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Use The Opera Mini Browser On A PC

The Opera Mini browser was designed with mobile devices in mind. It compresses the contents before they are send to the device of the user who is running Opera Mini which results in lower bandwidth...

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Greasemonkey in Opera

Did you know that you can easily load Greasemonkey scripts into Opera? While Firefox users need an extension for that Opera users can simply import them into Opera. Well, some manual work is required...

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Reset The Master Password In Opera

The Master Password in the Opera web browser is protecting the saved user passwords from being accessed by anyone locally. It provides pretty much the same functionality that the Firefox Master...

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Changing Opera Themes

One of the many things that Opera is doing really well is providing an easy way to changing themes in the web browser. Everything from choosing a theme to downloading and installing it can be done from...

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How To Change The Speed Dial Size In Opera

The development team of the Opera Internet browser introduced speed dial a while ago in the web browser. Speed Dial displays up to nine websites that are added by the user as thumbnails whenever a new...

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Working With Many Tabs In Opera

There was a time when I used Opera almost exclusively. This has changed with the rise of the Firefox web browser but I do know quite a few users who use Opera as their main web browser. Rarst likes...

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How To Change The Opera Cache Directory

Only Microsoft's Internet Explorer has options to change the temporary Internet cache directory in the graphical user interface directly. Firefox and Opera require configuration file changes that can...

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How To Import RSS Feeds Into Opera

I'm currently testing new RSS feed readers, and one of the programs that I have been looking at is the RSS reader in Opera, or more precisely in Opera's Mail module. RSS Feeds have been supported for...

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How To Change, Disable Opera Speed Dial

The question came up here whether it is possible to disable Opera's built-in Speed Dial feature. Speed Dial displays a number of websites or Speed Dial extensions on the browser's new tab page. Speed...

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Managing Windows and Tabs In Opera

Yesterday I looked at ways to copy a tab from one web browser window to another and came to the conclusion that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 was offering the best feature set in this regard. Then I...

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10 Things That Opera Does, That Other Browsers Don’t

Opera has always been the underdog in the browser market, with browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Firefox or Chrome dominating it. While the browser's market share is low in...

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How to make the most out of Opera Panels

One of the differences between Opera and other popular web browsers, like Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox, is the small panels bar that Opera users can display on the left side of the browser. All...

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Use Search Keywords In Opera For Advanced Features

One of the cool features of the Opera web browser is its keyword functionality. While not exclusive to Opera, it provides users with options to assign keywords to bookmarks or search engines. Keywords...

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Create Lightweight Opera Themes With Opera Theme Creator

Opera 12.00 will be released shortly with the first release candidate already posted for evaluation purposes on the Opera website (actually two by the time of writing). One of the new features of Opera...

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Opera crashing or freezing? May be out-of-process plugins

Opera Software introduced out of process plugins in Opera 12.00 to increase the browser's overall stability when plugins were used to display contents on web pages. The basic idea behind out of process...

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How to install custom userstyles in Opera

So called userstyles can be used to change the look and feel of websites locally. Basic examples are to change the text color or size, the background color or the position of elements on a website....

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Opera’s On-Page Search is superior

While Firefox is my main browser, I have other browsers installed on my system at all times. This includes Internet Explorer, two versions of Google Chrome, two versions of Opera and lesser known...

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Opera 12.13 final has been released

The last month was a quite one in terms of news from Opera Software. The company released Opera 12.12 on December 17 and turned silent afterwards until it released a first snapshot of the upcoming...

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Opera Software announces move to WebKit

Ever since Opera showcased a version of its mobile browser running on WebKit, codenamed Ice, I knew that the software company was considering switching to WebKit and ditching its own rendering engine...

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Evernote Web Clipper and Clearly arrive in Opera

Evernote, the popular note-taking app and competitor to Microsoft's OneNote, now takes the next step to really being everywhere, as the service rolls out to the Opera web browser. The browser, which is...

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10 Tips to speed up Opera 9

Opera is already a very fast browser, but if you would have the choice between fast and faster than fast, what would you choose? I decided to compile a list of tips for Opera that speed up the browser...

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Speed up surfing by using Nicknames in Opera

A great feature called SpeedDial has been recently added to Opera. It's a solution providing quick access to your "Top 9" websites and it's faster than using Bookmarks. However the limited number of...

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Automatically download files with Opera

If you do use Opera you might have noticed that Opera seems to always bring up the save to dialog and you have to browse to the download location even if you downloaded a file of the same type just a...

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Make use of Opera’s chameleonic features

As a proud Opera user, you probably let your browser identify itself as Opera browser by default. Although most websites do work and display more or less properly in Opera, there are still many of them...

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Opera’s progress bar in detail

After installation Opera's default settings show the progress bar which displays information about how the current page is loading in its simplest form - as a small rectangular bar that only appears...

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Opera History Search

The Opera team is constantly adding exciting new features to the beta version of the upcoming version of Opera which other web browsers do not support right now. This could give the browser the edge...

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Add Ping to Address Bar in Firefox and Opera

Found this useful tip on how to add a ping shortcut to your Firefox address bar over at Lifehacker. I love its simplicity. Pinging servers is a great way of finding out if they are currently up and...

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Type less to access websites faster

I'm using the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox to access websites with a click - or two - of the mouse button. Space is limited there however and I'm using another way to access websites pretty fast...

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Fine-tuning Opera’s Transfers

I had been overlooking some minor inconveniences related to file transfers in Opera which were from time to time sort of negatively interfering with the efficiency of my work in this marvelous browser....

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Improve your fullscreen browsing experience in Opera

Opera uses the entire screen to show contents of a page and doesn't waste a single pixel on the screen for displaying anything else. This is definitely great for stretching the space available for...

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Backup the Opera Profile

OperaFly 2.0 is for Opera what FeBe or Mozbackup is for Firefox. That pretty much sums it up and I could stop writing at this point but I suppose you want additional information. I would like to start...

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Make full use of Opera’s presentation modes

Making any website temporarily appear the way you want instead of the way its designer meant it to is rather easy if you use Opera and (not quite necessarily) have at least very basic knowledge of the...

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Keyboard only navigation in Opera

A commenter on my recent article about a Firefox add-on that made it possible to open search results using the keyboard let me know that he would like to see a similar article about Opera. It sometimes...

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Access Gmail 2 with Opera 9.5

A new version of Gmail was introduced a while ago by Google which added several new features, like color labels, to Gmail. So called Gmail 2 is accessible through a link in the upper right corner of...

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Move the Opera Address Bar to the Top

The default way of displaying the toolbars in Opera might be confusing to users who are used to working with Firefox or Internet Explorer. The bookmarks toolbar and tab bar are located above the...

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Reduce Opera Bandwidth Usage

I covered an article earlier this month that described changes that could be made to the Firefox configuration in order to save bandwidth. This is extremely useful if you are connected to a volume...

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How to disable the opera_crashreporter.exe process in Windows

If you are running Opera 15 or newer you are running the Chromium-based version of the web browser as opposed to the Presto version that Opera Software used previously. With it comes support for a new...

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Opera 19 Developer update: how to enable Opera’s Power User Mode

To find out how to enable the power user mode, scroll down. Opera Software launched the first Chromium-based version of the company's web browser back in the beginning of July 2013. The release caused...

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