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Thursday, 16. March 2006, 11:42:20

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My wishes

  1. Show RSS icon in top right corner of the page when address bar is disabled

  2. Option to specify search.ini location in opera6.ini

  3. Update frequency column for RSS feeds manage window

  4. "Use same proxy server for all protocals" option as in IE

  5. Option to delete search histories in delete private data window

  6. Option for referrer logging to the site itself


My Opera Community Wish-list


I support these wishes

  1. Relative paths in configs

  2. Proxy switching

  3. Have proxy not count as a "server" in connections setting

  4. When saving web page seperate content files to subdirectory

  5. Make only text larger

  6. Open About Opera information in new tab or new window

  7. Download dialog: Recently used folders

  8. Show boomark description in tooltip

  9. View selected source

  10. Save searches with 'g' in History

  11. Password stored date

  12. Duplicate eraser for the bookmarks

  13. Undo Close Window (extending undo close tab) and session management in windows panel

  14. Close All Right Tabs & Close All Left Tabs

  15. Page Tab Width: Make User Accessible & Defined

  16. Bookmark flexibility

  17. Save HTML with Images - Default Option

  18. Save individual windows as sessions

  19. Update Dialog Too Scarce

  20. Sub-Folders in Newsfeeds

  21. Better search engines management

  22. Regular Expressions in content blocking

  23. Custom "Find" highlight colour (color) (9.10.8643)

  24. Delete private data

  25. Delete private data on exit

  26. Help->"What happened?" - a list to explain recent (unexpected) UI events

  27. Show upload as well as download

  28. Sorting Links by 'File-Type' in Panel

  29. Inline Spellchecking-Firefox 2 style (10.00.1139)

  30. Block Offsite content

  31. Trails for mouse gestures

  32. Add "Fit to width" to "Site preferences"

  33. Full Update Manager for Opera

  34. Warning on closing multiple tabs

  35. Tab width in options rather than skin

  36. Inline find - number of results displayed

  37. Lock Tab and URL

  38. Change Speed Dial Page Titles

  39. Middle-click on tab behaviour

  40. Speed dial page should have right-click menu

  41. Add tab to saved sessions

  42. Manually Update ALL RSS Feeds

  43. Opera link: 'Don't synchronize' option for particular bookmarks/folders

  44. Hiding system tray icon

  45. Schedule setting for Opera synchronizations

Updates:
2006: Dec 22(31&32)
2007: Jan 02(33&34), 08(35), 25(36&37), Apr 11(38), 16(39&40), Jun 7(41&42)
2008: Jul 01(43&44), Dec 11(45)

நல்வரவு! (Welcome!)Updated posts

Comments

Anonymous 31. January 2007, 14:36

viky writes:

You can change the logo of opera into more attractive and opera to support all pages

Anonymous 22. May 2007, 12:45

Arise writes:

Drag & Drop images from browser to other applications.
Useful for saving images to a folder by drag & drop.
Useful for sending friends on yahoo messenger images.

Anonymous 5. December 2007, 14:09

Anonymous writes:

Just q quick wish here : folder management for newsfeeds

freerider 16. December 2007, 12:45

better working with gmail and google documents. Kestrel doesnt support editing spreadsheets whch iss very disappointing for me

Anonymous 24. February 2008, 08:54

Anonymous writes:

i've posted some wishes at the opera newsserver (news://news.opera.com/opera.wishlist), but i think somewhere where posts can be redirected|organized by an admin|mod would be better. i've noticed that both op and mozilla wish groups will contain threads where original poster just didn't know their wish already had a solution (admittedly sometimes the existing solution is weak, and therefore the topic semi-qualifies as a "wish")

Anonymous 5. June 2008, 19:43

Fisshy writes:

I was wondering... is there any way to disable this dialog box when I click on a feed:

"Would you like to subscribe to (name of website)?

The feed will be added to the Feeds menu and automatically checked for updates."

I want to be able to load a feed without automatically subscribing to it.

I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me if there was a way to disable the alert. If not, I'd really like to put this on the wishlist.

Thanks! :coffee:

Tamil 6. June 2008, 03:38

Nope.

Mickeyjoe_irl 16. June 2008, 10:03

Just upgraded to 9.5 Which I like for the most part. Even getting used to the new skin.

However, the one thing I really miss is some sort of progress indicator for receiving / sending mail. I'm on a slow connection and if an email has any sort of attachment I'm left guessing as to how long it will take to download.

9.2x was bad enough, at least I could go into Tools > Mail and Chat Accounts and see the progress there, but 9.5 has removed that now.

If I could get this one little thing then Opera would be perfect.

theShuggie 19. June 2008, 17:24

I have organised my Opera with additional buttons and additions to the right click menu which allows me to do daily business entirely in Opera.
(The only browser that can be customised to allow this!)
One gripe - I would like to be able to highlight a note and print it!

eagle4eyes 25. June 2008, 05:11

I wish I could upload my photo from my phone like I can for my photo album. I use the opera mini 4.!

bpm 1. July 2008, 05:49

Good wishes mostly. #8, though, was granted years ago: bookmark descriptions do show up in tooltips.

eagle4eyes 1. July 2008, 09:46

Thank you for the tip. I am still learning how to find my way around Opera. I`m like a kid on a treasure hunt! silly me.

Schalandra 11. August 2008, 14:26

I'd like to see, that the configuration of my sidebar webpages (view > small screen) gets saved. I use several pages in my sidebar (dictionaries, SID search, key generators, ...) that I prefer to use in small screen mode, but every time I restart Opera they're back in normal mode. :eek:

Anonymous 27. August 2008, 15:03

Kazan writes:

It would be nice to have some additional options for auto dropdown.

9.5 now includes your bookmarks when you search direct from the address bar, and I cannot find anyway to turn this off.

This means that any private bookmarks can embarrasingly appear during innocent searches. Not much fun with your boss, or a client looking over your shoulder.

Tamil 27. August 2008, 15:05

I cannot find anyway to turn this off.

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/opera-faq#87

Anonymous 27. August 2008, 15:50

Kazan writes:

Ah yes, but that turns the whole address bar autocompletion off. I simply want to prevent the autodropdown from scanning my bookmarks and including them in search results.

bpm 28. August 2008, 18:26

A sensible and common wish, Kazan, but not granted - best you can do is maintain a private bookmarks file (fortunately swapping files is easy). See here for more.

Anonymous 3. September 2008, 17:49

Anonymous writes:

Folders for RSS Feeds.

Anonymous 5. September 2008, 15:00

Anonymous writes:

I wish option for removing of the title bar (Google Chrome comes with it).
Thanks to your blog I know how to show/hide the main menu, but the title bar...

Operetta 7. September 2008, 22:15

Tamil, how do you feel about my wish to have centralized panning (scrolling), which was abandoned in 9.5, added as an additional option?

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/2536390?startidx=150#comment5991367

Tamil 8. September 2008, 03:58

I use it rarely but existing feature should not be removed.

harish.l 6. November 2008, 10:18

Folders for RSS Feeds.

+1

totalimpact 3. January 2009, 18:04

I think it would be nice to show hovered links in the address bar instead of in the status bar at the bottom - then I would have no need to show the status bar - i use a small screen laptop. -i know theres tool tips, but they take a second to display.

Schalandra 15. January 2009, 00:06

ICC color management for Opera10? That would be a real killer feature for any photographer. :up:

Firefox3 already supports it and I think it would be nice to add this option in opera:config. :smile:

Anonymous 21. February 2009, 09:44

Anonymous writes:

Opera was one of the first multi tab browsers.

Why don't you add a button for "stop all tabs from loading" by default in opera?

even older custom buttons don't work in nee versions ..... !!!!!!

leocub 16. March 2009, 08:23

+ A faster dragonfly more firebug-ish:wizard: .
+ Add-ons support.

Issaland 1. April 2009, 12:43

- support for WOT (Web Of Trust)
- build-in protection against: clickjacking, XSS attacks and also ClearClick protection (like in Firefox's add-on NoScript)
- easy and simple way to block unwanted scripts
- spell checking for multiple languages
- possibility to have choice to open bookmark from Bookmarks menu in Tab or New Window

Chas4 26. April 2009, 04:30

Domain highlighting in Opera (can be toggled on and off)

Schalandra 18. May 2009, 19:21

CAcert support...

lince 7. June 2009, 08:34

Remove #40. :wink:

fahdbaig 16. June 2009, 23:58

Maybe another good feature would be to adjust the current RSS reader. Right now when you subscribe to a feed and select a particular entry to read, the reading pan shows an extract line and link to the actual article!

This approach is pretty cumbersome, if the reader pane just opens the link and shows the article there and then (like with Thunderbird for instance) it will be mega convenient...

ggurov 3. July 2009, 11:34

I wish a shortcut for the new thumbnails in tabs in Opera 10. Just like F4 for the hotlist window.

Doliprane 5. July 2009, 12:29

These are the wishes I support which are also good:

http://my.opera.com/Doliprane/blog/2009/06/28/my-opera-wish-list-2

I_ArtMan 15. August 2009, 04:48

it may not matter to anyone but me. but i like the green watches meaning comments on my posts and pics. then the blue was my other watches i follow. now they are all the same.

no big deal.

Serpher 3. September 2009, 19:14

You would be able to add that kind of option on right click on tab - "Reload all tabs" ?

Tamil 3. September 2009, 22:34

If you don't know how to edit menu setup see this and add the following under [Pagebar Item Popup Menu]and [Pagebar Inactive Item Popup Menu] sections. 
Item, Reload All Tabs = Reload all pages

Anonymous 6. September 2009, 07:22

firefox writes:

FIREFOX IS SLOW, BUT I WISH OPERA HAD THESE FIREFOX FEATURES:

ad hacker
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11493

betterprivacy
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623

bugmenot
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349

cookiesafe
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2497

customizegoogle
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743

targeted advertising cookie opt-out
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11073

ghostery
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609

refcontrol
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953

noscript
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

smoothwheel
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/357

user agent switcher
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Anonymous 10. September 2009, 18:54

Night wish writes:

check for update - opera button and download progressbar in statusbar istead of new tab

sry for my bad english ;)

DanielHendrycks 1. October 2009, 02:29

Why not "ability to delete previously typed addresses from the address bar"? (Not an actual question, just in case you missed that request and if you want to add it to your list.)

Anonymous 8. October 2009, 17:18

Anonymous writes:

When I chat via IRC and I have a registered username, whenever I join NickServ will send me something like "type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY password"

It would be nice if Opera could automatically add /msg NickServ IDENTIFY *a-space-here* to the writing box so that I could just type the password without having to copy/paste the above text

Anonymous 10. October 2009, 19:19

Anonymous writes:

"Delete cache for this page only" button in Opera... This is handy when you are a web designer and change the pics on the page frequently (its even worse when I load external pics in flash and the cached ones appear)

Anonymous 18. October 2009, 15:17

Anonymous writes:

Stop linking bad URLs to "opera:illegal-url-4" and similar... I want to be able to see that URL without having to go through the Source Code...

Anonymous 29. October 2009, 07:49

popol writes:

i wish opera support socks proxy
i wish i can import notes like import bookmarks

Coded4 18. November 2009, 06:52

Tamil i will like my use that of your page background,so how can you give me those background andhow to use it.

Tamil 18. November 2009, 07:35

Check my CSS page.

mvk6 27. November 2009, 11:51

I wish opera had full support for NTLM!!

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