Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

Some of us change an option in particular Opera dialog always and it can be done automatically with the help of following action codes.

Following examples are for modifying menu configuration but you can use them in keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures.

Example 1: Enable "Open pop-ups in background" and "Enable content blocking" in site preferences dialog

Under [Document Popup Menu] section replace

Item, M_EDIT_SITE_PREFERENCES = Edit site preferences

Item, M_EDIT_SITE_PREFERENCES = Edit site preferences & Focus next widget & Show dropdown & Previous item & Select item & Cycle to next page & Cycle to next page & Focus next widget & Focus next widget & Focus next widget & Focus next widget & Check item

The above code has 12 actions in the following order and animation shows functioning of code.

1. Edit site preferences
2. Focus next widget
3. Show dropdown
4. Previous item
5. Select item
6. Cycle to next page
7. Cycle to next page
8. Focus next widget
9. Focus next widget
10. Focus next widget
11. Focus next widget
12. Check item

Functioning of code

Site preferences dialog can be closed automatically by adding the following at the end of above code.

& Click default button

Example 2: Enable "Open tabs inside current window" in manage sessions dialog

Under [Browser Session Menu] section replace

Item, M_BROWSER_SESSION_MENU_MANAGE = Select session, -1

Item, M_BROWSER_SESSION_MENU_MANAGE = Select session, -1 & Focus previous widget & Focus previous widget & Click button & Focus next widget & Focus next widget

Example 3: Enable "Detailed Options" in delete private data dialog

Under [Browser Tools Menu] section replace

Item, MI_IDM_CLEAR_PERSONAL_INFORMATION = Delete private data

Item, MI_IDM_CLEAR_PERSONAL_INFORMATION = Delete private data & Focus previous widget & Click button

The above can be also accomplished by modifying dialog.ini file.

Latest news page used to show your blog posts and photos in green color and others in blue color but this was removed in carambola release.

You can bring back colors by using user style sheet. Add the following code to user CSS file and reload news page to apply style sheet.

/* Subscriptions (Latest news) */
.newscontainer h2 { background:#2b7fb6; color:#fff; }
.newsowner h2 { background:#82a70b; }

News page before

News page after

Opera automatically highlights text when other people say your IRC username, to tell you to pay attention. But if you are away for a while you have to scroll up and check. You can use CSS to summarise how many times people have said your name so that you can quickly see if you missed something.

The following will display a counter at the top right corner of the chat window showing how many times people have said your username.

1. Copy C:\Program Files\Opera\styles\im.css in Windows or /usr/share/opera/styles/im.css in Linux to profile\styles directory. This is to avoid overwriting during update and to make backup easy.
2. Add the following CSS code to the bottom of copied file and save.

   .highlight {
       counter-increment: personals;
   }
   
   .highlight:after {
       position: fixed;
       top: 0px; right: 0px;
       content: "Your name has been mentioned "counter(personals)" times";
       border: 1px dotted #552;
       padding: 1px;
       background-color: #ffffe1;
       width: 25em;
   }

3. Specify path to IM Style File and save.
4. Restart Opera.

Opera IRC

[Using CSS to disable features of Opera IRC chat]

I have added an option to hide title bar in Opera Launcher as several users want it [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

To hide/unhide title bar, use Titlebar button^! or create new keyboard shortcut/mouse gesture in application section with the following action.

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

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