Opera Tip: How to prevent the ‘Transfers’ tab from popping up?
Published July 12th, 2007 4:37 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanQuestion: With the default settings of Opera the ‘Transfers’ tab/window/dialog opens up into focus. How can I disable it from opening up when I download a file?
Answer: In the menu bar, go to Tools > Transfers… In the Transfers tab click on the ‘View’ button (see screenshot below).
Opera gives you 2 options:
- To prevent the Transfers tab from opening all together, click on the ‘Never show transfers when starting download’ option.
- Otherwise, to have the Transfers open in a background tab without stealing the focus (an option which I prefer), click on the ‘Show transfers in background when starting download’ option.
Disable the ‘Transders’ tab from stealing focus
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Funny, i always found that behavior a little annoying but i didn’t think to look for an option to change it.
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Not actually a tip, but well if that helps…
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I was in the same boat as Hylic, so - handy pointer! Opera is almost too full of nifty features… But it’s nice to discover them.
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How is that not a tip?
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Thanks a lot!
Having the Transfers tab popping up each time I download something annoyed me for a while! Now, it stays in background…
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With the transfers panel, I got this disabled a long time ago. And now with this tip, I wonder what the spike for this statistic will look like.
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Wow! I’ve been having my transfers tab pop up in background for YONKS thru some hack I found while surfing opera forums. I didn’t realised that there is now a simple way to disable transfers tab from becoming active!
Awesome!
(Cause I don’t have to remember how to do the hack again whenever I upgrade opera/install it on a new comp XD)
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Now if you can tell me how to get rid of those BLANKITY BLANK BLANK BLANKITY BLINK BLANK BLUNK blank pages that appear every time I download something (which being a podcast fan is ALOT).
FF/FX figured it out ages ago, why can’t Opera!
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Thanks! Transfer pop-up was really annoying me for a long time. But never knew that there existed this option!
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Man, awesome tip. It’s simple but I didn’t know that it was possible and I always needed it! Thanks
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The blank page is really annoying. No solution for that?
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this really helps me. Sometimes I don’t use things that are helpful in Opera.
Posting with IE 6 lol.
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Oh yes, this is an important, handy option, useful on daily basis. It existed in Opera 6, but from Opera 7.0 it disappeared. It took a lot of time, convincing, crying and nerves to have it back again.
There are more things awaiting fix, please support them:
1. Confirmation for close browser window
2. Ask before closing tabs with edited forms
3. Let Opera load content of current tab with high priority - faster than all other tabs - a hard PITA
4. Adding/removing sites inside session / Session panel
…as well as 2 features and an improvement for M2/Opera Mail:
1. One draft per mail in Quick Reply - save it between sessions!!
2. REVOLUTIONARY feature: flag sent mail as “Expected reply after X days”
3. Automatically adjust From account while sending to defined contact
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Nice. Constantly loosing the focus on the page tab was getting annoying. But I’d had never found these options if i had not googled for them; i think they’d get more visible in Preferences -> Advanced. I like going through all the preferences and yet i had not seen these.
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Why didn’t I know this, really good tip!
Have been using the sidebar for all this stuff and at some point I just left the download tab open as my first tab just so it wouldn’t popin everytime.
This fixes everything!
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Thank you for the tip. I run into a problem though and here is how I correct it:
In Opera 9.23, when I did not see the ‘View’ button or the ‘Transfers bar’ after opening the ‘Transfers’ tab, I did the followings to get them back:
1. Click on the ‘Transfers’ tab.
1. In the menu bar, select
Tools > Appearance…
2. Click on the ‘Toolbars’ tab and select the ‘Show hidden toolbars while customizing’ check-box.
3. Click on the ‘Buttons’tab.
4. Click on ‘Defaults’ in the ‘Catagory’ column on the left hand side.
5. Find and click on the ‘Transfers’ bar outside of the ‘Appearance’ window.
6. Click on the ‘Reset toolbar to its defaults’ long button (locating on the right bottom of the ‘Buttons’ tab’s area inside of the ‘Appearance’ window.
I can now follow the rest of the tip.