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Hey Opera Dev Team,

I want to set a default zoom size on Opera to 130%, but Opera allows only 120% or 150%. Please help me!!!

SiD

Originally posted by sidrolf:

I want to set a default zoom size on Opera to 130%, but Opera allows only 120% or 150%.

opera:config#UserPrefs|Scale

Set to 130 and click to Save button.

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My question: When will be 11 pre-alpha? I know, it's not public, but days, weeks? Next week?

Originally posted by sidrolf:

I want to set a default zoom size on Opera to 130%, but Opera allows only 120% or 150%. Please help me!!!

You can also zoom in/out using +/- which will step by 10%. * will bring it back to 100%

I wonder when the works will allow us to capture the tab key. unapproved our system "ERP" for the opera because I can not capture the TAB key. sorry for english, I'm from Brazil.

Originally posted by NoTiLeW:

I wonder when the works will allow us to capture the tab key

If you call event.preventDefault() in the tab key's keypress event, it should work fine to capture it.

(In most other browsers you can call preventDefault() in the keydown event, we intend to fix Opera so that this will work too, but for now you need to listen to keypress in Opera. If you make sure the script handles both keydown and keypress it should be future-compatible even when we fix the bug and switch to letting you prevent keydown.)

hi! on opera 11, when i go to grooveshark.com text is kinda weird, alson in gmail... i understand that its alpha, but just in case (same thing is with 10.63), and in youtube it doesen't react on mouse over the video, you gotta click on volume icon and then boost it. and for extensions, will you make something like video download helper (like in firefox)? thanx

Originally posted by ante123:

will you make something like video download helper (like in firefox)? thanx

already a extension for opera: http://goo.gl/SiC5

Originally posted by ante123:

hi! on opera 11, when i go to grooveshark.com text is kinda weird, also in gmail... i understand that its alpha, but just in case (same thing is with 10.63), and in youtube it doesn't react on mouse over the video, you gotta click on volume icon and then boost it.

cant confirm your problems for gmail , grooveshark, and youtube all our working with my opera 11 alpha installation, Windows 7 64-bit. do you have a transparent skin installed? Cause there are still problems with transparency in opera and the displaying of text and videos(which may look messy)


Also please put your OS when posting (Optional for whether its 32 or 64-bit)

How to bookmark page in one click in opera? I want to skip window were i must press OK to confirm.

Originally posted by mp3lopov:

How to bookmark page in one click in opera? I want to skip window were i must press OK to confirm.

Sorry, closest thing now is CTRL+D>Enter.

Originally posted by mp3lopov:

How to bookmark page in one click in opera? I want to skip window were i must press OK to confirm.

Bookmark Use a custom button. Drag the link to a toolbar to create the button. Bookmark the link to save the button for future reuse.

Hi, everyone! I just installed Opera a couple of days ago and was wondering how to stop it from scrolling all the way down to the bottom of a page. I have Windows 7 and whenever I try to edit a large document in google docs, I have to scroll a lot to get to a specific part. So as I'm scrolling, Opera seems to take over and keeps scrolling down to the end of the document, which is not the place I want to edit. I've noticed it only happens with Google docs. Any help you can give would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Greetings all!

In Opera 10 I was viewing the source code for a web page and searching for a particular string. The string it finds is highlighted in a gray color I find hard to see on the page.

I looked for an option to change the color but I didn't see one. Is there such an option?

Thanks!

Originally posted by proXon:

Hey helpful people

@Speeddial there are two buttons in the bottom area 'what is speeddial' and 'configure speeddial' (or sth. similar to this - I use german localisation).
one simple problem/question, which I wasn't able to solve by myself:
Is there a way to remove these buttons? I only found the advise to delete the strings in localisation-file, but this would only leave two small buttons without text. I wish to remove them completely

... any ideas or impossible?

Thanks for reading

Somebody told me the solution in another opera-forum, so I thought to post it here, not to leave this question unsolved:

Originally posted by ConFelon:

type "opera:config" in adressbar.
type "speed" in searchfield.
User Prefs -> "Speed Dial State" switch to "2" (default is "1")
ConFelon

I thought I posted this before... but I can't find it. So please forgive me... this is a test to see if I really can post!

***edit***

Oh good, looks like I can. Here's the deal:

A small wet straw broke the camel's back on Firefox: they don't have an easily accessible support forum. But there are two add-ons I really liked in Firefox, and want to see if Opera has them. I expect y'all do.

1. Spell check in both English and German.
2. A clock function so I can see what time it is in Germany.

I'm also curious about updates. I'm not normal: I HATE updates. Is Opera one of those things that is going to insist I update every two weeks? I know it's supposedly "safer and faster," but I think I've had ONE update that did anything other than slow my machine down and give me features that I didn't like. And that one offered a feature I did like, while slowing my machine down.

I'm tempted to join y'all regardless... y'all win in the smiley department.

Problems upgrading to 10.63 after restore :

Hi

I used to have Opera 10.62 on my PC, that was until a couple of weeks ago when I had major issues on my computer and had to restore/re-install virtually everything. I have re-installed Opera to version 10.20, which works OK. However on trying to upgrade to 10.63 the update process keeps failing. I originally got messages relating to Opera.Installer.Msi (which I could not find on my PC), however the last few days my attempts to upgrade to 10.63 just abort without a message.

All my other apps have re-installed OK apart from Opera (which I love). Has anyone come across a similar scenario?

Many thanks and Hello!

Originally posted by bamawing:

Spell check in both English and German.

Spell check is either English or German

Originally posted by bamawing:

A clock function so I can see what time it is in Germany.

Have a look at the many date/time widgets. There might be one with an international time option. Try World Clock

Originally posted by bamawing:

Is Opera one of those things that is going to insist I update every two weeks?

Updates are not usually every two weeks — maybe once a month on average. If you must, you can disable updates in Preferences, Security, but subscribe to a feed at the Desktop Team Blog so that you know about upcoming updates and security fixes.

Originally posted by johngob:

I originally got messages relating to Opera.Installer.Msi (which I could not find on my PC), however the last few days my attempts to upgrade to 10.63 just abort without a message.

What is your Operating System?
(If you put your OS and other details in your forum signature, it saves us asking, and saves you repeating yourself.)

Hi
I have been trying for a while now to download opera....

I am running wondows XP
I have downloaded Firefox and Chrome and it did these with no problems at all ....
It will download,...click run etc etc ... ask me my language and then start to install but thats it .... it never goes any further than that I have tried all sorts but to no avail I have even un-installed my other browsers and get the same thing everytime the other browsers will then install straight back on with NO problems help me please lol

Wow thank you very much that has installed with no problem

Hi!
I got Windows 7 and I use Opera. How do I get Windows Media Player (12) to work with Opera?
Please help me

I also have a zoom question [but, sorry, don't see where to start a new quesiton]...

There was a zoom selection box in the lower right corner of the window...now it is gone...what happened? how do I get it back?
Thank you

also the page is very jumpy..seems to be in response to mouse...won't stay put to where I scrolled. If this is some problem created by 'mouse moves' how do I disable that?

windows xp

Hi - I've had Opera for a while, but decided to give it a real go.

Anyway I have just configured it nicely, but I'm having trouble with the 'home page' button. I want it to bring me to Speed Dial, but when I click on it, I get an Opera page that says "Invalid URL." It also says "The URL http://Speed Dial contains characters that are not valid in the location they are found."

I did search to see if there is already a thread about this but I couldn't find one.

Any solutions?

Originally posted by Tamil:

Originally posted by imolgen:

Anyway I have just configured it nicely, but I'm having trouble with the 'home page' button. I want it to bring me to Speed Dial

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/opera-faq#103

Thank you Tamil, worked perfectly!

Hi guys. I have been using Opera for a while now. I have noticed that my IP address appears all the time above the tool bar (on the left) is there a way of getting rid of this, as it wasn't there on previous versions.

Thanks

Dave

opera message.docx

I couldn't just copy and paste, so did an attachment! there are numbers on the top left of the screen. while trying to copy the page i did notice that as i zoomed in on the page the numbers adjusted. This has got me even more confused!

I might of known it would be that simple lol. Thanks for that, the numbers have now gone.

What is the red circle that sometimes appears in the closed tabs bin?

Originally posted by FireChipz:

What is the red circle that sometimes appears in the closed tabs bin?

It indicates that a pop-up was blocked. You can view the popup by opening up the bin. I think it'll have the word "Pop-up" or something like that before it.

Hi - I searched in forums and in knowledge base, but couldn't find what I'm looking for. Basically, is there a way of customising context menus in Opera? I ask this because I like to right-click on hyperlinks and open them in new background tabs. I might open several links in the background from one page, but still want to continue reading that page. In Chrome, which was the browser I was using prior to Opera, it's the first option you get when you right-click on a link, so it takes an almost imperceptible movement on the mousepad, a tap, and the new pages are waiting for you for when you're done with the current page. But the corresponding option in Opera is the third one down... It really interrupts my flow having to think about what I'm doing! I know an alternative way is to hold ctrl+shift and left-click, but if the option is there to change the order of the context menu, then I'd like to know how.

is there a way to automatically scale images like the fit to width function but length as well
like the
javascript:(function(){document.images[0].height=window.innerHeight;})();
command? in plugin form or something else?

ok fixed my own problem if anyone cares i made a hack of some other code resulting in a java script
functions automatically and doesn't f up like the original that was designed for opera 8 or something
note: this script seems to constantly run so it needs to be fixed up and is in progress
original code from
http://userjs.org/scripts/browser/enhancements/autosizer
and
http://www.rarst.net/script/fit-image-in-browser/


// ==UserScript==
// @name Autosizer
// @author Arve Bersvendsen
// @namespace http://virtuelvis.com/
// @version 1.0.2
// @description Enhance image viewing in Opera by adding five
// different sizing modes to images: "Original",
// "Shrink to Fit", "Maximize", "Fit to Width" and
// "Fit to Height".
// @ujs:category browser: enhancements
// @ujs:published 2005-10-22 20:25
// @ujs:modified 2005-10-22 19:53
// @ujs:documentation http://userjs.org/scripts/browser/enhancements/autosizer
// @ujs:download http://userjs.org/scripts/download/browser/enhancements/autosizer.js
// ==/UserScript==

/*
* Copyright © 2005 by Arve Bersvendsen
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
* USA
*/


if ((window.location.href.match(/^.*\.(jpe?g|bmp|gif|png)$/i)) && (document.images.length==1)
|| (window.location.href.match(/^http:\/\/i.imdb.com\/Photos\/.*$/i))) {
// if the document has more than one child node, it's not an image.
window.addEventListener("load", function(ev){
if (document.body.childNodes.length != 1) return; // Not an image
javascript:(function(){document.images[0].height=window.innerHeight;})();
}, false);
}

Where do I offer UX feedback?

I'm frustrated that twice this year I've tried to migrate (back) to Opera, and it seems to demand that I spend an enormous amount of time debugging & re-learning.

Back when Opera 4 was so much faster than IE & Netscape, it was worth spending the time to figure out all the quirks.
Now after a couple hours getting nowhere I end up uninstalling.

The time I waste sorting details are better spent waiting on a memory hog browser that 'just works'.
I'm genuinely happy for you that you've now developed 'features' that appeal to the masses, but to me it's all clutter.

It's disappointing that even after so many years you're still buggy, with broken basic functions like bookmarks:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=794882

Opera + torrent? Whi opera don't open and correctly download torrents?

Originally posted by johngob:

Problems upgrading to 10.63 after restore

Did you give the Classic installer a go?

Originally posted by kaizer87:

I got Windows 7 and I use Opera. How do I get Windows Media Player (12) to work with Opera?

You can try downloading the misleadingly named Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin (it's just a standard plugin, and not specific to Firefox).

Originally posted by NginUS:

Where do I offer UX feedback?

If there are specific bugs, you can create threads in the browser forum. When it comes to subjective things like whether something looks good or not, that's a slightly more difficult question.

Originally posted by kelevra1983:

Opera + torrent? Whi opera don't open and correctly download torrents?

Do you have a specific example of a torrent that fails? What happens when you try to download it?

Hello again!

I've been using Opera for a week or so, and so far it's MUCH faster than Firefox. But I have a couple of questions.

1: Sometimes when I click on a link, it doesn't "take." It's like I have to click on the link two or three times before the program realizes I clicked on the link. This isn't consistent. Sometimes I'll be flying along, no problem, and then suddenly run into a problem. Other times, every click is more than Opera was expecting.

Typing the URL into the little URL box also has this problem. Again, it's not consistent, but it's worse than clicking links. (More than once or twice, I've had to resort to googling the URL I want.)

2. Just today, clicking on a link results in bringing up a menu. Search, Search with, Copy, Copy to note (and it goes on from there.) I promise I'm not touching the keyboard or left-clicking. That's not as annoying as clicks that don't take, but it is odd. What's up?

(Thanks in advance!! This is the best "support" thread I've ever encountered.)

Originally posted by bamawing:

2. Just today, clicking on a link results in bringing up a menu. (...)

Double-click on any text brings up it's context menu, but you can turn it off by unchecking O Menu→Settings→Preferences→Advanced→Toolbars→⌧Double-click text to display context menu.

My pages have become corrupted and I can't see how to change this. Tables or text blocks are surrounded by blue lines and boxes containing <td> or <\tr>. Screens are difficlt to decipher and I am being forced back to Internet explorer - argh!!! I have reloaded opera and searched but can make no progress.

help please

Originally posted by bamawing:

1: Sometimes when I click on a link, it doesn't "take." It's like I have to click on the link two or three times before the program realizes I clicked on the link. This isn't consistent. Sometimes I'll be flying along, no problem, and then suddenly run into a problem. Other times, every click is more than Opera was expecting.

Does this start happening after running Opera for many hours? Or can it happen just after starting Opera?

Do you have a lot of open tabs?

When the link doesn't "take", is the rest of the user interface responding, or is it that the whole browser is frozen?

Typing the URL into the little URL box also has this problem. Again, it's not consistent, but it's worse than clicking links. (More than once or twice, I've had to resort to googling the URL I want.)

So the whole user interface freezes every now and then?

Its for Opera 10.63 Final

Pesala: Does voice work for reading text? If not, try disabling voice, and then enable it again. If its working for reading text, then try a voice command.

I: He say that he cant uderstend me. How he can understend me? What I must? to change correctly voice for the Opera robot?

Does voice work for reading text? dont reading. I do all thet you recomended me, dont help Give me yours skaype to speek with you and select TimeViwer 5 to repaer(subordinate) my voice function. Write you adress on my PM

When I push button voice that to give order it that one problem. There is not the button or functions to make off a talk when you need it. That to do with it ? I do not know personally. Does can you know ? For me button microphone disappeared from the panel of menu and overhead book-marks or panels. I do not know as I cleaned it. I did it quite by chance. I did not want that all went out so. Give me another chance that all to correct. I ask help me. I talk and say it sincere. I lead to constantly voice Opera to that that it or he, time of talk went out. I do not want him to take him to it. To us it disliked. Now, that to me with this everything to do? How to work out these all problems with voice? which so overhung above me, a? You must it to know, as creators of this creation under the name Opera.

Thank you for you antation.

Hello,

I've been looking around to see if this is possible, but so far I haven't see any precedence. Is it possible to set a default zoom level for specific web page(s)? Lately I've found that I need to keep one page I go to at 120% zoom level, but I don't have to change it for any other pages/tabs. I'd really like to skip having to alter the zoom level every time I go to the page. I know the tab keeps it's zoom level, but as soon as I'm finished with a webpage I close the tab it's in automatically, so I'd love to be able to set up a rule or something to always adjust the zoom on going to www.xxxyyyzzz.com.

Originally posted by Luxor:

Your issue is not relevant to this thread at all. Please don't hijack other threads.
In answer to your question. No, not possible.

Thread title:

New to Opera, and not sure where to go? Ask any question here!

So, thanks for the answer I guess.

You are correct my bad.
That will teach me to read two similar posts that the previous poster had posted in different threads and mixing them up.