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Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:48:53 PM
Opera, Keyboard Shortcut
Can't remember Opera keyboard shortcuts? Opera mnemonic keyboard shortcuts to the rescue!
Advantages of mnemonic keyboard shortcuts
- Easy to remember.
- No need to press keys simultaneously.
The default keyboard shortcut to hide Opera into the system tray is Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H. You can change keyboard shortcut to the following code and then type hide to hide Opera.
h,i,d,e
Examples:
| Description |
Input context and shortcut |
Action |
| Fit to width |
f,w |
Enable mediumscreen mode | Disable mediumscreen mode |
| Preferences editor |
c,o,n,f,i,g |
New page & Go to page, "opera:config" |
| My Opera |
m,o |
New page & Go to page, "http://my.opera.com/" |
| Hide Opera |
h,i,d,e |
Hide opera |
| Address bar |
a,b |
Set alignment, "Document toolbar", 6 | Set alignment, "Document toolbar", 0 |
| Read feeds |
r,s,s |
Read mail, "rss" |
| Calculator |
c,a,l,c |
Execute program, "calc.exe" |
If you use single-key shortcuts, then mnemonic keyboard shortcut should not start with the number and following letters.
a d e h i q s v w x z
[Mnemonic Shortcuts]
Thursday, December 1, 2011 12:26:24 PM
Opera, Info, Block, Script
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You can't block certain elements using Opera built-in content blocker user interface. For example, the social networking buttons in Opera extensions page cannot be blocked by the usual way but can be blocked manually using info panel as shown below.
Social networking buttons
- Click + button in panel selector and enable info panel.
- Open info panel and scroll down to scripts/inline frames.
- Find the URL (probably off-site) of the script/inline frame, copy and add it to the content blocker manually .
- Reload the page and check whether content is blocked.
Info panel
By examining info panel, you can create filters to block Twitter, VKontakte, Google+ and Facebook social networking buttons.
*platform.twitter.com/*/tweet_button*
*vkontakte.ru/*/share.js*
*plusone.google.com/*fastbutton*
*apis.google.com/*/plusone.js
*plus.google.com/*plusone*
*.facebook.com/plugins/*
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 2:04:57 AM
Paste and Go, Opera, Preferences Editor, Middle Click
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You can open URL in clipboard with single click instead of right clicking in the address field and then clicking 'Paste and Go' or using keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + Shift + V.
Enable PageBar Open URL On MiddleClick and you can open URL in clipboard in new tab with mouse middle click between new tab button and trash can button on the tab bar.
Mouse middle click between new tab button and trash can button to open URL in clipboard
See Useful opera:config (Opera Preferences Editor) entries for more opera:config tips.
Friday, October 28, 2011 12:27:52 PM
Calculator, Search Engine, Opera, Search
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Many of us use Google for calculations instead of operating system's built-in calculator. You can perform calculations with JavaScript in the address bar.
Create a new search engine () with the following code as the address.
javascript:%s
JavaScript calculator search engine
For example, to calculate (100-32)*5/9, type the following in the address field and press enter to get the answer.
c (100-32)*5/9
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Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:43:47 AM
CSS, *.css, User Style Sheets, Hide
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User style sheet can be used to modify the look of a website. Even if you don't know anything about CSS you can find code to hide anything using Opera Dragonfly 
as shown below.
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Right click on the item you want to hide and select 'Inspect Element' from the context menu. Opera Dragonfly will open and highlight the element with blue color depending on where you clicked.
Ad is highlighted but the text 'Ad' is not highlighted
- Click one by one (in this example li.tas, ol, div#tads.c, ...) from bottom right side until everything you want to hide is highlighted.
Both Ad and text 'Ad' are highlighted
- Select and copy code from bottom and add the following at the end.
{display:none !important;}The final code looks like the following. div#tads.c {display:none !important;}
- Save the CSS code to a file with css extension.
- Close Opera Dragonfly.
- Reload page to apply the style sheet.
Friday, August 5, 2011 10:15:54 AM
Delete, Bookmarks, Search Engines, Typed History
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Currently there is no option to delete data from Opera Link quickly but you can delete by the following method.
- Create a backup of the following files. Click link to see file path.
- Enable Opera Link and enable the items you want to delete from Opera Link.
- The following will delete local data and synchronization will delete data from Opera Link.
- Open manage bookmarks Ctrl + Shift + B, delete all bookmarks and then empty trash.
- Open notes, delete all notes and then empty trash.
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Ctrl + T > Delete all Speed Dials
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Alt + P > Advanced > Content > Blocked Content... > Delete all blocked sites
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F8 > ↓ > Delete all typed addresses
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Alt + P > Search > Delete all search engines
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Alt + P > Forms > Password Manager...> Delete all passwords
- Go to Opera Link and make sure bookmarks, notes and Speed Dials are empty.
- Disable Opera Link.
- Close Opera.
- Restore files from backup.
Friday, July 1, 2011 11:58:20 AM
Keyboard Shortcut, Opera:Config, Opera, Preferences Editor
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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.
Address field without dropdown button
Address field with dropdown button
See Useful opera:config (Opera Preferences Editor) entries for more opera:config tips.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 2:57:20 PM
Opera, Keyboard Shortcut, Tab, Opera FAQ
Opera has the following keyboard shortcuts to switch between tabs but there is no direct keyboard shortcut to go to a specific tab.
| Action |
Keyboard Shortcut |
| Cycle to next tab |
Ctrl + Tab |
| Cycle to previous tab |
Ctrl + Shift + Tab |
| Switch to next tab |
Ctrl + Shift + F6 or 2 !
|
| Switch to previous tab |
Ctrl + F6 or 1 !
|
! Work only if you enable
If you use menu bar, enable
Otherwise create a new keyboard shortcut in application section with w alt as input context and shortcut and the following as action.
Show popup menu, "Internal Window List"
Now you can use keyboard shortcuts,
Alt + W + 1,
Alt + W + 2, ...,
Alt + W + 9 and
Alt + W + 0 to go to first tab, second tab, ..., ninth tab and tenth tab respectively.
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