Comments on: Opera Tip: How to prevent the ‘Transfers’ tab from popping up?

By: hd2

hd2 — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:15:29 +0000

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.

By: Xenopholis

Xenopholis — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:36:08 +0000

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!

By: miggir

miggir — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:51:57 +0000

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.

By: Nasty

Nasty — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:54:24 +0000

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

By: yeeliberto

yeeliberto — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:44:06 +0000

this really helps me. Sometimes I don’t use things that are helpful in Opera.
Posting with IE 6 lol.

By: schmoeding

schmoeding — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:16:10 +0000

The blank page is really annoying. No solution for that?

By: Dands

Dands — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:31:18 +0000

Man, awesome tip. It’s simple but I didn’t know that it was possible and I always needed it! Thanks

By: Shreyas

Shreyas — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:26:28 +0000

Thanks! Transfer pop-up was really annoying me for a long time. But never knew that there existed this option!

By: WolvenSpectre

WolvenSpectre — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:05:59 +0000

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!

By: Evane

Evane — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:03:07 +0000

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)

By: kftgr

kftgr — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:58:23 +0000

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.

By: Romain

Romain — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:23:03 +0000

Thanks a lot!

Having the Transfers tab popping up each time I download something annoyed me for a while! Now, it stays in background…

By: dabigua

dabigua — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:52:53 +0000

How is that not a tip?

By: Jezetha

Jezetha — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:41:56 +0000

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.

By: Kai

Kai — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:18:13 +0000

Not actually a tip, but well if that helps…