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Opera's opera: or about: pages

Monday, 1. December 2008, 12:29:42

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Opera has some special pages that show various information. The following is the list of the opera: pages available in Opera browser.

Entry Description
opera:about Displays version information, browser identification and paths.
opera:blank Displays blank page.
opera:cache Displays cache content. See Advanced search, thumbnails & sorting in opera:cache.
opera:config Displays preferences editor page allowing access to many configuration options not available through preferences window. See Useful opera:config (Opera Preferences Editor) entries.
opera:debug For remote debugging. See Remote debugging with Opera Dragonfly.
opera:drives* Displays local drives in your system.
  • Browse local drives to view images, html files, text files, etc.
  • Browse to an image directory (or drag & drop an image directory from file manager to Opera) and use mouse gestures, flip forward & flip back to navigate between next & previous images.
opera:help Displays Opera help page.
opera:history Displays browser history page.
opera:historysearch Displays history search page.
opera:plugins Displays list of installed plug-ins.

* = Available only in Windows

Opera will list all except opera:blank, opera:debug, opera:drives & opera:help when you type opera: in address field.

Opera's opera: or about: pages
opera: pages

You can also use about: instead of opera:

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Play with Opera language file

Sunday, 26. August 2007, 18:02:49

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You can modify strings in language file to your need.

Create a copy of language file, english.lng in Opera installation directory and rename it to english-modified.lng. Then Tools → Preferences... → General → Language → Details... → Use Interface language → Choose... → [SELECT] english-modified.lng

  1. Modify string -2061349988 to impress your friends with custom message in Opera startup dialog. 
    -2061349988="Welcome to Opera"
    to 
    -2061349988="Welcome back, Tamil!"

    Opera Startup Dialog
    Opera startup dialog

  2. Most of us don't use some of the labels. You can modify and use them. 
    1827310912="Call back"
1665342300="Meeting"
    to 
    1827310912="Work"
1665342300="Friends"

    Opera labels
    Opera labels

  3. Modify string -1713924769 to have advanced search, thumbnails & sorting in opera:cache. See Thumbnails in opera cache post.

    Advanced search, thumbnails & sorting in opera:cache
    Advanced search, thumbnails & sorting in opera:cache

  4. Modify string -1303632626 to show plugin versions in opera:plugins. See Descriptions in opera:plugins and more post.

    Descriptions in opera:plugins
    Descriptions in opera:plugins

Note: You have to update english-modified.lng file when there is an major update to Opera. See Update Opera custom keyboard setup/menu setup/mouse setup/language/dialog files using WinMerge.

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