Comments on: Auto-hide toolbars in Opera

By: Kelson

Kelson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:06:17 +0000

@Xpatworkiscrazy: Not that it has anything to do with the topic of this post, but IE uses a different form of the Flash player than every other browser on the planet. You can download the version of Flash Player that runs on Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc. at http://www.adobe.com.

By: Xpatworkiscrazy

Xpatworkiscrazy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:07:34 +0000

How come youtube can’t play in all these other browsers other than IE, you get a msg that your flash player is outdated but this doesn’t help.

By: marinus

marinus — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:06:57 +0000

Edmond:
Well, half. But i think most clutter-sensitive folks want toolbars hidden till needed, then instantly appear with a hotkey. Your fix does only the first part. Also: your method doesn’t work on main menu bar.
Firefox can do this with aid of “Hide Tab Bar”, “Hide Navigation Bar”, and “Hide MenuBar” extensions. Which is why i’ve switched to Firefox. Unfortunately Opera Inc. is in a state of denial about their wretched widgets system. I predict FireFox will continue to steal market share from them for this reason. Pity- Opera is my sentimental favourite.
Firefox doesn’t have Opera’s lovely it-just-works “Zoom to Fit”, or its just-plain-better scrollbars [don't enlarge with page zoom, and disappear entirely in full-screen mode]. And worst,
with any # of extensions at all, FireFox is unstable! You can’t win!

By: bob

bob — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:51:10 +0000

Took some time to figure out , but works.

By: edmond

edmond — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:17:02 +0000

Marinus,

If you want to remove toolbars which in my understanding, Please try followings:

Move your mouse cursor to the toolbar which you’d like to remove.
Until your cursor reach there, right click.
Choose customise
Lookup “Placement”
It should be saying top or bottom…etc.
Now, sleect “OFF”.

Hope this is what you want.

Thanks edmond

By: marinus

marinus — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:50:43 +0000

Thanks- very useful tips. But what i really want to know is how to remove toolbars and make them stay removed. Opera Help has been helpless on that score [but it's great on how to remove PARTS of toolbars, "buttons"].
A minimalist, i like to hide my main and address bars, but every time i open Opera, it has forgotten my preferences, and redisplays them. Grrr.

By: edmond

edmond — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:08:48 +0000

add………….

As I just want it SHOWS the left panel and AUTO HIDE itself in a short period as I need the panel to choose some of the filters and I am using eeepc so the screen is rather small especially if the left panel is always there.

Thanks again!!!! edmond

By: edmond

edmond — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:07:27 +0000

Tamil, Thanks to to your time.

It works, however, just to show up the side panel at left, and does not withdraw back (auto hide) afterwards. I copied your

Focus panel, “mail” & Delay, 12000 & Set alignment, “hotlist”, 0

I asssigned a keyboard short cut, it works just to show the panel at left in the M2 mail interface.

Anyway, Thanks to the time and it is not as of any importance to me,

edmond

By: Tamil

Tamil — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:47:22 +0000

Enable Focus panel, “mail” & Delay, 12000 & Disable focus panel, “mail”

Use the following.
Focus panel, “mail” & Delay, 12000 & Set alignment, “hotlist”, 0

By: edmond

edmond — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:47:18 +0000

No Luck to get it work………..
I did this:

Enable Focus panel, “mail” & Delay, 12000 & Disable focus panel, “mail”

Mail panel shows, but did not draw back (HIDE) after 12000 mi sec.

Thanks

By: edmond

edmond — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:38:17 +0000

Great Tamil !!

Thanks to the advise and I’m going to try it with the DELAY option.

By: Tamil

Tamil — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:33:19 +0000

in email M2 I want to assign a keybioard shortcut to Show/Hide the mail panel at left.

It is already available (CTRL+SHIFT+3). If you want to hide panel selector, use Focus panel, “mail” | Set alignment, “hotlist”, 0

By: edmond

edmond — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:36:22 +0000

Great stuff (at least for me)

Can I do the similar “AUTO HIDE” to the left panel
e.g. in email M2 I want to assign a keybioard shortcut to Show/Hide the mail panel at left.

Thanks!!! edmond

By: Tamil

Tamil — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:56:59 +0000

See answer to your other post.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:23:13 +0000

> You can auto-hide any toolbar in Opera

Even the Start bar? Are you sure?

You are also missing the instructions for the View and Navigation bars. Can you autohide them?

For example, How do I turn the “eyeglass” button on the Address bar show an autohiding View bar? I really want to know because I always want it disappearing when I’m done picking one of the view options.