Comments on: I’ve been tagged! 5 Things that can make Opera Better

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:08:58 +0000

What I wish I saw in a new release of Opera is improved printing functionality… Especially, I wish I could select a portion of a web page (images included, not only text) and print it, preserving formatting, like you can do in IE.

I normally don’t do much printing of websites so that isn’t as important to me, but I could see how that would be nice to have.

By: Mygolix

Mygolix — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:43:42 +0000

Regarding point 8 on your “not so important” wishlist - I usually use the Windows panel to do this. The panels can be toggled easily by pressing F4. Then, simply open the Windows one: using this list, you can Ctrl-click, Shift-click, drag and drop your tabs to reorganize them any way you wish, or close them!

What I wish I saw in a new release of Opera is improved printing functionality… Especially, I wish I could select a portion of a web page (images included, not only text) and print it, preserving formatting, like you can do in IE.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:23:52 +0000

That’s the strangest part. I set the shortcut to “view address bar” (the only selection I found w/ the words address bar) and it works to hide the bar, but doesn’t work for bringing it back. I decided to try and find a button, and I found one that’s 2 letters in size and does the job.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:47:13 +0000

You could probably reassign the keyboard shortcut.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:05:59 +0000

I don’t hide the address bar when browsing standard web sites (it isn’t hidden right now).

By: netster007x

netster007x — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:05:13 +0000

The reason I have the address bar toggle is for those links that open a new browser window, often streaming video, (which opera shows as a tab in the main window -a behavior I like) with all toolbars hidden. Opera shows the domain in a small strip at the top, and clicking on that shows the address bar. The problem is, there is now way to make the address bar hide again. In Opera 9.2 there was ctrl+F8, but that was dropped in 9.5a1. To solve this flaw, I added the address bar toggle button.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:42 +0000

Don’t you use the address bar an aweful lot to be sitting there toggling it?

By: netster007x

netster007x — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:36:48 +0000

I have a menu bar toggle/dropdown button, as well as an address bar toggle button in my status bar. I also keep a combo print/print options button, as well as a print preview toggle button, added to the standard show images and zoom buttons in the status bar. I also set the status bar to show icons only (no text) so I still have plenty of room to display URL’s.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:26:11 +0000

Thanks for the tips Regnareb! I didn’t know that you could hide the Menu Bar that way. I always just download a button from the Opera Wiki that would do it for me, but that’s pretty handy.

By: Regnareb

Regnareb — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:26:01 +0000

My english is bad so sorry if i do mistakes..

For the spellchecker, I dont understand, Aspell do it, we just have to press F10 if I remember, ok it’s not automatic.. You can use Cordial and Ospell.js too.

Bookmark tagging : You can tag your bookmarks, just put them in the description of the bookmark, then use your tags in the search field, and it work ! You can make a note if you cant remember all your tags ^^

Hide the Menu Bar : You can do it too. Just look at your keyboard’s shortcuts, and search “menu bar”. Delete the “Platform Unix” for “Enable/disable menu bar” and accept… press Alt+F11 and it’s done.

If you want to refresh all your favicons, you can use AM-DeadLink ( http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm ), i know, it is not Opera :p

For the default theme, I loved it when I tested Opera =D
It is my favorite between FF and IE

By: netster007x

netster007x — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:18:43 +0000

*Anonymous: The one thing I agree with you on is that Opera’s full screen mode is AWESOME. It’s the only true full screen I’ve seen in a browser. Perfect when watching online videos or other media that don’t have a screen size function built in. And there’s more, it’s even shown in the right-click menu. This is great because streaming video often disables keyboard shortcuts, so otherwise to exit I would have to ctrl+alt+del and end the task or do something else radical.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:48:12 +0000

You’re a bit mistaken in some of the features:
Hide the menu bar - I’m in great support for this; but you can do this and get rid of a lot of wasted space using Opera’s *excellent* full screen mode (much much better than IE’s or Firefox’s).

RSS reader support - I think this is a bit unfair, you’re stating that because you don’t use the feature you need better support. It is already there and very usable - just click the RSS tag and see the feeds in the RSS feeds section of the mailbox.

Spellchecker - why is this so critical. I deliberately stopped using spelling/grammar checkers about 5 years ago as certain applications tried to force me to use the wrong version of English. As a result my spelling and grammar improved. If this *must* be there, can we make it really easy to change from American English to other languages (or even better have the default dictionary be English).

By: netster007x

netster007x — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:56:06 +0000

I already use DM2. It has an on top feature, but I don’t think it would work unless I detatched the tab, which I wouldn’t want to do. I currently have DM2 disabled for Opera, since the main function I use is minimize to tray, which Opera includes natively. It would be great if Opera had tab on top support natively, as well.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:46:05 +0000

There’s a work-around for this. If you’re a Windows user, check out DeskPins. If you’re a Linux user and you use GNOME as your window manager, you only have to open the window menu and choose ‘Always on top’.:)

By: netster007x

netster007x — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:47:11 +0000

I just thought of a great Opera potential feature. To explain it, I think a screenshot will help. In the screenshot, I am watching diggnation with a window fit just around the video. NOTE: I manually fit it by restoring the tab, ctrl+F8 to drop the toolbar, and resizing around the video. I also locked the tab just in case. The goal here is to be able to browse as normal, while keeping the video on top. This could be added very easily. Put an option on the tab right-click menu to “keep on top.” This option would only be available for restored/ window sized tabs.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo.....amp;size=o

By: netster007x

netster007x — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:09:58 +0000

Also, it’s fine to add/remove scripts from Opera while the browser is running, right? Then the new script choice is applied to the next page (re)load.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:08:56 +0000

I don’t have any scripts right now. I think I’ll add greased lightbox, though. I only have one widget also, “torrent powersearch.” I just couldn’t find anything useful. I’ve got the sidebar from VTP7. That has useful widgets! CPU and RAM, HD % full, bandwidth in/out, system uptime timer. That’s what I want in Opera.

In Fx, I always thought scripts were lower recourse/ speed cut than ext’s. Was I right?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:18:14 +0000

Yeah, I always try to minimize the number of scripts that I use because they can just add to the page load time.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:09:13 +0000

You know what? I dumped the “Add to My Yahoo!” greasemonkey script. Why? I started to get annoyed by the button always taking up space on the page. It’s rare that I actually do subscribe to a new feed. I put the latter button on my “View” bar. I’m using it as a place to store buttons. It’s so great that adding a button is just a click. Not like in Fx (so much for EZ customization).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:38:18 +0000

I had previously pointed out some bookmarklets that made subscribing to feeds a little easier. I use an external application so I needed a bookmarklet to do the job.
http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2.....ds-easier/