Fed up with Netscape and IE! Gonna try Opera!

777php

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Are there any neat tricks or suggestions for a Opera newbie?

Also...how do you get Opera to show the toolbars when javascript pops open a new window...ie when I click on community on Anandtech's front page and the forums window pops up, I want that popup window to show the address bar, toolbars, etc....

Thanks guys.
 

DAM

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<< Are there any neat tricks or suggestions for a Opera newbie? >>





Youre going to love mouse gestures, for example, hold down the left button and drag left, thats back, the other way that goes forward, you want to refresh a window, hold down left button and drag up down, a new window drag down.


you dont want pop ups, go to preferences and disable them, you want all pop ups to come out on the background you can do so too.


do you want to see two different websites at once, then tile your windows for dual browsing, or do you want a page to refresh every 1 minute then right click on it and set that too.


There are tons of things to do with opera, and its light and if it ever crashes it will do so quite graciously and when you restart it will do so where you left offf.





dam(enjoy)
 

yoda291

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have each window open up as a seperate task at first, until you get used to the fact that you'll have only ONE instance of the browser open(or you'll close it like you would IE or netscape and lose ALL your browser windows). The mouse gestures are only worth the time to get used to if you don't use the keyboard to surf(ex: you have bookmarks as long as my arm). get rid of the crazy "link" type bars right from the get-go. You may want to minimize the number of connections as sometimes this will cause the page to dl slowly since one stream might hang(those who split their file downloads will know what I'm talking about. For crying out loud, DON'T SET GOOGLE AS YOUR HOMEPAGE!!! Set time.gov or something like that. Google is integrated for a reason. Remember it's File-> preferences/quick preferences. Not Tools-> internet options. Also, while you can spoof most any browser with quick preferences, keep IE around since not all scripts and pages are opera friendly. Keep in mind that f5 is refresh since that button seems to move depending on what stage you're in within the page loading process. IE's CTRL+N is now CTRL+SHIFT+N. Opera's CTRL-N is a blank browser window by default. Enjoy
 

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<< Youre going to love mouse gestures, for example, hold down the left button and drag left, thats back, the other way that goes forward, you want to refresh a window, hold down left button and drag up down, a new window drag down. >>



What about if you're hilighting text?
 

yoda291

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<<

<< Youre going to love mouse gestures, for example, hold down the left button and drag left, thats back, the other way that goes forward, you want to refresh a window, hold down left button and drag up down, a new window drag down. >>



What about if you're hilighting text?
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Either he's left-handed and has switched his mouse buttons, or he's referring to the right mouse button.
 

macka

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opera is the $hit!!! you are going to wonder how you ever lived without it..
 

777php

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I've been using Opera all day now and I love it. I've since changed the skin, customized my toolbar and created a few custom toolbars.

When I was talking about popups I didn't mean ad or unwanted popups but the popups the occur when you click on a link and it calls javascript to open a new window for you. IE. when you click on Community on Anandtech's front page the forum list opens in a new page. I want that page to have all the toolbars.

I can't seem to dock my hotlist...i wonder why.

Is there a way to open a link in a new window by pressing both the left and right button at the same time like you can in linux?
 

DAM

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why not set your home page as google?




clicking on a link to open in a new window, that i know of you cant do it with just the mouse, you can hold down the shift while you click.



also, opera has a dl manager that lets you dl as many things as you want and keep them in a list as they dl.




dam()
 

ApacheXMD

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you can open links in a new window by simply right clicking the link and moving the mouse down a little. Kinda like dragging it down a little bit

-patchy
 

ISAslot

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I love Opera

The way I perfer to use it:

left hand over the shift and ctrl keys

full screen mode

shift scroll to go back and forward

ctrl scroll to zoom in and out

:)