Features of the Opera web browser

This article details features of the Opera web browser.

This section describes the features currently available in Opera.

Opera offers full page zooming. Instead of just making the text bigger, this feature expands all page elements, including text, images, videos, and other content such as Adobe Flash, Java and Scalable Vector Graphics to be increased or decreased in size (25% to 500%). Extensions may also be used to do this and to enable high contrast coloured fonts. Full page zooming prevents inconsistencies that occur when regular text enlargement forces the content to be bigger than its container.

Zooming can be done using multi-touch pinching gestures on supported platforms.

Since Opera is based on Chromium, the Chromium-Browsing-Task Manager, as known from Google Chrome, is also a part of Operas Feature Range. This is not part of the legacy features of Opera 12.17.

Opera allows the user to pause, resume or restart the transfer of files. It also keeps the history of downloaded files and allows opening them or the folder where the file has been downloaded to from within the browser.

When a download starts a pop-up and a button will appear at the top right part of the interface to show the progress.

Opera offers the option to load a page without images, or to use only images already in the web cache. This might be useful if a user is connected on dial up via modem or on a slow wireless/cellular connection that may charge for the amounts of data downloaded.

Since: Opera 5.10, released April, 2001.

Users have the option of accessing common browsing functions with combinations of mouse movements. Mouse gestures work by holding the right mouse button, moving the mouse a certain direction, then releasing the button. This option is similar to using keyboard shortcuts, as it saves time because users do not have to navigate to graphical buttons using the mouse pointer (thereby avoiding usability problems relating to Fitts' Law). Some of the default mouse gestures include:

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