Opera FAQ's, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

Delete private data dialog tweaks will

1. Remove Detailed Options button.
2. Add buttons for all items except Clear all e-mail account passwords & Clear all Wand passwords (to prevent accidental deletion) and you can quickly delete a single item without clearing previously selections. Buttons with * will reset your previous selection(s).
3. Add two buttons for Clear history of visited pages, one to Clear history of visited links and another to Clear history of typed-in addresses.

Opera delete private data dialog after tweak

Download (file contains all dialog tweaks) or create a text file dialog-modified.ini with following content, enter path to Dialog Configuration file, save and restart Opera.

Opera Preferences version 2.0
; Dialog specification file for Opera 7.0
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding

[Clear Private Data Dialog]
Title = DI_CLEAR_ALL_PRIVATE_DATA
Group, 0, , 0, 0, 0, 0, Size
;Group, 0, , 0, 0, 430, 90, Size Right
MultilineEdit, D_CLEAR_PRIVATE_DATA_WARNING, Description_label, 0, 0, 430, 60, Size right
;Expand, D_DELETE_PRIVATE_DATA_DETAILS, Details_expand, 0, 65, 300, 23, Size right, End = Switch groups, "Advanced_group"
;Group, 0, Advanced_group , 20, 90, 410, 300, Size right
Group, 0, , 0, 60, 410, 300, Size right
Checkbox, DI_IDM_CLEAR_NPCOOKIES, Delete_temporary_cookies, 0, 0, 250, 23, Size right
Button, * Delete Temporary Cookies,, 230, 0, 180, 23, Move right = Set Preference, "Clear Private Data Dialog|CheckFlags=4" & Delete private data & Click default button & Close page, 1 & Delay, 10 & Close page, 1
Checkbox, DI_IDM_CLEAR_ALLCOOKIES, Delete_all_cookies, 0, 30, 250, 23, Size right
Button, Manage Cookies,, 230, 30, 87, 23, Move right = Manage cookies
Button, * Delete Cookies,, 320, 30, 88, 23, Move right = Set Preference, "Clear Private Data Dialog|CheckFlags=1" & Delete private data & Click default button & Close page, 1 & Delay, 10 & Close page, 1
Checkbox, DI_IDM_CLEAR_PASSDOCS, Delete_passworddocs_and_data, 0, 60, 250, 23, Size right
Button, * Delete Password Protected Pages,, 230, 60, 180, 23, Move right = Set Preference, "Clear Private Data Dialog|CheckFlags=2" & Delete private data & Click default button & Close page, 1 & Delay, 10 & Close page, 1
Checkbox, DI_IDM_CLEAR_CACHE, Clear_cache, 0, 90, 250, 23, Size right
Button, Delete Cache, Empty_cache_now_button, 230, 90, 180, 23, Move right = Clear disk cache & Delay, 10 & Close page, 1
Checkbox, DI_IDM_CLEAR_GLOBHIS, Clear_visited_pages, 0, 120, 250, 23, Size right
Button, Clear Visited,, 230, 120, 87, 23, Move right = Clear visited history & Delay, 10 & Close page, 1
Button, Clear Typed-in,, 320, 120, 88, 23, Move right = Clear typed in history & Delay, 10 & Close page, 1
Checkbox, DI_IDM_CLEAR_DOWNHIS, Clear_transferred_files_history, 0, 150, 250, 23, Size right
Button, Clear All Finished Transfers,, 230, 150, 180, 23, Move right = Manage, "transfers" & Remove all finished transfers & Close page, 1
Checkbox, D_CLEAR_PRIVATE_DATA_CLEAR_BOOKM_VISITEDTIME, Clear_bookmark_visited_time, 0, 180, 250, 23, Size right
Button, * Clear Bookmark Visited Time,, 230, 180, 180, 23, Move right = Set Preference, "Clear Private Data Dialog|CheckFlags=1024" & Delete private data & Click default button & Close page, 1 & Delay, 10 & Close page, 1
Checkbox, DI_IDM_CLEAR_MAILPASS, Clear_email_account_passwords, 0, 210, 250, 23, Size right
Checkbox, DI_IDM_CLEAR_WANDPASS, Clear_wand_passwords, 0, 240, 250, 23, Size right
Button, D_CLEAR_PRIVATE_DATA_MANAGE_WAND_PW,, 230, 240, 180, 23, Move right = Manage wand
Checkbox, D_CLEAR_PRIVATE_DATA_CLOSE_ALL, Close_all_windows, 0, 270, 250, 23, Size right
Button, Close All Tabs,, 230, 270, 180, 23, Move right, End = Close all

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?

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.

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.

Update: Jul 1, 2008