Comments on: Opera Tip: How to quickly move up one directory/folder level in the URL?

By: gleb arestov

gleb arestov — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:17:05 +0000

2 wrtlprnft:

what’s about this?

http://operawatch.com/news/2007/06/some-opera-desktop-browser-news.html#comments

By: wrtlprnft

wrtlprnft — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:22:36 +0000

gleb arestov: That browser version thing is very easy to trick.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:05:42 +0000

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.

By: gleb arestov

gleb arestov — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:56:30 +0000

Daniel Goldman using Opera 9.50 ??????
hm.. what secret you don’t hide from us fully?

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:03:54 +0000

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.

By: James Cassell

James Cassell — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:11:05 +0000

I definitely use the Up then Left gesture to do this all the time. Mouse Gestures are extremely useful.

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:57:34 +0000

Awesome, just another thing I never knew about Opera!

By: decimal

decimal — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:53:20 +0000

some skins (tango e.g.) have an image for parent folder button, very nice too!

The mouse gesture is also very effective. (up, left)

By: lockoom

lockoom — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:26:34 +0000

Mouse gesture is much easier to use But it depends how much you use keyboard

By: josh

josh — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:18:46 +0000

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.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:48:51 +0000

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);

By: null

null — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:58:03 +0000

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?

By: wrtlprnft

wrtlprnft — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:22:37 +0000

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.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:38:00 +0000

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?

By: Hein Tore Tønnesen

Hein Tore Tønnesen — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:37:45 +0000

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!