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One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl. So you type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter, and the url would automagically become http://www.google.com/ [google.com] . Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter.org, and Shift+Enter.net. Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would f
I also miss the Ctrl-Enter shortcut from other browsers.
In regards to Gmail, I've found that setting Opera to clear the cache upon exit greatly decreases the amount of times it hands at the "loading..." page. I believe it has something to do with how Opera caches the scripts on gmail.com, and this workaround has made it almost never happen anymore.
Better method: Set gmail.google.com, mail.google.com, and gmail.com to 1 in the ua.ini (on Windows, C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\ua.ini, on Linux ~/.opera/profile/ua.ini).
URL Autocomplete (Score:4, Insightful)
One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl. So you type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter, and the url would automagically become http://www.google.com/ [google.com] . Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter .org, and Shift+Enter .net. Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would f
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:1)
In regards to Gmail, I've found that setting Opera to clear the cache upon exit greatly decreases the amount of times it hands at the "loading..." page. I believe it has something to do with how Opera caches the scripts on gmail.com, and this workaround has made it almost never happen anymore.
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:2)