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Toolbars
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Opera's most important functions can be found on toolbars in the form of buttons, input fields, and drop-down menus.
This page refers to the default toolbar setup. You can easily add or remove toolbars by going to . For more customization, including resetting a toolbar to its defaults, right-click the toolbar. To add toolbar items or to change toolbar positioning, select from the context menu. Alternatively, you can:
- go to , or
- go to
Tab bar
The Tab bar displays your open Web pages as tabs and contains buttons to help manage your tabs. The trash can drop-down button on the right end of the tab bar contains lists of closed pages and blocked pop-ups so that you can easily retrieve them.
The easiest way to change focus between tabs is clicking on the tab you want. You can also press Ctrl + Tab to cycle through your open pages. Drag and drop the tabs to rearrange their order on the tab bar.
Tip: If you want to bookmark a Web page, you can drag its tab directly to the Bookmarks panel. To drag it to an arbitrary toolbar, hold the Shift key while dragging.
Address bar
The Address bar contains buttons for the most important browser functions as well as the Web address (URL) field.
| Image | Item | Explanation |
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Go back and forth in page history | |
| Fast forward | Analyze page and go to the most likely next page.
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| Rewind | Jump back in history
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Interrupt page load in progress or update current page from server | |
| Home | Go to your home page | |
| Password Manager | Automatically log in to sites using Password Manager | |
| Page icon | Drag to bookmarks panel or personal bar to create bookmark | |
| Address field | Displays the address of the current document. You can enter Web addresses directly, or simply type a keyword you remember to activate the full text history search. You can resize this field by dragging the right edge. | |
| Progress indicator | Displayed on the right side of the address field while the document is loading | |
| Security indicator | Displays the security status of the current document on the right side of the address field. Click on it for additional information. | |
| RSS icon | Displayed within the address field if the current page contains a valid link to an RSS or Atom feed | |
| Address drop-down button | Access recently typed addresses | |
| Search field | Search the Web directly. You can resize this field by dragging the left edge. | |
| Search drop-down button | Select search engine |
Progress indicator
When a page loads, a progress indicator appears within the address field.
Tip: If you have a Web address on the clipboard, press Ctrl + Shift + V to "paste and go" to the address.
Status bar
The status bar displays information about hovered items in Web pages as well as in the browser.
| Fit to width | Squeeze page contents to avoid horizontal scrolling | |
| Show images | Toggle image display: all, none, or cached images only | |
| Zoom field | Zoom in to enlarge text and images, or zoom out to get an overview |
Main bar
The Main bar is hidden by default. It mainly contains buttons for document handling, such as saving and printing files, as well as buttons that will tile or cascade all open documents on your workspace.
Personal bar
This toolbar is disabled by default, but is easily activated from .
Put your favorite bookmarks/bookmarklets, bookmark folders, and Web searches on the Personal bar so you can use them quickly and at any time. Bookmarks and folders from the bookmarks panel, links, page tabs, and bookmarklets can be dragged directly to the personal bar.
To add a search to the bar, select it from the toolbar's right-click menu.
Navigation bar
Some sites provide special navigational links to make navigation within the site easier. Opera can display these links in the form of a navigation bar above the page contents.
Which buttons are active (not grayed out) on the navigation bar, depends on the information provided by each page. This toolbar is not turned on by default. A particularly useful setting for this bar is "Show only when needed", which will hide the navigation bar completely whenever it is empty.
Start bar
The Start bar is disabled by default. It drops down from the address field when the latter is focused.
| Home | Go to your home page | |
| Top 10 | Access your 10 most visited links | |
| Bookmarks | Access your bookmarks |
View bar
The View bar is disabled by default.
| Find in page | Search within current document | |
| Find next | Find next occurrence of search term in document | |
| Voice | Click to initiate voice command | |
| Fit to width | Squeeze page contents to avoid horizontal scrolling | |
| Page mode | Customize page style; click button to toggle between modes, use drop-down to select style | |
| Show images | Toggle image display: all, none, or cached images only | |
| Zoom field | Zoom in to enlarge text and images, or zoom out to get an overview |
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