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19. October 2009, 16:48:14

Posts: 3

Minimize to tray

Will be an excellent option, if opera browser could b minimized to icon tray. Better still, animate (Like Avast) when loading pages in minimized state.
Will love it :-)

19. October 2009, 17:56:57

victorxstc2

Posts: 411

+1

Some applications minimize to tray by default, WHEN the user wants to minimize the, but I want Opera to have a minimize button beside three other buttons (close, maximize, restore, minimize to tray)

like eMule

19. October 2009, 19:00:47

bleicher

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custom button or mousegesture?

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20. October 2009, 08:26:11

serious

Lab mouse and likes it!

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or clicking the tray-icon

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20. October 2009, 14:14:18

netwolf

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Originally posted by serious:

or clicking the tray-icon

For whatever reason, this doesn't work here on Windows (XP).

So in order to min. to tray, you have to right-click - go all the way up to 'Hide Opera' - left click.

Of course, one single left click on the tray icon to minimize would be much easier, more comfortable and also consistent with other apps.

Using Win 7 x64 and latest Opera snapshpot, lab build or final, whatever is newer...

20. October 2009, 15:57:18

Pesala

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One thing you might like to check out is how much memory Opera uses when minimised to the tray, then how much it uses when minimised. These are my current results, though YMMV:

Minimized to system tray (Hide Opera) = 124,276 Kbytes
Minimized to task bar = 6,920 Kbytes

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20. October 2009, 16:06:40

netwolf

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Well, you must not trust the values of task manager.

See http://shsc.info/WindowsMemoryManagement

So actually min. to tray doesn't _really_ free anything.

Using Win 7 x64 and latest Opera snapshpot, lab build or final, whatever is newer...

20. October 2009, 17:19:11

Pesala

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Originally posted by netwolf:

So actually min. to tray doesn't _really_ free anything.

Nobody said that it did. Minimize to taskbar does seem to do something.

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20. October 2009, 19:18:17

netwolf

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It doesn't matter where you min. it too, the amount of real mem used is always the same and doesn't decrease until you restart.

Use a good tool to measure mem usage like Process Explorer or similar and you'll see what I mean.

EDIT: this is going a bit off topic though...

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25. October 2009, 05:54:18

askh22

Posts: 13

well.. just map to ctrl+(something) for hide opera...

I am doing find with ctrl+ q for hidding opera, works in xp, vista and 7

30. October 2009, 04:12:58

marwerno

Posts: 183

It would be nice to also have an option to set to minimize to tray when clicking the close button. Normally you wouldn't want to do that, but with Opera Unite (Other people accessing my stuff) the Game changed altogether.
BTW: I changed back because Opera uses so much less resources then Firefox

2. November 2009, 10:11:55

AMMAR18

Posts: 1

i like that idea,i would love to see it in the next version of opera.

30. November 2009, 08:17:15

Vectronic

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Originally posted by Pesala:

One thing you might like to check out is how much memory Opera uses when minimised to the tray, then how much it uses when minimised.

Using "Hide" only hides the main window from being rendered, minimizing to the Systray calls the operating system GarbageCollection and Resource Disposal/Dumping stuff.

+1 Minimize and/or Close to Systray

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