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 ( [aignes.com] ), 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