the notes tip) BUT can one have regular autocompletes like something similar to IE?

Tamil Sunday, April 19, 2009 12:10:12 AM

Nope.

Unregistered user Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:45:43 PM

Anonymous writes: THIS SUCK !!!

Unregistered user Friday, June 12, 2009 1:17:11 AM

Anonymous writes: yes this suck to much, for a good browser like this one to not have such a shit like that.

Unregistered user Friday, July 17, 2009 1:13:16 PM

Névtelen writes: In the Opera 10 needs the same autocomplete like in the IE and and Firefox. That's a huge handicap and disgrace

Unregistered user Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:14:21 PM

Anonymous writes: the least we can have is the option to turn autocomplete on or off

Unregistered user Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:04:55 AM

Silver writes: That's one reason why I keep switching away from Opera on Linux. But as it's the fastest and one of the most compatible browsers, I have to still use it..

Unregistered user Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:38:54 PM

Anonymous writes: yea that sucks but only thing what have good is autowand passwodrs ...that not help in priweusly searched items ufortunaty

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 9, 2009 7:04:19 AM

buynetstuff.com writes: this is just for Opera 10 and up right.

Unregistered user Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:44:31 PM

Anonymous writes: Just tried Opera 10... using it on dialup, love the Turbo mode... but the lack of true form field auto complete like all other browsers have will stop me from using it full time. Get with the times!

Unregistered user Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:38:32 PM

Anonymous writes: I like new Opera, and I was thinking about switching from FF o Opera, but without autocomplete is to much annoying to use. It seems that I will return to FF.

Unregistered user Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:49:22 PM

ale writes: would be nice to know why it is not possible to have auto complete in opera it amazes me that such a good browser lacks of such an important tool.

Unregistered user Saturday, September 26, 2009 9:16:06 AM

jogi writes: many thanks for your blog. Because of this I can stop searching for the function autocomplete like in Firefox or IE. It is REALLY a bad thing that Opera don't support this yet! I will continue to use firefox until Opera can do this.... :( :( bad but I can't live without it.. Regards Jogi

Unregistered user Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:13:20 PM

Kristin writes: I really miss auto complete in Opera. I wasn't aware of how much I use it until I tried Opera a few days ago. Like Jogi, I have also searched the web for a solution until I ended up here. (Thank you, Tamil). The work-arounds using notes and the personal information side is just not good enough. Sad, because Opera so nice and easy to use in every other way.

Unregistered user Monday, December 21, 2009 11:37:23 AM

Anonymous writes: Opera developers please respond to this. We like opera, also we need this feature too.

Unregistered user Monday, December 28, 2009 4:35:53 PM

Ziyaretçi writes: Without auto-complete opera really sucks...

Unregistered user Sunday, January 3, 2010 12:46:28 PM

Anonymous writes: Autocomplete NOW!!!

Unregistered user Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:57:51 AM

Anonymous writes: come on, people... do you really expect to have such a basic functionality like autocomplete, made correctly from someone who puts a green flying monkey to their site like that one on top?

Princezvbprince Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:55:27 PM

Maybe Lars--The new CEO will be responsive to this simple request.

Unregistered user Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:14:50 AM

Anonymous writes: The missing autocomplete functionality is the only reason why i cannot use opera. I like the browser but this feature is a must have...

Unregistered user Sunday, January 24, 2010 1:57:02 PM

Anonymous writes: Yes, this is one hell of an important topic. Change this please! I just convinced a friend to user Opera, after an hour or something he was like "where's autocomplete?" ... Well, this was embarassing for me and now he stays with FF...

Unregistered user Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:25:04 AM

Anonymous writes: Altho autocomplete is a good feature, I rather turn it off. Keep up the good work, Opera developers! I've been using Opera since version 3.62 for Windows 3.1 (i know, I'm ancient!!) Just started using version 10.10, so far no problems...

Unregistered user Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:38:36 PM

Anonymous writes: I must have Autocomplete thats for sure. Launch that function and with on/off possibility

Unregistered user Monday, February 15, 2010 10:10:21 AM

Anonymous writes: i agree 110%.. we need AUTO COMPLETE.. back to google chrome for me..atleast until they implement this feature...

Unregistered user Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:09:56 AM

Anonymous writes: Agree to here... I like opera.. but also need autocomplete feature.. That's why I can't use opera as my main browser.

Unregistered user Tuesday, March 9, 2010 11:25:40 PM

Type-R writes: its impossible that such a good browser has no autofill function. I like Opera but some times I think I have to leave Opera from this reason: NO AUTUFILL. Impossible

Unregistered user Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:29:25 PM

Anonymous writes: opera is a excellent browser but it is necessary to fix Google auto-complete.

Unregistered user Friday, March 26, 2010 10:31:03 AM

OperaSurfinDude writes: Just had a horrible experience where i mistyped my email address. Now that I know about this I will try to use it, but form history/auto complete would be so much easier... Please, Opera!!!!!

Unregistered user Friday, March 26, 2010 5:26:34 PM

Anonymous writes: I should have read this before. Just wasted a lot of time configuring Opera only to find out that because of missing autocomplete I'll return to Google Chrome. This thread is almost one year old, so I can't see any chance for improvement.

Unregistered user Friday, March 26, 2010 9:45:24 PM

Anonymní writes: switching back to Google Chrome (Because of no autocoplete function)

Unregistered user Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:28:21 AM

Anonymous writes: switched to Google Chrome from Opera like a year ago, still watching out for the autocomplete feature to switch back... but the longer I wait I become so used to Chrome... :-)

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:25:21 PM

Anonymous writes: where the hell is auto-complete? and why isn't any developer telling us why they refuse to implement it? looks like I'll be going back to using *any other browser* because it supports auto-complete.

Unregistered user Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:25:45 AM

sergiol writes: Autocomplete and search engine suggestions are the only two reasons that keep me using other browsers in parallel with Opera

Unregistered user Thursday, April 1, 2010 5:09:20 AM

Opera writes: Wtf? How is it possible to 'forget' such an option?

Unregistered user Thursday, April 1, 2010 10:38:33 PM

yksyks writes: The "OpS - Opera input suggestion" mentioned above doesn't work in the new versions. However, there's a modification available (but hard to find) that seems to be working, at least with Opera 10.51. You can download it here: http://files.myopera.com/splondike/files/ops-9.5.js Please post your experiences.

Unregistered user Tuesday, April 6, 2010 8:29:23 AM

kuban writes: if anyone finds solution please attach it here :)thx

Unregistered user Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:26:43 AM

Philippe writes: I agree, autocomplete is a must. I have been trying out most of the browsers and none have satisfied me completely, Opera looks to be the fasted one out of the box, but without the auto complete feature it will not be the one for me. That said the auto complete in Safari is not that super either, it works great on some sites and not on others. It seems like Firefox will be the one to use.

Unregistered user Monday, April 19, 2010 3:11:24 PM

Ðнонимен writes: Google Chrome, at least they have autocomplete. Bye Opera!

Unregistered user Monday, April 19, 2010 10:06:28 PM

Névtelen writes: http://files.myopera.com/adrenalin3/userjs/autocomplete.js

Unregistered user Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:31:10 PM

Anonymous writes: We need auto coplete!!

fusionized Sunday, June 6, 2010 2:59:50 PM

I wanted to give opera a shot but as it does not autofill when I login to sites, etc, I'm going to use Firefox or Chrome.

Insane that there is no autocomplete in Opera... Disappointment.

Tamil Sunday, June 6, 2010 3:04:04 PM

You can use password manager to login.

susanmj Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:30:22 AM

I use auto-fill on quite a few sites I log into, but I'm not going to let that stop me from using Opera, especially when the main other choices are IE, or the slowest browser in the world - Firefox. Opera is the FASTEST browser I have ever seen! It stand up against IE like v-8 vs 4CYL, and as for the speed comparison against Firefox, it's just laughable. I tested both, and I visited 6 pages, fully loaded, in the time it took ONE page to fully load in Firefox.

OK, so I have type a few log-ins, not a big deal, having this kind of speed in my work and play is totally WORTH it!

I LOVE Opera! (The browser, not the fat lady singing in Italian on stage, lol)

susanmj Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:40:17 AM

OH, and it leaves Chrome eating dust as well.

Unregistered user Wednesday, June 9, 2010 1:57:20 PM

Jhoevz writes: Damn..I am searching for the settings of autocomplete for my newly installed opera so I can turn it on and end up knowing there is none..very disappointed..

Unregistered user Monday, June 14, 2010 8:19:20 PM

Anonymous writes: Opera, please give us autocomplete. It's like the difference between being able to press Ctrl+V to paste and having to type "Ctrl+V" every time you want to paste something. It's frustrating.

Unregistered user Friday, June 18, 2010 5:47:22 PM

Anonymous writes: The lack of an autocomplete feature in Opera and to a lesser extent the lack of an addable download manager similar to DownThemAll in Firefox are the two main reasons why I haven't switched over to Opera permanently.

sergiol Friday, June 18, 2010 11:51:50 PM

After seeing this results, Opera people should reflect and do the feature.
Because people are just QUITTING from Opera.
If they will not implement it, they are STUPID (yes, I said it with all the letters and in CAPS!). It is to be a looser to repel millions of users, when Opera implements lots of complex things, and to fail for missing such a basic feature, that has been ubiquitously in every other browser for decades.

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