Just tried Opera and it seems to load pages a little faster and much smoother, I don’t get little hiccups that I always get with firefox.

I might consider switching to Opera fulltime if I can get certain things working, my big problem is with logins not being saved. For example if I login into neowin and then leave in firefox then when I come back I will stay logged in until I remove my cache/cookies but with opera I’m logged out and I have to relogin using the Wand. Anything I can do to stay logged in?

Also is there anyway I can get a separate tab-close button so I can close any current tab with out moving my mouse to the tab’s close button. This is what I mean, notice I have an x to close each tab and the regular firefox tab close button to close the current tab. Just makes it easier if you have a million tabs open and you don’t want to go for each one.



Thanks for you help, hopefully I can make the switch.

go to options, and uncheck " Show close buttons on each tab"

then you get like close button like that near your window min/max/close buttons.

I acctually want both, I want on tabs if I have not that many tabs and I want a single one in case I have a large number I have opened and need to close. Thanks anyway.

check "show X on each tab" option
and
create a button to close active page by
editing your toolbar .ini file ( default: ...\profile\toolbar\standard_toolbar (1).ini )


# is a number, set as 0 if no button under [Customize Toolbar Custom.content]

restart Opera, drag & drop the created "Close" button from
"Appearance > Buttons > My buttons" to the position u like.


BTW

though i know nothing about programming,
but the UI of Opera is simply too customizable

Pres F1 to find out the Commands

Thanks serafins that works well, however I have a problem with tab order now

Is there anyway I can close the last tab to the right instead of the last tab I visited.

For example I open 3 websites

Tab1 - Neowin
Tab2 - Google
Tab3 - Gmail

If from the Neowin tab I go to Gmail, when I close Gmail I go back to Neowin instead of Google. This is can be a big problem for closing many tabs at once.

Also is there any chance I can use a different graphic for the close button? Like the delete one?

1 more thing, anyway I can get a go button after the address bar? So I click it instead of always having to press enter.

Thanks again.

You prefer to click rarther then press enter?

But anyway, yes. Right click around the address bar and go to customize > Buttons > Browser View > Drag the 'Go' where you want it

when i made the full time switch those were my 2 biggest concerns too! (close button for the tabs & the go button)... well i just got used to the tab closing and now in firefox i hate it ive gotten to liking the opera way alot better. the go button still annoys me though though i only need it when pasting an address in which case i can click paste and go...


edit: ^ well that works. ive tried that a million times i jsut never saw that damn button

thanks

When I surf my keyboard is acctually out of reach most of the time, I just use the mouse.

Thanks again.

@PrimoTurbo

Pref. > Brows. > Cycle page : pagebar order

Stop icon for Close button

not sure about del icon



make sure u choos the right Toolbar setup & edit the coresponding ini

Delete icon for Close button


as easy as that

Thanks Almost perfect just need to figure out how I can keep the same tab order as firefox and keep logged in after I leave a site.

Here is how it currently looks like:

I assume you have tried tinkering with your cookie settings?

(Assuming v. 8.0) Preferences > Advanced tab > Cookies

just thinking how many people are using Opera w/o Google ads ... for free

Okay I almost have everything perfect except the tab order, anyone have any idea how I can fix it?

I'm not sure there is a solution for the tab order. My understanding is that there is a continuing issue on the Opera forums. It's basically because Opera is MDI, not tabbed, so the windows stack. When you close one, you see whatever is under it, the last page you looked at. I'm not really sure if there is a windows limitation here, or if it's something Opera Software is working on, or what.

Suffice it to say it doesn't bother me much. I think there are some kludges on the customize Opera forums at my.opera.com/forums, but I think they don't work perfectly.