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Opera feature request: show actual link in toolbar/tooltip instead of redirect

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Services like tinyurl are becoming more and more popular, especially for sites like twitter. It has always been advantageous to be able to see the link destination in the toolbar (or for modern browsers, like Opera, in a tooltip) so that the user could decide whether to follow the link or not. Now, when tinyurl, ping.fm, is.gd or bit.ly is used the user cannot know the link destination without actually visiting the link.

Feature request: for well-known forwarding services I propose that the Opera browser follow the link to find the destination and then display this in the tooltip (or toolbar if the user still uses such an UI device in a browser, seriously, move on, this is 2009, use the tooltip, and yeah, Safari I'm lookin at you too). It may be the case that multiple redirects are in use. I leave resolving that problem to other minds, but resolving one level of redirect should be enough for most instances.

Opera feature request: remember all recently closed tabs

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Currently Opera forgets all about the tabs that were open in a window when that window is closed. Recently a friend of mine used my laptop when I was not around and closed an Opera window with loads of open tabs. I hadn't bookmarked them because I never close them.

So my feature request for the next version of Opera is that it remember all recently closed tabs in the same way as it remembers your browser history, e.g. for 2 weeks and with a similar interface for reopening tabs as for browsing your history.

Opera feature request: remember form values on reload

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I was just about to finish writing a 200 word post about the weird grunting noises sometimes heard when Christians pray in groups (no, not the ones the Holy Spirit makes in Heaven as he translates for us, I mean the noises that gorilla makes when he sneaks into the prayer meeting while everyone's eyes are closed) when I accidentally hit CMD+R and the page reloaded, killing my witticisms and links.

So, Opera feature request: remember form values when reloading a page.