Preferences > Advanced > Tabs > Additional tab options > Click on tab to minimise.
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Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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terminalterror 18,931 posts
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Registered 11 years agoDirtbox wrote:
I've been on overdrive trying to find ways to improve the browser and found this. Many buttons that you can add to the interface to improve it's functionality or better still, you can make your own. You'll find them in the appearance window in the buttons tab and in the My buttons section where you can drag and drop to wherever you wish.
I added a checkbox to lock tabs, hid the menu bar and added a single button to show them instead, added a toggle for the personal bar and a toggle to hide/show the tab previews.
Also it's doing well in speed tests.
Browser is looking swish.
Thanks for this, turning the menu bar into a single drop down list keeps all the functionality and gains me some lovely vertical real estate (I'm on a 1280x800 laptop, so vertical real estate is handy). -
Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoterminalterror wrote:
Preferences > Advanced > Tabs > Additional tab options > Click on tab to minimise.
Quick question:
Before I reinstalled windows, I had Opera 9.64, and it allowed me to unfocus a tab by clicking on it (i.e. if I opened a new tab from here, then clicked on the tab while it was focused, I'd come back to this tab).
That no longer happens, both on the 9.64 I installed at first, and on the 10 beta I'm using now.
How do I get that functionality back? It was very useful.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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terminalterror 18,931 posts
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Registered 11 years agoDirtbox wrote:
I'd seen that option, but never thought it was what I wanted, as I assumed the tab would actually minimise (similar to window behaviour) rather than just unfocus. That option could be better named.
Preferences > Advanced > Tabs > Additional tab options > Click on tab to minimise.
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Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoNo worries. That was confusing for a second, I hate getting the last post of a page.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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terminalterror 18,931 posts
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Registered 11 years agoterminalterror wrote:
Yay for that button site! The only thing I used regularly on the menu bar was the "close tab" button (I switched off the "have a close button on every tab" option) for when I can't get a gesture to work (like on a full page flash site). I've now put that button on my tab bar, next to the "undo closed tabs" button on the right.Dirtbox wrote:
I've been on overdrive trying to find ways to improve the browser and found this. Many buttons that you can add to the interface to improve it's functionality or better still, you can make your own. You'll find them in the appearance window in the buttons tab and in the My buttons section where you can drag and drop to wherever you wish.
I added a checkbox to lock tabs, hid the menu bar and added a single button to show them instead, added a toggle for the personal bar and a toggle to hide/show the tab previews.
Also it's doing well in speed tests.
Browser is looking swish.
Thanks for this, turning the menu bar into a single drop down list keeps all the functionality and gains me some lovely vertical real estate (I'm on a 1280x800 laptop, so vertical real estate is handy).
I'll have a look to see if there are any other cool buttons I can add.
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Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoThe show/hide personal bar one is a goody as well.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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terminalterror 18,931 posts
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Registered 11 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Since starting from scratch, I've switched my primary links from the personal bar (and removed it from view) and put them on the (expanded) speed dial.
The show/hide personal bar one is a goody as well.
A toggleable personal bar is a great place to put often, but not regularly used links.
Hooray for Opera, and for whoever it was that originally got me to try it (back when it had a banner advert if you didn't want to pay for it!). I think it was UncleLou. -
mad_caddy 3,276 posts
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Registered 9 years agoMy only gripe about opera is that over the years it feels like it's become fairly bloated, a lot of other browsers load much quicker and opera seems to have become much slower.
anyone got any tricks for giving it a kick up the arse?
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Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoA fresh install usually does the trick. It started to feel boggy for me a while back before I realised it was the same install that I had used every day for 6 years, updating it with each release so there were some conflicting problems over the different versions configs.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Cosmopolitan 1,585 posts
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Registered 9 years agoAny way to make my fonts in Opera look like those in Safari? The one feature I really like about Safari is the bold fonts that make reading of some pages easier.
Shame Safari doesn't have an adblock (I mean the Windows version), I'd jump to it immediately.The Master of Unlocking.
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Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoYeah, there's something called GDI++ which gives windows font smoothing like the mac's. It took some finding, I'll upload it someplace for easy access.
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monkeyspasm 2,719 posts
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Registered 10 years agoOpera really seems to hate EG.
It's my favourite browser by far, but unless I visit the forum directly and bypass the front page, it nearly always locks up on the front page. I'm assuming it's the ads. I'm on the latest version, on a fresh install.
edit - nevermind, read last page where DB says it's a problem with the beta. Shame, best browser by far n'all! -
Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoBlock em then. I've never had a problem, but I know that if your java is out of date it'll cause all sorts of shit.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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monkeyspasm 2,719 posts
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Registered 10 years agoBlocked 'em, works now.
Java up to date and all, strange. Not too good from EG's point of view either, if people have to block ads to get the site to work. -
Cosmopolitan 1,585 posts
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Registered 9 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Well, interesting. What I meant was browser-only font smoothing, but this changed all my fonts, including MS Word, everything.
Yeah, there's something called GDI++ which gives windows font smoothing like the mac's. It took some finding, I'll upload it someplace for easy access.
Here
It' not the same as in Safari but looks fairly similar. I think I'm starting to like it.
By the way the program asked me something in unreadable characters (Chinese?) and it restarted my computer.
You sure it's safe to use? It hovers probably somewhere in the background..The Master of Unlocking.
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Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoYeah, my girlfriend made me install it a while ago because it's almost impossible to read kanji and hiragana fonts without it.
It's frankly brilliant. It replaces the windows Cleartype dll with a small registry hack. It's nothing to worry about and it's not a resource hog anymore than cleartype is.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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ecureuil 74,144 posts
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Registered 8 years agoI didn't want to have to ask this, but anyway.. Can I get middle mouse click opening new tabs everywhere (not just URLs)? ie. middle clicking the back button opening a new tab, highlighting an URL and opening it in a new tab, etc. -
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ecureuil 74,144 posts
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Registered 8 years agoOh, I can shift click highlighted stuff. No way to make that the default?
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Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoYou can duplicate tabs. Also middle click opens personal bar and bookmark stuff in a new window, although I recommend you uncheck re-use current tab in the tabs section of preferences > advanced.
Honestly don't see the point in middle clicking back buttons as I've barely ever used the back button in opera.ecureuil wrote:
A pointless feature that really doesn't need to exist seeing as opera doesn't have to reload the page if you click back as it's aggressively cached.
I thought there was nothing Firefox could do that Opera couldn't?
Only joeys who don't know how to browse would need it.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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terminalterror 18,931 posts
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Registered 11 years agoCunning extra Opera tip for those of you that keep all your tabs between sessions so have no need for a homepage:
If you double click anywhere on the speed dial that isn't one of the speed dial buttons, it takes you to your home page. Effectively you get an extra speed dial slot that is even quicker to access. I've set the EG forum as my home page, so to get to it all I need to do is (mouse gesture down) for a new tab and double click. -
Just gave latest Opera a go to see what it's like. Wow. It does everything different to all the other standard browsers (Firefox, Safari, for example).
For example, Command-Click always opens a new tab and jumps to it immediately. That's fine, I'll change the preference. Oh. There isn't one. To open a new tab in the background I've got to Command-Shift-Click. Annoying.
Once I've opened a few tabs and start going through them and closing them as I finish reading, the tab selected is the last one I was on, not the next one in the row. That's fine, I'll change the preference. There's something in the Prefs that says "When closing a tab, activate the next tab" so I click on that and have another go. Same thing happens - goes to the next tab to the left, not the next tab to the right.
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mad_caddy 3,276 posts
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Registered 9 years agoJust downloaded the latest BETA (3) and fook it's so much quicker!
works very well indeed.
/turns turbo ON.
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Just found how to change the spellchecker to UK English! \o/ -
gareth886 2,829 posts
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Registered 6 years agoRetroid wrote:
Care to share?
Just found how to change the spellchecker to UK English! \o/ -
Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agoYeah, but much nicer than that.
You need Opera 10 then at the bottom of the file menu you can uncheck show menu bar. The rest you can just remove or add the buttons you don't want.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Dirtbox 73,698 posts
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Registered 11 years agogareth886 wrote:
Right click on a form, like the one you typed that post into and add/remove dictionaries at the bottom of the menu.Retroid wrote:
Care to share?
Just found how to change the spellchecker to UK English! \o/+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Bugger, meant to post that up rather than just mention it.
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