I have a few questions for all Opera users:

1. Can Opera minimize to the system tray? If so, how?
2. When clicking the x button (to exit) can you make it so that it brings a option whether or not you want to save the pages?
3. Are there any good plugins/extensions for Opera thatI should use?
4. What is the best way to customize Opera?
5. Does Gmail work fine in Opera?
6. How do I make it so that ctrl + left/right for moving from tab to tab?
7. www.soccervision.co.uk/forum, when I try posting in this site... fast reply... the space at which you type.. the background isin't white. It is brown? Howcome? All other vbulliten sites come fine?
8. Some sites don't load properly. Some sites only load hafl way. Some sites don't load the full picture and you can't see whats on the right? Howcome?

Thanks alot.
Crazysah

Some answers

1. Can Opera minimize to the system tray? If so, how?

ctrl+H

3. Are there any good plugins/extensions for Opera thatI should use?
4. What is the best way to customize Opera?

go to my.opera.com it has all what you need

5. Does Gmail work fine in Opera?

yes, except for one thing. Opera does not support the rich text formatting options as yet.

6. How do I make it so that ctrl + left/right for moving from tab to tab?

ctrl+f12-->advanced-->shortcuts-->keyboard setup; change your desired option here

8. Some sites don't load properly. Some sites only load hafl way. Some sites don't load the full picture and you can't see whats on the right? Howcome?

some sites 'on purpose' send distorted data to Opera. Some are wrongly coded. There is not much you can do about it.

strange about this gmail thing. i thought that in version 8 all the issues were fixed.

I do not know much about this browser but I know I have some problem with those following;

I can not see some webpage contain with Netscape Browser 8 and Netscape Browser 8

I have no problem seeing all contain of page with IE , but not with Ns andd opera 8

anyone has same problem with page?

for example

this page and many more from this site

Some sites just are not written properly

I went to my.opera.com but couldn't find any extensions for Opera.

Also where in shortcuts can I find the shortcut from moving from browser to browser?

Opera doesnt need any extensions, its fine the way it is.

I second that

What Firefox can do with a lot of extension and a base download much heavier than opera's one, Opera does without any external effort.

However, there are some interisting work-arounds in http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera that may be useful.

http://my.opera.com/community/customize/

and this page is also very good

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera

1. You can choose "Start with no pages" on Opera's startup dialog.
2. You can close all pages fast before exit by pressing hotkey or mouse gesture.
3. You can set Startup option to "Start with no pages"





FAQs, manuals, User-JS extensions, script addons, buttons, menus, search engines, customizable UI etc...



Yes of course. You can set any keboard shortcut and any mouse gesture to any Opera's action.



Opera's Presto web-browser engine is great. But some non-standart sites working with Internet Explorer only. Use special extension for open sites with Internet Explorer engine inside Opera's window. Just click menu and choose "Open page with IE". You need special plugins/extension for this feature.

Crazysah,

In Opera's keyboard shortcut editor, edit the following entries under "Application" (double-click the text in the right column):

left ctrl: change to "Cycle to previous page" (no quotes)

right ctrl: change to "Cycle to next page"

Thanks. Worked like a charm.

That was before Gmail added rich text formatting.

YW!

What do you want to do, that you think you need extensions for? Chances are good that it can be done with Opera as it is out of the box, probably you just have not found out how to do it yet.

Like see:
1. Some sites don't work properly. In some Vbulliten sites when I reply the background is not white, I want it to be white. How do I do that?
2. I want it to automatically save the pages when I close the browser.
3. I would like to have it refresh all the pages when it opens.

Thanks. I will think of more and post it later!

1. I have never seen this happen to me, could you post and example site and perhaps a screenshot?

2. Opera automatically saves sessions when you close the browser, you probably have the startup option wrong, you have to have the startup option set to continue from last time (IIRC it's the first thing you see when you open the preferences)

3.Opera uses the cache as much as it can, if you want to change it you hae to go into the preferences and click on the advanced tab then click on history (I think) and chanage the setting for document to always check.

1. See Alex's answer.

2. By default Opera is set to give you a start-up dialog giving you the options:
a. Continue from last time.
b. Continue with saved session (you can save a session at any time, File - Sessions)
c. Start with homepage.
d. Start with no page.

I assume you have accidentally disabled this start-up dialog, to fix that go to Tools - Preferences - General and change the start-up setting to the preference you like (I recommend 'Show start-up dialog'

3. It do this when you continue from last time or from saved saved sessions. At least mine do and I don't think I've changed any settings to accomplish that.

Do you need extensions to Firefox for this?

Thanks to both of you for helping me out.
I still have one problem.

@ alex: I went to history and changed it to always but no difference. Any other solution?

BTW - Will post the screenshot in a few mins.

Attachement is here: Now why is the background brown?

The website specifically makes the background brown for the quick reply area. You can prevent sites from styling forms by going to...

Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> Uncheck "Enable styling of forms"

Hey there. Thank alot for that. Cany anyone help me with my other problem?

Please specify what your other problem is.

3. I would like to have it refresh all the pages when it opens.

I tried the solutions above but none worked.

As I said before my Opera do this, so my suggestion here is a bit of guesswork.

Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Browsing - Re use existing page.

If you have re use existing page ticked (I don't) unticking it may help. If not I'll look into it later when I have time.

Btw, how do you know that the refresh on start up don't work. To be sure you must be certain that the page has been changed while you were off-line and that it did not change between when you started Opera and when Opera or you refreshed the page. Note that Opera also can be set to refresh pages at different time intervals. Right click, "Reload Every" give you options to have it refresh between every 5 seconds to 30 minutes

Cause I had made a post in IE (on Neowin). I then opened up Opera and the thread came but my post did not. Thats how I knew that it wasn't getting refreshed.

that only effects bookmarks etc has nothing to do with page loading.

@crazysah

have you tried setting the three options to check always? I think they are document, images and other

Nope. That did not work either!

So can anyone help me or what???

Please? I really want this to work people.

Thanks.

Emptying the cache on exit (Tools > Preferences > Advanced > History) will force pages to be reloaded when you restart.

Trying it out now. I am positng this in IE and I will now open Opera to se eif it works.

EDIT: YES! IT WORKS! OMG! THANK YOU!

YAY!

Post here if you have any more questions/problems.

Another satisfied Opera user!