Advanced search, thumbnails & sorting in opera:cache
33 CommentsPublished July 5th, 2008 6:15 AM EDT By Tamil
From Opera 9.50, cache files no longer use file extensions. The following will add advanced search, thumbnails and sorting to opera:cache.
- Copy language file (*.lng) from Opera installation directory to your profile (Help → About Opera → Paths → Opera Directory).
- Open language file in any text editor and replace string for -1713924769 with modified one.
- Go to Preferences → General → Language → Details… → Use Interface language → Choose… and select modified language file.
- Restart Opera.
- Type opera:cache in address field to see extra features.
Advanced search, thumbnails & sorting in opera:cache
Note: You have to update modified language file, whenever you install major version of Opera.
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I don’t like it that Tamil now uses this place to post the same “tips” he posts on his blog. People who want “tips” like that will check Tamils blog, please spare us from them here
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operauser, I couldn’t disagree more. This website here has a far greater reach than Tamil’s my.opera site, and e.g. this particular tip here might be very useful for many people indeed. It’s not as if this site turned into a Opera tips and tricks now…
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It’s not as if this site turned into a Opera tips and tricks now…
Well, from the last 10 posts 4 are tips&tricks
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back when this was still a daniel goldman-only site, there were also regular opera tips. So now someone else posts the tips. big deal.
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@operauser – u don’t realize this but ur lame comments r actually rooted in PURE RACISM!!
abt the post– y ain’t this thing default??
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While most of Tamils tips and tricks are usefull, I still can not help becoming frustrated seeing them. Not because I do not want to see them on operawatch (because I do), but because they all seem to be a big hazzle to apply.
I think the opera:cache thing here is of a slightly different nature than previous posts, as it is clearly a user-modified string, but those that really gets on my nerves are the opera:config ones. I do not see myself as a completely computer rookie, but I never understand what I do there.
Example:
“Clear Private Data Dialog – CheckFlags – 3319″
What is this? What flags? No mouseover helps me understand what this magic number represents.
Example 2:
“Performance – PerformanceHTTP – Error Strategy: 2″
Oh really? If I have this setting, Opera will use Strategy 2 instead of Strategy 1. Fine with me, I only wish I knew what this strategy implies.
I know this is again off topic (most of my recents posts have been) but what really had been great was if Opera paid Tamil to make configuration of opera more untuitive. While I appreciate some of Tamils tips, I would really like to know what I am doing.
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@operauser:
I think it’s positive that there’s more than one contributor to the Opera Watch blog and welcome Tamil’s tips. There are dates where nothing has been submitted and I fail to see why these entries are a bad thing. Even though Tamil submits the same tips as in his blog, it’s not a bad thing that they are in once centralised place with an even greater reach. Isn’t it all about providing useful information?
@Fleawin:
You summed it up nicely! Information needs to be easy and intuitive to follow and techno babble can potentially put people off.
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@Fleawin, there is a help link in opera:config page at top right corner.
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Just downloaded Opera for my Macbook.
It’s gorgeous. Unfortunately, like so much on a Mac, gorgeously useless without a lot of jumping through hoops.
No single-key shortcuts?? Are they insane?
Being able to zoom with one key-press was THE reason to download Opera.
I was especially interested in trying it on the eeepc, which with it’s tiny screen desperately needs such features. And the last thing Macbooks need is more keyboard contortions.
Oh and by the way, Opera developers: “Zoom” is the term that Apple uses for the spastic green button. Labelling it as Zoom in your menus can screw things up for those of us who have assigned menu-based keyboard shortcuts.
******* moronic.
Sorry for the rant, I’m sure this ain’t the place, but it’s so damned sad to see a fine piece of software deliberately degraded and dumb-down.
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And yes, I know, I can enable single-click shortcuts with one check-mark.
But how long until that option disappears?
And, my God, there’s no shortcut at all for full-screen?
Merde! (there, let’s see the auto-censors asterisk that. Christ, George Carlin weeps in heaven.)
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@Tamil: Altough a solution, I am not pleased with it. I find it hidden and counter-intuitive.
I see that clicking on the headers on the link page leads to the given config-box. What about the other way around? Clicking on “more info” in opera:config leads to more information on what a given box does. Would be a relatively easy solution to improve ease of use a bit. And take a developper about half an hour to do.
Just my two ranting cents
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I hope I don’t make you feel like a scapegoat Tamil. That is not the intention. I don’t even know if you are an Opera employee.
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I don’t like it that people like operauser tell the people who run Opera Watch what Opera Watch is supposed to be.
And that people like bc want Opera to remain a geek-only browser.
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operauser, you seem to be in the minority here. I certainly enjoy reading Tamil’s posts; I’ve learned a lot from him.
Tamil: keep up the good work!!!
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Guys forget him, many people don’t even go to my.opera, and adding Tamil’s tips cannot be useless, it is very informative on the other hand!!
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Forum post for all people who miss extensions in cache for one reason or another:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=203663
Let your voice be heard!
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Hope you don’t stop posting tips for 9.2…
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I love you Opera. Is a fast and quick and reliable browser.
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I think it’s nice that stuff like this is posted here… as long as it’s good and useful …and so far it really is
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/offtopic
Is anyone able to log on into MyOpera? I can’t. I get the “we’ll be back shortly…”
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bc, enable single-key-shortcuts in:
tools > preferences > advanced > shortcuts > [x] check the checkbox. I recommand you 9.2-keyboard-compatible shortcuts, by the way.
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Hey, thanks for the tip Werwolf… I’ve been missing the old shortcuts and was always irritated if I tried one of the old key combinations but they didn’t work :-p
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Opera, making your life easy
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Hi webmaster!
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I think thats a really neat tip and dont see the issue with it being posted here…
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First of all, thanks are due to Tamil for using his substantial expertise in providing useful tips. I have personally had my queries solved by him at the Opera forum.
To maximize the beneficial effect of his advice, I suggest that he takes full consideration of Fleawin’s apt remarks above, which are supported by convincing examples.
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Great post, Tamil.
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opera:cache
didn’t work in my Opera untill I disabled
Tools->Preferences->Advanced->History->Empty on exit
with disabled option works fine
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This relies on javascript being enabled, which I have disabled in general and re-enable for specific sites, yet opera:cache nor opera can be specified as a site in the manage sites menu
Is there some way to treat opera:cache as a specifc site, for which I can enable javascript?
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Another disadvantage is the cache file content is not typed and hyperlinked, just where it came from. The link to the original website is of little use as what is in the cache is what is desired and reloading from the source website defeats the point of retrieving the copy already held in cache.
Sorting on filetype or time modified is also important.
When filetyepe extensions were present in the cache, from the browser one could “open” the cache, sort the contents on type or time, highlight a group of files and select them as a group to be opened (one per tab).
At present all this valuable functionality is defeated. Even with this opera:cache sorting script enhancement, selecting the copy in the cache remains tedious.
What would help is, on the opera:cache display, to add a filetype extension to the opera object filename and hyperlink that so as to point to the cached copy, and then provide similar scripts to sort the opera:cache display on filetype and time. This would facilitate selecting objects from cache, one-at-a-time, but being able to reopen multiple cache objects (several .png files for example) is the full functionality that previously existed in Opera 9.27 and earlier.
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Cool feature. Maybe I should often switch to Opera from my Firefox.
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re: Charles’ post of Aug 22nd – this is exactly what I need from the cache in Opera as well.
I need to be able to delete *selected* files in the cache, without having to go looking for a generic OPR00sde file name for each one
Is there anyway anyone knows of to be able to add this old functionality back into Opera’s cache?
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I am absolutely furious that the Opera developers removed the extensions of files in the cache. This was already complained about in the Beta, almost a year ago. Sadly, I only discovered it today – AFTER upgrading.
I had shied away from upgrading from 9.27 for the longest time, but mostly because I had so many tweaks I didn’t want to apply anew (like my custom searches…). I NEVER would’ve thought that this feature would be removed as it was one of my most favorite ones! In fact, it was THE single feature I used when recommending Opera to others.
This workaround here doesn’t really do it for me. So my question is – can somebody *please* let me know which version the last fully functional was, in terms of a searchable, usable cache complete with file extensions? I want to go ahead and install that version again. Thankfully I made a backup, so I won’t lose any e-mails that got converted to the new system.
And, hopefully, the devs will listen to their audience and implement it again in future releases. Until then, I’ll stick to my old (-which?-) version.
Thanks for your help! It’s really appreciated.
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9.27