How to quickly load webages in Opera using nicknames?
20 CommentsPublished September 11th, 2007 4:52 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman
Opera gives you the option to assign a nickname to a webpage, which you can then use to quickly load that page.
Step 1:
Begin by bookmarking the page. In the menu bar, go to Bookmarks > Bookmark page… The bookmark dialog will open.
Step 2:
Click on the ‘Details’ button.
Step 3:
Enter a short nickname. Click OK. You’re done.
To see how it works:
Enter the nickname in the URL address bar and press the ‘Enter’ button.
Little trick:
If you press SHIFT+F2, Opera will load the bookmarked page immediately as soon as you have typed in enough of a nickname to differentiate it from the others. For example, if you have a nickname ‘om’ and you don’t have any other nicks starting with the letter ‘o’, then Opera will immediately load the ‘om’ bookmark when you enter ‘o’. Pretty cool.
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Neat. I’ve been using keyword searches to do this for a long time, eg write “g asdf” to go to google.
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Hey Daniel: I thought one of the readers (forget which now… GT500?) was going to make you some transparent browser icons for the comments section. What happened?
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also works for folders, allowing to open more than one bookmark with one nickname
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OpenDNS allows you to use shortcuts like this, except they work on every computer in your network, regardless of the browser you use.
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BAMAToNE, yes. I got the transparent images, but got busy with other things and never got around to it.
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I’ve been using nicknames for a while, but never knew about the shift+F2 trick. Thanks!
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Is it possible to put the nicknames in the speed dial?
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Tesla, try changing Shift+F2 to F1 in your keyboard configuration. It really rocks then.
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Nicknames also works with the command line, to open individual bookmark or all bokmarks included in a nicknamed folder:
for windows:
>opera.exe nickname
In first v9.x, nickname was enabled in preference startup homepage field, but now, unfortunately, it’s converted to http://nickname
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Pierre
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I’ve been using the Shift+F2 trick for years. In fact I started using it so much that I also started using F2 instead of the address bar and now I don’t even have the address bar visible at all; although it freaks out anyone else who tries to use my computer to visit a site.
@Michael Mc: I didn’t know OpenDNS offers that now…just did a bit of reading turns out they offer basically something similar to Opera’s Custom Search and Bookmark Nicknames. I think having the same searches/nicknames across a network would be not as good (i.e. someone may want wikipedia as wp while another may want washington post as wp), also some searches/bookmarks maybe shouldn’t be so easily accessed.
@Kai: not currently, would be a good idea though.
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This is the stuff that makes Opera THE FASTEST MOTHERF@#$N’ BROWSER.
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This is a function I was waiting for the last year, since I began to use the search abbreviations.
Thank you Opera Team. Keep up the good work.
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Is there a way to see all the different nicknames one once set? Because I (as probably most people) have quite some bookmarks and I wouldn’t want to lose track of the nicknames.
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musiKk, if you open the bookmarks tab, you’ll see a list of nicknames. Go to Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks…
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Wow, that was fast. Thanks a lot. Now I’ll give them nicknames a try.
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great! One more reason to love Opera
BTW: is there some eastern eggs in kestrel?
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Easter egg in Opera 9.5? Well, you still have the slashdot one.
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@Kal Hit the speed dial number in address bar and hit enter.
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alias also work in the bookmark folders, that way you can create a folder with the pages you read a lot and open all of them with just one shortcut
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andol, I second that! I’ve mapped F1 to nicknames since …forever and its the first customization I do when installing a new Opera. Who needs F1 for help anyway?