Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

The default keyboard shortcut to close active tab is Ctrl + W but single-key shortcut will be more convenient if you use numeric keypad. To enable single-key shortcuts, check Preferences Ctrl + F12 > Advanced > Shortcuts > Enable single-key shortcuts.

Single-key shortcuts, 1 & 2 are assigned to switch to previous tab & next tab respectively. Shortcut 0 is assigned to zoom in by 10% which is same as + and 3 is assigned to cycle through frames which is not much useful. Change shortcut 0 to close active tab & switch to previous tab and 3 to close active tab & switch to next tab as shown below.

Search keyboard setup for s, 0 and change action for 0 to the following.

Close page & Switch to previous page

Search keyboard setup for s, 3 and delete shortcut for 3. Create a new shortcut for 3 under application with the following action.

Close page & Switch to next page

If you want default behaviour of close tab, use the following instead of the above ones.

Close page, 1

Opera 11 reduces the size of pinned tab to the size of favicon. When you have multiple pinned tabs for the same site it is difficult to find a tab as all have same favicon.

Favicon size pinned tab

You can increase size of pinned tab by moving them to tab stack.

1. Open a blank tab.
2. Drag pinned tab over blank tab and release it to create a tab stack.
3. Opera will open link in new tab inside tab stack when Ctrl+F12 > Advanced > Tabs > Open new tab next to active enabled but rightmost tab will open link in new tab outside of tab stack. Move pinned tab to left or right of the blank tab depending upon the requirement.

Large size pinned tab

If you have more than one pinned tab then stack them together instead of stacking with a blank tab.

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.

1. Open toolbar configuration file in any text editor after closing Opera.
2. Add the following section to it and modify Maximum button width value.

   [Pagebar.style]
   Button style=3
   Large images=1
   Wrapping=0
   Maximum button width=100
   Grow to fit=0
   Mini buttons=0

3. Start Opera.

For Opera versions below 9

1. Extract skin.ini from zipped skin file and open it in any text editor
2. Add/modify the value of Pagebar max button width and Pagebar min button width under [Options] section.

   [Options]
   Pagebar max button width = 100
   Pagebar min button width = 50

3. Update skin.ini in zipped skin file and activate modified skin Tools > Appearance... > Skin.

Tab width = 50 px

Tab width = 100 px

Update: Sep 28, 2009

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

Gesture to close current tab & switch to next tab

Gesture to close current tab & switch to previous tab