Wednesday, 26. October 2005, 22:28:53
Bookmarks
Often enough one loads a bunch of interesting pages, and then wants to bookmark several (if not all) of them. It is quite tedious to bookmark each page one by one; but Opera offers a nifty way to speed that process up.
- Load the Windows panel.
- Using the mouse, Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click in the Windows panel to select all the pages you want to bookmark.
- Press Ctrl+D to bring up the 'Add bookmark' dialog.
- This will prompt you for each page where to save the bookmark.
- You can also fill in other information like a nickname for each page.
Alternatively, you can just launch the Manage Bookmarks page (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+B), and drag-and-drop the selected list of pages into the bookmarks folder of your choice (including root). You can always customize them later to show up in the appropriate folder, if you so wish.
Monday, 17. October 2005, 19:35:46
upgrade, Mail
Opera 7.xx had an option in the Preferences dialog by which you could disable all the mail client functionality. If you had done that, and then installed Opera 8.xx on top of that Opera 7.xx installation, you cannot use the mail client at all. That means no mail, news or newsfeeds...
The UI options to activate mail (e.g. under
Tools > Mail and chat accounts) are unavailable, and there is no way through the UI to enable them.
Here is what you need to do:
- Find the location of your profile\opera6.ini location in Help > About Opera (look for 'Preferences' there)
- Close Opera completely
- Edit this file in your favorite editor (e.g. Wordpad)
- Find the line that looks like "Show E-mail Client = 0"
- Delete this line
- Save your changes and exit
- Restart Opera
If you have upgraded to Opera 9.xx and do not see the mail client, make sure to enable
opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowE-mailClient and restart Opera.
This should make the mail client enabled again. Of course, till you set up an actual account, you still won't see any of the mail client UI elements. You can set up a mail, newsgroup or chat account through
Tools > Mail and chat accounts or subscribe to a newsfeed by clicking on the feed icon in the address field.
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