Day 4: Advanced Preferences 1

Whats wrong with some page horizontal sizes? I use 1024x768 screen size and on some pages (e.g. http://backgrounds.ru/) horizontal scroll bar appears looks like opera returns wrong screen size. I dont whant to use fit to window width feature because the screen became some crappy.

Artem: I don’t know why the site gives a horizontal scroll, but Fit to Width feature works perfectly on that site.

I didn’t look at the HTML, but I assume the site is simply designed too wide.

Through your description of navigating the preference tabs I learned that on the mac the short cut for sycling through pages is alt + tab.

Btw, does the Opera8 Lover posess a view on in which order pages should close? At least in Mac Opera8 we get completely confused byt its logic there.

Firefox and Safari will close from right to left if you are in the right most tab. Otherwise it will close from left to right. This I quickly got used to.

But Opera7 and 8 closes the pages in a completely random order — probably related to the order the pages were opened and from which window but I don’t get it — and who would remember such things? I am tempted to not use Opera for that reason alone, even it has so many other good features.

I too open pages as background pages, in both Safari, iCab, Firefox and Opera. I close them to consentrate on only a few of them — but may be the cycling feature of Opera will make you do that exercise less than e.g. Firefox user will. The ability of Opera to open pages beside the current page also works agaist the need for closing windows so often.

That current closing order make «complete sense» is a strong wording, I would say. ;-) Habit is very important. On can become accustomed to not being able to guess what one get once one close a window, may be even to remember the page opening order — if the closing order is simply a reverse of that order. But how is possible that the closing order can be explained that simply? One will seldomly close and open pages in the same order?!The order e.g. Firefox closes pages is in line with much else in life that follows left to right order. :-)

I agree that a closing order that followed the order of the Cycling order, would seem logical. Unfortuneatly it doesn’t seem as if ‘Cycle page bare order’ did cause a “Close in Page bare order” in Mac Opera8 beta 1 at least.

I realized another reason that this doesn’t usually come up for me (closing in order).

I have my page bar on the right side, and generally close a bunch of windows by clicking the X, and as it closes one, another one moves up, and then I close that one.

So I’m clicking in the same spot but closing several pages.

Erik: That is a good point. Although I don’t worry too much about cookies myself, this is a way of increasing your privacy to some extent and still retaining the feature.

Hi TjL, thanx for this tutorial.

U have a typo in last line of Loading section.

You can always cahnge it back later. {{Fixed, thanks! }}

Section Show window size is missing information where is the size shown. It took me 2 minutes to find it out. {{Fixed, thanks!!}}

And I still have no idea what is Use inline find in page for. Maybe it’s due my bad English, but can u explain it to me, please?

Fila: Use Inline Find In Page just means that you will use the popup rather than a separate window for searching for text on the page.

hi …. can you give more info on sounds … i have the latest 8.02 i think paid version of opera … but don’t seem to have any sounds … despite having this box ticked ….. where do i have to go to get the sounds

(Once you check the boxes, you have to assign sound files to the various sounds. If you are using Windows, check something like c:\windows\media…. I don’t have a Windows machine around right now. Check for .wav files…. I don’t know if Opera can use MP3 files or not — TjL)

My suggestions:

- As Śmieszne reklamy telewizyjne(if that’s the name :P) said, the middle button seems to me to be the best option to close tabs. I add, it’s the best option to open links in background pages.

- This is somewhat more advanced. I think it’s bad to have to comply with the default number of results for each search engine, but it’s also bad to have the same number for all. So, instead of having the number of search results defined by Opera, you can define them for each site (if they have that option), simply by editing the search.ini file or, even better, using a program like Opsed. Example: to search on google you use “http://www.google.com/search?q=%s” (%s is then replaced by the search term). To have 50 results in each page, simply switch that line to “http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&num=50”.

Hope it helps …

Some hints, one on page closing in the order of your tabs, and the other for Rick, who doesn’t use the tabs, because he has so much of them they don’t display useful information any longer:

Change the keyboard-shortcut for “ctrl+w” from “Close page” to “Close page & Switch to next page”. This way, when using “ctrl+w” Opera will close the active tab and switch to the next on the right of this tab.

And for all of you with to many tabs: simply change the “Wrapping”-mode of the “Page bar” to “Wrap to multiple lines”. This helps much if you have to Page bar on top (or bottom). It costs some vertical space (if you have enough open pages for more than one line of tabs), but every tab remains readable, width isn’t changed any longer.

Martin

Oops, forgot … another workaround: drag’n’drop the bookmarklet (from the Bookmarks Panel or the Personal Bar, not the Bookmarks menu).