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My Keyboard & Menu Setup

Monday, July 12, 2010 8:56:57 AM

Menu, Keyboard, Setup

Upon request, I uploaded my keyboard & menu setups as example.
Feel free to download & study 'em.

Keyboard setup
Menu setup

Here are tools that will help you analyze & edit .ini document with ease:
WinMerge
Notepad++

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Download Youtube Video with Opera?

Friday, October 1, 2010 4:42:00 PM

OK, I'm not really good with JavaScript, but today I'm really proud of myself because I actually able to mod a Youtube userjs to do exactly what I wanted! To celebrate my tiny little accomplishment, I will share this script with everyone!

A. Installation[/U]
1. First, right-click on this link & Save it: youtube_download_buttons.user.js

2. Then, just put it into your User Javascripts folder for Opera & start enjoy it!

NOTE: If you didn't setup an User Javascript folder yet, then go to Preferences (Ctrl+F12) > Advanced > Content > JavaScript Options > User JavaScript files, & press the "Choose" button to create a folder to store Userjs for Opera.

B. How It Works?
After installed the script, it will add download buttons into the top section of Youtube watch page:

You can change the order of the buttons as you see in the screenshot above. Just open the script with text editor to change the anchor of the download buttons in line 169:

var flagButton=document.getElementById('watch-video-count');

Replace 'watch-video-count' with 'watch-username' or 'subscribeDiv' to change the order of the download buttons, remember to save the document when you're done.

This script will works even when Flash player plug-in is disabled or blocked, thus you can use it with ODP enabled. Also, low quality & unavailable video formats are filtered automatically to allow you download medium, high, & HD quality video quickly, simply pick a video format you desired & start downloading!

TIPS: This script rely on cookies to fetch download links, thus it might failed when cookies become outdated. The solution is simply Refresh the webpage (R/F5) to renew the cookies & try again.

CREDITS: This script is not my work, I simply mod Download YouTube Videos as MP4 JavaScript by Ionut Alex Chitu. I only added download links beside the username inside Youtube watch page.

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What's Better than No Click to Activate Plugin Content?

Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:54:32 AM

plugin

Currently, Opera is the only major browser which doesn't support No click to activate plugin content. This is a stumbling block to many Internet user in choosing Opera as their primary browser, because it's quite inconvenience to click on every plug-in on the webpage before we can interact with each plugin content. Fortunately, this missing feature become much tolerable with the addition of On Demand Plugin (ODP).

With ODP Opera user gained more control over all plug-in content on the webpage. We can choose to block all plug-ins from loading, & only load specific plug-in on the webpage on demand. ODP become a very attractive feature in Opera, because it improved speed, security, stability, & also keep the browser "lighter" as the resources hungry Flash content can be blocked on every page load. Even so, the missing feature No click to activate plugin content is still very much desired by many Opera user, but Opera can't implant it because of the ridiculous Eolas patent...

Today I come across a wish list posted on Opera forum by Astrophizz, the discussion:

Originally posted by Astrophizz:

With On Demand Plugins enabled, one now has to click twice to gain access to, say, a Youtube video. If that video is embedded without autoplay, then it requires 3 clicks to play. Would the terms of EOLAS allow the click-through to be combined with the "on demand" click?

Originally posted by serious:

you are right, as the plugins are not loaded automatically the eolas patent does not apply.

This is a brilliant idea! We can actually improve ODP feature from One-click to load plugin content into One-click to load & activate plugin content! As of now, Opera user have to click on the plugin content once to activate it anyway, why not make the "click" count? The best part is, since this feature required user interaction (click to activate), it doesn't infringing Eolas patent at all!

So, if you like this idea & want Opera to improve ODP, then please go to the forum & VOTE!

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How to Make Could Not Connect to Remote Server Message Actually Useful?

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:13:05 PM

Remember THIS message when Opera failed to fetch a webpage from the Internet?

Yeah, THIS message is pretty much useless, we will usually hit F5 & wait for another 50 seconds just to make sure it's not a glitch... Then we might send the website to downforeveryoneorjustme.com to find out if the website is indeed down & unavailable to the entire world.

In my humble opinion, a modern browser such as Opera should be able to check the website status with Opera Turbo servers located in all over the world when THIS message appear on the screen, & let user know what's going on. Until Opera developers improve THIS message, here is a DIY solution from Lex1: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=7073332

OK, this solution is not perfect, because we will have to patch the *.lng file again after every upgrade... Thus, I think the best solution would be Opera developers improve THIS message, make it useful & more user-friendly. You can vote for this idea in the wish-list forum, please GO HERE & VOTE!

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Power-up Opera Quick Preferences Menu

Monday, July 12, 2010 5:20:50 AM

Most veteran Opera user probably already know about the Quick Preferences Menu (F12), which provide shortcuts to toggle some global settings on the fly, eliminate the need to jump through multiple dialogs or dig into opera:config to modify Opera's behavior. However, some useful commands are not included into the menu by default, & this tutorial will help you power-up your Quick Preferences Menu.

A. Add commands into Quick Preferences Menu
If you don't know how to edit menu setup, read this TUTORIAL before you proceed further...

1. First, open standard_menu (1).ini with text editor.
(Renamed standard_menu (1).ini to something else to prevent Opera from overwrite it)

2. Next, search for [Quick Preferences Menu] section, then add commands that you want under it:

Java

Item, "Enable Java"="Set preference, "Java|Enabled=1" > Set preference, "Java|Enabled=0""

On Demand Plugin

Item, "Enable On Demand Plugin"="Set preference, "User Prefs|Enable On Demand Plugin=1" > Set preference, "User Prefs|Enable On Demand Plugin=0""

Content Blocker

Item, "Enable Content Blocker"="Set preference, "Network|Enable Content Blocker=1" > Set preference, "Network|Enable Content Blocker=0""

Address Field Auto Dropdown

Item, "Enable Auto Dropdown"="Set preference, "User Prefs|AutoDropdown=1" > Set preference, "User Prefs|AutoDropdown=0""

Spoof UserAgent ID

Item, MI_IDM_CONTROL_MENU_IDENTIFY_OPERA = Identify as, 0
Item, M_IDAS_MENU_MOZILLA = Identify as, 1
Item, M_IDAS_MENU_INTERNET_EXPLORER = Identify as, 4

Proxy Switching
Read Tamil's tutorial

3. If the list become too long, you might wanna divide the Quick Preferences Menu into 2 columns. After organized the commands, you may add this line in the middle of the list to separate 'em:

BreakItem

4. When you're done, save & close the document. Select the newly modified menu setup in Opera to apply the changes you just made. That's it!

B. How It Works?
Just press F12 to access your Quick Preferences Menu!

Here is a snapshot of my Quick Preferences Menu:

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Did I bookmarked this page yet?!! (Part 2)

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:24:01 AM

bookmarks, buttons, url

Back in 2008, I wrote about the Highlight Bookmark

& some tricks to imitate the original function that was broken & removed. Well, after so many years Opera developers finally fixed that broken function! Now, we can resurrect that long lost

back to it's former glory.

A. Buttons
Since the

icon is removed from Opera 10.6 skin, I replace it with the Top10 icon instead.

Also, I added 2nd function to these buttons, so pick one that you like most:

Button A: Highlight Bookmark
Hold button to highlight ALL bookmarks with same URL

Button B: Highlight Bookmark
Hold button to highlight ALL bookmarks with same domain

B. Setup Shortcuts
1. First, go to Preferences (Ctrl+F12) > Advanced > Shortcuts > Mouse/Keyboard Setup.
(& create a new mouse/keyboard setup, if you didn't do that already)

2. Next, double-click on a Mouse/Keyboard setup you want to use, select Application section.

3. Finally, create/modify a shortcut with your preferred MG/Hotkey with the following actions:

Highlight bookmark or Bookmark page (root folder)

Highlight bookmark | Add to bookmarks,1

Highlight bookmark or Bookmark page (last active folder)

Highlight bookmark | Add to bookmarks

C. How It Works?
The button will notify you with Top10 icon if current page is bookmarked, otherwise it will offer Bookmark Page function instead. This is how it looks like in Opera Standard skin:

Heart = Current page is bookmarked, click to highlight the 1st matched URL bookmark.
Bookmark Page= Current page is not bookmarked, click to bookmark current page.

Highlight ALL Bookmarks with same URL = Show all bookmarks with matched URL.
Highlight ALL Bookmarks with same domain = Show all bookmarks with matched domain.

TIPS: Hit ESC twice to clear the highlight ALL result, F4 (or Ctrl+B) to hide the Bookmarks panel.

Related articles:
Did I bookmarked this page yet?!!
Bookmarks Domain Highlighter

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MultiSearch with Opera?

Monday, May 3, 2010 11:10:30 AM

search, Menu, search engine, tab

Believe it or not, Opera actually support MultiSearch by default, without using any JavaScript tricks. You can just perform MultiSearch on the search field & the search engine selection dropdown list directly!

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Quick Tile with Windows Panel

Monday, April 26, 2010 10:02:37 AM

Menu, panels, tile, full screen ...

How do you tile specific pages within a window in Opera? Well... You need to minimize ALL pages first, then restore the pages you want to tile together, & finally execute the Tile command to tile 'em up. Yes, that's a lot of hassle & a very clunky routine for tiling a few pages! Why can't we just select some pages & use the Tile command to tile 'em directly? Now, here are some custom Quick Tile buttons that will allow you to do so, I think they should be included in Opera by default!!!

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On Demand Plugin & Opera Turbo

Monday, April 5, 2010 11:06:08 AM

Menu, buttons, Hide, plugin

Since the innovation of Opera Turbo, many have fall in love with a side-effect in Opera Turbo known as On Demand Plugin (ODP), which behave very much like Firefox's extension Flashblock. However ODP not only capable of blocking Flash but also all plug-in content embedded on the web-page. ODP become a standalone feature in Opera 10.5, which allow us to browse with ODP even without Opera Turbo enabled. And here is a few tricks to improve your ODP browsing experience...

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Opera & BitTorrent

Sunday, April 4, 2010 10:01:59 AM

bittorrent

Although Opera have a build-in BitTorent client, it's poor in features compare to BitTorrent client in general. Thus, some would prefer other BitTorrent client such as Deluge, µTorrent, or Vuze to handle BitTorrent download instead. Here is a tutorial for integration of 3rd party BitTorent client with Opera.

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