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Thursday, 27. October 2005, 08:01:26

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Tools → Transfers → View → Show in background when starting download

Show transfers in background when starting download in Opera

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Anonymous 15. January 2006, 11:26

mir writes:

thanks for pointing this out. it was damn annoying switching back from the Transfer window at each download

lalalax3 22. May 2006, 01:17

thx thx thx

KLU 31. May 2006, 23:17

I wish I'd found this out earlier. Actually I wish this was the default setting.

gorthaur 21. June 2006, 10:38

^^me too, definitely.

TFP 21. June 2006, 17:28

Thanks a lot for the tip, the transfer window was extremly annyoing.

bokey 19. October 2006, 19:37

Ain't search great?Thanks for helping the original poster out and by extension the rest of us(who missed something so obvious)

Anonymous 6. December 2006, 02:44

Jezebeau writes:

Thank you! That annoyance just about drove me back to firefox.

Nikio 13. January 2007, 12:22

Thanks... it's an useful tip!

guggikofod 6. February 2007, 15:44

thanks for this tip!! I've ctrl+w'ed the transfer panel about 200 times today, finally I thought of disabling it, but then couldn't figure out how.

Anonymous 12. February 2007, 10:26

bmwop writes:

thx!!! This was very pesky, but it's okay now. I use Opera for many years. And i search this function many times. And it was before my eyes and i didn't see.
Thanks again!

synux 13. February 2007, 19:02

Thanks!

snapfoo 20. February 2007, 04:41

Why didn't I think of this? =P

Thanks.

Anonymous 4. March 2007, 01:29

Stephen writes:

Should definitely be the default behaviour or be more obvious (eg. set from | also.

I had to Google for the answer for this one as it was really anoying me - Lots of others too based on the similar queries (with few answers) that I came across.

Cheers,
Stephen

Anonymous 6. May 2007, 18:11

Anonymous writes:

this should really be the default setting

Tamil 21. May 2007, 12:03

this should really be the default setting

:yes:

Wiccan 7. July 2007, 22:48

OMG, it tookme forever to find this setting. I had done it before but forgot the location and went to the logical places, imho... Please, think about moving or adding the location for setting this option. Somewhere is "Preferences" would seem logical.

Thank you!

Anonymous 17. July 2007, 04:04

Cristian Remy writes:

WOW! Really thanks is very frustrating... switching tabs...

Anonymous 18. August 2007, 06:10

Ria writes:

Hi there!

I tried to click the resume button for all my transfers but the status under "progress" changes from stopped to error. How do I fix this problem?

Tamil 18. August 2007, 10:38

Originally posted by Ria:

I tried to click the resume button for all my transfers but the status under "progress" changes from stopped to error. How do I fix this problem?

Try restart transfer.

Anonymous 23. August 2007, 04:02

Jan Rune writes:

Thanks, that was a really annoying feature :]!!

Anonymous 5. December 2007, 16:23

Anonymous writes:

Thanks..
Really Useful..

Absoultely How Do You Do This..
Click + Shift to Open in Background.. Opera New Links..
Have Tried Most of the things given here..
Only Getting Shift + Enter to Work..
How do You Interchange Ctrl + Shift to Just Shift +

Anonymous 27. January 2008, 15:39

Thanks a lot writes:

This transfers thing was the main reason I was always switching back to firefox after few minutes with opera. It's also annoying that this option is not visible in main settings.

This should be default setting for this browser.

Anonymous 5. February 2008, 16:27

Anonymous writes:

thank you so much. ive been looking for how to do this. very simple!

darkrabbit 27. March 2008, 05:36

This should be the default setting
+1

selmak 12. April 2008, 13:44

i almost formated my linux and installed windoze because of this little anoying thing (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Tamil 12. April 2008, 16:09

Originally posted by selma:

i almost formated my linux and installed windoze because of this little anoying thing

:faint:

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