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How to Create "Go to Nickname" Button?
Hello,I'm a long-time Opera user (since the 1990s) and "evangelist".
I've just bought an Acer Iconia tablet with Windows 7 and am struggling mightily with Opera when I'm supposed to use it with my fingers only. The software keyboard rarely pops up where/when I need it, but I can perhaps learn to live with that.However, there is one functionality from the desktop Opera that I sorely need in this touch-driven Opera. I use the "Go to nickname" feature in desktop Opera all the time. I have remapped it to the F1 button as a keyboard shortcut. Of course, you have no F1 key on a tablet. So, I need a toolbar button Go to Nickname, so that I can input my nickname to go to a page.
I have spent lots of time searching for an answer on the Web, with no results. There seems to be no way to add a toolbar button like this. Even a menu item "Go to Nickname" to add to one of the menus would be a perfectly sufficient solution! But I seem unable to edit menus as well. (Copying the Standard Menu creates a copy of it, but double-clicking it fails to bring up the list of menus, unlike in the same situation for keyboard shortcuts.)
Thank you for any help with this.
Drag & drop Go to nickname button to any toolbar.
Thanks for the quick reply, Tamil. I downloaded and installed the button, but it doesn't work for me. Clicking the button produces no action; the Go to Page dialog window simply doesn't appear. When I attach the external keyboard to the tablet and press the F1 key, the Go to Page dialog window appears immediately.
Do you have any idea why the button doesn't work? (Not even when I press it with an external mouse.) Opera's default buttons next to it (Forward, Back and Reload) do work both when using the mouse or when pressing them with fingers. Here is a screenshot of my setup of Opera on the tablet (current 11.52 Opera version). As you can see, the button is "selected" after being touched, but even pressing it 10 times doesn't help:
Clicking the button produces no action; the Go to Page dialog window simply doesn't appear. When I attach the external keyboard to the tablet and press the F1 key, the Go to Page dialog window appears immediately. Do you have any idea why the button doesn't work? (Not even when I press it with an external mouse.) Opera's default buttons next to it (Forward, Back and Reload) do work both when using the mouse or when pressing them with fingers. Here is a screenshot of my setup of Opera on the tablet (current 11.52 Opera version). As you can see, the button is "selected" after being touched, but even pressing it 10 times doesn't help:
There is still no resolution to this issue.
Here is a workaround I found: pull up the software keyboard (which is a lot more difficult in Opera than in Firefox, Chrome or IE). The Windows 7 software keyboard includes the Function modification key, so you can (with a couple of taps) finally press F1 on the software keyboard, and then type in your usual bookmark nickname. It's a very round-about, long-winded way of doing things. It's too bad that although Opera is clearly the finest browser on a classic desktop computer or notebook, on a touch-based computer it's currently the least usable of all.
Here is a workaround I found: pull up the software keyboard (which is a lot more difficult in Opera than in Firefox, Chrome or IE). The Windows 7 software keyboard includes the Function modification key, so you can (with a couple of taps) finally press F1 on the software keyboard, and then type in your usual bookmark nickname. It's a very round-about, long-winded way of doing things. It's too bad that although Opera is clearly the finest browser on a classic desktop computer or notebook, on a touch-based computer it's currently the least usable of all.