Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

Few users want to open new tab with homepage instead of Speed Dial and it can be accomplished by combining actions.

Keyboard shortcut

If you don't know how to edit keyboard shortcut see this. Change the action for keyboard shortcut, t ctrl in Application section to the following.

New page, 1 & Go to homepage

Mouse gesture

If you don't know how to edit mouse gesture see this. Change the action for mouse gesture, GestureDown in Application section to the following.

Open link in new page | New page & Go to homepage

Button

Drag & drop New tab button next to new tab button and then delete old new tab button.

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:

Action	Keyboard Shortcut	Keystrokes
Enter fullscreen	F11	{F11}
Hide Opera	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H	^!+h
New tab	Ctrl+T	^t
Minimize Opera	Alt+Space+N	!{Space}n

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.

You can auto-hide any toolbar in Opera after enabling it via keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture or button.

Buttons

You can add buttons to any toolbar (main bar, tab bar, address bar, navigation bar, view bar, status bar, start bar or panels) except menu bar & personal bar simply by dragging button links to required place. Clicking on the button links without dragging will add the buttons to Tools → Appearance → Buttons → My Buttons for later use.

When you try to add a button, a dialog box with following message will popup. Press OK to add button.

Adding new button with action

[Action]

Do you want to proceed?

To remove a button, right-click on it and select Remove From Toolbar.

You can find several custom buttons in Opera Wiki and TTT-Buttons.

Keyboard shortcuts / Mouse gestures

Create new keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures in Application section with following action codes.

Toolbar	Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture	Button
		Short	Long name
Menu bar	Enable menu bar & Delay, 12000 & Disable menu bar	MB	Menu Bar
Main bar	View main bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View main bar, 0	Ma	Main Bar
Personal bar	View personal bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View personal bar, 0	PB	Personal Bar
Tab bar	View page bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View page bar, 0	TB	Tab Bar
Address bar	View address bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View address bar, 0	AB	Address Bar
Navigation bar	View navigation bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View navigation bar, 0	NB	Navigation Bar
View bar	Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 & Delay, 8000 & Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0	VB	View Bar
Status bar	View status bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View status bar, 0	SB	Status Bar

To modify auto-hide time, change Delay, X value (time in milliseconds) in above code. You have to edit Toolbar Configuration file to modify button name or delay value.

To hide/show a toolbar without auto-hide use the following.

Toolbar	Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture	Button
		Short	Long name
Menu bar	Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar	MB	Menu Bar
Main bar	View main bar, 6 | View main bar, 0	Ma	Main Bar
Personal bar	View personal bar, 6 | View personal bar, 0	PB	Personal Bar
Tab bar	View page bar, 6 | View page bar, 0	TB	Tab Bar
Address bar	View address bar, 6 | View address bar, 0	AB	Address Bar
Navigation bar	View navigation bar, 6 | View navigation bar, 0	NB	Navigation Bar
View bar	Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 | Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0	VB	View Bar
Status bar	View status bar, 6 | View status bar, 0	SB	Status Bar

Update:
Jul 1, 2008
Mar 12, 2009

.com address completion was introduced in Opera 9 by using Ctrl+Enter keyboard shortcut.

You can complete .net by using Shift+Enter and .org by using Ctrl+Shift+Enter keyboard shortcuts by adding two more keyboard shortcuts.

Create new keyboard shortcuts in Advanced > Address Dropdown Widget with the following.

enter shift = Autocomplete server name, "http://www", "net"
enter ctrl shift = Autocomplete server name, "http://www", "org"

Folder nickname
Command line shortcut
Keyboard shortcut
Button
JavaScript

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

Create a new folder in bookmarks and set nickname. Bookmarks → Manage Bookmarks... → Right click on folder → Properties... → Nickname Place bookmark of the sites you want as home page inside created folder. Enter nickname of folder as home page. Tools → Preferences... → General → Home page

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