Comments on: Opera 9.5 alpha is out

By: rajagursahani

rajagursahani — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:34:52 +0000

what about the buttons on the side of the address bar for getting to webpages faster. can’t do that with this is alpha version what happened to that feature.

By: Chuck Monroe

Chuck Monroe — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:05:06 +0000

No problem, thanks It would be a nice addition for anyone who uses a stylus, to toggle between scroll and text-selection mode…

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:04:46 +0000

Chuck, not that I know of.

By: Chuck Monroe

Chuck Monroe — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:08:04 +0000

Thanks Daniel Is it possible to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle Scroll-is-pan on and off?

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:51:22 +0000

Chuck Monroe, here’s where you change the the ’scroll is pan’ settings:

opera:config#UserPrefs|ScrollIsPan

(copy and paste)

By: Chuck Monroe

Chuck Monroe — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:04:28 +0000

Thanks Berend, that sounds exactly what I was looking for. Where did you go to find “override scroll is pan”? I tried in mouse and keyword under shortcuts (Prefs), and in opera:config, without success.

By: K wright

K wright — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:01:56 +0000

Seems to be a place to brag or you’ll get shot down. I hate the fact the blank tab always apppears.( 2 tabs always open - the desktop link I click on plus blank tab or speed dial, if so configured.

By: berend

berend — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:07:36 +0000

@Chuck Monroe: if you’re in you’re keyboard shortcuts and create an new one, you should be able to find “override scroll is pan” I have ctrl \ as an shortcut and put an option on my navigation bar.

By: Chuck Monroe

Chuck Monroe — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:11:32 +0000

Thanks Chocker, I’m sorry I missed the link.

By: Chuck Monroe

Chuck Monroe — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:04:06 +0000

Thanks Berend That’s exactly it, the feature is great when you use a wacom tablet as mouse.

A great moddification to ScrollIsPan would be a modifier key that toggles ScrollIsPan off if you want to select text for example (IE7 on Vista toggles the “Panning Hand” with Alt+G). Since ScrollIsPan isn’t in the Prefs > Shortcut dialog, I don’t know how to assign it a kbrd shortcut…

By: Street

Street — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:54:24 +0000

Oops, my bad. Opera 9.21 not 9.23.

By: Street

Street — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:52:50 +0000

Anyone besides me find it odd, that the day after Opera releases 9.5a, with an emphasis towards fixing specific issues with Google sites, that Google reader stops working in Opera? At least it does not work in both 9.23 and 9.5a anymore. On Tuesday, Reader DID work in 9.5a. Then Google ‘upgraded’ Reader on Wednesday and no worky in Opera.

Probably just a case of ‘I am big and can ignore a portion of my customer base.’ Makes you think though…

By: Chocker

Chocker — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:23:10 +0000

@Chuck Monroe

How about reading the changelog?. It’s not that hard, is it?.

By: berend

berend — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:42:24 +0000

@Chuck Monroe:
Don’t you mean this one

opera:config#UserPrefs|ScrollIsPan

By: netster007x

netster007x — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:28:24 +0000

Am I the only one who would like the new ability to search history by text in the website to be extended to bookmarks as well? It could make the address bar the ultimate search location. What it could do, is show history results up top, then bookmark results below under a divider. If the URL of a bookmark already exists in the history, it would only be shown in the history section. So the bookmarks section would just be for bookmarks that are not in history.