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Reduce integration drag area in non-maximized Opera window

Sunday, March 7, 2010 11:56:45 AM

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Opera in non-maximized state will show 13 pixel interaction drag area above the tab bar and it can be changed as shown below.

  1. Change Chrome Integration Drag Area value to 1.
  2. Save.
  3. Maximize and restore down to see the change.

Opera Chrome Integration Drag Area Default
Chrome Integration Drag Area = 13 (Default)

Opera Chrome Integration Drag Area Modified
Chrome Integration Drag Area = 1

1 pixel above the tabs in maximized Opera window can be removed by changing Chrome Integration Drag Area Maximized value to 0.

See Useful opera:config (Opera Preferences Editor) entries for more opera:config tips.

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Comments

Adam Kaczmarekadamkpl Sunday, March 7, 2010 12:16:40 PM

Awesome! GJ!

TabTabmartel Sunday, March 7, 2010 1:26:07 PM

up

banana banana banana

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:16:21 PM

up

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:29:51 PM

yes

Angelikiellinidata Sunday, March 7, 2010 3:32:21 PM

up banana heart

Abhinavdecodedthought Sunday, March 7, 2010 3:32:52 PM

up
great job once again smile

d4rkn1ght Sunday, March 7, 2010 7:06:25 PM

cool

Andrew NguyenSouthernCross Sunday, March 7, 2010 7:29:52 PM

o I've always wanted this! Thanks monkey. smile

dirkthetomster Monday, March 8, 2010 7:02:19 AM

up

ouzowtfouzoWTF Monday, March 8, 2010 1:48:56 PM

Excellent!! http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Applause.gif -

Cutting Spoonhellspork Tuesday, March 9, 2010 7:19:51 PM

That's a neat trick to make the thickness of the bar consistent. GREAT!

Jorge Eduardoedocastillo Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:21:26 AM

oh! Thanks!

Georgedrstej Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:40:49 PM

up

Agentjp Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:15:19 PM

Great!

RedElfRevElf Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:26:46 PM

How about removing 1 pixel above the "Close" button in maximized Opera window?

Tamil Monday, March 15, 2010 12:27:37 AM

I have to check it.

BS-Harou Monday, March 15, 2010 1:19:24 PM

Another useful trick is edit skin.ini and change "Margin Top" in "[Pagebar Button Skin]" to 0 .. thanks to this, it's possible to move cursor completely to top of the screen and still select tabs or switch tabs.

Alexodius PrimeAleksOD Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:11:52 PM

I dunno, I kind of need those pixels to move unmaximized window around, don't you?

Fhury Friday, March 19, 2010 12:52:00 PM

Cool!!! Put the trashcan in the navigation bar and it looks best smile
Almost forgot banana

walterbugscout Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7:59:44 AM

pirate

chadsort Saturday, May 8, 2010 1:38:41 PM

Chrome Integration Drag Area Maximized is no longer working in the latest Opera 10.54 build with speed-dial changes. Any way to make it work?

Tamil Saturday, May 8, 2010 2:21:46 PM

Works in Opera 10.54

Unregistered user Saturday, May 29, 2010 5:42:33 PM

OperaUser77 writes: I like the new Opera interface with no menu bar. But I miss the function which allowed to create a new Opera window by dragging a tab at the upper side of the screen. Is there a trick in Opera 10.5x to replicate this useful function?

Tamil Sunday, May 30, 2010 1:00:40 AM

Nope.

C.K.W.Icedrake Sunday, July 4, 2010 2:27:02 PM

Nice, this works great in Opera 10.60 as well.

Andrew NguyenSouthernCross Friday, August 27, 2010 9:45:42 PM

This doesn't seem to work in the latest snapshot. sad

EDIT: Nevermind. p

Tamil Friday, August 27, 2010 9:52:19 PM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Boo.gif -

Xeophyte Sunday, January 2, 2011 4:14:46 PM

Does anyone know how to modify ANY skin in Opera (except the native one) to have 1 pixel above close button in upper-right corner of the maximized Opera window? This is very frustrating to aim close button every time when I want to close window.

RedElfRevElf Sunday, January 2, 2011 5:10:51 PM

Xeophyte
If u find The Answer, tell me plz!

I already try "42" - don't work:(

Nandita Adelia Putrinandits Monday, January 31, 2011 11:58:34 PM

ok. I'll trying...

Unregistered user Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:43:52 PM

5354 writes: Seems like this is broken for Opera 11.50

cremoso Tuesday, June 28, 2011 4:38:59 PM

Thank you up

Tamil Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:39:39 AM

Seems like this is broken for Opera 11.50

Nope.

eil stridereil Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:54:17 AM

don't know about latest versions but this tweak seems not to work in 11.01 - there is still a pixel, which prevents interactions with tabs sad

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