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How to bring back address field dropdown button in Opera?

Friday, July 1, 2011 11:58:20 AM

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By default, address field dropdown button is disabled in Opera 11.50. You can view typed addresses using keyboard shortcut, ↓ or Alt + ↓. If you want dropdown button enable Show Dropdown Button In Addressfield.

Opera address field without dropdown button
Address field without dropdown button

Opera address field with dropdown button
Address field with dropdown button

See Useful opera:config (Opera Preferences Editor) entries for more opera:config tips.

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Abhinavdecodedthought Friday, July 1, 2011 12:02:01 PM

banana up

Jaahquubel Friday, July 1, 2011 1:34:18 PM

That's what I was just looking for! Thanks!
banana

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, July 1, 2011 2:04:34 PM

cool

ersi Friday, July 1, 2011 3:53:21 PM

I have had the thing enabled for a decade, and then, after an update, it's gone. It is clearly an illegal policy to make choices for the user - when there are in fact choices.

Anyway, with this address field dropdown thing they at least provided an option to get back the old behaviour. Somehow they forgot the toggle with the new big fat ugly blocked images notifier in the mail component. How to get rid of that notifier?

Tamil Saturday, July 2, 2011 1:04:13 AM

Originally posted by ersi:

How to get rid of that notifier?

Disable Suppress External Embeds

ersi Saturday, July 2, 2011 6:03:47 AM

Originally posted by Tamil:

Disable Suppress External Embeds


Doesn't it unblock remote images in email? Because this is what it sounds like. It would be most undesirable.

Unregistered user Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:17:39 PM

yogee writes: after update also dissapeard option to remove close button from tabs ;/ but opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowCloseButtons ;) another problem: inactive checkbox "remember choice" while downloading .torrent files, when opera asks for using system default client or herself. Help! ;)

Tamil Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:26:26 PM

Originally posted by ersi:

Doesn't it unblock remote images in email?

sad

after update also dissapeard option to remove close button from tabs

Nope, Ctrl + P > Advanced > Tabs > Additional tab options... > Show close button on each tab

inactive checkbox "remember choice" while downloading .torrent files, when opera asks for using system default client or herself.

How to change download action for a particular file type in Opera?

Unregistered user Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:37:32 PM

yogee writes: Thank you Tamil ;) but IMO inactive checkbox isn't intuitive

Dances With WolvesWhiteCloud1 Saturday, July 2, 2011 10:45:27 PM

Many Thanks Tamil. Use this feature all the time!

Unregistered user Sunday, July 3, 2011 5:55:49 AM

Anonymous writes: I can't believe Opera took away the dropdown! At least there's an option to get it back. I also can't believe they haven't added Gmail to their supported email clients for mailto links!

PhillipWutske Sunday, July 3, 2011 7:23:02 AM

I was quite surprised to see that Opera disabled this button by default and that they didn't offer a user friendly solution to get it back sad . I'm seriously waiting for a good explanation from Opera because if they keep screwing up like this, they'll push people into using another browser.

Unregistered user Thursday, July 7, 2011 2:41:33 PM

Anonymous writes: I agree it was a big fail to remove the arrow dropdown button by default in the new version of Opera. I was milimeters away from switching to another browser.

Unregistered user Friday, July 15, 2011 4:52:12 AM

arun writes: iam using operamini6.1for my nokia 2730classic but it does not give fastness. Such as at the time of downloading.and it increases it size. I.e at stating 302kb right now 688kb

Onele samuelonelesamuel Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:12:52 PM

Iam using operamini 6.0 and some time the arrow will spread as many. It will tell me errow occured.

Unregistered user Saturday, July 23, 2011 9:12:35 PM

Domo writes: Tnx

Unregistered user Monday, August 1, 2011 8:51:11 AM

Igor writes: Phillip, +1 Opera guys, please explain.

Unregistered user Friday, August 26, 2011 11:38:10 AM

prassie writes: Excellent.. Thanks..!

Unregistered user Sunday, August 28, 2011 11:21:37 AM

Anonymous writes: thanks dude, saved me a lot of pain. as one user already said, if opera keeps screwing up like this (and i also hate the new ugly big quick dial thumbnails), they will definitely lose their already meager market share... big up!

Jeffjtek Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:19:36 AM

Either I am blind or this option does not show up in my user prefs list. I click the link and nothing is found. Obviously, I am doing something wrong. Opera 11.50, Windows 7 Ult SP1 64-bit.

I would like this feature to be turned on - like others, I have am used to and like having it there. Oh, the Alt-down arrow does not work either.

Thanks for providing these tidbits of information, Tamil! When I do a search for how to do this or that with Opera, I am always directed to your Opera page. bigsmile

UPDATE: okay, I found it - kind of. For some reason, there is no text displayed only a check box and a question mark. When I click the question mark, I am told this is the option. So it is there but for some reason I cannot see it. Odd.

Unregistered user Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:41:26 AM

Anônimo writes: YOU'RE MY HERO !!!!

Unregistered user Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:14:58 AM

Anonymous writes: Love you

Unregistered user Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:41:48 AM

Mark writes: Excellent tip. Why did they get rid of it? Thanks!

Unregistered user Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:44:12 AM

Anonymous writes: Thanks for demonstrating the fix, as well as leaving this open so I can say I appreciated it without having to register for something.

Unregistered user Monday, November 14, 2011 5:46:47 PM

Anonymous writes: Somehow starting from 11.50, your "toggle address bar" button doesn't work smoothly, at least on Linux machine. It works at the 1st a few times, but then click the bar, the address bar won't show anymore. More annoyingly, you cannot even show the address bar explicitly by other means, such as through Alt, etc. Any thoughts?

Tamil Tuesday, November 15, 2011 3:39:32 AM

Sorry, no idea.

Unregistered user Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:55:54 AM

Anonymous writes: Thanks v much...

Unregistered user Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:02:04 PM

Anonymous writes: had it working for a while in ylmf os3 -- then lost it get to drop down but cannot change cliks Bunch of mofo opera programmers Put it back in !

Unregistered user Saturday, January 21, 2012 5:33:35 PM

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Unregistered user Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:37:04 PM

Anonymous writes: Please try this: opera:config#Show%20Dropdown%20Button%20In%20Addressfield enjoy

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