16 Tips and Tricks for Opera Newbies!

16 Tips and Tricks for Opera Newbies!

Hey everyone,

thought I'd share a useful article for those that are new to opera.
Opera’s Secrets Unlocked: 16 Tips and Tricks

check it out and post here if there are anything you guys would add / think they missed!

More like 16 tips and tricks for advanced users. Most of the focus seems to be on Unite and Widgets, which not many use. All worth reviewing, but not what those new to Opera would need to know at first. Mostly, they ask about customizing the interface, managing tabs, windows, and sessions, managing bookmarks, or using the mail client.

Interesting... they show you a couple features, all but two of which are found under the first 3 icons of the status bar (Fraud Protection which I think is enabled by default, and Search Engines being the others)... then trail off into a bunch of mostly useless widgets... the 17th page screwed up, and the 18th page didn't show at all... awesome.

I see what <i>could</i> be referred to as Tips... but I don't see any tricks.

Things they could have mentioned:
● Modifying the interface (Toolbars, buttons, skins, keystrokes, etc)
● Content Blocker
● M2, Notes, Web Panels...etc
● Sessions
● Integrated BitTorrent
● A couple other things I forget at the moment...

They could have mentioned things, that would be considered "tricks", that newbies might want to know:
● Modifying the Speed Dial to have more than 5x5, etc.
● opera:config
● Visual Tabs... no really, some people would never find that.
● Dragging links and tabs, to the interface (Personal bar, as well as other places)
● Some of the less common/not obvious keystrokes and mouse things
- Shift+Click
- Right-Click + Mouse Wheel
- Middle Mouse Click
● The various things that can be done with:
- Bookmark Manager
- The Windows Panel
● ...etc, etc, etc...