The nuts

The Opera browser consists of five groups of elements on the screen:

  1. The bill of fare bar
  2. The tab bar
  3. Navigation buttons (dorsum, forward, refresh/stop, start page)
  4. The combined accost and search bar
  5. The web view

(1) For Mac, the bill of fare bar offers the following options:

Card Available actions
Opera View information virtually your version of Opera, access preferences, sign in to your Opera account, clear browsing data, import browsing data, get themes and extensions, or quit the browser.
File Manage tabs or windows, open files and locations, salvage pages locally, or print.
Edit Manipulate text (re-create, paste, or select), search for text in pages, or bank check spelling.
View Zoom, show or hide the bookmarks bar or the extensions sidebar, toggle the toolbar in total-screen, scan in full screen, admission starting time page items (Speed Dial or news), view downloads, manage extensions or themes, open the password manager.
History Navigate back or frontward, reopen closed tabs or windows, navigate to recently-viewed pages, or view your total browsing history.
Bookmarks Open the bookmark manager, bookmark the current folio, or navigate to pages in your bookmark folders.
Window Minimize the electric current window, zoom, or select open windows and tabs.
Help Access Opera assistance pages, view keyboard shortcuts, or report issues.

(1) For Windows and Linux, the main menu offers ways of interacting with the browser. You tin open new tabs or browser windows, zoom pages, or view Opera pages such as Speed Dial, news, bookmarks, downloads, history, or settings.

(2) The tab bar navigates between pages when y'all view more than than 1 at a time. Click a folio'southward tab to view its contents. To open a new tab, click the+ button on the tab bar.

(3) The navigation buttons tell the browser where to become to view pages:

Button Action
Go back i folio.
Go forrard one page.
Reload the current page.
View the start page.

(4) The combined address and search bar directs the browser to websites and searches the web. You tin can type website addresses, for examplehttps://www.opera.com/, or search the web with primal words, for example 'Opera browser'. Read more than nigh the combined address and search bar.

(5) The web view shows the content of a page. Here you tin collaborate with web pages past reading text, viewing pictures, clicking links, and more than.

Opera's sidebar is your quick access to Workspaces, Messengers, Speed Dials, Flow, bookmarks, personal news, tabs, history, extensions, downloads, and preferences.

To pin the sidebar to Opera, click on the Easy setup button to the right of the combined address and search bar. NetherAdvent clickBear witness sidebar. Click the button again to unpin the sidebar. Unpinning the sidebar will make the sidebar merely available from the starting time page.

Manage Opera's sidebar

Yous tin can customize which Workspaces, messengers, and other features will be visible in your sidebar.

To customize your sidebar, click thethree-dot icon at the bottom of your sidebar. The Sidebar setup panel will open, allowing you lot to edit or remove elements on your sidebar, like Workspaces, Messengers, History, extensions, also as other features and tools.

You tin can too access the sidebar settings from In that location you lot can select to pin the sidebar, enable a narrow sidebar, or enable messenger notification badges.

Tabs

Opera tin organize multiple pages into i browsing window using tabs, which are designed to resemble paper filing tabs. Tabs allow you to interact with many pages simultaneously without closing a page until you are set up.

To open up a new tab, click the +button on the tab bar.

Right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a tab to open up its context card. Several actions are available to exist performed for the tab from this card:

  • New tab
  • Reload
  • Reload all tabs
  • Copy page address
  • Indistinguishable tab
  • Pin tab
  • Motility tab to workspace >
  • Mute tab
  • Mute other tabs
  • Close tab
  • Close other tabs
  • Close tabs to the right
  • Close indistinguishable tabs
  • Salve
    • All tabs every bit a Speed Dial folder
    • Tab to Pinboards
  • Reopen last closed tab

Visual tab-cycler

The visual tab-cycler is a tab-preview popup that lets you cycle through thumbnails of your open tabs. Press and go along property Ctrl, and so press Tab to bring up the tab-cycler. Click onTab to cycle though your tabs. ReleaseCtrl to switch to the currently highlighted tab.

Preview a tab's contents

Yous can optionally hover your mouse over a tab to preview its contents without changing focus from the current page. Previewing tabs is helpful if you have several open up at 1 fourth dimension.

To enable tab previews:

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Click Advancedin the left sidebar, and click Browser.
  3. Nether User interface , turn onShow tab previews.

Search in Tabs

The Search in Tabs tool helps you lot find a specific open tab via keyword searching, which is quite useful when you have a lot of tabs open. Utilize Ctrl+Space to open the Search in Tabs tool. Type a keyword to narrow down your open tabs and find the 1 you want.

You can also access Search in Tabs past clicking on themagnifying glass icon to the right of your tabs, which has replaced the before Tab menu.

Close tabs

To close a tab, hover your mouse over the tab and click the x button. To close all tabs except your current tab, right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) the current tab and select Shut other tabs . You can likewise close all tabs to the right of your current tab with Close tabs to the correct, and if you lot have multiple tabs with the same site, you can utilizeClose duplicate tabs.

If y'all've accidentally closed a tab or want to reactivate the most recently closed tab, right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a tab and select Reopen last closed tab.

Pin tabs

You tin can foreclose Opera from endmost tabs accidentally or prioritize important pages by pinning tabs. A pinned tab does not shut, and volition remain pinned when restarting the browser.

To pin or unpin a tab to the tab bar, right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) the tab and select Pin Tab / Unpin Tab . When pinned, the tab will motion to the left side of the tabs bar.

Motion tabs to a dissimilar Workspace

Workspaces are bachelor at the top of your sidebar, and let you organize your tabs into different groups. You lot can, for example, have different Workspaces for shopping, work, or research.

To move a tab to a dissimilar Workspace, right-click on that tab (Ctrl+click on Mac), hover over Move tab to workspace, and select the Workspace that you want from the popup.

Manage tabs

If yous'd like an open up tab to be placed in a split up window, simply drag and driblet the tab off the tab bar. Tabs can also be dragged and dropped betwixt open up windows.

To open up a copy of a page in a new tab, right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) the tab and select Duplicate tab .

Save tabs in a new Speed Dial folder

You tin can save all open up tabs in a window every bit a folder of Speed Punch entries. Right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) the tab bar, or on whatever tab, and select Save all tabs as Speed Dial folder .

A new, untitled binder will be placed at the bottom of your Speed Dial.

If you lot wish to save only a choice of tabs in a Speed Dial folder:

  1. ⌘-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (Win/Lin) the tabs y'all wish to save.
  2. Right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) one of the selected tabs to open the context menu.
  3. Click Relieve tabs as a Speed Dial folder in the context menu.

Tabs history

Each tab will retain its browsing history until it is closed. To view the history of a tab, click and hold the back or forward button on the left side of the combined accost and search bar.

Continue belongings the click as y'all move to select a former page from the list, and release it to open up the page.

Context menus appear when you right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a part of a web page. A different menu will appear depending on the element type: folio, link, or image.

Thepage context menu appears when y'all correct-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a role of a web page where there are no links, images, or text. This menu provides yous with navigation options (get dorsum, forward or reload the page), options for saving the page as a Speed Dial entry or bookmark, viewing the source code of the folio, saving the page equally a PDF file, and more.

Thelink context menu appears when yous right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) a link and lets you determine how to open or salvage the linked page or address.

Theprototype context menu appears when you right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac) an image and contains multiple options for opening, copying, and saving the image.

Zoom

Opera's zooming functionality allows you to read small-scale fonts more hands. To zoom when using a Mac, select . For Windows or Linux users, go to the

You lot tin also utilise keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out withCtrl or⌘ + +/-.

Yous tin set the zoom by default if you would similar all web pages you visit to be zoomed in or out. To prepare the default zoom:

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Under Appearance, click the Page zoom dropdown menu.
  3. Select the level of zoom for all web pages.

Subsequently you gear up the page zoom, pages volition zoom to the adjusted default size when you open up them. If y'all accept tabs already open, reload them to view the folio at your new default size.

For Mac users, if you wish to render an individual page to its original format, click  Windows and Linux users can go to the and select Reset zoom to the right of +.

Full screen mode

Opera gives yous the option to browse in full screen mode.

To turn full screen manner on or off on Mac, get to . Windows and Linux users can go to the and select Full screen.

Full screen mode hides the menu bar from view but you can access it by hovering your mouse at the top of your screen. In total screen mode, the toolbar can be hidden or shown from theView carte.

On all platforms, full screen fashion tin exist exited by pressing Esc.

Find text on the folio

Opera tin can search through the text on a folio and detect text for you lot. To discover text on a page, pressCtrl+F or⌘+F on your keyboard. Type in the search field to find your text.

Found words are highlighted in greenish as yous search. If more than ane instance of the word exists on the page, they will be highlighted in yellow and a count will announced in the search field. To navigate betwixt instances, click the left and right arrows.

Download and manage files

When you download a file from a website, a download message appears beneath the right side of the combined address and search bar. This message shows a progress bar for the download, and disappears when the download is consummate.

A new icon appears at the right side of the combined address and search bar, as well. Click this to encounter a list of your well-nigh recently downloaded files, or clear them from your download history.

To view a detailed list of your downloaded files, launch the files from the browser, or restart a download if your connexion was interrupted, select  on Mac. On Windows and Linux, go to .

You tin can change the default download location in your preferences. To do then:

  1. Get to Settings.
  2. Click Advancedon the left sidebar, and click Browser.
  3. Under Downloads , click the Change  button.
  4. Navigate to the binder y'all wish to accept downloads saved to and click Select .

Here, you tin can also set the browser to enquire you where you'd like to save files every time you download.