The Master Password in the Opera web browser is protecting the saved user passwords from being accessed by anyone locally. It provides pretty much the same functionality that the Firefox Master Password does. There is however one difference. The Firefox Password Manager protects the list of websites, usernames and passwords which can be viewed after [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Greasemonkey in Opera
Did you know that you can easily load Greasemonkey scripts into Opera? While Firefox users need an extension for that Opera users can simply import them into Opera. Well, some manual work is required but nothing to serious. Takes probably half a minute to import it. First you need to download the Greasemonkey script that [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Use The Opera Mini Browser On A PC
The Opera Mini browser was designed with mobile devices in mind. It compresses the contents before they are send to the device of the user who is running Opera Mini which results in lower bandwidth needs because the traffic is routed through an Opera server first to achieve that. Pritesh pointed out that there is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Reduce Opera Bandwidth Usage
I covered an article earlier this month that described changes that could be made to the Firefox configuration in order to save bandwidth. This is extremely useful if you are connected to a volume based internet connection where you pay per Megabyte or Gigabyte. Flatrates are not that common in many parts of the world [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Synchronize Data with Opera Link
Opera Link provides a similar option to synchronize data from Opera than Mozilla Weave does for Firefox. I don’t want to start a discussion on who was first with that idea because something like this only matters to fanboys. The same can be said for comparing browser distribution. Rarst has a nice article up at [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
Move the Opera Address Bar to the Top
The default way of displaying the toolbars in Opera might be confusing to users who are used to working with Firefox or Internet Explorer. The bookmarks toolbar and tab bar are located above the address bar. As you might know Firefox and Internet Explorer are displaying the address bar on top and the tab bar [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Access Gmail 2 with Opera 9.5
A new version of Gmail was introduced a while ago by Google which added several new features, like color labels, to Gmail. So called Gmail 2 is accessible through a link in the upper right corner of the Gmail interface. A click on Newer Version loads the new interface. Apparently though this link is not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Keyboard only navigation in Opera
A commenter on my recent article about a Firefox add-on that made it possible to open search results using the keyboard let me know that he would like to see a similar article about Opera. It sometimes takes a while but I always try to help my readers by finding solutions for them. During that [...]
Make full use of Opera’s presentation modes
Making any website temporarily appear the way you want instead of the way its designer meant it to is rather easy if you use Opera and (not quite necessarily) have at least very basic knowledge of the simplest CSS statements. There’s a useful feature you may have not cared about until now and I’m ready [...]