Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

The height of toolbars in current default skin is large compared to previous default skin and it can be reduced to increase browsing space.

Create a backup of your current skin or the skin you want to change the height of toolbars.

1. Extract skin.ini from zipped skin file.
2. Reduce the values of Padding Top and Padding Bottom under the sections mentioned in the following table. You can also specify negative values.

   Toolbar	Section
   Menu bar	[Menu Button Skin]
   Main bar	[Mainbar Skin]
   Personal bar	[Personalbar Skin]
   Tab bar	[Pagebar Button Skin]
   Address bar	[Addressbar Skin]
   Navigation bar	[Navigationbar Skin]
   View bar	[Viewbar Skin]
   Status bar	[Statusbar Skin]

3. Update skin.ini in zipped skin file.
   You can't update an active skin.
4. Activate modified skin from Tools > Appearance... > Skin or using Skin button.

See Opera Skinning article to know more about basics of skinning Opera.

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.

Updates:
Jul 1, 2008
Mar 12, 2009

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

You can't move toolbars in Opera but you can change their contents.

Download tab bar below address bar.ini, place it inside profile\toolbar directory and activate it. Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Shortcuts > Toolbar setup > [Select] Opera Standard (Tab bar below address bar)

Default toolbar with tab bar above address bar

Toolbar with tab bar below address bar

Note: Start bar will hide tab bar when you open new tab

To DIY, see How to 'Move' Toolbars in Opera section in OperaWiki.