Comments on: Opera tip: CTRL+Spacebar opens homepage

By: hurg

hurg — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:11:12 +0000

i prefer the ctrl + spacebar, can do it with my left hand very quickly.

By: Alica

Alica — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:59:49 +0000

Well, Ctrl-Space is not available to traditional Chinese users, as the locale defines Ctrl-Space as IME on/off switch.

By: ra-mon

ra-mon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:00:07 +0000

Other “homepage tip” : A double click on blank area of speed dial also open start page
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Pierre

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:59:21 +0000

Another nice little trick is the shortcuts to open your speed dials; Ctrl-n (n being a number from 1-9)

By: DMXell

DMXell — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:45:29 +0000

Also, if you use mouse gestures and you’re someone who prefers the homepage opening than speed dial for when you make a new tab, you can configure the right-click+down mouse gesture to create a new tab and then open your homepage after the new tab is created (I did some trial and error a while back since I wanted to see if my iGoogle homepage would be more productive than speed dial, it wasn’t for me but for others it might be). Just another tip.

By: IceArdor

IceArdor — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:16:44 +0000

I miss some of the shortcuts that were supposedly “reserved for the OS”. I used Ctrl+Alt+T for opening the Transfers tab all the time. I know that Ctrl+J is quicker, but my brain just can’t logically connect Transfers with the letter “J”… it’s as though Opera had some left over letters in their bowl of ABC soup and spooned out random ones to commands that got stripped of their OS-reserved command.

Oh well, life will go on. I could switch to 9.2-compatible keyboard shortcuts, but I embrace change.

By: Nerml P. Norml

Nerml P. Norml — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:26:02 +0000

The logic of changing so much of the keyboard layout is mistifying to me. Opera had a very nice (9.2) layout — now (9.5b) it has firefox’s. Further, other than being like firefox, I see absolutely no advantage to teh new one, and many disadvantage (how does one reopen the last closed page?)

Of course, when there were such huge changes going from 3 to 4, I resisted for quite some time, and was eventually convinced that the changes were good. Thus, I’m loath to enable the compat key layout.

By: breun

breun — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:15:26 +0000

But that’s already the default trigger for Quicksilver…

By: hmm

hmm — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:29:56 +0000

Ahh, LOL. I didn’t bother to check it though. So the time HAS come.

By: h143570

h143570 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:11:26 +0000

Why? 9.5 operating that way already. I’m not sure about the 9.24 line though.

By: hmm

hmm — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:11:26 +0000

The time will come for Opera to copy Alt+Home from IE.