Show your Opera 8 browser layout

[shaywood]

There is but its a bit of  pain to get to work.

You need to create or find an IE png the correct size (16x16 I think) and put in the skin zip file then you need to add a reference to the new png in the skin.ini. The you have to edit the buttons entry in the toolbar.ini to point to the new IE png.

Read this and this

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Thanks for that and yes sounds like a lot of effort lol

[Galley]

Loving this setup. Is there a way to have an icon instead of the label "URL in IE"?

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My custom button says "InIE". I got it from Non-Troppo's Opera wiki custom button page.

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/CustomButtons

[shaywood]

Yep i modded it alittle for the other folks that use my pc, so they know what it does :)

[mayamaniac]

I just tried opera 8.5 now that its free. I like it so far, more so than firefox. But I want to customize the menu, toolbar, and icons. What do I need to do to make opera look like the screenshot below, which is avant browser that I used for years. Notice the popup blocker on/off button, this is extremely useful as I can quickly toggle it off if it blocks something it shouldn't, without digging into the menus. I cannot find this button on any other browser besides avant. Can opera do all these customizations? I played a bit trying to move things around but cannot figure out how to do so. In avant it was just a few clicks and I'm done.

[xp1ode]

Here is mine, nice and simple just how i like it... :p

[GeeZuZz]

mayamaniac: Why do you need that? Opera shows a "notifcation" in the upper corner when a popup has been blocked. If you click it it opens. If you don't click it it hides into the garbage bin, and you can view all blocked pop-ups.

[Denis W. Veteran]

I just tried opera 8.5 now that its free. I like it so far, more so than firefox. But I want to customize the menu, toolbar, and icons. What do I need to do to make opera look like the screenshot below, which is avant browser that I used for years. Notice the popup blocker on/off button, this is extremely useful as I can quickly toggle it off if it blocks something it shouldn't, without digging into the menus. I cannot find this button on any other browser besides avant. Can opera do all these customizations? I played a bit trying to move things around but cannot figure out how to do so. In avant it was just a few clicks and I'm done.

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Try one of the buttons here. The one I tried works, but its label is weird (PUen for popup enabled, for instance). I personally like using the dropdown box (Appearance > buttons tab > preferences category) to control the popup behaviour.

[Fit4130Rider]

Clicky Clicky

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

I just tried opera 8.5 now that its free. I like it so far, more so than firefox. But I want to customize the menu, toolbar, and icons. What do I need to do to make opera look like the screenshot below, which is avant browser that I used for years. Notice the popup blocker on/off button, this is extremely useful as I can quickly toggle it off if it blocks something it shouldn't, without digging into the menus. I cannot find this button on any other browser besides avant. Can opera do all these customizations? I played a bit trying to move things around but cannot figure out how to do so. In avant it was just a few clicks and I'm done.

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You can use the button creator found here to create the button. he attached picture shows what to enter into each box, the parts in yellow can be changed to make the button have any icon you want and thye part in green can be changed to make the popups open in the background if you want.

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

I've tried to keep mine pretty minimal without loosing many features, I'm using the breeze simplified micro 4.15 skin

From top left to bottom right I have

First line

My tab bar with the unread mail/feeds tab open all the time

Second line

My menu bar as a button | My panels as a button (allows me to open any panel quickly) | show wand info button (ever forgot your password, this button will activate the wand and show you the password in a popup box) | search the site with google button | enables/disables a custom stylesheet (used in addition with userjs found on this page) | address bar | search field | highlight text button (press and enter text into popup box and the words get highlighted in page) (used in addition to this userjs) | enable/disable developers toolbar | trashcan (blocked popups and closed windows)

Third line - (not shown all the time)

This is the developers toolbar found here which I have slightly changed to integrate a few features not found in it originally like I added a couple more programs to the utility menu.

Addidtional tweaks/addons

I also have the status bar enabled at the bottom of the screen (not shown)

I have disbaled tooltips and use a userjs found on this page to display then when I hold down the CTRL button (I don't like tooltips on all the time)

It looks like this when in use:

I have also changed a few search.ini entries (added one for wikipedia and the opera forums, google uk)

Menu's

My main right click menu looks like this:

I have removed a lot of the "rubbish" like the back forward entries on the right click menu as I access these via keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures.

from top to bottom I have:

• reload menu - default entry
  bookmark page - default entry
  web deleloper options - most of the options found on the web dev toolbar are found here
  advanced options - open page in ie, translate page, make tiny url, get bugmenot login
  ua.ini editor - allows me to quickly change a pages user agent using a small addon found

here
admuncher menu - added by the beta version of admuncher

I have lots more customizations like different mail and chat css files, a bbcode menu on the right click menu on text boxes etc but I can't be bothered posting screenies for them so unless people want to see them I'll not bother.

All my buttons can be found either here or here

[casey162004]

hmm, how would compare this browser to IE7?

[Jexel]

Here's mine

[liang852]

Here's my opera config:

Edited October 6, 2005 by liang852

[Jase]

I've tried to keep mine pretty minimal without loosing many features, I'm using the breeze simplified micro 4.15 skin

From top left to bottom right I have

First line

My tab bar with the unread mail/feeds tab open all the time

Second line

My menu bar as a button | My panels as a button (allows me to open any panel quickly) | show wand info button (ever forgot your password, this button will activate the wand and show you the password in a popup box) | search the site with google button | enables/disables a custom stylesheet (used in addition with userjs found on this page) | address bar | search field | highlight text button (press and enter text into popup box and the words get highlighted in page) (used in addition to this userjs) | enable/disable developers toolbar | trashcan (blocked popups and closed windows)

Third line - (not shown all the time)

This is the developers toolbar found here which I have slightly changed to integrate a few features not found in it originally like I added a couple more programs to the utility menu.

Addidtional tweaks/addons

I also have the status bar enabled at the bottom of the screen (not shown)

I have disbaled tooltips and use a userjs found on this page to display then when I hold down the CTRL button (I don't like tooltips on all the time)

It looks like this when in use:

I have also changed a few search.ini entries (added one for wikipedia and the opera forums, google uk)

Menu's

My main right click menu looks like this:

I have removed a lot of the "rubbish" like the back forward entries on the right click menu as I access these via keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures.

from top to bottom I have:

• reload menu - default entry
  bookmark page - default entry
  web deleloper options - most of the options found on the web dev toolbar are found here
  advanced options - open page in ie, translate page, make tiny url, get bugmenot login
  ua.ini editor - allows me to quickly change a pages user agent using a small addon found

here
admuncher menu - added by the beta version of admuncher

I have lots more customizations like different mail and chat css files, a bbcode menu on the right click menu on text boxes etc but I can't be bothered posting screenies for them so unless people want to see them I'll not bother.

All my buttons can be found either here or here

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i like how you edited the right click menu, how do i do that, i seem to be blind and cant find the place.

[Fog Dogg]

Nice and clean.

[mayamaniac]

mayamaniac: Why do you need that? Opera shows a "notifcation" in the upper corner when a popup has been blocked. If you click it it opens. If you don't click it it hides into the garbage bin, and you can view all blocked pop-ups.

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The point is to reduce the steps to turn it off. Going to that trash icon is like going to the menu. You click on the trash, select Block Pop-Ups, then find the one that you want to unblock. I like to just use one click on the toolbar.

Try one of the buttons here. The one I tried works, but its label is weird (PUen for popup enabled, for instance). I personally like using the dropdown box (Appearance > buttons tab > preferences category) to control the popup behaviour.

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Nice opera resource page. I haven't figure out what to do yet, but will sit and read through it when I have time. I was hoping for a more simpler solution, but this will do I guess.

You can use the button creator found here to create the button. he attached picture shows what to enter into each box, the parts in yellow can be changed to make the button have any icon you want and thye part in green can be changed to make the popups open in the background if you want.

Again, was hoping for simpler solution, I mean now I have to make a PopUp Blocker icon. Will explore more when I have time to read through it.

Thanks to all for the suggestions. Although as I use Opera more, I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't render some of the pages correctly, worse than Firefox I think. And a plugin to "open in IE" is not an adequate solution for me. But at least Windows media player loads in the web pages, something I can never get Firefox to do, so thats one good thing. I'm really trying hard to like Opera here, but I might have to go back to Avant Browser once again. :/

By the way, how do I move the tool bars around? Is it possible to put Bookmark links or Buttons on the right hand side of the menu bar (File, Edit, View, etc)?Seems like wasted space if I can't put something there.

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

i like how you edited the right click menu, how do i do that, i seem to be blind and cant find the place.

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easy :)

Download the attached .txt file and change the extension to .ini, place it in the menu folder in your profile directory.

Open the modified_menu.ini with notepad and you will find the following:

; Menu specification file for Opera 8.5

[Version]
File Version=2

[Info]
;you can change the name to whatever you want, this is what appears in the opera preferences section
Name=My moddified menu
Description=My changed menu entry's
Author=Jase
Version=
Comments=This file contains only modified items...

[Document Popup Menu]

Item, 50426,    = Back
Item, 50427,    = Forward
Item, 67648,    = Rewind
Item, 67649,    = Fast Forward
--------------------1
Item, 50428,    = Reload 
Submenu, 200000, Reload Menu
;Item, 50429,    = Stop
;Item, 50430,    = Go to homepage
--------------------2
Item, 70464  = Add to bookmarks, 1
Item, 50215  	= Copy document address
Item, 65178  = Send document address in mail
--------------------3
Item, 50004    = Print document
Item, 44002    = View document source
Item, 70465  	= Validate frame source
--------------------4
Include, Internal Frame
Include, Internal Document Background
--------------------5
;Item, 50432  	= Duplicate page
;Item, 52035  	= Create linked window
;--------------------6
Item, 50995  	= Enter fullscreen | Leave fullscreen

If you want to remove parts of the menu from showing up put a ; at the beginning of the line.

If you want to change other menus etc then open standard_menu.ini which is found in the defaults folder in the opera folder and copy the whole section into your modified_menu.ini and change it in there.

modified_menu.txt

[Altered State of Consciousness]

Threads like this make "Fit to window width" very useful. :wub:

[Altered State of Consciousness]

Just found this beauty. It's a Run text field. Very handy! RUN

[Jase]

Alex., thanks alot!

..Altered State of Consciousness, why have that for if you can simply press windows key then R?

[CeL_dAmAgE]

hmm, how would compare this browser to IE7?

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A hell of a lot better :D

[groingo2]

Just the basics.

[Jase]

alex., i just tried the right click menu and it does not seem to work the files are in side the menu folder in my profile but still dont seem to work.

[installerd10]

Coments please.....

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

alex., i just tried the right click menu and it does not seem to work the files are in side the menu folder in my profile but still dont seem to work.

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Does the entry show up in the preferences?