Opera FAQ's, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

A user style sheet is a text file with CSS declarations. It allows you to have control over the look and feel of website. It can be used to hide annoying things like ads, change fonts and colors, etc.

!important declaration should be added to a rule to take precedence over author style sheet.

User style sheets can be applied to all sites Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Content > Style Options... > My style sheet (restart required to apply style sheet) or per-site basis Right click on a site > Edit Site Preferences... > Display > My style sheet (reload required to apply style sheet).

Example 1: Hide friend request link in My Opera

My Opera friend request link in top bar

1. Create a text file with the following and save preferably inside profile\styles directory with CSS file extension.

   /* Friend request */
   #friendrequest { display: none !important; }

   
   CSS to hide friend request link and share this button

2. Add path to CSS file in site preferences.

   
   Path to CSS file in site preferences

3. Reload page to apply style sheet.

   
   My Opera friend request link hidden by CSS

Example 2: Hide sponsored links in Google

Useless Google sponsored links

Google sponsored links can't be blocked by content blocker but it can hidden by following CSS code.

/* Top sponsored links */
#tads { display: none !important; }

/* Side sponsored links */
#mbEnd { display: none !important; }

To view Indian language web pages and Opera menus properly, Unicode support has to be enabled in Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems.

In Windows XP, Start > Control Panel > (Date, Time, Language and Regional Options) > Regional and Language Options > Language > [Enable] Install files for complex script and right-to-left-languages (including Thai) > OK

Enable 'Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)' in Windows XP

In Windows 2000, Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options > General > Language settings for the system > [Enable] Indic > OK

Restart the system for the new setting to take effect.

Incorrect display of Tamil Unicode characters

Tamil Unicode characters after enabling Unicode support

There are several ways to open multiple web pages in Opera.

• Bookmarking web pages to a folder, navigating to folder from bookmarks menu and clicking Open All Folder Items.
• Bookmarking web pages to a folder, giving nickname to folder and entering nickname in address field or setting nickname as home page in Tools → Preferences... → General → Home page.
• Opening web pages, saving them as session File → Sessions → Save This Session... and opening it File → Sessions.

The advantage of sessions over bookmarks is it can store several settings (zoom, fit to width, images, etc.) per tab.

Sessions can be opened quickly by assigning it to a Speed Dial slot.

• Open web pages.
• Save them as session File → Sessions → Save This Session....
• Assign it to a Speed Dial slot.

The path to session file should not contain space. If path has space use DOS name. To find DOS name of a directory/file, open Command Prompt, change path to parent directory of directory/file and type the following command.

dir /x

Command Prompt to find DOS name

Speed Dial edit dialog with path to session file

Speed Dial with session

Opera will show above thumbnail for session but you can replace it with any image.

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