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nontroppo:
Wow, you guys have been pretty comprehensive! Hopefully, before 9.5 comes out I'd hope we could have a better integrated place for sharing Opera tips. I haven't added User JS to the wiki like OSpell as there used to be a dedicated site for User JS but it is currently frozen, so maybe I should add some basic User JS. OK, here are some more power tweaks to satiate you:

Fast navigate with Nicknames:
If your bookmarks have nicknames, you can press SHIFT+F2 to bring up a nickname dialog. As you start typing, as soon as you have entered enough letters to uniquely identify the bookmark you will automatically go there.

BBCode Menu:
You can add a BBcode submenu to your textedit menu, so you select text and can apply BBcode markup: http://operawiki.info/BbCode

Send selected text to an online clipboard (cl1p):
Add this to the [Hotclick Popup Menu] section of your menu.ini:

--- ---Item, "Add to Web Clipboard (Cl1p.net)"="Go to page, "javascript:(function(){if (window.getSelection()) {var s = window.getSelection();} else if (document.getSelection) {var s = document.getSelection();} else if (document.selection) {var s = document.selection.createRange().text;};var reply=prompt('Name of the clip?','').split(' ');var name=reply[0];var myURL='http://cl1p.net/'+encodeURI(reply)+'?nl=yes&A='+escape(s)+escape(' [copied from: '+document.location+']');window.open(myURL,'Cl1p.net','location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes');})()""(this is included in the latest version of my Web Developer menu)

Google cache a link, and send a link to TinyURL:
Add this to the [link Popup Menu] section of your menu.ini:

--- ---Item, "Cache of page (Google)" = "Copy link & New page & Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=opera&q=cache:%c""
Item, "TinyURL this Link (TinyURL)" = "Copy link & New page & Go to page, "http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=%c""(this is included in the latest version of my Web Developer menu)

Send an image directly to ImageShack:
Add this to both the [Image Popup Menu] and [Image Link Popup Menu] section of your menu.ini:

--- ---Item, "Send to ImageShack" =Copy image address & Go to page, "http://imageshack.us/transload.php?url=%c"(this is included in the latest version of my Web Developer menu)

GMail 2 Fixes:
This really cool User JS fixes a bunch of bugs in Gmail to get it to work almost flawlessly in Opera 9.5:
http://futurama.googlepages.com/gmail_2_fix.js

Google Images Bypass:
Essential User JS to allow Google image results thumbnails to link directly to the image, rather than a framed page: http://userjs.org/scripts/site/enhancements/googleimages-thumblink

Advanced Mouse gestures:
Here are some examples to give you ideas:

Toggle my hotlist panel, my view toolbar and personal bookmark toolbars on/off in one go (minimalist/maximalist toggle!):

--- ---GestureLeft,GestureRight,GestureLeft=Set alignment, "hotlist", 6 & Set alignment, "document view toolbar",6 & Set alignment, "Personalbar", 6 | Set alignment, "hotlist", 0 & Set alignment, "document view toolbar",0 & Set alignment, "Personalbar", 0
Show the cookies for the current page by drawing C:

--- ---GestureLeft,GestureDown,GestureRight=Go to page, "javascript:alert('Cookies stored by this host or domain:\n\n' + document.cookie.replace(/; /g,'\n'));", 1

Power navigation gestures; I like to have my browsing history without having to move the mouse, and this batch gets me my forward/back history with a tiny flick of the hand:

--- ---GestureLeft, GestureRight, GestureLeft="Show popup menu, "Internal Rewind History""
GestureRight, GestureLeft="Show popup menu, "Internal Forward History""
GestureLeft, GestureRight="Show popup menu, "Internal Back History""
As I love the "Go to nickname" function, I also have it bound to a mouse gesture:

--- ---GestureUp, GestureDown, GestureUp=Go to nickname

If any of you want a custom menu made with the Cl1p/tinyURL/Google cache/ImageShack/BBCode tweaks added in let me know and I'll whip one up for you.

The latest version of my Web Developer tools (lots of power user functionality in there too, new version only for 9.5, older version for 9.25 from http://operawiki.info/WebDevToolbar) is available from:

http://code.google.com/p/web-developer-toolbar/source/browse

You have to manually put them in your profile/Menu and profile/Toolbars directories respectively. To toggle the toolbar on/off, you need to customize your toolbars and add the View toolbar toggle button (customize... > buttons > browser view > view button).

zridling:
Wow, thanks nontroppo! Considering most of us spend a good portion, if not the majority of our day in and out of our browsers, these are great tips. And this is especially helpful with so much webware now. Being able to assign so many (that is, any) functions to keyboard shortcuts in Opera makes everything fly. nontroppo's tips save a shite-load of time and experimentation.

kiwi2b:
Hi Nontroppo,
Your http://code.google.com/p/web-developer-toolbar/source/browse for the 9.5 web dev toolbar doesn't seem to lead to a download. I looked around and I could only find "This project currently has no downloads".  :huh:
Unless I missed it, which is likely  ;D

ThalSwe:
Fast navigate with Nicknames:
If your bookmarks have nicknames, you can press SHIFT+F2 to bring up a nickname dialog. As you start typing, as soon as you have entered enough letters to uniquely identify the bookmark you will automatically go there.-nontroppo (January 31, 2008, 04:27 PM)
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Took this one a bit further as I love the nickname function but hate the Caps Lock button. Simply turned it of for all programs but Opera where I instead changed it to Shift+F2.

A really nice list of tweaks nontroppo :)

nontroppo:
kiwi2b: you need to browse the trunk source, e.g. the direct URL is:

http://code.google.com/p/web-developer-toolbar/source/browse/trunk/WebDev_Menu.ini
http://code.google.com/p/web-developer-toolbar/source/browse/trunk/WebDev_Toolbar.ini

You need to save them and manually place them in the correct directory in your profile folder.

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