The nice lil built-in touches I use day in and day out in Opera–easily-customized hot key combos, built-in mouse gestures, full-featured feed reader, online syncing* between different versions of Opera on different computers, etc., are among the reasons I keep coming back to it as my fav browser.
Once really nice–and often under-utilized–feature is Speed Dial. By default, Opera displays the Speed Dial page whenever one opens a new blank tab/browser window. The default Speed Dial page includes an example “tile” one can clik to go to an Opera intro page and eight more that are empty. All are editable to add/change to addresses one visits often. New Tab>Speed Dial>CLICK, you’re there. Nice. But nine “speed dials” weren’t enough for me, sooo…
Edit speeddial.ini while Opera’s not running to add
[Size]
Rows=4
Columns=6
…and,
I don’t have them all configured in this Win7 installation, yet, but 24 speed dials is better than 9, right?
🙂
More, but not Opera/browser related:
I miss the multiple virtual desktops Compiz afforded me in Ubuntu. I know of several commercial apps and some freebies in beta for Vista and XP, but why no virtual desktops in Win 7 “Ultimate” (albeit, beta)–built in? Or is the functionality available and I’ve just not found it? Irritating lapse. Multiple virtual desktops is something I’ve found in some form or another in all the Linux desktop Guis I’ve tried for several years, now–heck, even the tiny 95MB Puppy Linux distros have the functionality!
Puzzling. why isn’t it a part of the functionality? It’s a much, much more useful feature than some of the eye candy. heck, more useful than any of the eye candy.
Win7: Lose points for a missing feature.
*Yeh, yeh, I know: there are some add-ons for Internet Exploder, Safari, et al, that allow folks to do something similar, but note the “add-ons”.
You need to add some more websites David… I can think of at least one off the top of my head.
(-;
Hair Club for Men?
😉
Actually, I shouldn’t have added the ones I did, because I haven’t yet synced up this copy of Opera with my others. But, that’s one reason I made this version’s Speed Dial have 24, because the others have only 20, and this way, the four I have (of which only one duplicates what’s in the sync record) probably won’t cause problems…
Hair Club, I walked right into that one didn’t I?
*heh*
I’ve seen myself in the mirror, Woody. Maybe that should be in my speed dial… You’ll notice I always (well, save perhaps for when in bed or the shower or some such place) wear a hat.