Opera: Quick Tip

By Vygantas Lipskas | September 25, 2009 | 6 Comments

Click and hold the Back button and you’ll get a list of all visited pages for the current tab.

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Vygantas Lipskas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism carrier back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

  • http://blog.tcx.be/ Tommy Carlier

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

  • Steve

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

    :)

  • http://nocontinues.net/ Tiago Sá

    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

  • Foo

    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.

  • http://yellosoft.us/ Andrew Pennebaker

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

  • KT

    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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