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From Opera 9.50, cache files no longer use file extensions. The following will add advanced search, thumbnails and sorting to opera:cache.

1. Copy language file (*.lng) from Opera installation directory to your profile (Help → About Opera → Paths → Opera Directory).
2. Open language file in any text editor and replace string for -1713924769 with modified one.
3. Go to Preferences → General → Language → Details… → Use Interface language → Choose… and select modified language file.
4. Restart Opera.
5. 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.

[via A.Ruzanov]

Columnist Andrew Brown, of The Guardian, wrote a nice column yesterday about why he’s switching back to Opera from Firefox 3.

“With the release of Firefox 3, I mounted a private celebration: I went back to using Opera 9.5 as my main browser. This wasn’t just perversity. Firefox without its add-ons is clearly inferior to Opera. Firefox with enough add-ons to make it really useful is very much slower. And Opera has one advantage over all the competition which is enough to outweigh all its other faults to me.”

(Read the entire column)

- Hat tip: Keith Rapado

In this article Ruud Steltenpool presents a very interesting experiment of his that allows you to change web page colours on the fly using SVG and JavaScript - the solution makes use of feColorMatrix, linearGradient and foreignObject, and is packaged up as bookmarklets to allow end-users to easily make use of it.

We have now created a homepage for the Opera Root Certificate repository: The Rootstore.

The Rootstore will be where we announce updates and general information about the root repository.

If you are a Certificate Authority, or generally interested in Opera's certificate store, The Rootstore will be the place to watch.

This article provides a useful guide to all the fonts commonly available across platforms, which are therefore appropriate for use on web sites by designers.

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 at 10:29 GMT, SkinINIChanges was edited by ToMu: No skin changes in final-9.51-10081

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 at 10:21 GMT, Opera was edited by TaMil: Version number & date changed

Opera desktop news

The Opera Desktop Team released Opera 9.51 today, which addresses a few security and lots of stability issues. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.

See the changelog for more information.

Download Opera 9.51

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We released 9.51 today, which addresses a few security and lots of stability issues. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.

Changelogs are available:
Windows
Mac
Linux/UNIX

Go download it!

In this article Hallvord Steen provides a warning about browser sniffing and why it is such a bad thing, by examining a recent bug discovered in Opera relating to compatibility with the TinyMCE editor. He also suggests a fix to this problem, involving "bug detection", a useful technique that can be applied to many other situations.

On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 at 08:46 GMT, SkinINIChanges was edited by ToMu: No skin changes in preview-10081

The second alpha of Opera Dragonfly was released today. The show piece for this release was support for CSS editing, including auto-complete of properties and values. More information on Opera Dragonfly and the new features can be found on the Opera Dragonfly product pages.

Hot on the heels of the alpha 2 release, the second product to feature Opera Dragonfly is getting ready to be released to the public in beta form. The consumer release of Opera Mobile 9.5 for Windows Mobile includes Core-2.1, and thus the Scope module. This enables the mobile browser to connect to an instance of Opera 9.5 on desktop, and be debugged in real time from the host computer. We hope this is the first of a legion of browsers and devices to support remote debugging through Opera Dragonfly.

We've just released Opera Dragonfly alpha 2 today. This has replaced the initial release on the default Opera Dragonfly URL in Opera 9.5. The showcase feature of this release is support for CSS editing. Find out about the new features by visiting the Opera Dragonfly product pages.

One exciting thing about the new release is that we now have remote debug up and running, and tested with an actual device. Opera Mobile 9.5 beta for Windows Mobile is stated for release on the 15th of this month, and includes Scope support. We had one of those wow moments when we first hooked up from our test HTC device to Opera Dragonfly on the desktop, and could alter the colours and text size on the mobile’s screen in real time. This should greatly reduce debugging time on remote devices. You should be able to test remote debugging between two computers running Opera 9.5 right now, by enabling remote debugging in Opera Dragonfly’s setting on one computer, then adding the IP address in the other computer’s opera:debug page.

Now we are hard at work preparing for Opera Dragonfly alpha 3.

Following the Release Candidate last week, Opera Dragonfly alpha 2 has now gone live. People using the default URL for Opera Dragonfly will automatically upgraded to this new version. As always, you can access Opera Dragonfly alpha 2 by clicking on Tools -> Advanced -> Developer Tools in Opera 9.5’s menu bar.

Along with the new features, such as CSS editing, that were introduced in the last post on this blog, we've also released schemas and JSDocs for the code structure and source code. This should make it easier for developers to pick up the source code and start playing with it. I'd be interested to see what people can come up with to improve Opera Dragonfly. If you have any questions about the code, want to post some adaptions or give feature requests then head over to our forums.

The next step is to work on the bugs and planned features for alpha 3 in a few months time.

You can paste the contents of clipboard to any text area in Opera with middle mouse button using this mouse gesture.

Create a new mouse gesture in Advanced → Edit Widget section with Button3 as input context & shortcut and Paste mouse selection | Paste as action.

Now you can paste clipboard contents to any text area in Opera by clicking middle mouse button.

Note: Paste mouse selection will work only in Linux.

Have any good ideas for User JavaScripts? Or is there some broken site that you would like to fix but never got around to? It's time to fire up the editors and get coding - the User JavaScript contest is open for entries!

(Hey, look at the gorgeous prize - wish I could take part myself, too bad I'm an insider :-p..).

Keep those user scripts coming and have fun :-D

And one more RC for the upcoming 9.51! Lots of nice fixes in this one - and we need your feedback, specially on:

• upgrading (we did some more tweaks to the installer)
  
• saving (of images, of web pages, of "stuff")
  

Changelog:

• Fixed proper clearing of textarea when no-cache is set.
  
• Fixed a crash on print preview.
  
• Saving of images is not recorded in transfers anymore.
  
• Fixed window.close() not functioning after invoking context menu… :doh: (this also fixes closing Dragonfly…)
  

Unix specific:

• Fixed printing on Linux :pingu:
  

Download
Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
UNIX

From the Opera Mobile blog:

A release testing phase is underway now and the target date for the first beta is July 15th. You will be able to download it from opera.com just like you would any other versions of Opera.

Some versions of Opera Mobile 9.5 are already shipping on great phones like the HTC Touch Diamond, and some of you have asked why we wouldn’t be able to release it publically yet. As you probably know, releasing a version that works on a large variety of phones is more complex than making it work on one specific phone. You should also expect a few differences between the versions that are pre-installed on phones and the public version of Opera Mobile 9.5.

Stay tuned to Opera Watch and the official Opera Mobile blog for further information and details!

You can auto-hide any toolbar in Opera after enabling it via keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture or button.

Keyboard shortcut / Mouse gesture

Create new keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures in Application section with following action codes.

Toolbar Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture Menu bar Enable menu bar & Delay, 12000 & Disable menu bar Main bar View main bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View main bar, 0 Personal bar View personal bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View personal bar, 0 Tab bar View page bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View page bar, 0 Address bar View address bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View address bar, 0 Navigation bar View navigation bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View navigation bar, 0 View bar Set alignment, “Document view toolbar”, 6 & Delay, 8000 & Set alignment, “Document view toolbar”, 0 Status bar View status bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View status bar, 0

To modify auto-hide time, change Delay, X value (time in milliseconds) in above code.

To hide/show a toolbar without auto-hide use the following.

Toolbar Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture Menu bar Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar Main bar View main bar, 6 | View main bar, 0 Personal bar View personal bar, 6 | View personal bar, 0 Tab bar View page bar, 6 | View page bar, 0 Address bar View address bar, 6 | View address bar, 0 Navigation bar View navigation bar, 6 | View navigation bar, 0 View bar Set alignment, “Document view toolbar”, 6 | Set alignment, “Document view toolbar”, 0 Status bar View status bar, 6 | View status bar, 0

Button

You can add buttons to any toolbar (main bar, tab bar, address bar, navigation bar, view bar, status bar, start bar or panels) except menu bar & personal bar simply by dragging button links to required place. Clicking on the button links without dragging will add the buttons to Tools → Appearance → Buttons → My Buttons for later use.

When you try to add a button, a dialog box with following message will popup. Press OK to add button.

Adding new button with action

[Action]

Do you want to proceed?

To remove a button, right-click on it and select Remove From Toolbar.

Get buttons for above from here as Opera button links won’t work in Opera Watch (WordPress).