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General Software Discussion / Re: Why don't browsers show page title in the titlebar anymore?
« on: March 18, 2011, 08:09 AM »
Turn on the menu bar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to switch to Opera: Need help, tips
« on: March 02, 2011, 10:33 PM »

Use the Show Images button to rapidly switch images on/off (or use cached images only).
Via the same button, change the display mode to user mode etc. I use this a lot to remove clutter from a web page.

-NigelH (March 02, 2011, 06:02 PM)

This is my favorite. I always browse with cached image. Pages open in a snap.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to switch to Opera: Need help, tips
« on: March 02, 2011, 11:46 AM »
You forgot the rarest feature that even extensions rarely implement in other browsers: 1 and 2 for switching between left and right tabs as well as customizable keyboard shortcuts, ones that allow things such as ctrl+shift+w to close the tab and instead of switching to the right, it switches to the left.
-Paul Keith (March 02, 2011, 11:14 AM)

Those were just from the top of my head. There are tons of hidden features.

Oh, another one: open the side panel, click on the '+' sign and select "windows". Now open the windows panel and you can see the list of all opened tabs. Ta-da! that is the tree view Chrome and Firefox is experimenting with now. Opera had it for years. Now you can drag and arrange tabs and even move them from one window to another.

Sigh...too bad Opera keeps hiding and switching these around now. Unless you saved your keyboard shortcuts file, expect a lot of these hotkeys to disappear or change on a whim. I'm not even sure they even have a hotkey for saving sessions with the active window checked. Opera's features are getting a re-haul and I apologize for sounding like a hater, I just wanted to warn users who might think to switch to Opera specifically for those features.
-Paul Keith (March 02, 2011, 11:14 AM)

Thats' a good advice. Backing up the opera settings folder is what I do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trying to switch to Opera: Need help, tips
« on: March 02, 2011, 10:52 AM »
Here are some tips from a 5 year Opera user :)

  • Ctrl+click on an image to save it. Nice and quick.
  • On search engine results page, press <spacebar> at the bottom of the page to automatically load the next page. It also works on other websites and blogs that has pagination, although on blogs the behavior is erratic.
  • SHIFT+Spacebar scrolls page up
  • Ctrl+click opens link in new tab
  • Ctrl+shift+click opens link in background tab, i.e. the new tab does not steal focus
  • CTRL+Mouse Wheel to Zoom in and out
  • CTRL+Spacebar to open homepage
  • Hold down the right mouse button and roll the mouse wheel to cycle through the open tabs
  • To add a new search engine, just place your mouse pointer on the search box, right click and from the menu click Create search
  • Install Opera widgets and use them as standalone programs. No opera needed.
  • And yeah, do checkout the extensions.




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General Software Discussion / Re: program to create automatic fully unattended installations of software
« on: February 17, 2011, 03:08 AM »
You can automate installation of software by using silent switches (use Universal Silent Switch Finder ) and AutoIT scripting tool. I wrote a small tutorial a while ago.

http://www.instantfundas.com/2011/02/automate-software-installation-silently.html

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