Mouse Gestures in Opera For Better Navigation – Create, Edit, Use


Opera comes enabled with Mouse gestures. These are useful to do different functions like closing sites, maximizing, minimizing windows etc easily. Like keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures make navigation easier and better. It takes time to get used, but once you got hold of them, It will be so simple and these will greatly enhance your browsing experience. Here is a list of some Mouse gestures you can use in Opera..

To go to the previous page: hold right button and click left button OR Hold right button and move the mouse left

To go to the next page: hold left button and click right button OR Hold right button and move the mouse right

Fast forward (Go to the end of the list of pages visited): Hold right button, move the mouse right then up OR Hold right button and [Shift], move the mouse right

Rewind (Go back to the first page visited): Hold right button, move the mouse left then down OR Hold right button and [Shift], move the mouse left

Go to home page: double-click in an empty page

Reload page: hold right button, move the mouse up then down Stop loading: hold right button and move mouse up

Restore or maximize page: Hold right button, move the mouse up then right

Minimise page: hold right button, move the mouse down then left

Close page: hold right button, move the mouse down then right OR Hold right button, move the mouse right-left-right

Open link in a new page: move mouse pointer to link and hold right button, then move down

Open link in a new page in the background: move mouse pointer to link and hold right button, move down then up

Zoom in and out: hold [Ctrl], roll mouse wheel up or down

Restore default zoom: hold [Ctrl], click mouse wheel

Move back and forth in page history: hold [Shift], roll mouse wheel up or down

Cycle through open pages: Hold right button, roll mouse wheel up or down

Open a blank page: Hold right button, move the mouse down

 

Create or Edit Mouse Gestures

There are a lot more mouse gestures. You can even create or Edit Mouse gestures. To do that.

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  • Go to Tools > Preferences > Shortcuts > Mouse Setup > Edit
  • Create a new gesture by clicking on new and giving your specifications.
  • To edit defined gestures click on the gesture and click Edit to change settings.

 

Disable Mouse Gestures

You can even disable Mouse gestures by un-checking Enable Mouse Gestures from Shortcuts menu or Preferences. You can even define mouse gestures as left handed forward and back.

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July 23, 2009 by: Prasanth Chandra

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