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How to open new tab with homepage in Opera?

Monday, 4. May 2009, 15:10:54

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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.

Don't delete new tab button first.

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Full screen mode with toolbars in Opera

Sunday, 25. January 2009, 18:04:43

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Opera full screen mode with tab bar & address bar
Full screen mode with tab bar & address bar

By default, full screen mode doesn't have any toolbars but you can enable them by

  • using following full screen buttons
  • modifying action for keyboard shortcut, F11
  • modifying right click full screen menu item action Enter fullscreen | Leave fullscreen under [Document Popup Menu]
  • creating a new mouse gesture in Application section

Full screen with Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture! Button#
without scroll bar with scroll bar
Tab bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Address bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View address bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Status bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View status bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Tab bar & Address bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6 & View address bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Tab bar & Status bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6 & View status bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Address bar & Status bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View address bar, 6 & View status bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Tab bar, Address bar & Status bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6 & View address bar, 6 & View status bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen

! If you want scroll bar in full screen mode, add & Delay, 10 & Enable scroll bars to the end of action code.
# To add, drag & drop button to a toolbar and accept confirmation message.

  • Opera won't show address bar and status bar in inactive tabs.
  • It is not possible to show panel toggle at the edge of the window in full screen mode.

Update: 2009: Feb 2 & 15

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Paste with middle mouse button in Opera

Tuesday, 1. July 2008, 11:32:43

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You can paste the contents of clipboard to any text area in Opera with middle mouse button using this mouse gesture.

Create a new mouse gesture in Advanced > Edit Widget section with Button3 as input context & shortcut and Paste mouse selection | Paste as action.

Now you can paste clipboard contents to any text area in Opera by clicking middle mouse button.

Paste mouse selection will work only in Linux.

BTW, this is 100th blog post.

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Auto-hide toolbars in Opera

Monday, 30. June 2008, 04:48:14

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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

If you drag & drop buttons with short name to a toolbar from Tools → Appearance → Buttons → My Buttons, space will be added to button name.

Update:
Jul 1, 2008
Mar 12, 2009

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Update Opera custom keyboard setup/menu setup/mouse setup/language/dialog files using WinMerge

Tuesday, 5. June 2007, 15:32:48

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Updating customized keyboard setup/menu setup/mouse setup/language/dialog files manually is cumbersome and time consuming. You can use file comparision software (Windows: Freeware WinMerge or shareware Beyond Compare, Linux: Meld) to visualize difference and update custom setups easily.

The default keyboard setup, menu setup, mouse setup, dialog files are standard_keyboard.ini, standard_menu.ini, standard_mouse.ini & dialog.ini respectively inside ui folder (defaults for versions below 10) in Opera installation directory.

Your custom files will be inside keyboard, menu & mouse folders in your profile.

Load your setup file and corresponding default file in file comparision software, compare them and update your files.

Opera standard_menu.ini compared with custom menu file using Beyond Compare.
Opera standard_menu.ini compared with custom menu file using Beyond Compare.

Opera standard_menu.ini compared with custom menu file using Winmerge.
Opera standard_menu.ini compared with custom menu file using Winmerge.

Update: Aug 2, 2009

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Ways to open Opera bookmark/link/go to URL/search in new tab

Monday, 24. April 2006, 05:21:55

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Shift + Click/Enter/Left click - Bookmark/Link/Go to Web Address/Search will open in new tab

Ctrl + Shift + Click/Enter/Left click - Bookmark/Link/Go to Web Address/Search will open in background tab

Mouse Gestures

Point link, hold right mouse button and move down - Link will open in new tab

Point link, hold right mouse button and move down then up - Link will open in background tab

Others

To open search results & bookmarks in new tab
Opera 9: Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Tabs → [DISABLE] Reuse current tab
Opera 8: Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Browsing → [DISABLE] Reuse current tab

Configure mouse middle click action
Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Shortcuts → Middle-Click Options... [or] Shift+Mouse middle click

Opera mouse middle-click options
Mouse middle-click options

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Opera extra mouse gestures

Wednesday, 2. November 2005, 08:32:03

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If you don't know how to add/edit mouse gesture see How to add/edit mouse gestures in Opera?

Section is shown in brackets.
Gesture Action
[Notes Panel]
GestureDown New note
GestureUp New folder
[Mail Window]
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft Select all & Delete
[Transfers Panel]
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft Select all & Delete
[Edit Widget]
Button3
(Paste using mouse middle button) 		Paste
[Application]
GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft, GestureUp Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen
GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft, GestureUp, GestureRight Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6
(Fullscreen with tab bar)
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureLeft Undo
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureDown Close page & Switch to previous page
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureUp Close page & Switch to next page
GestureRight, GestureDown Switch to previous page
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureLeft Set alignment, "hotlist", 6 | Set alignment, "hotlist", 0
(Toggle panel)
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown View page bar, 0 | View page bar, 6
(Show/hide tab bar)
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft Set alignment, "Document toolbar", 6 | Set alignment, "Document toolbar", 0
(Show/hide address bar)
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureRight Show popup menu, "Browser Menu Bar"
GestureUp, GestureLeft, GestureRight New page & Go to page, "opera:config"
(Preferences editor in new tab)
GestureLeft, GestureUp Show preferences
GestureLeft, GestureUp, GestureLeft Manage sites
(Manage site preferences)
GestureLeft, GestureUp, GestureRight Customize toolbars
(Appearance)
GestureLeft, GestureDown, GestureRight Manage cookies
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureUp, GestureLeft Exit
GestureDown, GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown Hide Opera
GestureLeft, GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureDown, Gestureleft View document source
GestureDown, FlipBack Show popup menu, "Browser Bookmarks Menu"
GestureUp, FlipBack Show popup menu, "Browser Feeds Menu"
GestureRight, FlipBack Enable mediumscreen mode | Disable mediumscreen mode
(Enable/disable fit to width)
GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureRight Delete private data

Updates:
May 25, 2007
May 1, 2008

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How to close current tab and go to previous/next tab in Opera?

Wednesday, 2. November 2005, 07:33:19

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Buttons

Drag & drop Close & Go to Previous & Close & Go to Next buttons to any toolbar.

Keyboard shortcuts

Change the action of following keyboard shortcuts in Application section.
w ctrl to Close page & Switch to next page
w ctrl shift to Close page & Switch to previous page

Mouse gestures

Create two mouse gestures with the following with actions. 

GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureDown = Close page & Switch to previous page
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureUp = Close page & Switch to next page

Default gesture to close current tab in Opera
Default gesture to close current tab

Gesture to close current tab & switch to next tab in Opera
Gesture to close current tab & switch to next tab

Gesture to close current tab & switch to previous tab in Opera
Gesture to close current tab & switch to previous tab

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How to add/edit mouse gestures in Opera?

Wednesday, 2. November 2005, 05:37:53

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Add new mouse gesture
Edit mouse gesture

Add new mouse gesture

Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Shortcuts → Mouse setup → [SELECT] Copy of Opera Standard (If you don't have Copy of Opera Standard then [SELECT] Opera Standard → Duplicate) → Edit... → [SELECT] Section (example: Application) → New... → Enter gesture in Input context and shortcuts field and action in Actions field

Opera duplicate mouse setup
Duplicate "Opera Standard" mouse setup

Opera edit mouse setup
Edit "Copy of Opera Standard" mouse setup

Opera new mouse gesture
New mouse gesture in "Application" section

Opera new mouse gesture input context and shortcut
New mouse gesture input context and shortcut

Opera new mouse gesture action
New mouse gesture action

Edit mouse gesture

Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Shortcuts → Mouse setup → [SELECT] Copy of Opera Standard (If you don't have Copy of Opera Standard then [SELECT] Opera Standard → Duplicate) → Edit... → [SELECT] Section (example: Application) → Edit... → Change gesture in Input context and shortcuts field and action in Actions field

Opera edit mouse gesture
Edit mouse gesture

Opera edit mouse gesture action
Edit mouse gesture action

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