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Paste and Go is an add-on which brings up a paste and go context menu when you right click on the address bar. This enables the URL in that is copied to be pasted and the browser automatically goes to the site based on the address, without the need for hitting the Enter or Go button.

Open Opera. Go to tools > Preferences. Go to the advanced tab in the Preferences dialog box. On the left pane, move to the content section. Now, on the right side, you will find a checkbox named enable plug-ins. Use this to enable or disable plug-ins.

When you open a video in YouTube, the flash player plays the flv file. If you want the high definition version, click on the HD button presented at the bottom of the flash player in your browser. The HD version will be loaded up. The HD version is more in size and is better in quality too.

This is really easy in Opera, Just click the undo button or use the short cut (ctrl + Z) and the closed tab will be back in its place. Make sure that your cursor is not in a text box or a filling for; else the content of the text box will be undone.

This is really a highly shortcut method for disabling flash in opera. Just press F12 and then in the resulting drop down list, deselect the Enable Plug-ins. All plug-ins would get disabled. That is the side effect of this method.

Every browser available now has tabbed browsing features in it. Some popular ones include Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera etc. The following are some tips which can be used so that the tabbed browsing feature is used to a good extent. The shortcut CTRL + T will open a new tab in the same window. Clicking a link with the middle mouse button will load the page of that link in a new tab in the same window. Click on a tab with the middle mouse button to close the tab. Click and hold on to the CTRL button and press the number corresponding to that tab to open that tab. For example CTRL + 3 will open the third tab. To switch between tabs, just press CTRL + tab keys. Double-clicking on the empty region in the tab bar will also create a new tab. You can bring back an accidentally closed tab by right clicking on any tab and selecting Undo Close Tab. Use these tips for effective tabbed browsing.

You can go to the address bar of your browser directly using the keyboard. If you use internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, you can access (highlight) the address bar directly by using the F6 short cut key in your keyboard. If you use opera then press the F8 key in your keyboard to access the address bar. Sometimes it might be necessary to access the address bar for retyping a new address or copying the URL of the current page. You can use this trick under these circumstances.

Work offline button helps the users to work offline when they do not want to connect to the internet .They can use this facility to view stored html or htm files. To add work offline toggle button follow these instructions. First open Opera. Go to tools > appearance. Go to the buttons tab and select the preferences buttons. You will be able to see a lot of check boxes like small screen, work offline, and enable JavaScript etc. Just click on the Work Offline check box and drag it to any of the bar, I would recommend the view bar. But you can also put it on the address bar as long as there is enough space. Now just leave the mouse button and you will find that you will have a Work Offline check box in that place .By default it will be unchecked. Check this button when you want to work offline.

Many people might want to disable JavaScript in certain pages due to security concerns and some due to the fact that disabling JavaScript reduces the page load time .But certain pages might work only using JavaScript. For example, signing in to various website might require JavaScript. So it might be recommended to have a JavaScript toggle button so that it is easy to disable and enable JavaScript without much hassle. For Opera this is very simple. Just follow the following instructions to add JavaScript check box in the view bar or on to any bar. First open Opera. Go to tools > appearance. Go to the buttons tab and select the preferences buttons. You will be able to see a lot of check boxes like small screen, work offline, and enable JavaScript etc. Just click on the enable JavaScript check box and drag it to any of the bar, I would recommend the view bar. But you can also put it on the address bar as long as there is enough space. Now just leave the mouse button and ...

I have always wanted to know how much data my browser is downloading , for me to view a particular web page .I always use opera for browsing , one of the reasons being it tells me the amount of data downloaded .To view this data, when a webpage is loaded, do the following, Open opera (This is for version 9). Go to Tools > Appearance. Then go to the Toolbars tab and then you will be able to see a Progress Bar dropdown box. By default it is set to Simple. Select pop-up at bottom from the dropdown list and click the OK button.

Open opera. Then go to File > work offline. Note: when in offline mode you will not be able to visit any WebPages even if your internet connection is active.

Note: Always backup your profile before you add new toolbar setups. To backup your profile just copy the opera folder which is present in the C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Opera, and place it some where else, so that you can always copy this folder back to restore the original settings. Open Opera and press F1 to go to opera help. In opera help, click on the toolbar link, which will open the toolbar help .At the bottom,you will be able to see the link, Download toolbar setups. Just click on it and then you will be led to a download page which will contain a lot of toolbar setups. Just click the download button in any one of them and then you will be able to view the preview ,Just give ok ,if you want the toolbar setup, else give cancel.

The following article teaches how to make opera not to store the history of the visited websites. Open opera and go to tools >preferences. Go to the advanced tab and then select History. In the addresses dropdown combo box type 0,and click OK button.

First go to the opera directory and open speeddial .ini file . Then open the .ini file in a notepad file and then you will find rows =4   columns=4  . as default . Change the value of the rows and columns to any value above zero to increase or decrease the no of speed dials. 

Open Opera and then go to tools > preferences > advanced > browsing and then under the loading heading select Redraw instantly. Open Tools>preferences>advanced> network and then select servername compilation and uncheck all the check boxes. Go to Tools>preferences> advanced > history: and the under the heading "Check if cached page is updated on the server" select never for both cached images and documents. Always use a theme which does not slow down opera , Many themes are found to have slow down opera and it is recommended to use the opera standard theme or the windows Native.Go to tools > appearance to change the theme back to normal. Try disabling Images and various Multimedia contents to make pages load Faster. This also lowers the bandwidth. Go here to read about How to disable images in Opera.

When You Have not chosen Opera as the default web-browser during installation , you can always make it the default browser by going to tools>preferences>advanced > program and check the text box which Says"Check whether Opera is the default browser during start up ". And give OK. Now restart your browser and then give yes when prompted.

Images in opera can be disabled to help the reduction of bandwidth and hence many broadband users prefer to browse with images disabled. In fact opera is the only good browser which renders the web page properly when you disable images and work under cached mode . To do this go to Tools >preferences and then navigate to the web pages tab and select cached images in the images : labeled combobox. In cached images mode the images which have been downloaded earlier can be seen without downloading it again since opera store every single internet trace in it's cache.