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Opera comes with a download manager (Transfers) that can pause, resume and retransfer a corrupted download. You can specify a default download directory. Press [Alt] + [P] > Programs and Paths and the relevant pane can be found on the right. You can also choose external programs for viewing the source code of a page, [...]

Opera supports several search engines. You can either type in a query into the search field—[Shift] + [F8]—or you can use the Address Bar to do the same. Every engine is associated with a single alphabet, thus Google gets a ‘g’, Download.com gets a ‘w’, etc. Press [Alt] + [P] and go to the Search [...]

Mouse gestures are a novel way to navigate the Web using Opera. For example, you can hold the right mouse button and draw an ‘L’ into a Web page to tell Opera to close it. Similarly, you can hold down the right mouse button over a link and move the mouse down, then up to [...]

To set up a proxy server, press [Alt] + [P] > Network > Proxy Servers. Add the address and port number for the appropriate proxy server type here and make sure that the check box is ticked. You can also disable proxy for certain addresses, such as within a LAN, and can point Opera to [...]

Opera lets you keep snippets of text from Web sites as notes. For example, a particularly interesting piece of news can be saved for posterity as a note. To do this select any amount of text off a Web page, right-click and click on Copy to note ([Ctrl] + [Shift] + [C]). Notes can then [...]

The default user interface of Opera is a space-hog but thankfully, can be tweaked into a leaner interface. Right-click on the Main Bar, click on ‘Images only’, and then uncheck ‘Large images’. Right-click on it again and choose Left; then disable the Personal Toolbar by right-clicking on it and selecting ‘Off’. Switch off the Hotlist [...]

You can create copies of the current page that you are browsing. This enables you to maintain a cloned copy of the page for cross-referencing or comparison. Right-click on a page and select ‘Duplicate’ or press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [N] to do this.

It is possible to import e-mails to Opera’s M2 e-mail client, from earlier versions of Opera, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Mail (only version 6 and 7), or any mailbox stored in the generic mbox format. Select File > Import > Mail to import your e-mail. You can import different accounts, folders, settings and contacts. When [...]