Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

Opera Launcher was created using AutoHotkey. It can

• create daily backup of bookmarks, notes & sessions with date stamp. Bookmarks & notes backups will be created in profile\backups directory.
• disable crash startup dialog.
• delete quick find search histories.
• empty Temporary Download Directory (not Cache Directory).
• send keystrokes after starting Opera.
• remove Opera title bar.
• restart Opera.
• change Speed Dial background image automatically.

Download (size < 210 KB), unzip, place OperaLauncher.exe inside Opera installation directory, C:\Program Files\Opera and run it to launch Opera. The following settings dialog will be shown when you run it first time.

Opera Launcher settings dialog

Keystrokes
Keystrokes can be used to perform an action after starting Opera. ^=Ctrl, !=Alt and +=Shift

Examples:

Restart
Use Restart Opera button^! or create new keyboard shortcut/mouse gesture in application section with the following action.

Execute program, "C:\Program Files\Opera\OperaLauncher.exe", "/ro"

^! If your path to OperaLauncher.exe is different change it in toolbar configuration file after closing Opera.

Restore bookmarks/notes
To restore previous version of bookmarks/notes file, close Opera, move previous version of opera6*.adr/notes*.adr from profile\backups directory to profile directory and rename it to opera6.adr/notes.adr.

Changelog

Date	Changes
Oct 24, 2009	Option to change Speed Dial background image automatically. Added help button.
Jul 23, 2009	Option to hide Opera title bar. Thanks to lunigma. Opera restart.
May 11, 2009	Updated for Opera 10.00 Alpha Build 1413. Performance improvements. Tray icon balloon error message. Transparent icon.
Feb 23, 2009	Option to delete old backup files. To disable, set it to 0. Sessions backup will be created every time Opera starts.
Feb 10, 2009	Didn't empty temporary download directory in non-English versions of Windows. Fixed.
Feb 8, 2009	Command line parameters passed to Opera. Thanks to itcpeter. Updated for Opera 10.00 Alpha Build 1139. Opera Launcher can be placed anywhere, but path to Opera Installation Directory should be added in OperaLauncher.ini file.
Jan 8, 2009	Option to send keystrokes.
Nov 26, 2008	Option to empty temporary download directory.
Nov 23, 2008	Initial release.

Opera personal bar (default)

Opera personal bar with short names

Opera personal bar with images only

Opera personal bar with folders

You can sort bookmarks in Opera by name, nickname, address, description, date created, date visited and your order.

Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks... > View > Sort by

You can sort bookmarks in your order by selecting Sort by my order

Folder Nickname (Won't work in Opera 9.10-9.24 due to bug.)

Set nickname to folder

Place bookmark of the sites you want as home page inside a folder

Set homepage

Command Line Shortcut

Create a shortcut to Opera similar to following one.

"%ProgramFiles%\Opera\Opera.exe" www.site1.com www.site2.com bookmark_nickname

Keyboard Shortcut

If you don't know how to edit keyboard setup see this. Search for Go to homepage and change action to Go to page, "http://www.site1.com/" & New page & Go to page, "http://www.site2.com/"

Button

Drag & drop Go to homepage button to any toolbar. Note path to Toolbar Configuration file, close Opera, open and change www.site1.com & www.site2.com in toolbar configuration file.

JavaScript

Enter javascript:open('http://www.site1.com');open('http://www.site2.com');void 0 in Tools → Preferences... → General → Home page and Tools → Preferences... → General → Pop-ups → Open all pop-ups or Open pop-ups in background.

Update: Apr 29, 2007