Opera: Quick Tip

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1. Tommy Carlier says:

   September 25, 2009 at 6:35 am

   You don’t even have to hold and wait: it’s faster to click and drag down.

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2. Steve says:

   September 25, 2009 at 10:29 am

   This is not new. Have been using this feature since version 7.5 or 8.

   :)

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3. Tiago Sá says:

   September 25, 2009 at 12:12 pm

   Something Firefoxy I found out about a few weeks ago and that’s incredibly cool. I don’t know if it’s because of some extension I might have, but I doubt it, since I haven’t installed anything that’s supposed to add this:

   CTRL + SHIFT + ~ (the upper left key of the main key body on the keyboard, for me, ptPT keyboard, it’s a \ ) works as a Reload all tabs in this site. Awesome :D

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4. Foo says:

   September 27, 2009 at 7:13 am

   Click and hold the back button (or the other back thingy) and you’ll get a backlog of ‘earlier’ visited pages for that tab.
   Click and hold the forward button (?or the other forward thingy?) and you’ll get a list of ‘earlier’ visited pages that you have ‘backed’ from for that tab.
   Yeah, I know the explanations sounds strange, but they are more accurate. I think they should do what everyone else does. Allow you to right-click the forward/backward buttons to get a partial history listing for that tab centered at the current location in the history.

   Also, it makes no sense to have the same menu for both the regular back/forward buttons as the alternate ones :-/

   On the topic of traversing history, you can use shift+scroll-wheel or alt+arrow keys to do that. Well, except for shift+scroll-wheel if you’re using Opera and your current location is the dial.
   Found another shortcut for Opera by accident, shift+middle-click will give you the settings pane for the middle-click.

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5. Andrew Pennebaker says:

   September 27, 2009 at 1:45 pm

   This functionality is not limited to Opera. Many browsers do this.

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6. KT says:

   September 28, 2009 at 12:34 pm

   Very useful Opera tip for a majority of (any) browser users still don’t know about it.

   A great Opera tip for my friends/family is press/hold the REWIND button (not the Back button)…and go back through your history by jumping web sites, not just individual pages.

   (Another great feature is the FAST-FORWARD button, unique to Opera also.) I’m still blown away that more people haven’t discovered Opera’s usefulness…and Opera v10 just added on to that list — oh, and the Stop/Reload/Go buttons were already integrated YEARS ago, if you’re waiting breathlessly for that in your current browser.

   Check out Opera and play with it for a few days and you’ll see what I mean. ;)

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