Opera Tip: How to quickly move up one directory/folder level in the URL?
27 CommentsPublished July 5th, 2007 1:14 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman
Q: How do I quickly go from http://operamini.com/features/rss/ to http://operamini.com/features/? In other words, go up one directory level within the address.
A: In Opera press CTRL+Backspace to move up one level.
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This is one of the cool things Opera has, among the others I miss from Google’s toolbar – to my knowledge, no other browser offers it.
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nice.
Thanks for telling.
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They are bit too far one each other to use
In which section (shorcuts), can I change it?
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This post goes to show how slow the news has been all this week, I’m thinking a weekly is just around the corner… nice tip though although I don’t use it often.
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@Simon: There won’t be a new weekly this week. Check the DesktopTeam last post comments.
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Favorite Browser, for me it’s pretty easy using your thumb to press on the CTRL key and your middle finger on the Backspace key.
Having said that, like almost all other Opera keyboard shortcuts, you could change them. Go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts > Keyboard setup > Edit… (Search for ‘Parent directory’)
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For Mac users it’s obviously Apple+Backspace (just pointing out the keyboard difference).
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In safari you right-click on the pages title. Unfortunately there is no shortcut for that in Safari.
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I’m a mouse kinda person. Hold the right click button, drag your mouse up and to the left, and release the right click button. That’ll also get you up one directory.
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There are so many times after switching back to FF that I have tried that, or had the need to do the equivalent of Ctrl+Backspace and couldn’t…
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Ctrl+Shift+Backspace is used to go to the homepage … but only if the “home” link exists.
I haven’t found any other way to reach the root diretory of a site through a shortcut
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I just stumbled upon this shortcut few days ago as it is shown in the tooltip of one of my custom buttons doing the same. Also I discover something new and useful from time to time in Opera – besides the really new stuff.
So Daniel, thank you for the hint – I think it is great to have a series of tips and tricks.
Looking forward to your next hint …
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Another nifty Opera feature is going full screen when viewing a single image in an image gallery, and clicking Shift+X (try it out in Google Images, after clicking a single image).
It also works in directory listings, like the following: http://www.thebreedsofdogs.com/images/
Amazing!
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Speaking of tips and tricks, it would be nice if there was a place in the My.Opera Community just for them. Maybe merge some of the documents from the Opera Wiki and allow people to vote on what they like the most?
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That feature is broken, though…
If you’re on http://example.com/somedir/somescript?param1=a/b¶m2=something it won’t take you to http://example.com/somedir/ but to http://example.com/somedir/somescript?param1=a/ which is most likely not what you want.
If I understand RFC2396 (Section 2.2) correctly the / only has to be encoded as %2F if it would “conflict with their reserved purpose”, which it doesn’t in this case. I filed a bug report a long time ago, but it got ignored. Oh well.
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I tried using the Shift+X feature above and it worked at first but when I left the site and went back and tried it on any other directory it quit working.. bug? or am I doing something wrong?
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This should work better if you have javascript enabled.
Set this as bookmarklet.
javascript:location.pathname=location.pathname.substr(0,location.pathname.lastIndexOf('/'))+'/';void(0);
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To the person who mentioned the mouse gesture (figure 7 starting from the bottom); this is my third most commonly used mouse gesture, out of any of them. And it’s a very cool feature that is obscure in all the other browsers. It’s super easy to pull off.
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Mouse gesture is much easier to use
But it depends how much you use keyboard 
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some skins (tango e.g.) have an image for parent folder button, very nice too!
The mouse gesture is also very effective. (up, left)
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Awesome, just another thing I never knew about Opera!
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I definitely use the Up then Left gesture to do this all the time. Mouse Gestures are extremely useful.
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hey, that’s a pretty cool feature.
until now I always highlighted the last part of the URL and “cut” the directory off by hand.
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Daniel Goldman using Opera 9.50 ??????
hm.. what secret you don’t hide from us fully?
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This feature seems to have lost some power. In the past you could hit Ctrl+Backspace twice in order to move up 2 directory levels. Now you have to wait until the first directory has loaded before using Ctrl+Backspace the second time.
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gleb arestov: That browser version thing is very easy to trick.
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2 wrtlprnft:
what’s about this?
http://operawatch.com/news/2007/06/some-opera-desktop-browser-news.html#comments